Turn on the Pretty Lights

By Octavia Silva / February 2nd, 2012 in Music / Colorado / 229 views

If a music video experience could be a person, this is one we’d be sure to fall head over heels in love with. Over rivers and through subway tunnels we go, catching glimpses of sunset forests, international passersby, flying doves, and emotive glances. We journey through Oslo, New York City, Vancouver, Warsaw, Detroit (and a few other major cities) in the new Pretty Lights music video.

Pretty Lights, also known as Derek Vincent Smith, is an electronic musical artist, also characterized by hip-hop dips and flavors of soul. A little trippy, his music is the perfect antidote to an oppressive presence of hustle and bustle, which is exactly why the video and track for We Must Go On are so perfectly paralleled. We witness the crazy, busy elements of global cities firsthand, but are simultaneously so appeased by the beats, tones, and synchronized voices that are unifying the track. It renders any other city excursion score obsolete.

The video was a collaboration between Smith and his creative partner and girlfriend, Krystle Blackburn. The beautiful images in the footage were taken from Pretty Lights tours to festivals and concerts all over the world. We can’t think of tour footage being put to better use. The We Must Go On single and other Pretty Lights music is available for free downloads directly on their website.