Some bands make music videos for superficial reasons whereas other bands have high ambition for them. Just take the indie band NO, they have released an interesting, touching and intriguing storytelling mini-film, directed by Ryan Reichenfeld, for their song ‘Stay with Me’, off their EP 'Don't Worry, You'll Be Here Forever'.
‘I’m only human and I am full of mistakes’ is ironically the first line of the song that invites us to follow the sad fate of one of these crash test dummies they use in car commercials.
The song, which already carries its load of emotion and wide-screen potential with Brad Carter’s deep baritone and soaring guitars and choruses, takes another emotional level when the dummy revolts against its sordid cold mechanical world and pulls an escape à la Blade Runner, or may be follows Jonathan-Pryce in Brazil, since all this may just be the dummy’s fantasy or delusion.
It is just too funny, when I saw them at the Satellite in January, I remember comparing Brad Carter’s deep voice to that of Crash Test Dummies’ singer,… how coincidental and perfect!