Lee DeWyze is an artist whose music you instantly fall in love with. Telling such authentic and beautiful stories in his music, we bring you his newest single “Weeds” and talked what inspired the track and music video.
Beyond The Stage: When did you write “Weeds” and what inspired it?
Lee DeWyze: Weeds explores the nature of love and relationships and how that parallels the cycle of life. How some things can be found when you don’t even know you’re looking for them. It’s about growing and learning to be vulnerable. How a time, place, and moment can play such a crucial part in where we end up and how we got there. Weeds is about finding beauty in the most unsuspecting places. It was recorded early in the year right before the pandemic at my personal studio here in Los Angeles, California.
BTS: Was there a specific reason you wanted the music video to be a simple animation type?
Lee DeWyze: The paper and stop motion animation for “Weeds” really lends itself to the organic feel of this song. A while back I was lucky enough to meet Stefano Bertelli. He’s an amazing animator and director from Italy. I’ve been fortunate enough to have done 2 other videos with him (Castles & Victims of The NIght), and this felt almost like the third installment of the Trilogy he and I have put together. Each video has had a life of its own but there’s always been an esthetic and an emotionally driven storyline that has tied them all together with the music driving it along . Imagine if you will, different emotions all living in the same universe of stop animation, paper and magic.
BTS: What was the process like writing “Weeds?”
Lee DeWyze: I tend to write very in the moment, “Weeds” always felt very conversational to me from the very beginning and I wanted to keep that feeling throughout the song. I wanted it to feel personal and intimate.
I was fortunate enough to work with Dave Eggar who played strings in this track. Working with my friend and talented producer Nico Grossfeld who engineered and produced the song with me, we were able to find a really nice balance between the different layers of instrumentation. Jordan Katz laid in the horns and at the end of the day I feel we achieved the organic and emotional feeling I was hoping for when I wrote it.
Check out the “Weeds” music video below!
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