Welcome back to Just Press Play!
This week features a fresh, right off the presses video, one that I may or may not have found at 1 a.m. last Friday (or, technically, Saturday?). And I may or may not have cried in my bed after watching it. A great way to start my fall break.
Max Schneider, who you might know from his roles on Nickelodeon, his amazing YouTube covers, or his recently released Hell’s Kitchen Angel, teamed up with singer/songwriter Gnash for a new version of his single, “Lights Down Low.” The song by itself already hits home with its strong lyrics and the singers’ cathartic vocals (man, that bridge).
And then there’s the video.
For starters, it is beautifully shot.
You are seeing one room and one person grow and mold in flashes which
This brings us back to the root of the song: navigating love in all its treachery and beauty. I love The Notebook as much as the next hopeless romantic, but sometimes you need a view of love you can truly relate to. Music, as a medium, has always been open to exposing the complicated emotion and showing its many forms which