Fortunes and fates await in Alan Williams new music video for “Giving You a Warning”, the second single off his upcoming album Currents. There are an array of famous paintings and portrait subjects getting tarot card readings as Williams wanders between the mundane and the fantastical with weird and wild effects.
There’s a campiness to the experience that gives it psychedelic feel visually despite the musical composition being more straightforward rock. Inspired by a moment of irritation while lounging in Hawaii, Williams describes the song being a fantasy projection after the opening lines. “I was thinking about how Neil Finn can write lyrics in a lopsided, offhand manner that somehow still makes a sort of sense, humorous without being cute, whimsical, or cutting – it’s a lightness of touch I marvel at”.
Interestingly, the green screen effects often leave Williams’ figure in a static-like distortion that begs the question of whether the background, various objects, or painting subjects are being projected around him, or if he is projecting himself onto them. As he attempts manifest fantasy, he lays all his cards out on the table, “I’m giving you a warning from my heart”.
“Giving You a Warning” is available on major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. The accompanying music video is also available on YouTube.
Charlie Maybee is a dancer, musician, educator, and writer based in Charleston, South Carolina who currently teaches with the Dance Program at the College of Charleston. His primary work as an artist is with his performing collective, Polymath Performance Project, through which he makes interdisciplinary performance art that centers tap dance as the primary medium of expression and research. He also currently plays rhythm guitar for the Charleston-based punk band, Anergy, and releases music as a solo artist under the name Nox Eterna.
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