{"id":2447310,"date":"2019-08-08T06:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868975"},"modified":"2019-08-08T06:48:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:48:49","slug":"watch-brockhamptons-surreal-single-shot-video-for-if-you-pray-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-brockhamptons-surreal-single-shot-video-for-if-you-pray-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Brockhampton\u2019s Surreal, Single-Shot Video for \u2018If You Pray Right\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-08-at-8.33.08-AM-1-copy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brockhampton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brockhampton\" data-tag=\"brockhampton\">Brockhampton<\/a> bring a small marching band and people coated in blue paint to a sprawling field in the video for their new song, \u201cIf You Pray Right.\u201d The track is set to appear on the group\u2019s forthcoming album, <em>Ginger<\/em>, out later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIf You Pray Right\u201d is centered around a skittish drum groove, a queasy synth and a delightfully boozy trombone riff that\u2019s as good as an excuse as any to get a small marching band to follow Dom McLennon as he spits the song\u2019s opening verse in the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Directed by de facto group leader Kevin Abstract, the \u201cIf You Pray Right\u201d clip comprises a single shot, and the camera tracks through a field catching verses by Kevin, Matt Champion, Merlyn Wood and Joba. Each MC\u2019s part is peppered with a surreal twinge, whether it\u2019s Kevin trapped on an invisible treadmill or Merlyn and Joba peeling off bars while people covered in blue paint run around them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIf You Pray Right\u201d marks Brockhampton\u2019s second single of the year, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/brockhampto-i-been-born-again-video-watch-866043\/\">\u201cI Been Born Again,\u201d<\/a> which was released last week. The group\u2019s most recent album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kevin-abstract-brockhampton-weight-iridescence-727773\/\"><em>Iridescence<\/em><\/a>, was released last September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/brockhampton-if-you-pray-right-new-song-video-868975\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brockhampton bring a small marching band and people coated in blue paint to a sprawling field in the video for their new song, \u201cIf You Pray Right.\u201d The track is set to appear on the group\u2019s forthcoming album, Ginger, out later this month. \u201cIf You Pray Right\u201d is centered around a skittish drum groove, a [&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-2447310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 22:44:21","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\/2447310","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=2447310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}