A music video I love with a song from Imagine Dragons is called Next to Me. If you can’t handle love songs, too bad. It’s a fantastic song with an awesome music video. The footage that runs while the Next to Me song lyrics are belted out by frontman Dan Reynolds is just as good as any movie you will watch this year. Consider it a short film. The music video is dark and has a few deep monologues in it to drive the narrative along.
Next to Me, song director Mark Pellington is also known for Mothman Prophecies (2002) a tidy and taut thriller starring Richard Gere. He has also directed over 100 music videos, films, documentaries, and tv series.
The reason this music video for Next to Me is worth mentioning is that the song is about lasting love. The narrative music video, however, gives new meaning to the intended song lyrics sung by frontman Dan Reynolds.
I always let you down.
– Next to Me lyrics by Imagine Dragons
You’re shattered on the ground.
But still, I find you there
Next to me.
This music video for Next to Me is powerful and beautifully shot. The cinematic quality is purposeful and is so much more than a music video. It runs for 11 minutes, but that 11 minutes will show you a narrative wrapped in a song encased in a film.
“Can a person who made a terrible mistake be forgiven by their loved ones or even by themselves?”
– Mark Pellington.
Imagine Dragons Next to Me Album Info
- Artist: Imagine Dragons.
- Album: Evolve.
- Released: February 2018.
- Who wrote it? Wayne Sermon, Dan Reynolds, Alexander Grant, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman, and producer Alex da Kid.
- Writer and Director: Mark Pellington.
- Produced by Dana Marshall and photography by Matt Sakatanu Roe.
- Budget: $175k.
- Fun Facts: The video was filmed inside a prison in Las Vegas and stars Dan Reynolds’s wife Aja Volkman.
Synopsis of Next to Me Music Video (if it were a film)
When Dan’s criminal past catches up with him, he’s sentenced to jail. His wife Ava remains steadfast in her love for him. He is paroled.
Instead of finding redemption, he makes one last mistake, leading to terrible consequences.
Genre: Crime/Thriller.
Imagine Dragons Next To Me on YOUTUBE
Imagine Dragons Next to Me
I’m sitting in the darkness and I know they are coming for me.
Next to Me lyrics
The sky’s open and the ghosts came back.
These are the witnesses, the ones that know all of my sins.
– movie quote
Not only does this music video nail being a movie, but it’s also an exceptional love song that tells its own story.
Next to Me, as a filmmaking masterclass is rated
4.5/ 5
