an accompanying music video for "turn down for what" was directed by the filmmaking duo daniels, composed of daniel kwan and daniel scheinert, and released on march 13, 2014. the clip stars co-director daniel kwan with sunita mani. he explained: "for a while daniel and i had been wanting to explore male sexuality in a really weird way. for some reason our brains came up with this image, and this other universe where dudes are so pumped up on their own dicks—and they're so into their testosterone—that the way that they show that is by breaking shit with their dicks. so, whatever happens, that would just be a funny logical progression."