What do you do when no one's watching? Singer-songwriter Leerone offers a personal retort to that question in her music video, a mischievous interpretation of the Black Keys' contemporary blues-rock classic, "Howlin' for You." Directed by Lindsey Byrnes, the video shows our raven-haired protagonist conducting a crash course in hip shuddering freakiness, hoofing about her funky Silverlake flat like a woman-cat unleashed. From its peeping Tom vibes to Leerone's spontaneous performance, "Howlin' for You" celebrates those rare, unguarded moments when inhibition is cast aside and the animal within is allowed to prowl.
Empty Houses [Official Music Video]
Empty Houses imagines Leerone as the sole attendee at an old woman's funeral. Courtesy of Friedmann and his animated sorcery, viewers are transported away from the graveyard through the spirit-haunted halls of the deceased woman's mansion, where Leerone glimpses scenes from the woman's tragic life. These playback images prompt Leerone to reflect on her own life. Eerie, picturesque, and gorgeously realized, Empty Houses makes a poignant visual statement about fate, life, choices and possibilities.
Conceived by Leerone and produced by LA videographer/animator Hank Friedmann—the same boy genius who oversaw Leerones 2008 video Care For Some Whiskey?—Empty Houses masterfully employs fantasy and gothic sensibilities in support of Leerone and Hank's uncompromising creative ambitions.
A song I wrote...about hoping that fate deals a fair hand. :)
Lyrics:
There's a candle in the corner
Burning out as the morning comes
I don't want another day like yesterday
I need a magic mirror
An 8 ball
A whisper through the keyhole
Or best of all
Your voice to fill the void
Oh let this be
Sweet serendipity
I've got time I know
But it feels like I'm forever waiting
Explain to me
Why you should let us feel
Something real
If we were never meant to be
Oh serendipity
Oh I have a little question
For the friend that you call fate
Could I tempt you into
Dealing me the king of hearts?
If I play my cards like a good girl
So we can reign in the real world
What do you say to making all my days?
Oh let this be
Sweet serendipity
I've got time I know
But it feels like I'm forever waiting
Explain to me
Why you should let us feel
Something real
If we were never meant to be
Oh serendipity
(c) Holly Kirby 2012
You're right,
And there is no reason why
I shouldn't stay here tonight.
Your arms
Are reaching to hold me now
And to fall, would be so easy.
Cause your good maybe too good for me
I would take all you'd give, and then I'd leave.
Don't want to start what I know will end
With us both bitter and, sorry
Goodbye.
Will be easier to say tonight before the daylight breaks
Then I'd be tempted to lie and pretend everything is right
When you're not right for me
You're right in every possible way
So I'd fight every urge I have to say
What my heart is telling me now to do
Cause we'd both be bitter and sorry
Goodbye
Will be easier to say tonight before the daylight breaks,
Then I'd be tempted to lie and pretend everything is right
When you're not right for me.