Ta-da!
The initial idea came from a self-made video I saw by Francis and the Lights, where Francis had just self-made his video by throwing on the flashlight on his phone and recording his silhouette as he sang the song.
I showed that little thing to Adée, she dug it and we started trying to add to it on her final night in Cardiff before having to leave to head back to Sweden the following morning.
Read MoreOne-shot. Black and White. Slow-motion. That’s the whole thing.
Adée had a rough concept of what she wanted the video to be about; she wanted to talk about her sexuality and how people have just assumed the gaps in her personality that they don’t know about her.
People aren’t just black and white.
Read MoreI honestly can’t remember the specifics of when I met Mono.
I know it happened between January and March of 2018. In Melbourne. Most likely at Horse Bazaar for a Can I Kick It? event. But I can’t remember how we met, or if someone introduced us to each other.
I don’t even know if we said more than simple pleasantries to each other.
The man just appears on stage, hushes the crowd with ease and waits for the beat to begin.
Read MoreNot long after I’d met Adée in Sweden last September, we’d started talking about potentially collaborating when she was working in the UK in November. I’d pitched her a rough idea I had for a music video inspired by the methods and mindset of BROCKHAMPTON.
It was something that had been rattling around my head for all of summer, that idea of how fast we consume new content and how quickly it becomes irrelevant - post something on Instagram right now, it’ll be so far down everyone’s feeds in a couple of hours, a lot of your followers/friends/family won’t see it.
Read MoreThroughout March, I found myself doing guest appearances on Sarah Darling’s UK tour in support of her upcoming album release, “Wonderland”. It was good to be back working with Sarah after being on tour with her last summer.
Read MoreSean and I go way back. Like, all the way back to last summer, on tour with Sarah Darling traversing the British Country festival scene. We got on well from the outset; him impressing me with his yoga-like sleeping position in the van, me impressing him with my knowledge of Tom Cruise and Scientology.
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