Premiere: Scott Collins trips aimlessly through life with ‘Bullet’ lyric video
The rising musician enlists Cole Burris to give his song an animated life.
There’s something peculiar about human existence. If you really boil down to it, we’re just dots. Dots connected by fraying threads, and sooner or later, they all break. So, we’re left bouncing around with no real intent or aim ⏤ just clouds of dust all moving to the same end. That’s just how it goes. Blurring stylistic lines, often through static of lo-fi pop and a dose of Americana, singer-songwriter Scott Collins observes life as a million molecules, or bullets rather, on his aptly-titled song “Bullet,” paired today with a languid, yet vibrant, lyric video.
“Just a bullet in the wind / Can’t find its own head / Looking forward as its leaving / Never coming back again,” he sings, his vocal nearly detached from his body. The visual, animated by Cole Burris, sinks low into Collins’ mental fog, fuzzy images ebbing and flowing into and through frame. “The video is insane cool,” Collins tells B-Sides & Badlands over email.
“Cole really knocked this one out of the park. I feel the song is a little bit of a sleeper on the EP, yet one of my personal favorites,” he continues. Collins wrote the song after traveling from Austin to Colorado, mere days following the release of his 2018 EP, Roadmaps.
“Lyrically, I let it flow, as I tend to and then mold a story as it evolves out of the moment. On a lot of my songs, I also direct the story into either a theme or character driven route,” he remarks. ”Bullet’ is definitely more of my free prose style where there is a theme rather than story. And a lot of times that’s intentional to leave it open to interpretation by the audience.”
“Bullet” samples Collins’ new EP, Headed North, out everywhere now.
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