After watching Midi Matilda’s newest music video, Love & the Movies, I’ve come to believe that the band laid out the following conditions before starting the project:
1) They wanted to live the American dream while filming it (if rocking out on a guitar/drum set to a Springsteen reminiscent track while being pulled by a pick-up truck through fields of corn isn’t the American dream then I don’t know what is.)
2) They wanted to be having maximum levels of fun in every single shot. (If someone asked me to explain the meaning of the phrase “pure joy” I would just play this video and point to the drummer’s face.)
3) Non-negotiable: they need a ridiculously cool stringless electric guitar and two spotlights.
4) Oh yeah, and they figured they’d include a killer track that just gets better with each playing.
Check. They got all of them: