Together with the monitor, Ed launched a corresponding music video, which encompasses a blue creature following him like grief. Within the launch, he shared his inspiration for the clip.
“Once I was pondering of ideas for the ‘Eyes Closed’ music video, I needed to make a video impressed by motion pictures like Harvey, the place the principle character has an imaginary pal who’s an enormous rabbit that nobody can see,” the musician—who shares daughters Lyra, 2, and Jupiter, 10 months, with spouse Cherry Seaborn—defined. “There’s additionally a e book I learn my daughters the place unhappiness is encapsulated by an imaginary creature.”
Ed needed to convey these concepts and emotions by way of the visuals.
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“Typically unhappiness is one thing that follows you round, engulfing the rooms you are in, and you’ll really feel and see it, however nobody else round you may,” he continued. “So I made a decision to create my very own huge blue monster for the video. He will get greater and greater because the video goes on, til he takes up entire rooms, and is all I can see, identical to unhappiness.”
