TNV premiered its new stop-motion, Brandon Reichard-directed joint over at IFC.com and had this to say about it:
When’s the first time you remember working on the song “Ever Falling in Love”?
That was the one song on the record that felt different than the rest of the songs. It was a little slower, and Beth [Murphy] played guitar on it. It was one of the first songs that is a story song for us. It worked out because Beth and I sing different parts on the song. She wrote lyrics, and I wrote lyrics separately. Somehow, they really worked together.The story of the song is the idea that people meet, they hook up, and then, the next day, you have to deal with the girl waking up and thinking the guy has left. But the guy comes back for her, and then they just say, “Fuck it,” and go off together. For the video, we actually had a movie idea from a long time ago, so then we thought maybe we could work that into the video. The video is kind of like the song, except they live in a land where there are no images because the king is blind and took all the images. Then this guy and this girl meet in a bar, and then the next day he leaves and goes into this hall of images where all the images in the world are. He steals them all and brings them back.
How does the video concept work with that song conceit?
It works good, because there are two characters in it. And in the song, Beth is singing, and I’m singing. I sing the boy character, and she sings the girl character. My lyrics and voice are the actual story, and then her lyrics are kind of what the girl is thinking. We knew we needed a video for that song, and we knew that, after our last video, we wanted to step it up even more and try to do the stop-motion idea. We tried to make a little French New Wave stop-motion. Breathless was kind of an inspiration for the video.
Read the rest of Grayson Currin’s interview at IFC.