These days, bands go to such length to make a video for a song! Years ago, music videos were just random images of people dancing or jumping around,… but not anymore! Just take this new one for Vanaprasta’s ‘Self-Indulgent Feeling’, this is a whole movie with a plot more complicated to follow than a full-length thriller!
It all starts with an angry old man who wants to listen to Sinatra on his computer on Christmas day, but stumbles on Vanaprasta’s bouncy keyboard-driven anthem instead. First, the thing enrages him, but then converts him to a super-fan of the band’s happy-feel-good music,… for the best and the worst. And since efficient Kathy Bates’ demonstration, we know too well what I-am-your-biggest-fan can mean: There are a lot of guns involved, a police standoff and more shootings and killings than in a Coen brothers’ movie.
'Self-Indulgent Feeling’ is off Vanaprasta's album ‘Healthy Geometry’ released last November, and even though their music worked at its best live (I saw the band a couple of times), this video, directed by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods, adds a new dimension to the song, taking a total liberty with it.