Josh Groban Unveiled Video For "Hidden Away"

Josh Groban has unveiled his brand new music video on AOL for "Hidden Away," the first new original song from internationally renowned vocalist and songwriter's fifth studio album "Illuminations," which will be released on November 15 via 143/Reprise Records. Groban, who is Billboard's 14th top-selling artist of the 2000s" was free to express himself at his fullest by tapping into a new range of expression and emotional connection with lyrics drawn straight from the heart."
The song was recorded live with Groban singing and playing piano. It finds Groban making a heartfelt plea not to hide true love or one's true self. He wrote the cut with the former leader of the band Semisonic, Dan Wilson, who won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year along with the Dixie Chicks. So what message does Groban want his friends to take away from the song? "It's about people needing the kind of life shaken out of them," Groban explains. "It's about people who are waiting for that release. It could be somebody coming home from work, a friend, but the song itself is about people who need to be woken up inside."
As for the video, his first in more than four years, the 29-year-old Los Angeles-born singer wanted to convey that feeling without getting too intricate. "It's not overly complicated, but follows the stories of a few different people who are just simply waiting for that wake up," he says. "So I think the video represents that feeling, people seeing themselves the way others see them." Fans should expect more videos for tracks off "Illuminations." "I think these songs really lend themselves to music videos," he says. "They're very personal stories for me and so my quest in making videos in the future is try and make videos that visually more and more match the mood of the song."
Releasing albums around the holiday period has traditionally been good for Groban. For his latest album "Illuminations," Groban was working with famed rock 'n' roll producer Rick Rubin, and it took three years. A statement says Groban and Rubin stepped out of "their respective zones to come together and create an entirely new zone where art meets intimacy, immediacy meets timelessness." The result is a more personal album. "I'm definitely anticipating some questions from people in my life, whether some of these songs are about them. The first single and video for "Hidden Away" is one such example. "I can definitely pinpoint one or two people, at least in my life that I felt the song is for," he says. "It's also for myself as well. I think sometimes we sing songs that we'd like to hear ourselves and so in that way it can be very cathartic."