Today’s Music Video Monday is getting up in your face.
“#Renegades” is the first video from Memphis millenial popster Frenchie. Directed by Andrew Trent Fleming, it brings the band’s energetic show up close with the fans. Here’s a blast of positive pop rock to kick off your week.
Music Video Monday: Frenchie
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Does the beginning of the week make you feel like you’re trapped like a rat in a labyrinth, yearning for freedom? If so, then this Music Video Monday is for you.
Director Andrew Trent Fleming recently got a new quadcopter drone, and he knew he wanted to use it to film a video for Brennan Villines’ song “Free”. But the problem was, he also wanted to shoot the video inside First Congo Church. “We loved the labyrinth floor in regards to the title and message of the song,” he says. “Flying the drone indoors is a challenge, but I really wanted to add to the spiritual feel of the song and setting. The floating/haunting movement plays so seamlessly with Brennan’s cadence and energy.”
Music Video Monday: Brennan Villines
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in this very special Tuesday edition of Music Video Monday, we have country artist Bryan Hayes with his new video for “I Wanna Run”.
Hayes says the song was written to help keep himself sane while he was in some trying circumstances. “There was a two-year window in 2009 and 2010 when I was deployed to Iraq and I had to put the guitar in the closet,” he says. “I was either at Fort Benning Georgia training or in Iraq. As the military tour started winding down, I picked up the guitar again in Mosul, Iraq and started writing again and reconnecting with music and how much I love and missed songwriting.”
The video is produced by Archer Malmo’s John Markham and directed by Bart Shannon. The editor is Music Video Monday alum Andrew Trent Fleming.
Music Video Monday (on Tuesday): Bryan Hayes
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On today’s Music Video Monday, we’ve got the world premiere of “White Squared Potato” from Robby Grant’s ongoing music video project for his new Vending Machine album Let The Little Things Go. Director Andrew Trent Fleming takes us on a chase through space in a rickety, retrofuture rocket.
“When Robby asked me to make a video for his new Vending Machine EP, I knew I wanted to do something off the wall,” says Fleming. “I wanted to do something I’d never done in a music video before (space setting, 3D graphics) and make it silly but a little dark. I also wanted to make a small joke about the plethora of locals (myself included) who shoehorn some iconic Memphis landmark into videos in which they don’t make any sense.”
Music Video Monday: Vending Machine World Premere
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