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A$AP Rocky<\/a> got a little strange with the music video for his new song “Punk Rocky,” just in time for Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a> to get even Stranger.<\/em><\/p>\n Watch Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u00a0Saturdays at 11:30\/10:30c on NBC<\/a> and next day on\u00a0Peacock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The rapper and musician is performing as Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a>‘s Musical Guest<\/a> on January 17, with Stranger Things <\/em>star\u00a0Finn Wolfhard<\/a>\u00a0hosting 2026’s first episode<\/a>. A$AP performs just one day after the release of his fourth studio album, Don’t Be Dumb. <\/em>Its\u00a0lead single, “Punk Rocky,” is a catchy indie rock\/pop punk-tinged song with lyrics like, “I thought you was the one, I guess you just the two \/\u00a0You want the last laugh, look, now the joke’s on you.”<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n The video is a surreal, self-referential tale of of a neighborhood being disrupted by Rocky partying with his own alter egos. The raucous garage jam gets the attention of a neighbor, played by none other than Wolfhard’s\u00a0Stranger Things<\/em>\u00a0costar Winona Ryder.<\/p>\n The actress recently wrapped up her five season, ten year run on Stranger Things, <\/em>with Wolfhard as the best friend of her character’s son Will. In “Punk Rocky,” she’s shedding Joyce Byers in something of a callback to her ’90s cool girl era (while wearing some weirdly fashionable dishwashing gloves).\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s far from Winona Ryder’s first music video role. In 1990, she appeared in December 20 Musical Guest Cher<\/a>‘s video for her cover of “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)<\/a>,” which also featured little Christina Ricci. Ryder and Ricci played Cher’s daughters in the movie the song was from,\u00a0Mermaids,\u00a0<\/em>and they all wear incredible matching outfits in the clip. She also\u00a0starred in<\/a> Soul Asylum’s “Without a Trace” video in 1993, and in 1998, Ryder sported a pixie cut to play rocker Jon Spencer’s alter ego in the video for Blues Explosion’s “Talk About the Blues<\/a>.” She’s been in videos for Mojo Nixon<\/a>, Roy Orbison<\/a>, and The Killers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Whether Rocky is intentionally referencing Stranger Things<\/em> is unclear just yet, but he’s definitely inspired by a certain era and genre of movie that Ryder is known for. Director Tim Burton created the album art<\/a> for Don’t Be Dumb<\/em>, and\u00a0composer Danny Elfman scored “a bunch” of the songs<\/a> on the album, in addition to playing the drummer on the roof in the “Punk Rocky” video.<\/p>\n Elfman, Burton, and Ryder have all worked together on multiple projects including Beetlejuice<\/em> and Edward Scissorhands,\u00a0<\/em>and Rocky clearly took some inspiration from those movies.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I love Tim Burton, man,” Rocky said in a November 2025 video for Vanity Fair<\/a>. “I’ve been inspired by him as a child. I think what he does with claymation and how he transcended into live action movies and the parallels between ’em, and he seamlessly included it, from matte painting to German expressionism. I think he’s a f–king genius.”\u00a0<\/p>\nHow to Watch<\/h3>\n
Winona Ryder plays a flirty neighbor in A$AP Rocky’s “Punk Rocky” video<\/h2>\n
Watch the video for “Punk Rocky”starring Winona Ryder here.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
A$AP Rocky’s new album features Danny Elfman and Tim Burton collaborations<\/strong><\/h2>\n