Sometimes a music video can give a song an entirely different meaning and can make you see the song in an entirely different light. Great American Canyon Band released “You Were The One” earlier this month and at first listen it’s a song about battling an intense loss, however, on Friday the band has given the song an entirely different meaning with their newly released music video. The band paired the song up with scenes from the original “Night Of The Living Dead” and just like the living dead, the song is given a new life.
[“You did what?” That was the question posed at around 2 am when Kris presented her video idea for “You Were The One.” Then she showed me, and suddenly, with “You Were The One” playing over George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead,” it’s fear-inducing scenes had transformed into a complex love story. Just beneath the surface of this Zombie cult classic, there was a heart-led intensity that translated into the beauty and physical communication between two people finding and losing each other, all while not knowing what would lie ahead. Eerie instances of tailor-made scenes began to surface. Lyrics like “Fire in my doorway” paired uncannily with visual equivalents shot 55 years ago. It felt fated that these two pieces of art had found each other. “You Were The One” has always been about those moments in a relationship when each person grapples with their own objective reality, asking themselves what really happened here and whether a repair is possible. And there, in a horror movie classic, our words and song were resurrected. ] singer Paul Masson said of the idea.
I’ve always loved the idea of a dark love song and this song was already as dark as they come but now with this music video, the band is proving that nothing is permanent, not love, life, pain, or even death.
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