Video Premiere: The Stray Birds, “Never For Nothing”
You might not make a lot of money. You might not win awards or accolades. You might not make new friends or establish important new connections. But sometimes, following your heart and doing what you KNOW is right, what you FEEL is right – well, that’s reward enough.
Maya de Vitry of The Stray Birds says this song is “an homage to music as an offering–on a back porch, singing for nobody but the birds–on a subway platform, tossed as a rope for anyone to hold–around a campfire, shared between friends and the stars.” In other words, music is enough of a reason to make music.
The Stray Birds – they’re a band known for their tight harmonies, their impeccable instrumentation and their ability to make their audience feel completely involved in the music they make. With “Never for Nothing,” the Birds also prove how capable they are of creating incredibly vivid stories and characters with their music.
Lyrics like “I’m dripping from the rivers I never meant to cross/But I like the things I’m learning more than anything I’ve lost/And, oh, I have lost…but not for nothing,” let the band paint a very clear picture of complicated and oh-so-human emotions. The gorgeous music video that accompanies the song, featuring Fish & Bird’s Taylor Ashton and filmed and edited by Jacob Blumberg, only helps us better understand those emotions – the contradictions of hope and heartbreak, longing and gratitude, that we are all capable of feeling at the same time.
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The Stray Birds’ ‘Best Medicine’ is available via YepRoc Records at iTunes and Amazon.com.
