The new Contantines album Kensington Heights landed a few months back without even a splash in the blog collective’s bucket of hype. It’s probably because it’s their third album and that makes them past their prime according to today’s internet standards. Personally I’ve enjoyed each of their releases over the years and while this current album isn’t their best, I still find myself listening to it 4 months later…I know, crazy!
So now four months into this release, single ‘Our Age’ has magically been nominated for the video treatment. A very bad treatment, but a treatment nonetheless. This song is so much better than this clip and deserved so much more. I was hoping for an appropriate and artistic portrayal of teenage antics and the problems they persevere through, but what I got was an effortless and banal visualization of that angst. The cliched ‘Only my friends understand me’ mantra, is painfully showcased throughout this 4 minute video and culminates in a cheering fireworks display that somehow revives the protagonist from his party/drugs/societal pressures/sexual arousal coma. The only thing that kept me going was my enjoyment of the track.
This was definitely no ‘1979′.
i’m with you. like the song, but hate the video…