Steve Angello released his new video for a killer new track "Wasted Love" to his many eager fans in Times Square on the Sony jumbo-tron Monday, posing for pictures with his loyal fans, and handing out T-shirts customized "Wild Youth" T-shirts in anticipation of Angello's upcoming album due this fall via Columbia Records. The 31-year-old dance music innovator and globally acclaimed producer/DJ needs no introduction when it comes to pushing creativity beyond limits and made no exception for the premiere of the "Wasted Love" video taking it as big as it can get - the center of New York.
"Wasted Love" is his the first release from "Wild Youth," and this love ballad finds Angello linking up with the anthemic Australian band The Temper Trap's frontman Dougy Mandagi and adding guitars and strings to his usual EDM mix. The pair originally met in LA in late 2012. "We just wanted to have a song where our worlds collided a little bit, something that speaks to all of us, so I wanted to create something that was different but also honored The Temper Trap style," Angello told Rolling Stone. "I also wanted to find a great balance between dance and indie, and I kind of held back a lot just to create that moment where it's about the melodies and the songs."
"Wasted Love" takes you on an emotional roller coaster that leaves you in awe. Dougy's powerful voice and delivery of the lyrics and Angello's control of the energy in the melody and beat of "Wasted Love" build us up to a drop that rocks you to your very core. "It's always really interesting to see something really un-traditional happen," the former Swedish House Mafia member explained to MTV News this fantasy land is not a dream, but the video game of life. "We got a lot of initial pitches from different directors and we tried to find something that's very visual and different that ties together with my art direction of the album."
The new video, directed by Lance Drake, is a cinematic experience that seems to fall somewhere between a dream and an alternate reality, features an iconic cameo from Angello and an epic performance from Dougy. In the clip, we step into a vast "desert landscape meets art installation" world where we observe a video game of life being played. Viewers move from level to level during the song, experiencing the many stages of life, each obstacle represents birth, death, struggle, love, until the game is over.
"Wasted Love" is his the first release from "Wild Youth," and this love ballad finds Angello linking up with the anthemic Australian band The Temper Trap's frontman Dougy Mandagi and adding guitars and strings to his usual EDM mix. The pair originally met in LA in late 2012. "We just wanted to have a song where our worlds collided a little bit, something that speaks to all of us, so I wanted to create something that was different but also honored The Temper Trap style," Angello told Rolling Stone. "I also wanted to find a great balance between dance and indie, and I kind of held back a lot just to create that moment where it's about the melodies and the songs."
"Wasted Love" takes you on an emotional roller coaster that leaves you in awe. Dougy's powerful voice and delivery of the lyrics and Angello's control of the energy in the melody and beat of "Wasted Love" build us up to a drop that rocks you to your very core. "It's always really interesting to see something really un-traditional happen," the former Swedish House Mafia member explained to MTV News this fantasy land is not a dream, but the video game of life. "We got a lot of initial pitches from different directors and we tried to find something that's very visual and different that ties together with my art direction of the album."
The new video, directed by Lance Drake, is a cinematic experience that seems to fall somewhere between a dream and an alternate reality, features an iconic cameo from Angello and an epic performance from Dougy. In the clip, we step into a vast "desert landscape meets art installation" world where we observe a video game of life being played. Viewers move from level to level during the song, experiencing the many stages of life, each obstacle represents birth, death, struggle, love, until the game is over.
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