{"id":807640,"date":"2020-05-20T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1002606"},"modified":"2020-05-20T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:00:10","slug":"rina-sawayama-simmers-in-regret-in-bad-friend-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rina-sawayama-simmers-in-regret-in-bad-friend-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Rina Sawayama Simmers in Regret in \u2018Bad Friend\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/RinaS.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Dressed in male drag, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rina-sawayama\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rina-sawayama\" data-tag=\"rina-sawayama\">Rina Sawayama<\/a>\u2019s night of drinking alone takes a turn in the video for \u201cBad Friend.\u201d The track appears on her self-titled debut album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-rina-sawayama-debut-album-985177\/\"><em>Sawayama<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The black-and-white video opens with Sawayama dressed like a sullen businessman sitting at a bar alone. The solo character proceeds to order a drink and somberly looks at his wedding ring, indicating a partner left at home. Suddenly, a much more animated solo male joins Sawayama at the bar, proceeding to get the both of them increasingly more drunk before Sawayama instigates a fistfight. The video ends in a <em>Fight Club<\/em>-esque fashion with Sawayama exiting some type of daze, hunched over a pool of blood with no trace of their fighting partner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the cinematic string of events, Sawayama\u2019s song reflects on the highs and lows of friendship, specifically at the end of one. \u201cI\u2019m so good at crashing in\/Making sparks and shit but then\/I\u2019m a bad, I\u2019m a bad, I\u2019m a bad friend,\u201d she sings on the chorus. \u201cSo don\u2019t ask me where I\u2019ve been\/Been avoiding everything\/\u2019Cause I\u2019m a bad, I\u2019m a bad, I\u2019m a bad friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Sawayama<\/em> was released on Dirty Hit last month. The singer-songwriter also made her debut on&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/fredo-bang-jackboy-surf-mesa-chart-994536\/\">Breakthrough 25 chart<\/a>, which ranks the artists making the biggest gains in audio streams each month.&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\/rina-sawayama-bad-friend-video-1002606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dressed in male drag, Rina Sawayama\u2019s night of drinking alone takes a turn in the video for \u201cBad Friend.\u201d The track appears on her self-titled debut album Sawayama. The black-and-white video opens with Sawayama dressed like a sullen businessman sitting at a bar alone. The solo character proceeds to order a drink and somberly looks [&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-807640","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 15:09:24","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\/807640","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=807640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}