Prepare yourself for the wonderful weirdness of Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran's 'I Don't Care' video

One week after releasing their new song, "I Don't Care," Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber have shared the song's video, a wonderfully weird assemblage of animation and intentionally sloppy live-action green-screen editing that situates the viewer somewhere between Naked Lunch and Barney & Friends.

Building on the song's theme of feeling like an outsider, the video begins with Sheeran dressed in a suit and looking uncomfortably out-of-place in a posh restaurant. By the time he reaches the pre-chorus's "Don't think I fit in at this party," he has swapped out his suit in favour of a giant panda costume, and it's clear this video is veering into magic realism.

In fact, Sheeran's costume changes are head-spinning in their variety: he's depicted riding a jet ski dressed as a banana; singing onstage wearing an oversized terry-cloth bathrobe and tube socks; and jogging in a green-and-purple parachute-fabric track suit that is the epitome of thrift-store chic. It's a lot!

Bieber appears during the song's first chorus, riding a magic carpet, Aladdin-style, as if to say, "Your wish has been granted: I'm doing another song with Ed Sheeran." He spends much of the video lounging poolside (looking not too much like an outsider, to be honest). For a dose of awkward, look no further than his fringed, monochrome cowboy duds. In our favourite moment, he sports an ice cream cone outfit while running from a T-Rex.

Donning costumes is one way to hide from a world in which you don't belong. Is that the message here? Watch the video, below, and decide for yourself.