New Video: “Stuck in My Head” by Dead Weights
Ottawa’s very own punk rockers, Dead Weights, recently released a video for their song “Stuck in My Head” off their sophomore album Mountain Arresting, which they released earlier this summer.
Lyric videos have been immensely popular since the launch of YouTube. Often they are made by fans and simply feature the lyrics scrolling across the screen almost like karaoke, some going a little further to contain images along with the words. Dead Weights just took it to a new level with their video for “Stuck in My Head.” The video does feature the lyrics that are written on a black board in what looks like a classroom.
What makes it truly special is that the band invited several talented local artists and friends with very different style to draw two or three at a time on the blackboard really elevating the lyrics. The artists are: Jordan Seal, Kendall Valerio, Vance McBride, Cory Levesque, Yafa Jarrar, Pascale Arpin, Kieran McKinnon, and Liam Sheehan. Band members also jump in from time to time. To ensure they can fit all of this within the time constraints of their song, they speed up the video which makes the drawing unfold like magic before our eyes… drawing with chalk in hyper-speed!
The video peaks while the band sings the refrain “Try and keep an open heart” over and over at the end and you have eight people drawing at the same time creating one big beautiful mural with a great message.
Check out the video fro “Stuck in My Head” below, and if you like what you see and hear, buy and/or stream the entire album below and check them out live this Friday, September 29th at LIVE on Elgin for their album release party and October 17th when they open for The Nils and Steve Adamyk Band at House of Targ.