The video for “What’s Wrong? Pt II” by Fake Dad looks like we’re in store for a horror movie scenario going through a boat ride through a realm of fake dinosaurs. Singer Andrea de Varona looks impressively unimpressed while Josh Ford seems to take some amusement from the fake dinosaurs, unaffected by the lit “EXIT” signs and de Varona’s blasé reaction to the odd sights. Visually the video matches the spirit of the song that seems to be about pondering a state of ennui or even existential stasis despite the wonders all around you in which to be engaged and take pleasure instead “chasing after something I don’t believe.” The song articulates well the way we become alienated from ourselves when we convince ourselves we want something because we think we should want those things or to be with those people or in situations we intellectualize a little too deeply we should want even if they don’t suit us. So instead of chasing our actual dreams, we put our energy after what we don’t and then wonder why we’re dissatisfied and jaded. The song sounds like it’s about these sorts of things and yet it has a classic pop sensibility to it and there is inherent in the lyrics and de Varona’s vocal delivery a self-awareness that in itself is hope for change. The passage through the tunnel is an obvious symbol of personal transformation but that there is no dramatic change at the end is a tacit acknowledgement that it’s going to take some work. Follow Fake Dad at the links below.
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