Last month I was asked for some tracks to play for the BBC‘s Now Playing @6Music program. I went about picking all the Cougar favorites from the past year and as such Alana Stewart was a perfect fit.
The singer-songwriter, originally from the West Coast but now residing in NYC, wowed me during her live London performances and her album ‘Birth And The Atomic Bomb‘ has deservedly recieved multiple plays. I had always felt the track ‘Boy Next Door‘ was one of it’s strongest moments which is why it was a natural selection for radioplay.
Having already interviewed and reviewed her I’m excited to be able to premier the fantastic new video for the track directed by Brooklyn director Alice Millar with help from artist Heidi Howard. The duo built and hand crafted the entire concept from scratch bringing in a frosty element (the video was shot on a freezing day where Alana‘s limbs were turning blue) perfectly reflecting the protagonists lust for a man who is out of reach both literally and figuratively.
She goes on to explain that the video “plays with the idea that when we are lust-struck, we are manipulated by our object of desire. When it’s mutual, we can manipulate them just as much as they can manipulate us. So I appear to be “real” in the video, and he appears to be the puppet- but nevertheless he is manipulating my thoughts, moves and desires“.
Alana Stewart is an artist we will be keenly following and definitely one for you all to watch in 2012.
TRACKS:
The Boy Next Door by Alana Stewart
