Benee, a well-known singer from New Zealand, collaborates with musician and visual artist Deaton Chris Anthony on his newest song, “Goodbuy My Old Life.” The song is from Deaton’s soon-to-be first album, SID THE KID, which will be available on July 29. With its whimsical orchestration, nostalgic synths, video game beats from the ’90s, and flighty vocals, “Goobuy My Old Life” is an instant earworm. It’s an appealing left-field sonic cocktail. Sid, the main character of the album, according to Eaton, “likes what he can’t buy,” such as “Power tools and Tabi boots/ And Mui Mui bags,” and he becomes upset when he can’t have them.
In the chorus of the song, Deaton bids adieu to his previous existence and clarifies that his actions are now motivated by money. Benee’s sultry vocals, which speak about the pressures of time and maintaining a career, fit in flawlessly with the vibrant soundtrack. Director Justice Vaughn Ott opened the accompanying music video with a shot of Sam Pillow’s character Sid pulling up to the bowling alley. Then, when an enigmatic keg of “Toxic Ooze” soda contaminates the alley, scenes of Deaton and Benee hanging out in a claw machine filled with stuffed bananas are edited in. A fleet of bowling pins come to life when the apparatus goes haywire and a mystery chemical is released. “Kansas was home for me all of my life before I moved to Los Angeles,” says Deaton. “I believed that I was intended to do one thing and one thing only while I was in Kansas. Bowl. When I was twelve, I received the top score in the entire state of Kansas for my age group. 246. In high school, I went on to become the bowling captain and smashed my personal best with a 286 in regionals. I was never able to surpass my best score as the years passed. I was plagued by the 14 pins I missed. Every bowler’s goal is to reach 300! “I was wrong to believe that bowling was my purpose.” Then, according to Deaton, “My life turned into a rat race when moving to Los Angeles destroyed my bowling career.
It’s not simple, after all, to become the biggest music performer in the world. That is harsh. War is raging. Though I must admit, these days, bowling is all I can think about. I’ve learnt so much during the years creating music. There’s more to bowling than merely a game or a social activity. This way of living is my way of life! Look. Bowling these days—where is it? What do the pros wear that you have seen? Brutal. A major rebranding of bowling is imminent. A transformative process! Making bowling fashionable once more is my goal. perhaps just as fashionable as the animated bowling sequences that appear on the screen after a strike.” The narrative of SID THE KID tells the somewhat fictionalized tale of young Deaton’s childhood in Kansas, his real home state, along with that of his older brother Korbin. “My earliest years serve as my inspiration. Korbin is my older brother. “I dedicate this record to him,” states Deaton. “We used to take long drives in Kansas’ rural areas with the sunroof open. He would yell the words while we listened to Dashboard Confessional, which had a lot of emo music, while he peered up at the stars. That’s rural Kansas, the setting for SID THE KID. Consider this: At 10 years old, I was overweight and went by the nickname Sid the Kid. In the heart of this jungle, Korbin and I shared this small shed. In the run-up to SID THE KID, Deaton takes his creative vision in a daring new path. The synth wizard will be working with a number of well-known musicians on his debut guitar-based album, including multi-instrumentalist Mac Demarco, emerging New Zealand sensation BENEE, and Filipino-British singer-songwriter beabadoobee. Deation claims that the record’s visual language is a spectrum of color, texture, and emotion that straddles the line between modern visual vernacular and nostalgia. Each video pays homage to a different aesthetic from early 2000s childhood, including Sunday morning cartoons, VHS memories, old family Super 8 films, skate videos on DVD, and reality TV shows.
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