{"id":2447327,"date":"2019-08-08T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=869122"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T18:37:07","slug":"see-jay-som-channel-the-x-files-in-freaky-nighttime-drive-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-jay-som-channel-the-x-files-in-freaky-nighttime-drive-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Jay Som Channel \u2018The X-Files\u2019 in Freaky \u2018Nighttime Drive\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/jay-som-new-song.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jay-som\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jay-som\" data-tag=\"jay-som\">Jay Som<\/a> has a close encounter of the third kind in the latest video for \u201cNighttime Drive.\u201d The song is the third single off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/the-indie-rock-hero-jay-som-on-blurring-genre-lines-202432\/\">the indie rock hero<\/a>\u2019s upcoming sophomore album, <em>Anak Ko,<\/em> out August 23rd via Polyvinyl Records.<\/p>\n<p>A slice-of-life snapshot from tour, the warm, folk-rock stride of \u201cNighttime Drive\u201d is a vast departure from her previous funk-laden single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jay-som-new-song-tenderness-anak-ko-857800\/\">Tenderness<\/a>.\u201d The song, says the artist, <span>\u201cbasically encapsulated my entire life for the past two years.\u201d<\/span> Jay Som\u2019s drowzy, backseat ruminations give way to freaky dreams in the music video, directed by Han Hale. Once she finally dozes off, the band transforms into a squad of FBI special agents \u2013 suits and all \u2013 and leaves their tour van to scope out crop circles in the brush. By nightfall, a green humanoid alien emerges from the woods to perform a bizarre hula hoop dance, which (we want to believe) is performed by an actual human, Erin Shredder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy baby says I\u2019m growing tough\/\u2019Don\u2019t let others define you,&#8217;\u201d Jay Som sings while grappling with the demands of life on the road and her dwindling energy supply. \u201cI\u2019m sticking to the script now,\u201d she adds, \u201cI\u2019ll let my body win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jay Som kicks off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jay-som-new-song-tenderness-anak-ko-857800\/\">her North American tour<\/a> September 11th in Phoenix, AZ.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jay-som-nighttime-drive-video-anak-ko-869122\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Som has a close encounter of the third kind in the latest video for \u201cNighttime Drive.\u201d The song is the third single off the indie rock hero\u2019s upcoming sophomore album, Anak Ko, out August 23rd via Polyvinyl Records. A slice-of-life snapshot from tour, the warm, folk-rock stride of \u201cNighttime Drive\u201d is a vast departure [&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-2447327","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 23:53:52","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\/2447327","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=2447327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}