X Music TV presents Kelela and the music video to her song titled Blue Light, which is track #10 on her debut album titled Take Me Apart. The video was directed by Helmi and produced by Clemence Cuvelier for the production company, Division Paris.
X Music TV is proud to present the second version of Kimbra's music video to her song titled Everybody Knows, which is track #3 on Kimbra's album titled Primal Heart, released on 4/20, 2018.
We featured the original music video to this song on MusicLoad (link down below). This version was produced to a reworked music verson of the song known as the Everybody Knows (Apothek Rework).
This video below is a bit more edge-of-your-seat and controversial than the original version because it contains a dramatization of domestic violence in the video that may be difficult for many viewers. Kimbra wrote a note about the video in her own words, featured below.
The actors in the video are Liza Tzschirner and David Paryla.
A NOTE FROM KIMBRA IN HER WORDS ABOUT THE ABOVE VIDEO:
I’ve been a big fan of Apothek for a while.
I asked if they would choose a song of mine to rework.
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They chose Everybody Knows & sent back their version. I was totally blown away by the way they took the song to a whole new place emotionally. It evoked new depth in the lyrics and had this hypnotizing patience to it with a quiet kind of violence and also a soft, strange intimacy. I felt like I was hearing the song & its meaning (even to myself) in a whole new way.
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On making the rework, Nils (of Apothek) said to me, ‘Everybody Knows' has this extremely powerful chorus and it could easily be a much louder experience in a busier soundscape but I really enjoyed putting this song in a mellow and contemplative
environment full of acoustic warped sounds where it could take as much or as little space as it needed.
Sometimes it feels soulful, warm and free - other times it feels a bit wound up and expressive. I like that duality.’
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I felt so moved by the rework that I sent it to my friend Chester Travis (director of the video for 'Goldmine') to see if he would make a visual accompaniment for the song. We both felt this song was open to so many different interpretations but definitely agreed that the song speaks to oppression, and we wanted to show another side of that and have it represented by an entirely different video.
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This evokes heavy emotions and it’s not always easy to speak openly about the ways we experience oppression in our lives but I’m thankful that art is a way for us to see things anew, and it also grants us the freedom of individual interpretation.
My friend Chester put this song in a stark domestic light that gave my lyrics an eerily poignant and even disturbing angle. But I think it’s important we use music to give us new (sometimes challenging) perspectives, thanks to the eyes that have courage to capture what we can’t always see so quickly for ourselves. Thank you also to Safe Horizon for getting behind this in a way that can actually impact real life.
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I welcome you to view this song now through the lens of my 2 very talented friends, Apothek & Chester Travis.
- Kimbra xo
Domestic violence can happen to anyone. If you believe that you, or a loved one may be a victim, help is available:
1-800-621-HOPE (4673) SafeHorizon.Org
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Official Lyrics to Everybody Knows by Kimbra
money moans calls you home vacant eyes they won’t tell a soul you fooled me once now I’m twice as old see I ain’t gonna lie but I ain’t gonna phone you no I ain’t gonna try to forget what I’ve gone through got a little box, yeah that I’m gonna open take your promises cause they’ve all been broken everybody knows about what you do everybody saw and sold the truth I was young and gullible but baby I grew and now the whole worlds watching you hands to the bone hands to the heart bodies alone they hide in the dark but is it a fight worth fighting? see I ain’t gonna lie but I ain’t gonna hold back or try to deny you turned a damn good heart black got a little box yeah that I’m gonna take back don’t make your promises cos I’m finished with all that everybody knows about what you do everybody saw and sold the truth I was young and gullible but baby I grew and now the whole worlds watching you
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Alma-Sofia Miettinen, known simply as ALMA, is a songwriter and recording artist from Helsinki, Finland. She is signed to the Finnish independent record label known as PME Records with a exclusive licensing deal to Polydor Island Group, a division of Universal Music GmbH, Germany.
X Music TV is proud to present her latest music video to her non-album single song titled Phases that features ALMA and recording artist French Montana. The music was produced by Charlie Handsome, Styalz Fuego and Rex Kudo. The music video was directed by Charli XCX who also co-wrote the song with ALMA,
Charlie Handsome,
Sasha Sloan and Noonie Bao.
The band featured below is from Alaska and they are known as Portugal. The Man.
The music video featured is to their song titled The Dead Dog which was track #1 on the the bands 5th studio album titled American Ghetto, originally released in March 2010.
There were no dogs and no death in this presentation, but there is gangsterism, thievery, dancing, money and breaking & entering. Those depictions in the video were done by actors, not role models. Do not try to do this in real life, except for maybe the dancing part.
In 2010 when American Ghetto was made, the band members were John Baldwin Gourley on vocals and guitar, Jason Sechrist on drums, Ryan Neighbors on keyboard and vocals, Zachary Scott Carothers on bass and vocals, Zoe Manville on vocals, Ian Shaw on backing vocals and roadie Bella Nobu on kazoo.
The band provided the following credits stated:
Our good friend Graham Baclagon directed and put this video together. We are so thankful to have him as part of our team Director of Photography: Fred Miller Assoc. Prod: Jesse Santiago Cast Members: Micah Dejon Williams, Denise Brown, Grandma Brown, Rachel Wickard, William Cummings III, Sharon Kluge, Ken Patel, Timothy Farrell Breakdance parts choreographed by DJ Westside of Chi-town's Finest Breakers. Chi-town Finest Breakers is BGirl Spinderella, B-Boy Turbo, BBoy Mad Skillz aka Lil Crazzy Legz, BBoy Ozone and Special Thanks to Bob Braidwood from The Diner"
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Just below is the sexy music video by DJ Khaled to the track titled Wild Thoughts featuring Rihanna & Bryson Tiller. Wild Thoughts is track #4 from Khaled's tenth studio album titled Grateful.
The video, directed by Colin Tilley, features a rap by Bryson Tiller.
The list of songwriters is long: Jahron Braithwaite, Khaled, Robyn Fenty, Bryson Tiller, Jerry Duplessis, Wyclef Jean, David McRae, Marvin Moore-Hough and Carlos Santana.
DJ Khaled - Wild Thoughts featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller
