The men and women behind the camera are often overlooked in today's YouTube era, so we aim to highlight their hard work here while showcasing the best videos currently linking around the Internet. A little behind-the-scenes dirt couldn't hurt, too. Odd Future singer Frank Ocean 's "Novacane" is an unlikely hit about feeling spiritually numbed by excess and normalization and drugs. The song's video, directed by year-old Nabil Elderkin , replicates this disconnection as it shows Ocean in a spooky room while apparitions of girls and um pandas surround him.
In it, Ocean looks appropriately zonked, his face warped by a vaseline-like gel and Elderkin's subtle effects. It's the type of comedown video that'll make you think twice about wanting to get so high in the first place.
Raised in Australia, the currently L. View Iframe URL. Nabil Elderkin: I met him at John Legend's place about a year and a half ago, and he said he'd send me his music. The first song I heard was "Lovecrimes" , and I thought it was different, fresh, and kind of creepy. I really liked it. He said, "['Novacane'] is the one we need to do. I don't really have any money right now, but let's make something.
As long as I'm not being rushed, it's all good. I thought it would be really cool to do something simple and trippy, like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , but not so extreme. Pitchfork: The video cuts off before the end of the song, was that a way to work around the budget? What he refers to as numbness of the high, I believe is a metaphor to the numbness he felt in having to hide being a gay man.
The pity is on him. He feels sorry for himself and his suffering. I feel as though even the video can be interpreted in this way as well. The video which only features half of the song is set with him in what looks like to be a hotel room.
As he sits down and begins to smoke, ghostly, faded images of a woman sitting next to him appear, and she seems to be playing with his head.
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