Thursday January 22

Video SoulBounce

'Everybody Knows,' John Legend

 

With high production value, scenes of unknown pretty people doing a variety of things, and John Legend's exposed décolletage, the video for "Everybody Knows" is nice to watch. As Legend walks about city streets, dark interiors, and other locales he sings about what "everyone knows and nobody really knows," which appears to be heartbreak. Many of the visual elements seem incongruous--his shirtless bust being simultaneously tattooed and un-tattooed, a young woman giving birth, the closing shot of all the actors--but the mood of the song really comes through in an unexpectedly touching way. There is a connection there (spoiler: it's that everybody knows). This video is definitely worth giving one more try.

Comments

Love the video, love this song, one of my favorites from the evolver album. Plus, JL shirtless...mwa!! olala!

This is one of my favorite songs from the evolver album. I'm not sure about how I feel about the video. I think it could have featured a few more brown people but all the same its the type of video I expect from Mr. Legend.

It could have come off cheesy, but it didn't. I lke it.










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