Warning (Incubus song)

Infobox Single
Name = Warning


Artist = Incubus
Album = Morning View
Released = May 28, 2002
track_no = 8
Recorded = 2001
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 4:42
Label = Sony Records
Producer = Incubus
Last single = "Wish You Were Here"
(2001)
This single = "Warning"
(2002)
Next single = "Nice to Know You"
(2002)
Misc =

"Warning" (sometimes spelled as "Warning!") is the second single from Incubus's 2001 album "Morning View". It is the 8th track from the album.

Music video

ynopsis

The video, directed by Marc Webb shows a girl in a hoodie, wearing a digital watch, who stares blankly ahead, apparently oblivious to anyone around her, even though she stands in the middle of crowded areas, namely:

* an airport terminal
* a school classroom
* a church sanctuary aisle
* a grocery aisle
* a busy urban intersection
* an office
* a supermarketHowever, at exactly 10:23 AM, she screams in an extremely shrill voice (which is, like most character dialogue in the video save for the band's singers, inaudible and subtitled), and screams for exactly one whole minute.

This process, according to the video, takes place over the course of three days. At the end of the video, it is revealed that exactly 10:24, all the places featured in the video are abandoned, as if the individuals who beheld the girl in any of these environments, and eventually, the entire city's populace, had suddenly vanished or were abducted. This is exemplified by:

* an inner-city public bus whose drivers and passengers have disappeared, but eventually runs onto the sidewalk.
* a dropped coffee mug
* a still-moving cart in the grocery store

The band itself is playing the song in a loft; they also disappear at the end of the video.

Debate

The meaning and significance of the time 10:24 has become a subject of debate among fans of the band. Among the hypotheses presented are:

* 10:24 is the time on December 21, 2012 that the world and its inhabitants is supposed to go through a great cataclysmic change (see 2012 and the Long Count calendar)
* 10:24 is a reference to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which initially took place on Black Thursday (October 24, 1929)
* 1024 is 2$^\{10\}$
* 10/24/01 is the day after the album Morning View was released.

So far, neither the director of the video nor the band members have discussed the meaning of the cryptic time.