Tim Halperin Writes "The Last Song" To His Ex

American Idol Season 10 contestant Tim Halperin debuted a music video for his original tune called "The Last Song," Monday morning on 'Kidd Kraddick in the Morning,' a nationally syndicated radio program. The single is one of the songs that will appear on his debut album, which will come out in September. This 23-year-old from Omaha, Neb., has been giving away the song for free since early March, made popular after his premature departure from American Idol.
Simple piano melody, the song which he flawlessly performed during "Hollywood Week" on American Idol, was originally released on YouTube after Halperin was eliminated from American Idol on March 3. Halperin wrote on his Twitter feed that the video was independently created, and the $8,000 budget was funded entirely by fans. "The funding for the video came from fan donations, and it was all shot locally in Fort Worth," Halperin writes in an e-mail. "I think this video demonstrates the power of independent collaboration, apart from a major label or American Idol. We are hoping to get a million views on this video." So do help him get a million views so he could further his music career.
Directed by Jonathan Combs and Joe Childress, the video for the tune–a lush, big-chorused ballad is quite brilliant with visually intriguing, lyrically stellar, and vocally magical. Halperin climbs into his piano at the beginning of the video and spends the next few minutes of his dreamy pop song in an almost Alice in Wonderland meets The Lion, and a "Narnia-like" world. As he struggles to deal with a lost love, the video chronicles a world blinded by the complexities of love.
First, he is sitting on his bench trying to think how to write the words to help him heal. He folds a picture of him and his ex in half, opens the wooden piano, and ventures into a surreal world. He stumbles through a landscape of trunks, musical notes, cotton clouds, and swimming pools before coming back to reality. Upon the realization that his ex has moved on, he falls backwards into a cold pool of truth. He awakens from his revery to find himself at a wedding. He has finally come to his senses, and he is now able to move on. The real world sets in, and he climbs back out of the piano. Amazing stuff! How did this guy not go further than the Top 24? It is beyond me.