Boombox Blitz: Angela Harris weathers the storm in debut video, ‘Should Have Known’

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Heartbreak is a connective tissue of human existence. No matter where we stand in this life, we can understand a broken heart, shattered to pieces and picked apart by the betrayal of another. In the early greying light of a storm crawling on the horizon’s edge, we ready our flesh for the ravages and torment to come, but preparations are oft in vain. The looming downpour, paired with ground-swelling cracks of lightning and tumultuous wind gusts, is no match for our lowly body of clay. Americana singer-songwriter Angela Harris demonstrates a mastery of pain with “Should Have Known,” a ragged old western tune from her forthcoming new record A Woman Like Me (out October 25), and the video is as weather stricken as the jagged and scuffed up organ pounding in her chest.

“Oh, the writing was on the wall / Every word, right down to the letter,” she sings on the chorus, a dusty, earth-scrapping memento. Despite her mournful yowls, Harris plants herself in the eye of the storm. Her debut music video, shot by Lucho Berzek at Farawayland Studios in Vancouver, plays to her strengths as a storyteller, allowing the lyrics to be framed in her tearful but penetrating gaze to the camera as the makeshift summer thunderstorm washes over the countryside. The rain beats upon the rock and dirt, and the viewer is beckoned into a world as dark as the rim of her Cattleman cowboy hat. “My music and the industry has changed a lot since my earlier work, and my demographic is merging to a more millennial base, so it made sense to connect my fans to my music in this way,” she explains of the clip, soaked in her heart’s stinging misery. “We wanted to showcase confidence and strength in the video, as well as display the emotions that one might be feeling after experiencing a breakdown of trust in a relationship.”

In many ways, Mother Nature and her many elements have a way of illustrating the exactness of the rage and turmoil that we, as human beings packed with flaws and rough edges, may not be able to aptly express. Harris adds, “We also wanted to present the importance of moving forward so to get this all in, we decided to incorporate natures dark and dramatic visuals with lots of movement and place me inside it in a simple, down-home, straight forward and personal way.”

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