Feist Debuts Cinematic "The Bad In Each Other"

Last year marked a fine return to form for Canadian indie songstress Feist with her fourth powerful post-blues LP "Metals," and now the fantastic album opener “The Bad in Each Other” has a beautifully somber video, which build towards the song's climax with explosions of emotion, from the joyous fireworks careening through the air to the intimate connections between lovers and friends. Feist makes an appearance as well, walking through the streets, looking slightly dejected.
Tangled long-term relationships is the topic of this opening cut. The 35-year-old sings about how, "a good man and a good woman bring out the worst in the other and also that she and her lover, "had the same feelings at opposite times." Feist was in a long-term relationship with Kevin Drew when she recorded the album, but rather than being about their partnership, the song appears to have been inspired by observing what happens to other couples she was friends with. The singer explained to The Observer how she noticed that after a few years together, its often the case that they are unable to see each other clearly anymore.
Even the simplest life has its wrenching complexities. Feist's new video for stompy folk-blues "The Bad in Each Other" captures the tiny dramas that comprise everyday life without explaining its characters' motivations, how they got to where they are, or whether they're interconnected at all. The somber figures populating this video's universe just are - experiencing intense emotions of despair, frustration, elation, companionship - as the soft-pop sweetheart winds through dusty scenes shot with cinematic perfection in Mexico by director Martin De Thurah.
Feist posted a statement on her website with a mess of feelings is really the point: “This video captures glimpses of something human, we get a peek inside something real between people - could be loss, longing and love. A lot of things which is about being a human being.... It is told in a way where it opens up more aspects than it concludes. Maybe something we can't grasp, but it points at it or touches it and leaves us with mixed emotions. You could think about the video like a song or a poem, and different people will connect to different things- and those connections might be different from time to time when they watch it."