Sydney Sprague releases new music video for ‘smiley face’

SYDNEY SPRAGUE has released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track smiley face, is the brand new single from the Arizona-based singer-songwriter and marks her first new music since the release of her debut album, maybe i will see you at the end of the world, which was released in February 2021.

Speaking about the new single, she says, “when we first started brainstorming concepts for the video, the idea of a CGI video came up mostly as a joke. My guitar player, Sebastien, is also a director, and turns out he’s really awesome at animation too. He’s based in Seattle but he stayed with us in Phoenix the last few months to work on music videos. He hadn’t really done much animation stuff before, but he started messing around and made the first scene of the video just as an experiment. When the rest of our video team got together to talk about ideas, we showed them the clip and it made us all laugh so hard that we knew that had to be the video. We bought him several costco-size boxes of Celsius and he spent about a month at my kitchen table making the video. There are a couple of live-action moments in the video, which we filmed in my kitchen/backyard mostly on my iPhone.

We used an app called in3D to make (kind of cursed looking) 3D scans of ourselves and lots of our friends, and Sebastien animated them in blender. My whole band, (Chuck, Sebastien, and Matt) are heavily featured, as well as Andy Park, who produced the song, and my parents. So grateful to everyone who granted us permission to use their likenesses to do pretty much whatever we wanted with. From the beginning I knew I wanted there to be a dance element to the video, so Sebastien, Chuck and I choreographed the dance in the bridge and shot it on green screen. The visual parts of making music can be really stressful for me, so going into the making of this video the most important thing to me was that everyone involved was having a good time. That’s why I really love this video, because every part of it was us going ‘what’s the dumbest thing that could happen’ and doing that.”

Watch the official music video for smiley face here: 

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