Enjoy the wonderful new music video from the recording artist Jenny O., co-directed by Jenny O. with Mariana Blanco.
This timely song is available on Jenny O.'s new album, 'Work EP.'
Jenny O. has a Kickstarter going for an album to be self-released in June, "Peace & Information."
Jenny O. is performing at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Sunday, February 26, supporting Radical Face.
FROM JENNY O., a word for the Boing Boing community:
"Cheer Up Free Your Mind" is a song on the Work E.P. – released in October on my own label, Holy Trinity Records. It's meant to be the B-side of the Home E.P. – released 5 years prior. I recorded and released the Work E.P. while figuring out what to do with my next full-length record.The video was a collaboration. Mariana Blanco and I directed it, she edited it and Laurence Vannicelli shot it. The dancers are Jasmine Albuquerque Croissant and Mecca Vazie Andrews – both magnificent, and both happen to be friends of mine. I was so excited to work with them.
The song was written while I was talking to a friend who struggles with chronic illness, and we were both helping each other up. It's pretty simply meant to brighten up darkness.. with mutual respect and affection. Life is so delicate and everyone is suffering. In the song we repeatedly ask each other, "How do you feel right now?"
Jenny O. Photo by Victoria Smith
Cheer Up Free Your Mind (Lyrics)
I need a place
To lay my knees
And rest my spirit
Be at be at be at ease.
I'll be your teacher
And you teach me
And if you ask me
How do you feel right now?
I'll say I'm golden
I'm getting through
And I'll forever
Be at be at be at ease.
And I would ask you
How do you feel right now?
How do you feel right now?
Cheer up and free your mind.
Cheer up in your mind
Cheer up and free your mind
And have a good time
Cheer up and free your mind
Cheer up in your mind.
I'll be your healer
And carefully
I'll be your Richard IV.
And if they ask you
How do you feel right now?
How do you feel right now?
How do you feel right now?
Cheer up and free your mind
Cheer up in your mind
Cheer up and free your mind
And have a good time.
Cheer up and free your mind
Cheer up in your mind
Cheer up and free your mind
And have a good time
Cheer up and free your mind
Cheer up in your mind.
NASHVILLE TN- April 10, 2015
Jenny O. Photo: Victoria Smith
VIDEO CREDITS
Dancers: Mecca Vazie Andrews & Jasmine Albuquerque Croissant. Director of Photography: Laurence Vannicelli. Costumes: Lisa Madonna. 1st AD: Lee Stratford. Edited by Mariana Blanco. Special thanks to: Katherine Voigt, Deenah Vollmer, Ben Miller, Lilja Wang. Filmed at Nobo in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
PHOTO: Victoria Smith.
