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In Japanese Breakfast’s ‘Orlando in Love’ Video, a Friar Falls for a Siren
Japanese Breakfast have released their new video for 'Orlando in Love,' a song from their upcoming album, 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women).'
“I fell in love with the title and envisioned a sort of whimsical, foolish male protagonist who lives by the sea in a Winnebago RV and is seduced by a siren,” Zauner said in a statement. The music video, which feels pulled from the pages of a gothic novel, also draws from German painter Eduard von Grützner’s painting “The Connoisseur,” which led Zauner to picture Orlando as a “daydreaming friar” who searches for his love interest, a siren. At the time, Zauner described finding a director a daunting task: “Someone who could honor my mother’s character and respect the darkest days of grief, and still make the coming of age of a half-Korean artsy outsider in a small Pacific Northwest hippie town seem real and cool.”
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