Much of Emily Lind’s new music video for her single “Tantra Practice” was filmed on a pink children’s camcorder. These grainy fragments of footage suit the lo-fi, atmospheric song, the lyrics of which the musician and actress describes to PAPER as “a collection of memories.” She wrote them while on vacation during the pandemic, attempting to describe the sense of “distance which has been a familiar feeling to me, and I’m sure many, this past year.”
Lind, who you might also recognize from the rebooted Gossip Girl cast, is about as far away from the Met steps as you can get in the new visual, directed by friend Chiara Gabellini and edited by Vlad Grigorov. But her character Audrey might put “Tantra Practice” on a moody cottagecore playlist for a trip upstate with Aki. Acoustic guitar and strings mingle with sound bites from Lind’s conversations, as well as an old psychic reading. “I wanted to mimic what a brain feels like when it’s overcome with thoughts and memories,” she explains. Continue reading »
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