Premiere: Davey Harris buzzes free in ‘Honey’ video

As absurd as it sounds, Davey Harris wrote a song to honeybees. No, literally. His song “Honey” serves as a lamentation about the state of bees (currently considered endangered). In the accompanying visual, premiering today on B-Sides & Badlands, the musician wields absurdist comedy to relay an urgent, emotionally-electric message. “Where’s my honeybee?” he sings with honey dripping over his face. Harris can also be seen shimmying in a bee costume, suggesting that we are all one with bees. And he would be right. The earth itself wouldn’t be sustainable without them.

Filmed in Wonderland Lake in Boulder, Colorado, the clip is “the silliest and most absurd video I’ve done,” he shares, “but I do think it encompasses a lot about me as an artist. Honey bees are magical creatures and me making a song about them is cute and ridiculous. Being inspired for me sometimes manifests as being random for an important cause.”

“Say what you’ve been thinking / No sense of being bothered by the sting of summer healing,” he sings, his head poking out of a sunflower getup. “Go get your army of good intentions…” Good intentions, he implies, does nothing to save the only survivable planet we currently have. The song’s groove runs nearly as thick as honey, amber and succulent and oh-so addicting.

“Honey” follows several other singles this year, including “Self Saboteur” and “Predictable.”

Check out the “Honey” video below.

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