{"id":2443632,"date":"2019-05-01T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=829607"},"modified":"2019-05-01T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:28:18","slug":"watch-the-nationals-pensive-new-video-for-hairpin-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-the-nationals-pensive-new-video-for-hairpin-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the National\u2019s Pensive New Video for \u2018Hairpin Turns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GrabberRaster-0001.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-national\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-national\" data-tag=\"the-national\">The National<\/a> released the third single and video from their upcoming eighth studio album <em>I Am Easy to Find<\/em>. In \u201cHairpin Turns,\u201d directed by Mike Mills, dancer\/choreographer Sharon Eyal tiptoes and writhes around an empty white set, while members of the band \u2013 as well as their backing vocalists \u2013 each perform the pensive track in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe video is a very simple portrait of the band (and the friends who helped make the song) and the song itself: You see all the instruments that make up the song in isolation, even hear them recorded live on set over the album version, kind of like showing you the tracks that make up the song,\u201d said Mills in a statement.&nbsp; \u201cAnd you see everyone who contributed alone, including Gail Ann Dorsey, Pauline Delasser (a.k.a. Mina Tindle) and Kate Stables \u2013 but your mind puts them together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills also directed the short film <em>I Am Easy to Find<\/em>, a 24-minute companion visual (though not a visual album) starring Alicia Vikander, to be screened at select theaters this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dancer Sharon Eyal is sort of a continuation of Alicia Vikander\u2019s character from the film <em>I Am Easy To Find<\/em>,\u201d said Mills. \u201cWe thought of her as Alicia\u2019s unconscious, or her shadow self \u2013 that has her own life in this space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The short film&nbsp;<em>I Am Easy to Find<\/em> will be in select theaters on May 6th.&nbsp;<em>I Am Easy to Find<\/em> the album is out May 17th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-hairpin-turns-video-829607\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National released the third single and video from their upcoming eighth studio album I Am Easy to Find. In \u201cHairpin Turns,\u201d directed by Mike Mills, dancer\/choreographer Sharon Eyal tiptoes and writhes around an empty white set, while members of the band \u2013 as well as their backing vocalists \u2013 each perform the pensive track [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 08:41:24","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}