Will Wood - Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll (Official Video)

"In case I make it," now available to stream everywhere.
Video by Will Wood & Jake Feldman
Music & Lyrics by Will Wood
Piano / ukulele /vocals - Will Wood
Bass - Vater Boris
Audio Engineered by
Jon Maisto, Gabe Francis, and Will Wood
Recorded at Kawari Sound in Wyncote PA
Mastered by Mike Lisa

Video edited by Will Wood
Props/Costuming Will Wood
Set by Dotan Negrin at LUME Studios NYC
Additional production by Angelica Pasquali

Special thanks to:
Whitney Newman, Meeper, Graham, Patreon VIPs. and to:
Mike, Mario, Vater, Berger, Rob, all Tapeworms past and present. Folks at Backroom and Kawari. Ivan & his family, Joseph Weidlein, Jim Horvath, Jake Feldman, Angelica Pasquali, everyone involved in the production of the videos. Ogy & the 4 For Music team. Yoed, Annie, & Richard for making the strings possible. Jim & Matheus for the horn work. My Patreon members, especially VIPs & long-timers. Soph Kamm, Magnus Selin, Connor Treutle, Dimitar Dimitrov, David Haltom, Jason Ayers Raphael Kräker, Michael Linnert, Ezra Leonard, Diz Foster , Kellie Grimes, Niki Brown, Max Peia, Vesper Nichols, Temple Jenkins, Julie Taron, Aidan Truskowski, Sam Nee, Julie Taron, River Morgan, Nate Olson, Ev Usher, Dashiell Schaldenbrand-Igarashi, Flint Cole, Vance Barnhill, Wim Filemon, Peter Short, Vincent Cramer, Sebastian Wright, Daniel A. Hughes, Duncan Moore, Alexander Russon, Auguste Szołucha, Cameron Taranis, Max Barbosa, Evan Asche, Jason Storey, Andy Routhier, Lynn Stock, Selena Ahmed, Georgiana “Gio” Marone, Liru Færs, Something Graphic, Kali Forrest, Leah McQuain, Kennady Ose, Galatea Kim, Devon Boswell, thicc murg, vondasl, Lily Mayle, Samantha Bourke, Joseph Olsson, Hollo the Raven, Rj is Okay, flittle606, Sahara Martin, Skyler Love, Donovan Giusti, Kara Krone, Claire Hammett, Jessica Holowicki, Nicholas Sundheimer, Michael Larsen, Liam Haines, Sean Barnett, ethan puchailo, Rachel Palme, Joseph J Weber, Noah Carter, Eamon Sherris-Watt, Alan Price Kristin Peers, Arturo Rosas, Grace Sullivan, Scout Francke, Aidan Forde, Christie Felker, Kaitlin Martinez, Skylar Marshall, Erkka Hiljanen, Kobe Bryant Angel, Kevin Mast, alistairtherondodd, Bobby connor, carly stuber, Lillian Clardy, Rj is Okay Marco Jeske, Emrys van Wonderen, Robert Del Presto, Andrew Snodgrass, Kristin Peers, Alexis Williams, Georgia Byrd, Amy Arin, Lex Mug, money33432. Emerson Lopes, Basil Polichar, Titus LaFrombois, hanhanheavn, Corey C, regalmortis, Mac Weaver, Jonathan Wienecke, Ana Ramona August, hdbroadwell, Dan Castillo, allison van cleve, Kate watanabe, SkylerBoswell, Bryce Ungerbuehler, Len Korovessis, apanagakos01, Landers Markwick, Emily Murray.

[WillWoodmusic]

People are wondering what's wrong with the sound on this. Inverted frequencies are cancelling each other out between the left and right sides, so that if you listen in mono a whole spectrum of sound is lost. If the vocals sound tiny and distant and super echo-y to the point where you can't really hear the song, check your audio settings and make sure you're listening in stereo.

You might think to yourself, "William, why would you do that?"

To which I say, "it's a metaphor for how if you can't look at or process ideas from two opposing perspectives at once, you'll never understand my work." Which would be a pretty cool way to talk yourself out of a mastering error that it's too late to fix.

[possumsinatrenchcoat]

I love that in -ish he mentions how he's afraid of turning 27, then here, at 27 he calls himself selfish... the references never fucking stop

[Spate_Fissionfire]

The way Big Fat Bitchie’s Blueberry Pie hits you after this emotional outpouring is insane.

[bakedice]

I love the imagery of tomatoes being the one safe thing in the room with all the mouse traps, and then being turned into weapons at the end was ingenious.

Also that scene where he woke up and just seemed to know where the traps were felt oddly relatable. Like a room full of mouse traps just evokes a kind of "damn, Monday again" type feeling.

