A little over a year, John Keener of Lakewood Bar and Grill urged that I give a listen to an up and coming singer-songwriter by the name of Arielle. I believe the first song I listened to was the track "Icarus", and I found the song so beautiful that I posted the YouTube video of the song and wrote this about her. The song even managed to chart at #44 in my countdown of my top local songs of the past five years (stay tuned for #37 later today).
As she has performed more, her live shows have continued to grow stronger. Her show at Liquid Lounge earlier this month had her most enthusiastic audience to date, and one of the most enthusiastic audiences I've seen at any show for awhile. That's pretty impressive, considering that Arielle only relies on a keyboard and a loop machine for her live performances.
Last night, Arielle finally debuted the official music video for the song "Icarus", directed by Brian Scott Hunt. The video is rather simple, even minimalistic in its story line. With a song of such simplistic beauty as "Icarus", however, that makes the video perfectly fit the melody. Plus, the cinematography in the video is quite lovely. Even more importantly, Arielle's on-camera presence only add to the highly emotional content of the lyrics. Check out the video below:
Speaking of the lyrics, Arielle herself made this lyrical video for the song a few weeks ago. While many YouTube videos post song lyrics, Arielle raised the bar by her creative and artistic manner that she displayed the lyrics. Don't believe me? Watch this and then try to argue that.
Finally, this is the original demo version of the song, the one through which I discovered Arielle. Consider this like the Triple Shot Thursdays back in the days of Q102. Except that this isn't classic rock, and it's three shots of the same shot, but you get the idea.
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