Semisonic closing time official music video

SEMISONIC CLOSING TIME OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO MOVIE

The 'trick' of the video is that each shot was done as one long, continuous shot, with no cuts or editing, and therefore relies on proper timing to get the two sides of the video lined up properly. However, they still end up missing each other by mere seconds and never meet. At the end of the video, they both wind up at the same nightclub. As the video progresses, Dan and his girlfriend switch sides of screen, as they attempt to meet up.

The other side features a woman (played by Denise Franco) as the singer Dan Wilson's girlfriend.

One side shows the band playing the song in a rehearsal space. It features two continuous shots, running side by side on the screen. The music video was directed by Chris Applebaum. The song ends with a quote attributed to Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca: ' Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.' Wilson's girlfriend was pregnant at the time and although Wilson did not set out consciously to write a song about giving birth, he has stated that 'Part way into the writing of the song, I realized it was also about being born.' The band grew tired of playing this song every night and so Wilson set out to write a new song that they could play at the end of their set. Prior to the composition 'Closing Time', Semisonic would usually end their concerts with the song 'If I Run'. While the song is about people leaving a bar at closing time (also called last call), and widely interpreted as such, drummer Jacob Slichter has also indicated that the song was written by Wilson 'in anticipation of fatherhood' and that it is about 'being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar'.

SEMISONIC CLOSING TIME OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO MOVIE

The song reappeared on the charts of three countries in 2011 after being featured in the 2011 movie Friends with Benefits and an episode of television sitcom The Office it attained its highest chart peaks in Australia and Ireland during this period. It is certified silver in the latter country and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1999. The single reached number one on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and the top 50 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The ballad was written by Dan Wilson and produced by Nick Launay. It was released on March 10, 1998, as the lead single from their second studio album, Feeling Strangely Fine, and began to receive mainstream radio airplay on April 27, 1998. ' Closing Time' is a song by American rock band Semisonic.

Semisonic closing time official music video