Celebrating his 2 Grammy nominations, buzzing Canadian crooner Daniel Caesar gives us a visual for the title track off his acclaimed debut album, Freudian.
The Keavan Yazdani and Sean Brown-directed video opens with thin split screen shots of Daniel grappling with different emotional moments. In the left screen, his anger is evident as he’s seated in a dimly lit room and sings, “You are the reason / The reason I sing / I have to preserve you / ‘Cause you’re my everything.” The other screen shows a calmer Caesar in the same room as the first screen, this time with brighter light and some female companions.
The screen then fades to black and the camera pans over a wooded road where Daniel runs alongside a group of young woman. Wearing a boot camp uniform, Caesar is seen yelling at the trainees, but as the third verse rolls around with him singing from his lady’s point of view, a trainee falls out of line and performs the lines herself as she addresses her trainer.
“Know I’d take a bullet for you / No you don’t know what I go through,” she mouths to Caesar. “And I know you think you’re kind of nice / Do you remember when I saved your life?”
Watch “Freudian, a visual” above.
