After three years, the Southern rock band, Kings Of Leon, is back with a new and fresh album, titled “WALLS.” The band released two music videos for their singles, “Waste A Moment” and “WALLS” in September in preparation for their seventh album to be out on Oct. 14.
They’ve got a whole new look going for them, and their music videos are more visually pleasing than their previous ones. Aesthetically, I’m really digging it. The only difference between “WALLS” and “Waste A Moment” from their previous music videos is that their recent ones are much more confusing and more open to interpretation.
A week later, the music video for “WALLS” came out and was thankfully less overwhelming. But compared to “Waste A Moment,” “WALLS” is seriously underwhelming but the lyrics felt much more meaningful with the simple melody and dramatic climax.
In the “WALLS” music video, Caleb is sitting in the middle of what looks like a stage, playing his guitar. Three walls surround him and the fourth wall is open as the camera slowly zooms in. He looks up to the light, which I found to be a recurring theme so far between the two videos.
Halfway through, he literally breaks down the fourth wall by staring directly into the camera as if he was speaking to anyone who was watching him and sings the line, “when the walls come down…”
Perhaps my favorite part out of the whole song was when the scene changed from him being stuck in a room to being in the middle of the freeway, wind blowing and everything, screaming, “You tore out my heart. You threw it away.”
The song could be interpreted in different ways but ultimately still has the same meaning no matter what. The chorus that repeats the line “when the walls come down” is the unveiling of the truth, whatever that truth may be. This could be a love song or could be a song about a man’s self-realization.
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