Father John Misty has released a new music video for the track ‘Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution’.
The music video is a beautiful example of the creative power of stop-motion animation. Directed by Chris Hopewell, the same artistic force behind the video for Radiohead’s track ‘Burn The Witch’, the video follows a lone figure wandering across a dystopian landscape populated with nothing but corpses, rats, and cockroaches.
The video perfectly accompanies the lyrics, as images of a post-apocalyptic world are paired with lines like: “It got too hot and so we overthrew the system/cause there’s no place for human existence like right here/on this bright blue marble orbited by trash/man, there’s no beating that.”
Even though the song is about the possibility of environmental change leading to a social and economic meltdown, Father John Misty is trying to do what he can to make this song only be a warning instead of a prophecy.
The figures used in the music video are being sold on ebay. The money raised will go towards the Environmental Defense Fund.
Still, if this video winds up being an image of our future, try and become friends with the cockroaches. They seem to have really great parties.