The tragic tale of an armless ex-samurai forms the storyline of bass virtuoso Thundercat’s music video “Them Changes,” from his new mini-album The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam (Brainfeeder). Directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada, the video takes on heartbreak through an unexpected lens. As Estrada notes in its press release, “Thundercat’s take on heartbreak is so atypical that I figured the video for the song should be anything but a classic relationship-gone-wrong story. Stories like athletes’ careers ending after injuries or artists losing their site/hearing/ability to perform; these concepts are truly heartbreaking. I also know that Thundercat has a thing for samurais—so I saw an opportunity to make everyone happy here. Or everyone sad, I guess.” While groovy lines of “Them Changes” don’t exactly match this melancholic message, the resulting tongue-in-cheek humor from the slightly ridiculous plotline aligns with the tune perfectly.
Check it out below:
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“Them Changes” is available along with the rest of Thundercat’s mini-album The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam (Brainfeeder) on iTunes.
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