White Lung have released a video for ‘Below‘ in anticipation of their new album ‘Paradise‘, out on May 6th.
“This is my Stevie-Nicks-meets-Celine Dion ballad,” lead singer Mish Barber-Way says of the track. “I needed to try to do a ballad about glamorous women. It’s based on a quote by Camille Paglia, ‘Beauty fades. Beauty is transient. That is why we value it,’ she said.”
“‘Feminism’s failure to acknowledge that beauty is a value in itself, that even if a woman manages to achieve it for a particular moment, she has contributed something to the culture.’ It’s a song about the preservation of glamour and beauty.”
The cut for ‘Below’ stars AnnaLynne McCord and was directed by Richard Bates Jr., who remarks:
“White Lung play for an audience of impersonators who come to the realization that they’ve betrayed themselves in the pursuit of fame.”
“‘Below’ is a love-letter to influential female artists from the past. Our video serves to reinforce the notion that what makes an artist special cannot be manufactured.”
