"Sextape" is a single by the American alternative metal

Alternative metal

Alternative metal is a genre of alternative rock and heavy metal that gained popularity in the early 1990s. Most notably, alternative metal bands are characterized by heavy guitar riffs and experimental approaches to heavy music.-Origins:...

 band Deftones

Deftones

Deftones are an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, founded in 1988. The band consists of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham . Currently Sergio Vega is standing in on bass while Cheng recovers from a car accident...

 and third single from their sixth studio album Diamond Eyes

Diamond Eyes

Diamond Eyes is the sixth album by American Alternative metal band Deftones, released worldwide on May 4, 2010 through Warner Bros. and Reprise Records...

. Despite its more soft/mainstream sound, the single has failed to chart.

Release

The single was released exclusively in the UK

United Kingdom

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 on October 4, 2010. One month before the actual single release, a music video for the song, directed by Zak Forrest and Chad Liebenguth (ZFCL), was released and premiered on September 3, 2010 on the official Deftones website and YouTube

YouTube

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Music video

The music video was directed by Zak Forrest and Chad Liebenguth. The video focuses on two young teenage girls floating and swimming around under water whilst kissing, touching, flirting, etc. with one another. Bright rainbow like colors also flash under the water at certain points in the video. The "Sextape" video is the first Deftones video where the band doesn't make an appearance.

Track listing

1. "Sextape" – 4:01
2. "Diamond Eyes" (live) – 3:05
3. "Root" (live) – 3:40

Personnel

Deftones

• Chino Moreno
  Chino Moreno
  Chino Moreno is an American musician. He is best known as the lead singer and contributing guitarist of Deftones. He is also a member of the side-project bands Team Sleep and Crosses....
  
   - vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Stephen Carpenter
  Stephen Carpenter
  Stephen Carpenter is an American musician known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative metal band Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as stock power chords in polyrhythms...
  
   - guitars
  Electric guitar
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• Abe Cunningham
  Abe Cunningham
  Abe Cunningham, , is an American musician, he is the drummer of the alternative metal band Deftones. He is known for his use of ghost notes and other technical drumming techniques.-Biography:...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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• Frank Delgado - keyboards
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  , samples
  Sampler (musical instrument)
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• Sergio Vega
  Sergio Vega (bassist)
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   - bass
  Bass guitar
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Production

• Nick Raskulinecz
  Nick Raskulinecz
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   - producer
  Record producer
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