Devo talk new Netflix doc, banned MTV video, and 50 years of being ‘the most understood band in the world’

In 1981, Devo’s “Whip It” music video — a deliberately offensive and over-the-top send-up of Reagan-esque cowboy machismo, featuring singer Mark Mothersbaugh sadomasochistically whipping a stuntwoman on a rowdy dude ranch — was in high rotation on MTV. But just a year later, when the new wave band released the video for “That’s Good,” MTV, […]