Dom Dolla’s New Music Video Was Created “To Defy the Public Situation of Acceptable Love” – EDM.com
“Once I learn the script for the video clip, I knew [director] Emilie Badenhorst was onto one thing actually particular,” Dom Dolla mentioned of his new music video.
This “particular” undertaking, the audiovisual for his 2021 single, “Strangers” (with Mansionair), is now reside. And Dolla wasn’t mendacity.
Shot in Cape City, South Africa, “Strangers” tells a free-spirited love story marked by golden hour meadows, stolen kisses and intimate moments in membership loos. Bookending the journey are crashing waves and chirping seagulls as our two protagonists come collectively and discover one another on the coast. It is fleeting, profound and—sure—sexy, enjoying right into a nostalgic recollection of youth and adolescence.
In the meantime, the thumping four-on-the-floor beat of “Strangers” performs within the background, marked by soulful vocals and a sensual tech home melody.
“I wished one thing that was a visible illustration of ‘strangeness,’ one thing you wouldn’t essentially anticipate from the beautiful melodies inside the track,” Dolla defined.
Badenhorst, the director of the “Strangers” music video, is affiliated with manufacturing corporations which have labored with the likes of James Blake, Drake, Zalando, 6LACK, Khalid and Lolo Zouaï. With this undertaking, she added, her imaginative and prescient was to “defy the general public situation of acceptable love.”
“My intention was at all times to intimately collaborate with two natural performers as a way to create two highly effective characters that signify a technology of individuals boldly dwelling out and chasing defiance,” Badenhorst continued. “As people we’re so simply seen as Strangers.”
Watch the music video for “Strangers” right here:
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