Glass Animals – Hazey
2014 · Directed by Georgia Hudson
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Best comments
1.“If a lava lamp could sing, it would sound exactly like this.”
More comments
- 2.“I swear I feel more flexible while listening to this song.”
- 3.“I mean, I can touch my toes, so that's the same thing.”
The story
Bone breaking is a street dance style that looks exactly like it sounds. Joints bend in directions joints should not bend. Director Georgia Hudson put London's Solitary Crew, a bone-breaking collective, into an abandoned warehouse and let them contort to the song's lurching, off-kilter beat. Four dancers, a lot of body-popping, and moves that read less like choreography and more like some lost tribe talking through movement and touch.
Glass Animals singer Dave Bayley said the crew trains every day with brutal stretches, using ropes and towels to bend further, and the payoff only comes after years of discipline. That's the point. He described Hazey as a story about a parent who walks away from what matters and then drowns in regret. The parent sings the falsetto chorus. The kid, who had to grow up fast to clean up the mess, sings the verses. The bone breakers are that kid.
The song was the fourth and final single from Zaba, the band's 2014 debut, which took its jungle weirdness from a William Steig children's book. Strange album, stranger dancing. Perfect match.
