The song is also Daft Punk's final single on a studio album with Virgin, and was released with a music video written and directed by Tony Gardner, with makeup effects by Alterian, Inc.[2] A noted characteristic of "The Prime Time of Your Life" is the incremental acceleration of tempo as the track ends.

[4] The overall structure of "The Prime Time of Your Life" was described by Matthew Weiner of Stylus as being "less a song than [a] framework on which to load more vocoders and trend-jumping schaffel beats.

The makeup effects work for the video was designed and created by Alterian, Inc. Gardner's then eleven-year-old daughter Brianna plays the main character, Melody, a young girl who is struggling with anorexia.

[2] The video starts with a close-up of a swiveling skull moving its jaw, which zooms out to reveal it is a reflection in the eye of a young girl (Melody) watching television.

Melody goes into the bathroom, where she is seen in the mirror with a poster of a skeletal rendition of Britney Spears (the cover image of her greatest hits album) being seen in the reflection.