We’ve all been there. That suffocating loneliness. The crushing dread of isolation. You pretend to shrug it off, tell everyone you’re doing great. On the surface, you’re all smiles and firm handshakes. But inside you’re slowly melting away, hoping against hope that someone will notice your pain. All you want is a loving embrace and some kind words of reassurance. In our darkest moments, all anyone really needs is a loving friend.
On their new video for “Lookin’ for a Friend,” Hunter Morris & Blue Blood seek to capture that intersection of alienation and yearning for love. Taken from the group’s new LP, Give In to Livin’, the song hums along full of ringing guitars and melodies that are disarmingly sticky. Yet, despite the track’s driving thrust, Morris keeps a melancholy mood. “We’re just boys and girls, in a poisoned world, lookin’ for a friend,” he laments on the chorus, offering but a glint of possibility within an otherwise broken reality.
Created by April Lanee, the video follows an orange-haired doll—one of the two featured on the album’s cover–on a dejected trek through the city. The atmosphere is overwhelmingly glum as the muppet shuffles along listlessly or drowns their sorrow alone in a bar. But just when things are at their most bleak a flash of light hits the screen like a bolt of lightning. As the camera turns to reveal the protagonist’s purple-haired counterpart, a weight is lifted. Suddenly a smile appears. Eyes that were once dead and sullen turn into bright red hearts.
You know how the rest goes. Love as an antidote to loneliness and heartache is a timeless theme, after all. But it is so precisely because it’s so simple yet potent. When all else fails, it’s our friends and loved ones that see us through.
Watch/listen above.
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