Jon Hamm has a brand new position: He performs an emotionally unavailable boyfriend in singer Leslie Stevens‘ new music video for “Blue Roses.”
The clip, launched Friday, options Hamm in a cowboy hat and denim shirt, as he palms Stevens blue roses and she or he sings the lyrics, “Go forward and take one other little piece of my coronary heart/I’ll give it to you as a collapse.” The bluesy rock-pop observe options the hook, “All I get from you might be blue roses.”
The Emmy-winning actor even hijacks Stevens’ microphone throughout her reside efficiency and replaces it with blue roses within the video, directed by Paige Stark of the rock band Tashaki Miyaki.
“I like a music video, and when it’s for music it’s even higher” says Hamm, whose different music video credit embrace Eeels’ “Are We Alright Once more,” Aimee Mann’s “Labrador,” The Lonely Island and Rihanna’s “Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie & Clyde” and George Harrison’s “My Candy Lord,” the latter of which launched in 2021, 51 years after the music got here out.
“I’ve been a fan of her music for a very long time,” Hamm says of Stevens, whose sound is a mixture of Americana, people, nation, rock and singer-songwriter types. “I’ve adopted alongside along with her unbelievable profession to date. She’s a really proficient individual and at all times has been.”
Stevens says Hamm — who taught appearing at her highschool in St. Louis — got here up when she started pondering of the “dream actor to play this poisonous cowboy” in her music video.
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“Working with Jon was an honor. He’s as charismatic as he’s type, and he simply appears to have the ability to create and add a lot dimension to his character on the spot. In order that on-set magic was actually current and by the tip of the day I may really feel that I had simply been smiling all day lengthy,” Stevens says. “He’s so proficient and we have been so fortunate to have him be part of it.”
Together with Friday’s announcement of the brand new music video, Stevens additionally dropped the discharge date — Feb. 23 — for her new self-titled album, which options “Blue Roses.” She additionally launched a brand new music from the album referred to as “Huge Time Sucka.” Leslie Stevens is the singer’s third solo album after releasing initiatives with the ensemble Leslie and the Badgers.
“I feel the that means behind the brand new album is that there’s a lot good that one could make out of the unhealthy. It’s just like the metaphorical flowers that develop out of the fertilizer. Unhealthy issues occur, it’s not non-compulsory, however there could be a dignity to it even when it’s simply that it leads one to understand the nice,” Stevens says. “I needed to have as a lot enjoyable as I presumably may recording the songs and have numerous attractive items and elements and categorical myself.”
Stevens produced the album with Kevin Ratterman, who has labored with My Morning Jacket and Ray LaMontagne. My Morning Jacket’s Bo Koster and Incubus’ Nicole Row seem on the album, and Stevens says the venture is self-titled as a result of it “felt a lot like me.”
“I prefer to say my mother named the report. I had been inside alone with a small little one throughout the 2020 lockdown, adopted by a complete yr of homeschool and isolation, so once I went to make this recording I needed to make one thing that basically expressed one thing large and enjoyable, not solely despite, however due to the tough occasions,” she says. “Writing music helps me course of the challenges and switch them into one thing extra.”
