A few months back, Meg Remy released her latest U.S. Girls track with 2022's true summer anthem "So Typically Now." Today, she's returned with the follow-up "Bless This Mess," a ballad about perseverance in which Remy sings: "I heard from God and she said, 'I bless this mess, I see you're doing your best.'" It comes with a video created by Remy and artist Evan Gordon made from old camcorder footage.
“Before camera phones, the family camcorder was often the mirror tool used to capture selfie-like performances of teenage daydreams and insecurities," Remy said. "Recently I unearthed a VHS tape housing footage of my 1998 self singing on top of my favorite songs of the day, along with my 2000 self publicly performing music for the first time, plus various other blush-worthy self-portraits. I decided to air out this acutely personal footage. My meta music video vision: 1998 self singing a song that 2020 self wrote.”
Gordon explained the process of chopping the footage and piecing it together: “I buckled down and painstakingly dragged the eight-minute clip over each word of the song, forwards and then backwards, splitting off any partial or direct match. Beyond my expectations, I was able to find multiple matches for each phrase. From here, I worked on stitching the clips together to make complete phrases, selecting from my list of matches much like making a comp of vocal takes."
He added, "This video is a realfake. It’s naturally authentic while being transparently fake. Its intent is not to deceive or convince, but rather to induce reflection and remembrance.”
Watch the video for "Bless This Mess" below.
