Audiovisuals...Official Video for Tennis' "Deep in the Woods"

      In anticipation of their upcoming release, I thought of it to post an official video for Tennis’ new single “Deep in the Woods.” Their sophomore LP Old & Young comes out February 14th.  For the record, the duo that makes up Tennis has quite an adorable story behind them. They met while taking a philosophy course together in college and in no time, Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley got married. Shortly after, the two dropped everything for a nine month sailing expedition out around the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard. And then of course, they formed the band, named themselves Tennis and began writing cute songs about the sun and the ocean and love.

      But the music video for "Deep in the Woods" shows nothing of the sort. Their light hearted, sea-filled lyrics were replaced by thoughts of violence and destruction- “I’ll bring down this house...”- that’s not like them. The worst part of course was listening to these twisted thoughts being projected from the sweet and sincere voice of Alaina Moore. Sounding not so bad anymore, “Deep in the Woods” is one of those songs that if you're intently listening to the lyrics, which in this case are about burning houses and burying loved one, you won’t mind it at all.  In your head, the song just passes off as adorable.
      With that being said, we can observe this wonderfully cheery video of two people in love with some new light and not discard the large amount of blood that’s seen amidst the smiling faces. On the topic of blood, the final shot of the video shows one of the female character’s faces as she sits behind the fire. Such evil symbolism arises with that single shot. Its recalls a shot used in the 2007 film There Will Be Blood to frame the main character/antagonist Daniel Plainview. I thought it was pretty clever and could only find it suiting.

+ I posted the video for “Deep in the Woods” below and below that you will find the shot from There Will Be Blood, which looks quite like the music video’s final shot.
+Also, get the lyrics in this link

Tennis "Deep in the Woods" Official Video

There Will Be Blood (2007)

(skip to similar close-up at 1:56)

For the full length trailer to There Will Be Blood, click the video below