Lazy Day Drops Music Video for ‘Getting Good’ Ahead of ‘Open the Door’
Lazy Day releases the music video for ‘Getting Good,’ a track from their upcoming album ‘Open the Door,’ set to be released via Brace Yourself Records.
As we approach the November 8th release of ‘Open the Door,’ Lazy Day—the London-based project of songwriter Tilly Scantlebury (they/them)—offers a final pre-release glimpse with their new single, ‘Getting Good,’ accompanied by a stylish music video directed by Abi Sinclair.
In ‘Getting Good,’ Scantlebury showcases their talent for crafting urgent, insistent indie rock, buoyed by soaring choruses and the driving repetition of the titular refrain. The song delves into the paradox of becoming proficient at things that may not serve our best interests. With this powerful mantra, Scantlebury addresses procrastination head-on, creating a battle cry for indie rock enthusiasts everywhere. It’s a wake-up call for doomscrollers and daydreamers alike, urging listeners to confront their tendencies and get moving.
“The song is about my menial but recurring feelings of failure,” explains Scantlebury. “And how I can become really good at behaviours that aren’t helpful, habits that stop me from doing what I need to do. I’m not sure that many people would recognise this kind of avoidance in me, but I wanted to stare at that secret tendency of mine head on.”
“‘Open the Door’ is about possibility and capacity,” they continue, “but ‘Getting Good’ is about those times when I’ve been too worried to push the door open myself, and it’s been easier to keep it closed”: ‘I know I could be good if I just left the house now / And stepped into the world, it’s not that I don’t know how.’ Writing the song helped me refocus on the things I really truly want to be good at. Getting good as a continual process, but one that requires you to move on.”
‘Getting Good’ comes accompanied by a video, directed by Abi Sinclair, that follows Scantlebury stepping out into the world and facing the everyday, while equally reflecting the album’s wider themes of domesticity. As they explain: “The themes of ‘Open the Door’ in many ways are focussed around the home, and I wanted the video to be located there. We used a contraption called a ‘Snorricam,’ which was attached to me and gives this intense single point perspective. Normally when the viewer is that close to a protagonist there’s a feeling of intimacy and understanding, but we wanted to deliver the opposite as the day-to-day frantically circles around me.”
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