Nascar Aloe’s video for Heaven PT. 2 was released on August 6th 2020 on the DEATHPROOF INC. channel. The video was directed by Myagi and Collin Casino, shot and edited by. Collin A. The video utilizes the metaphor of a television screen as a skeleton frame, the body: Nascar Aloe’s complicated sentiments about an afterlife, his trials with love, and his ultimate perception of self. The video’s colorplay and thematic arrangement elucidate Nascar Aloe’s revelations on “Heaven PT.2”.
The video begins with a blue screen that glitches, revealing a figure laying on a mattress next to a television. The TV is the only source of light in the room along with a thin rectangular light standing on the floor. The video zooms into the television screen utilizing its glitchy quality to glitch the viewer into other scenes. Someone writing in a journal. A figure in a blue, dark hallway. Next, a yellow like sunlight holds warm a blonde, shaggy haired girl, holding a joint carefully in her hand. The fire of the joint is seen against different backdrops, and Nascar Aloe’s voice comes creeping in through the dark “I don’t wanna go to Heaven anymore”. He sits up from his place on the mattress, quiet in the orange red room. The video is devoid of time. The flashes between Nascar on the bed and different perspectives of the room signify a loss of concentration, a loss of care.
Nascar Aloe sings “getting high until they find me on the floor, I felt your love and I can’t help but want some more,” as he molds his famous hair spikes onto his head, recorded on a camcorder by a girl who looks at him admiringly. A flashing light gives the effect of thunder, and it is used as a scene switches to Nascar Aloe lying in a dim blue hallway and he sings “I don’t want to go to Heaven anymore”. The image of fire reappears in the cigarette he holds, his eyes closed, scenes flashing between the room, the girl, the hallway, as if the memories are colliding and collapsing. “I wish I knew what you want me to say, a void in my chest cus im so far away, baby its torture im counting the days.”
Nascar Aloe sings, “ when i wept, it made me realize that i changed and I aint myself”, drums come over the previously solemn track and the clips switch faster, the television glitch shifting quickly. Nascar Aloe appears on the mattress, wavering around in anger. He appears in the frame of a window or door, caught in the rectangular shape, the video makes sense of him being trapped inside the television screen. He yells “NO MORE. I don’t want to go to Heaven anymore. They denied me and they’d probably close the door.” The video ends with a glitch effect and a blue screen. As if it were concluding perfectly the beginning to the video. Symbolizing the entrapment of the artist not only in a physical and motion space, but an internal one as well.
The music video for Nascar Aloe’s “Heaven PT.2” is in perfect harmony with the artist’s musical intention. A song Aloe called “ the end of my love life” on Soundcloud. The video is a long awaited visual imagining for a song adored by many since its release a year ago.
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