William: When we started talks about making this music video, I wasn’t in the best place mentally. a lot of change was happening with friend and family and even creatively in my life. I never thought that filming in that pool would have such a cathartic effect on my psyche. But I felt like on that day I had a sort of healing, and I could really see how important my friends are and that the people around me cared about me and wanted the best. It was a crazy fun day, Chris’ parents have always been super supportive and them letting us have fun and film in their drained pool with our wacky ideas and fantasies really turned a couple weird and emotional months for me into this drive or determination and want to be better as a human and an artist. The second part of filming was really another wave of happiness for me. just having a bunch of close friends and people around for that, us dressing up and acting goofy, it was pretty incredible to have that same feeling of comfort and love rush back, not that it ever left, but almost as a small reminder that everyone’s still here and we all love each other. Not to mention, it was the hottest day of the year, and we’re out on the street running behind this car, sweating our asses off, just a real blast of nostalgia thinking about it, and it wasn’t very long ago that we did that, I just think all the good vibes and happiness and love was palpable and it remains that way for me. so really, that whole experience was just a huge landmark in my life that spoke volumes to the love my friends have for me and that I have for them, and not only limited to my friends but for myself, which was pretty momentous in my life. I couldn’t even begin to try to forget that feeling now and it’s really been an amazing experience being “weak”.
Alex: Fish boys with fish toys being our best selves in a shallow end. A lonely swamp man finds himself invited to a small gathering. He sticks it out and dog gone it he made himself a couple of friends. A bearded fisherman and a meek lifeguard join his crew. Swampy man Mcgee is exulted. Recording this was tons of fun. We did two days of shooting, one in Chris’ parents drained pool and the other day at our house and in our neighborhood. The Coble pool was getting a new liner in it last summer, so it was perfect timing for a weak video. I was overcome with memories that day. Chris and I have know each other since we were kids and that pool is part of our childhood. In fact, one of my most vivid memories is from almost drowning in that pool. I was 5, had a brand new life vest, and decided to a jump of the diving board. The vest came right off as i impacted the water and i sank like a brick. My mom was privy to my impending doom and dove in fully clothed to save me. What a legend. Thanks mom.
Chris: We have a neighbor, let’s call him Mike. Mike has some type of paranoid schism. Uninhibited by the world surrounding him, he will voluntarily scream shirtless from his porch, often about Pink Floyd and fluoride in drinking water. While Mike’s incoherent ramblings (sometimes affixed to our front door with chewing gum) have never been harmful in any sort, aside from the odd hurled cellphone or dinner plate into the street from his graffiti-laden livingroom, there was some question on the day of the shoot as to what Mike’s reaction to seeing a green body in a ghillie suit running down the street with a lifeguard and fisherman may be. Drenched in green paint, painting through the cheap nylon threading of an, admittedly cheaply made, stealth camo suit, we watched from the corner of our eyes as Mike reacted the same way to our odd gang running down his street as Mike reacts to every other passerby; without a question and definitely yelling something about Pink Floyd.
