The more extreme shots were handled by my stunt double, pro-climber Sterling Taylor … I wanted the whistle melody to be this glorious wind in your hair rock ‘n’ roll moment like a scene from Easy Rider thus the Dennis Hopper wig. “I had an acute panic attack as I was standing on the edge of a thousand-foot precipice wearing this giant head mounted on a baseball helmet. “We shot this video after a storm system moved through Los Angeles, and there was a strange mist wisping through the mountains,” Bird said. Elsewhere, director Matthew Daniel Siskin follows Bird as the multi-instrumentalist rides a bicycle later, the camera zooms out to show him vigorously pedaling in the bed of a pickup truck.īird detailed the video’s inspiration in a statement, noting he drew on the acclaimed 1969 film Easy Rider film for some scenes. Sisyphus grimace, it's the rock and roll, vulnerable Maybe it's my fate and it's all my fault And I know You got a mountain of your own (Yeah) Watch your step Lifting slow Giving no Imprint in the snow And I love you to pieces Till that's all we're left with (Yeah) It's all we're left with In the end (Yeah, oh, yeah) And sometimes, I wanna. He finds himself in several precarious spots - fumbling for grip with his feet slipping in the dirt, inching forward with his back against the rocks.
Instead of pushing a boulder up a mountainside, like the song’s titular doomed king, the singer-songwriter struggles to ascend the hills while wearing a massive stone head. Andrew Bird blends Greek mythology, sweeping aerial views and playful visual gags in his new “Sisyphus” video.
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