Giveon on His New Music Video for 'Twenties'

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00:00I didn't know, I didn't know I'd be wasting my time

00:05Spending my twenties on you

00:10The video, it's...

00:13I wanted it to be something cinematic and simple

00:17Not overproduced, not overcomplicated

00:20Because I don't want to take away from the song

00:22So this is just supposed to add to the world of the song

00:25So I just wanted something just easy, simple, emotive

00:29And performative

00:31And just storytelling, that's it

00:34I love a simple video though

00:36I'm not a big, or I try not to be a big production guy anymore

00:39Honestly, I'm always just scanning for directors

00:43Who I think would be able to articulate the vision

00:46That I'm trying to portray storytelling-wise

00:49And I've seen some of his work

00:51And I've seen the moods, the coloring

00:53The way he captures even just black skin in general

00:58It just adds a...

01:01I don't know, it adds a certain soul to it as well

01:05So I've seen all of it, watched all of his work

01:07And I was instantly a fan

01:09So I knew right away

01:11I spent my twenties on you

01:16Thought I was learning myself

01:20I was just learning you

01:23This song is called Twenties

01:26It's really a song that's going to evoke

01:29I don't want to say regret

01:30Because I don't want to feel like I regret someone

01:33But it does tell the story of

01:35When you feel like you put so much time and energy into something

01:38But to no avail

01:40You get nothing out of it

01:41Or you could have spent that time into something else

01:46And for me, it was a vital time in my life

01:49Like your twenties is...

01:51That's when you're learning yourself

01:54You're learning what energizes you, what drains you

01:58You learn even what you want to be in the future

02:01It's just a really learned time of your life

02:05But if you spend that time distracted by someone else

02:08Or catering to them

02:10You never even get to develop yourself

02:12So by the time later on, you have to start from scratch

02:15So the song is pretty much just an ode to that

02:19I won't say any names, but just to let them know

02:22I might have wasted this time

02:25An album

02:26An album and a tour, of course

02:29So even when I say the word album, I get lost in it

02:33It's really album time

02:35It's album time

02:36And tour time

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