The Offspring Share New Video For ‘Behind Your Walls’
The Offspring have released their new video for “Behind Your Walls” taken from their newest album Let the Bad Times Roll.
The animated video, directed and animated by Jeb Hardwick, shows a couple trying to navigate through a post-apocalyptic landscape filled with seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
“The song evoked a sense of a couple trying to connect through emotional barriers that had been building over time,” says Hardwick. “I wanted to take that prompt and turn it into a dark fairytale, a sort of dystopian take on the classical storytelling structure of writers like the Brothers Grimm. I wanted the video to have an ambiguous dreamlike aesthetic to it, so I was keen to take away some of the sharpness and crispness usually associated with CGI and give a sense of it being somewhere between a moving painting and a 1920s German Expressionist film.”
Guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman added: “‘Behind Your Walls’ is about trying to reach somebody who is feeling isolated, alone, or depressed. How do you reach out and get through the emotional chasm that exists? Sometimes it feels impossible to grab a hold of that person and pull them back to ‘safety,’ emotionally and mentally. The song is about that struggle.”
Watch the video below.
The Offspring are currently in the middle of their tour in support of Let the Bad Times Roll. Check out their remaining tour dates here.
