Party Nails – Trigger Warning
Multifaceted singer-songwriter, artist, musician and producer Party Nails releases the video for “Trigger Warning.”
The noir-electropop single radiates with synthwave energy. The music video directed by Elinor Howells weaves between surrealism and emotional upheaval, blending dreamlike landscapes with introspective portraiture. The vintage-toned footage feels nostalgic and otherworldly as if filtered through a hazy VHS tape or a childhood memory. The video narrates themes including escape, finding community, inner searching, transformation, and transcendence.
Party Nails shares, ” I loved Elinor Howells’ work on Boy Phase’s “Small Talk” music video (a song I recorded and mixed last year) and jumped at the opportunity to work with her. I downloaded all of my ideas I’d been brewing on and told her to run with them. “Trigger Warning” is a song that encapsulates isolation and moving out of isolation, so we wanted to have the damsel character move from a chaotic state of running and fear and confusion, to one of beauty, connection and joy. With Quinn Thomashow as DP and Estrello Lo on mixed media and editing, Elinor masterfully infused the gritty street art of eastern Los Angeles with Estrella’s dreamy flowers and textures to create a dream-like world. Our damsel is rescued by my real-life friends, Fake Dad (check out their music!), queer angels who bring her to a nightclub in Heaven. Together they dance, surrounded by love and freedom of expression.”
Before she was Party Nails, Elana Carroll was a guitar-toting tween, playing any open mic near her hometown of Chatham, New York.
On Pillow Talk, Party Nails third album, Carroll has partnered with Eye Knee Records (founded by musicians Holly Miranda & Amb. Parsley, with the sharp mind and steady hand of boss lady, Elissa Young). The ten track collection is a genre-bending timeless yet forward thinking album featuring an intoxicating mix of retro synthwave, futuristic electro-pop, and lush indie rock. Pillow Talk finds Party Nails in a honey colored party mood.
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