[1]The idea for the music video originated from director Joseph Kahn, and is based on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, a film dealing with acrophobia, which the band were fans of.

[2] In a June 28, 1997 issue of Billboard, Kahn said "I always thought Vertigo had an interesting music-video feel to it because of the rich graphics in the film.

[4] Kahn said in the June 1997 Billboard interview that "the idea of Mike Patton playing Jimmy Stewart seemed funny to me.

The emphasis is mainly on parody, key moments including drummer Mike Bordin sweeping Mike Patton's head in the dream sequence with a broom (presumedly a reference to Vertigo's scene where Midge is describing to Scottie that music can clear the cobwebs out of your head like a broom), bassist Billy Gould cross-dressing, Leigh's character being a black wigged sado-masochist, and Leigh fainting when she sees a shadowy figure in the tower, which ends up being drummer Mike Bordin, who at the end of the video casually starts eating a bagel.

[9] In his review for the 2016 deluxe edition of Album of the Year, MXDWN's Sean Hall called the song a "roller coaster ride", remarking, "a bell section that sounds surprisingly like wind chimes functions as a lifesaver to which the listener clings to get themselves through the aggressive guitars, dark bass and creepy vocals, which sound as if they are coming through a radio from The Twilight Zone.