Directed by Peter Phillips
Memphis based Doter Sweetly has shared their first official music video for the song Baby Boy. A dreamy song “about that early-mid-late-20s going nowhere type of dread that we all seem to be going through at the moment”. For anyone at that stage of their lives the song is quite poignant and goes straight to the point.
“Seldom dreaming and peachy sweet and full of laughter
No need to plug up that hole in your heart
Shouldn’t we be complete like stony roman figures?
Silent, immortal, unchanged by the sun”
Main songwriter Elijah Poston continues, “recognising and realising that even though your life seems to be moving nowhere, your life is simultaneously wonderful and precious.”
The song was written, as he points out, after a particularly hard 7-day-a-week work month and goes on about “the difficulty of understanding that the life you want to lead is not ahead of you, but is right where you are”.
So many people can relate with the feeling of finding yourself in a different place from what you wanted, had planned or simply wished for. That doesn’t mean we need to give up or let it go. This lo-fi gem express the essence of this feeling and also gives us hope telling us not to give up and actually realise that our life is best lived in the present.
The video can be considered 100% independent and produced with the help of friends and coworkers between Memphis and New Orleans. Brings a dreamy visualisation of an equally dreamy track, with the so-called “industry standards” calling for short videos of radio edits of the track, this 6 and half minute video keeps you interested and glued to the screen with both eyes and ears with its minimalistic, unpretentious look and beautiful light show.
We are very happy to have discovered Doter Sweetly and look forward to hear what they have been working on in the last few months. We also recommend you to check out their previous albums, the debut “Songs for a Recent Lover” and the brilliant follow up “Granpa Grew Trees”.
BABY BOY
Written by Elijah Poston
Produced by Elijah Poston and Griffin Rone
Elijah Poston – Guitar, Vox
Miguel Pilcher – Drums
Griffin Rone – Bass
Mitch Mealer – Guitar, Vox
Spence Bailey – Guitar
Seldom dreaming and peachy sweet and full of laughter
No need to plug up that hole in your heart
Shouldn’t we be complete like stony roman figures?
Silent, immortal, unchanged by the sun
Some share of fun on a cracked back balcony
Some far of dream about how it is and how it should be
Or you could shower me in everything that’s good
you could share a little love
Baby boy you’ve been in a rut
I could see it from a mile away
A little too much of that green regular life type of stuff
Sums it up
Darling crude indigo eye you have it all too
Seldom dreaming and peachy sweet
Until i found my dream
Written by Elijah Poston
Produced by Elijah Poston and Griffin Rone
Elijah Poston – Guitar, Vox
Miguel Pilcher – Drums
Griffin Rone – Bass
Mitch Mealer – Guitar, Vox
Spence Bailey – Guitar
Video credits:
Director: Peter Phillips
Producer: Nia Rincon Executive
Producer: Elijah Poston
Starring: Elijah Poston, Miguel Pilcher, Griffin Rone
DoP: Nick Shamblott Marcus Chapa Wilson
1st A.D. Cassidy Bridgham
2nd A.D. Editor: Alejandro de los Rios
Bruno Doria GAFFER
Alejandro de los Rios KEY GRIP
Alex Moreno 1st AC
Alex Kleck 2nd AC
Lauren Hicks PROJECTION TECH
Haley Kastner PA
Julia Perret PA
Grant Higgenbotham CATERER
Melinda Tran DIT
Special Thanks to Fish Pot Studios
Follow the Doter Sweetly here:
Bandcamp: https://dotersweetly.bandcamp.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dotersweetly
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dotersweetly/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4tIGe…
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