The Weepies - Be My Thrill Video

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"Be My Thrill" Video Review

The Weepies are out with the music video to their new single ‘Be My Thrill’, the title track off the Cambridge, Massachusetts indie pop duo’s fourth full-length album with the same name. The video was illustrated by Lauren Briere and animated by Paul Keefer.

The Los Angeles husband-and-wife duo of Deb Talan and Steve Tannen have always made kid-friendly music—the kind of record you buy because you enjoy it, but before you know it, the kids are singing along in the backseat—but their latest record is the first they’ve written as parents, and it shows.

Talan and Tannen haven’t always been this chipper; they wrote much of their last record when they desperately wanted to have a baby, and the songs were shaded by loneliness and longing. It was called Hideaway, named after a song about how even the stars sometimes can’t bear to emerge. They finally became parents between the time they made Hideaway and released it, so even though their world had changed, they spent the last few years performing songs they’d written a lifetime ago. The new mom and dad were probably happier than their music sounded—and all that contained joy had to explode at some point—which brings us to Be My Thrill.

The Weepies aren’t for everyone. Be My Thrill is sweet—really sweet—and there’s very little sour to balance it out. But Talan and Tannen are disarmingly unapologetic: They’re in love with each other, they have an adorable little boy, the weather’s amazing in California, life is beautiful and they write mushy-gushy pop songs about it.

The Weepies are pure minimalists. There is nothing elaborate or over the top about the Weepies or this album. The formula for the Weepies’ success goes as follows; a simple but beautiful melody, angelic vocals and heart breaking lyrics. They follow this formula on Be My Thrill. It is not exactly inventive but if it’s not broke don’t fix it. In a world of fake plastic pop music, it is refreshing to listen to something that isn’t contrived.