Just because a song has a poignant and powerful message doesn’t mean that it can’t be fun, too, right? After all, what better way to get the point home and try to educate people than without them realizing that they are being schooled? Even if it is subliminally.
Musically, the grooves of Last Predictable Summer travel through familiar territory. It’s a jaunty and upbeat pop song built out of unimposing sonics, deliberately so, all the better to frame the vocals, give them room to breathe and emanate, and allow people to make the connection between the video’s often fun-filled and carefree images, and the point that Stephan Jaymes is making.
And the point is this. Given the fact that the environmental balance is tipping past a point of no return. That the greed of political leaders means that war is an increasingly prevalent fact of life. Religions seem to be moving ever further away from the common ground that they share. The minions and acolytes of such forces are so entrenched that they are unable, or more likely unwilling, to acknowledge any differing opinion. Life, as we know it, will change irrevocably.
And as the title suggests, what those changes and how drastic they will be, we are yet to understand, but they are bound to be unpredictable, impactful…bad. And yet, as underlined in this video, we are all happy to go about our frivolous lives, ignoring the warnings, taking selfies and thinking only of ourselves.
We are coming to the end of the Last Predictable Summer we might ever know; prepare for the Winter of Discontent!
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