Pause at 1:44 for a great close-up of a sweaty, pasty white, Peter-Parker-looking Mayer Hawthorne.
This is a great example of a video that takes a song to the next level. The video reveals Hawthorne’s ‘green-eyed love’ to be absinthe and the latter three quarters show him hallucinating, which relays his goofiness in a way that the song does not.
Not that his previous videos haven’t done that already.
European tour dates after the jump
Oct 24: Mayer Hawthorne in Glasgow at King Tuts. £8. TICKETS
Oct 25: Mayer Hawthorne in Leeds at Hi-Fi Club. Free Entry.
Oct 26: Mayer Hawthorne in Bristol at Metropolis. £7. TICKETS
Oct 27: Mayer Hawthorne in London at Queen of Hoxton. TICKETS
Oct 29: Mayer Hawthorne in London at Queen of Hoxton. SOLD OUT
Oct 30: Mayer Hawthorne in Galway at Roisin Dubh. 14 euros. TICKETS
Oct 31: Mayer Hawthorne in Dublin at Crawdaddy. 20.50 euros. TICKETS
Nov 04: Mayer Hawthorne in Rome at Circolo Degli Artisti.
Nov 05: Mayer Hawthorne in Vercelli at Cavalli & Stalloni. Free Entry.
Nov 06: Mayer Hawthorne in Leuven at Het Depot. 11 / 13 euros. TICKETS
Nov 07: Mayer Hawthorne in Ghent at Make Up Club. 11.50 euros. TICKETS
Nov 09: Mayer Hawthorne in Amsterdam at Paradiso. 12 euros. TICKETS
Nov 10: Mayer Hawthorne in Paris at La Bellevilloise.
Nov 11: Mayer Hawthorne in Marseille at Poste a Galene.
Nov 12: Mayer Hawthorne in Zurich at Mascotte. TICKETS
Nov 13: Mayer Hawthorne in Basel at Kaserne. CHF 23. TICKETS
Nov 14: Mayer Hawthorne in Lausanne at Le Romandie. CHF 15 / 17. TICKETS
Nov 17: Mayer Hawthorne in Erlangen at E-Werk. 11.50 euros. TICKETS
Nov 19: Mayer Hawthorne in Linz at Kapu
Nov 20: Mayer Hawthorne in Vienna at Roxy. 12 / 13 euros. TICKETS
Nov 21: Mayer Hawthorne in Berlin at Bohannon. 12 / 13 euros. TICKETS
Nov 24: Mayer Hawthorne in Madrid at Charada
Nov 25: Mayer Hawthorne in Barcelona at Bikini
Nov 26: Mayer Hawthorne in Hondarribia at Psylocibenea
[…] Mayer Hawthorne’s music videos consistently kick ass. When I saw the wobbly cam in the opening shot, I feared for a second that it would be on some discount video bullshit. But then the video launched into a choreographed, minimally edited, one-shot pageant of sunbathed happiness that made me wish I grew up in the 60s, back when everyone was happy all the time. For more fun, see the videos for “One Track Mind” and “Green Eyed Love.” […]