Taste Test: Ant Saunders sees his reflection in ‘Yellow Hearts’
Newly signed to Arista Records, the indie-pop newcomer spotlights his hometown.
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Ant Saunders‘ viral hit “Yellow Hearts” isn’t a love song. Quite the contrary. It represents the limbo between friendship and a romance, stuck between uncertainty and angst in an emo kind of way. Newly signed to Arista Records, the 18-year-old trips over his longing and needing to know if what he thinks to be true is actual fact or simply an ever-elusive fantasy. “She put my name with yellow hearts / Her favorite color like the stars / I didn’t listen very hard,” he sings, calling to the meaning of yellow hearts (representing friendship). But he was blinded by his own well-intended wishes, perhaps miscommunicated feelings further clouding his idea of love. The visual plays with and re-sketches his innocence – meandering through various locations from his hometown of Woodbury Heights, New Jersey, including his high school and neighborhood hangouts. It’s grainy and real – and that groove is just addicting.
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