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by izzy Raye
Director: Izzy Raye
Produced by Big Star
Cinematographer: Sam Tetro
Location Producers: Joseph Nell & Lucy Devine
Editor: Izzy Raye
Gaffer: Emma Howard
VFX: Emma Howard
Featuring: Coleman Camp
Special thanks to Derek Matar.
I made this because… I was having a manic episode and wrote this song in like 10 minutes.
Creative Inspiration: Sam Tetro, Emma Howard, Walter De Maria
To find more:
Instagram — @izzyraye_
How would you describe your music to someone meeting you/hearing it for the first time?
I always describe it as alt pop
How do you find confidence to put your music out into the world?
Honestly I’ve been putting out music since my freshman year of college and that music was…not good! Hahah so with my new music I’m genuinely so proud and excited about it. When you feel that way about the work and the music it’s so easy to feel confident about getting it out to people.
How do you trust it’ll find the right audience? Especially in a market that can feel overloaded for so many of us with never ending music at our fingertips.
I’ve been working on developing a radical, some would say even delusional, trust that everything’s just gonna work out for me lolol. But in all honesty I see this song as a very condensed output of a specific energy, and all I can hope is that it finds the people that need it. I know I’m not the only crazy person out here feeling like this world is burning to the ground, so hopefully we can all meet up and rage together.
It does feel like anyone can release music these days, but no one musician is in “competition” with anyone else. At least I don’t see it that way. Just think about how many songs you love and listen to within the span of a week. There’s always room for a new song as long as you connect to it.
How’d you come up with the idea of for the video? Where’d you shoot it? What’re the specifics? (I’m genuinely so curious)
I live above this intersection and I have no idea why, but when I wrote the song I just really saw this specific video in my head. I wanted it to feel chaotic, and very city street. Of course I thought I could execute it by myself and like… film it on my iPhone lol.
And then two days before I wanted to shoot I caved and called up one of my creative partners, the incredibly talented cinematographer Sam Tetro. She had the idea for the spotlight at night, and then two days later we were in my friends Joe and Lucy’s apartment shining a follow spot out the window. My girlfriend, Emma Howard, was literally doing 6 jobs at once. She had the spotlight button in between her legs, holding and directing the spot, pushing playback, all while having me on the phone so that I could hear what part of the song we were shooting.
It was literally the hottest day of the summer and anyone that knows me knows I am not a runner lol so I almost passed out after like the first 5 hours of shooting. That’s when the video went from all at one time of the day to three different times of day. We all ended up liking that progression so much more anyway, so it worked out! I truly have the most amazing and gracious friends. I wouldn’t be able to do anything without them.