[mumumannaz]

The 'guess I'm just selfish' line is really impactful to me. I may be reading too much into it, but the other lyrics of the song already indicate that Will Wood regrets the false self that he portrayed in SELF-iSH, which makes this lyric seem to me like it laments the 'spooky piano man' that some people still see him as in a clever, yet subtle, double-entendre.

[juniperberryyyy]

Gonna be real, I had no idea other Will Wood fans were so horrible. I just like the music and respect his musical abilities (his piano playing is amazing, and his lyrics are really good). Why can't people just let people who make music be people with their own identity??

[genericgoat]

5:12 Will Wood finishing a song knowing full well that half of the people who listen to it will misinterpret it

[-lemon_poppity-]

Will, haven’t listened yet, it hasn’t premiered yet but read the lyrics in the description and you don’t owe anyone anything, you don’t have to be anyone or anything for anyone else, ‘cos you’re more than just “the screamy guy who plays piano with his feet”, you’re more than an aesthetic, you’re a goddamn human being and you don’t owe us shit just ‘cos we listen to your music.

[emilyforsberg]

This song is incredible but I can’t help but be concerned with how much money Will must’ve put into buying tomatoes for this vid. At 3:29 I counted 39 tomatoes, the average price of 1 pound of tomatoes in the us is $2.20. A pound of tomatoes is usually 3 tomatoes, meaning if we divide 39 by 3 then that means Will spent at least $28.06 on this shot alone. Assuming he didn’t just reuse the tomatoes for the sake of the bit, let’s count how many tomatoes there are in each shot with tomatoes in it.
1:31 - 14 tomatoes, $8.08
1:37 - 5 tomatoes, $3
1:40 - 4(?) tomatoes, $2
1:44 - 11 tomatoes, $8
1:53 - 73(!!!) tomatoes, $52.08 (assuming all the shots in this area are done with no tomatoes being added or removed)
1:57 - 37 (roughly) tomatoes, $27
2:22 - assuming this is the same as the previous shot but I didn’t see the tomato tower in the previous shot so adding on 4 tomatoes, $2
2:31 - 8 tomatoes, $4
2:38 - 52 tomatoes, $38
3:01 - 4 tomatoes, $2
3:32 - yeah uh…I can’t count that :(
3:49 - 8 tomatoes, $4
4:01 - 62 tomatoes, $45 (ik this is a repeat of a previous shot but this is the one we see most the tomatoes in)
4:16 - 24 tomatoes, $17.06
In total, this adds up to 306 tomatoes, which would be $224.04, not accounting for the stair tomatoes. I’m 3 years late so nobody will probably see this but at least I got a sense of self satisfaction determining how much Will spent on tomatoes.

[graceszostak]

“So come on drink my koolaid, it won’t mix well with my meds”
Damn, that’s a good lyric. This whole song is incredible, I love this new direction and how Will is able to retaliate against his terrible fans.

[reilly]

“I hate provin’ that I’m still human after all” hit hard. Beautiful as always

[delusioncircus]

This is kinda hard to hear tbh, knowing there are people out there who view him as some robot who’s only purpose is to serve and satisfy others, going as far as to harass and completely disregard his boundaries rather than viewing him as a living breathing human being with emotions and needs like everyone else is so disturbing
It’s sad to see that Will has to even ask to be seen as a person and not a machine

[prestonpotter]

I was so scared you would pander to your audience like everyone else, or just go off the grid, I love your music, no matter how it changes, so long as you're in it, you're actually singing, not just saying the words, I will always happily be a part of this community

[Accurately_Amity]

I honestly think that sometimes people forget that musicians are human and not fictional characters that they can just say anything about and to. Especially some will wood fans.

[moikey]

Ah… so will is the guy in my maths workbook who bought so damn many tomatoes.


Jokes aside. Song’s Amazing.

[kero]

The only Will Wood I wanna see is the kind that's happy with what he's doing and not pandering to crazed fans so you do what you wanna do!

[corbin]

Absolutely love the meaning behind the song, I like how raw his more ballad type songs are. Part of me is hoping for a few songs with screaming/raspy vocals in his new album but regardless I love all his songs and I think this direction is really powerful and I’m happy he’s not afraid to evolve and openly change

[scarlet]

this song has been my “i feel like shit so instead of talking about it i’m going to cryptically drop hints by screaming a song” song ever since i first heard it on a patreon live stream so i’m soooo glad that everyone will be able to listen to it now and this music video did not disappoint whatsoever :)

[deftonesDog]

This kind of stuff honestly makes me feel bad for liking Will's art and music. I'm a teenager who has social media and subconsciously stereotypes people by their more famous work. To the point where I am honestly scared to be in the community. But I'm still greatful that Will is standing up to the whole "that" part of his fan base and fame as a whole and how it affects someone. Good song Will, can't wait to hear the next one!

[TheActualAnthonino]

I'm pretty sure most people understand what this song is about, so I won't write a novel of analysis.

Keep on keeping on Will, this is tomato juice majestic.