Taste Test: Aaron Gibson wanders through life in new animated video, ‘Said No Lover’
The musician uses animation to punctuate the song’s profound state.
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There is both great tragedy and beauty that sprouts out of art. Each prickly, suffocating weed is necessary to uncover the nest of gardenias, lilies, and other wildflowers. Musician Aaron Gibson juggles such extremes with his new video “Said No Lover,” elevated with animation and direction by Miguel Rodrick. The images buzz and crackle, as a Gibson likeness weaves through a washed-out landscape in his little, beat-up yellow automobile. “Every year seem harder / Oh god, I can’t wish it away,” he sings. His voice is weighted with stark misery, strings warbling beneath him, from acoustic guitar to violin cries, and the visual is shot through like a Tim Burton setpiece. “I’m so far from being young anymore…”
“Said No Lover” is lifted from Gibson’s 2019 album, Horror Films and Sunday School.
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