{"id":807600,"date":"2020-05-19T13:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=997302"},"modified":"2020-05-19T13:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:12:19","slug":"alexander-23-yearns-for-love-in-animated-idk-you-yet-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/alexander-23-yearns-for-love-in-animated-idk-you-yet-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander 23 Yearns for Love in Animated \u2018IDK You Yet\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/alexander.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/alexander-23\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alexander-23\" data-tag=\"alexander-23\">Alexander 23<\/a> has released an animated video for his viral ballad \u201cIDK You Yet.\u201d The Chicago native recently appeared in the Top 10 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/charts\/breakthrough\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Breakthrough 25 chart<\/a>, which captures the fastest-rising artists each month.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Ullens (Rex Orange County, Fergie) directed the simple, animated video for the track. The visual captures the pining essence of the song as the animated version of Alexander 23 throws roses to the ground, swipes through pictures of girls and spends his time waiting to find the one. The song was written while in quarantine and has been popular on TikTok since its release.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing that I write, record and produce almost all my music alone, it\u2019s not often I get to be in the backseat with full and absolute trust in someone else,\u201d Alexander 23 tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> of the video-making process. He met Ullens through a mutual friend and the pair exchanged ideas over video calls. \u201cI think through the songwriting, production and lyric video, I kinda said everything I needed to and wanted Chris to bring his own unique artistic perspective. And I couldn\u2019t be more pleased with the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIDK You Yet\u201d was a rare spark of mid-isolation creativity for Alexander, who has spent most of his time in quarantine cooking and learning how to DJ. \u201cIn general the monotony has made it tough for me to find a rhythm,\u201d he continues. \u201cBut, I will say, I have found a few ways to combat the lack of variance and stay productive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the singer-songwriter released his debut EP&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m Sorry I Love You<\/em>. He made his live debut opening up for Alex Benjamin on a North American tour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alexander-23-idk-you-yet-video-997302\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander 23 has released an animated video for his viral ballad \u201cIDK You Yet.\u201d The Chicago native recently appeared in the Top 10 of Rolling Stone\u2018s Breakthrough 25 chart, which captures the fastest-rising artists each month. Chris Ullens (Rex Orange County, Fergie) directed the simple, animated video for the track. The visual captures the pining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 17:11:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}