On our final Music Video Monday of 2022, Memphis’ Fugitive Droids make their Music Video Monday debut. Bran Sowell (vocals), James Hoffman (guitar), Jason Lancaster (guitar), Jason Pulley (keys), Kip Wright (bass), and Josh Sparks (drums) have released two albums of punk-prog-metal — Boot Cycle, which was released on a fateful week in March 2020, and Anomaly, a response to a year of pandemic nuttiness.
“Kinged” is Anomaly‘s roaring anti-Trump screed. “The song details the tyranny, hypocrisy, and propaganda used by frail dictators in pursuit of a coup,” says Sowell. “They’ll say anything, do anything, or be anybody for the crowd that will cast the correct vote, and everyone else is the enemy. The majority of the lyrics are written from the perspective of a citizen living in such a dictatorship, except during a jarringly upbeat musical shift where they are temporarily the dictator’s inner thoughts.”
The video, created by Cam Taylor of Phoenix Cloud Studios, uses AI generated images on a trip down the uncanny valley. It feels just as surreal as the last three years.
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