[6][7][8] The single was accompanied with a "psychedelic" animated music video directed by Ben Jones, featuring art by Gabriel Alcala.

[12] Dancing Astronaut described the song as "Labrinth and Sia swapping syncopated versework over a characteristically catchy hip-hop lite Diplo beat.

[13] Lyrically, the song references Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Stephen Hawking, and Isaac Newton.

[12] Produced by the company Bento Box Entertainment, illustrated by Gabriel Alcala and directed by Ben Jones (creator of The Problem Solverz and Stone Quackers), "Genius" is a surreal animated cartoon, influences from an American Pop Artist, Peter Max and Heinz Edelmann, who designed for the Beatles's animated musical film, Yellow Submarine.

[14] The scenes follow a psychedelic, non-chronological storyline lightly tied to the lyrics, and symbolic animals such as three-eyed tigers and human-like mice are present throughout the video.