American Football - Silhouettes [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

"Silhouettes" is taken from @AmericanFootballmusic's album, American Football (LP3) - released March 22, 2019 via @PolyvinylRecords.

Director/Editor: Shawn Brackbill
Starring: Kendra Smalter and Cale Parks
Treatment: Mike Kinsella
DP/Production: Dalton Paley
Assistant Editor: Brad Johnson
Hair and Make-up: Ashley Wessling
Production Assistant: Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre

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[EmoDaveAbrenica]

Emo dads have returned to bring the feels...

[Christopher-]

The bells and the fact that this was released in December confirm that this in fact a Christmas song

[vladsnest]

thank you American Football for making life worth living

[neobangpegasus]

Man, when that beat dropped; So did my heart.

[TheGamingSloth]

THANK YOU AMERICAN FOOTBALL AND POLYVINYL RECORDS, VERY COOL!!

[wdhntr]

I'm not a father but this video really awakens the sad emo dad part in me

[facgce]

The breakdown makes me feel like I'm on another planet

[julsthejedi]

This is one of their most haunting songs my god

[TheKoNoGuN]

Is it just me but did they just made an allusion about how they've grow up? I mean, if you think about it, this video has the same format as Never Meant. A couple that looks like they are perfect and complete each other but, as the time goes by, things just get bad and they end up breaking up. The only difference is that on Never Meant, it's a teenage couple, having fun at parties, and etc. But here it's a married couple that have fun on their day to day living.

Also I wanna compare this to the growth of the band as a whole. I mean, if you compare LP1 with LP2 (and apparently, LP3 too). We could see a complete emo band formed by teens at the american midwest trying to get out of their chest everything they want to say about their hearts that were broken: "Let's just pretend everything and anything between you and me was never meant". But here (and also on LP2) we have married men with more mature relationships that not just suffers about their broken hearts, but use more metaphors to demonstrate it: "The muscle memory continue to haunt me".

We can see this if you compare the two videos. The first one is a teenage couple that had met on a record store, and we focus on the fun they had together, little things like, listening to music together, taking pics, walking on the park and etc... But here we already begin with a metaphor about how the man, alone and lost meet the woman of his life: he just wakes up on the middle of nowhere and finds her, and it feels like they were *meant* to be together (see what i did here?). Also now we have some focus on their wedding rings and their conversations at table, her having some laughs at some bad jokes...

But there's two things that we've found in common, and that is the two videos have this moment where the couples are apart and it just feels strange, kinda like they were *NEVER MEANT* and had just realized that. The other thing is that on both songs we can feel the composers' hearts broken. Also ours.

[marymitchell]

I’m just glad today’s teenagers can have a good emo band to help them get through high school 😌

[Emwerd]

God the first album killed me in my youth. I’m so happy to see this now.

[pennroseglyph]

this song is so unbelieveably good. the lyrics, the form, the structure, the melody, the goddamn time signature, pure art

[mgg]

I saw them live last year (2019). I actually wasn't very familiar with them, but this was such an amazing show. This was the first song. I don’t know if anyone saw that tour with the very simple blinking stage lights, but it fit them so perfectly. This was the first song. The vibes built the tension, and then when the whole band kicked in it really was a "woah" moment. Goosebumps galore. I've been a huge fan ever since.

[JD]

I love them but i can not handle it, 1 song and my depression slips back in for 2 straight days. It's beautiful but the vibe always kills me from the inside

[pokemondie]

Damn, I was not at all mentally prepared for that first verse to start. This song is so evocative and devastating. Love it

[MyoticTesseract]

NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WAS A MUSIC VIDEO FOR THIS
IT'S SO GOOD WTF

[Williamlongsword-lc]

I SPOT A CINCINNATI REDS TSHIRT AND I FEEL AS IF MY WHOLE EMO LIFE HAS BEEN LEGITIMIZED THANK YOU AMERICAN FOOTBALL.

[LukiexPookie]

Everytime I sing "I'll find you, and we'll break laws again . . " so loudly I love that ending it's so powerful!! Super hyped for march.

[Legume_Enjoyer]

He doesn't wipe the dirt from his back in the first shot, but in the next shot, it's gone. Checkmate, atheists.

[quietrit]

One of the most anticipated records of 2019. Loved everything they released.