Calvin Harris and John Newman hang out in a Hollywood Hills dwelling looking properly moody, blame it on the night and not on the fact that they're such players. Is stoicism a virtue? This is the question asked in Harris' new video for their killer track "Blame," albeit asked in between shots of young, model-esque women dancing with wild abandon. In the video, Harris gets to sleep with a woman that's totally in his league, while Newman will get to do the same but with a girl that would never see him with sexual attraction in real life.
The fairy-tale EDM turn "Blame," is the latest single, follow-up to Scottish DJ's hit tune "Summer," taken from his upcoming fourth studio album, and it's leading the midweek UK charts and broke yet another Spotify record now. "Blame" somehow feels fuller and more rounded-out, structurally, than much of his other output. Luckily for Harris, everything he touches these days seems to turn more golden than his glowing tan. The vocals, by British blue-eyed soul singer Newman, soulfully insists on the surging bridge, before it bursts into one of Harris' infectious four-to-the-floor choruses.
Back to the Emil Nava-directed video, it opens with Harris and Newman, play unavailable men in the midst of an existential crisis, each in their own perfectly appointed and urbane homes sitting on bed giving the back to the lady who's slept next to them. What troubles them is unknown, although Newman is pictured in a room designed in the style of the Playboy mansion alongside a woman in black négligée who happens to be unconscious, giving the viewer the idea that perhaps something wicked this way comes.
Midway through it becomes apparent the video's narrative will be more about the women - figures who at first were the window dressing to male angst take center stage. A twist is introduced when one central female figure in each of the vignettes takes a tumble down Alice's hole into Wonderland, in a spectacular, watery fashion. I guess the idea of the video is that the duo met the girls they slept with at the club, and instead of blaming it on their inextinguishable appetite for sex, they want to blame it on "night" for having met these sweet and innocent girls the previous night and had taken them to their houses.
The fairy-tale EDM turn "Blame," is the latest single, follow-up to Scottish DJ's hit tune "Summer," taken from his upcoming fourth studio album, and it's leading the midweek UK charts and broke yet another Spotify record now. "Blame" somehow feels fuller and more rounded-out, structurally, than much of his other output. Luckily for Harris, everything he touches these days seems to turn more golden than his glowing tan. The vocals, by British blue-eyed soul singer Newman, soulfully insists on the surging bridge, before it bursts into one of Harris' infectious four-to-the-floor choruses.
Back to the Emil Nava-directed video, it opens with Harris and Newman, play unavailable men in the midst of an existential crisis, each in their own perfectly appointed and urbane homes sitting on bed giving the back to the lady who's slept next to them. What troubles them is unknown, although Newman is pictured in a room designed in the style of the Playboy mansion alongside a woman in black négligée who happens to be unconscious, giving the viewer the idea that perhaps something wicked this way comes.
Midway through it becomes apparent the video's narrative will be more about the women - figures who at first were the window dressing to male angst take center stage. A twist is introduced when one central female figure in each of the vignettes takes a tumble down Alice's hole into Wonderland, in a spectacular, watery fashion. I guess the idea of the video is that the duo met the girls they slept with at the club, and instead of blaming it on their inextinguishable appetite for sex, they want to blame it on "night" for having met these sweet and innocent girls the previous night and had taken them to their houses.
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