The Criticals - Clever Girl (Official Music Video)

"Clever Girl" is from the new EP, "Front Door Confrontations". Listen/purchase here: https://found.ee/FrontDoorConfrontationsEP
We started Clever Girl with a desire for a robotic dance song, after a lull of only writing ballads and mid tempo grooves. We were listening to The Bravery a lot in that time, so the repetitive downstroke nature of the guitars happened organically. Some songs just arrive and it's difficult to remember which path you took to get there, and that's what Clever Girl was. It more or less fell out of us one afternoon.

We were talking with Hannah Hall about how thankful we are to not be at a desk every day of our lives. She had been working on a documentary for the Federal Defenders office and thought that we could use the dilapidated office that was left after COVID for a shoot spot. Over time we naturally leaned into the juxtaposition of what it would be like for us to be in the office as ourselves.

Video Directed by Hannah Gray Hall
Director of Photography Garret Hayes
Grip/AC Bryce Barker
Produced by Hannah Gray Hall
Art Director Caylah May
Editors Garret Hayes and Hannah Gray Hall
Colorist Garret Hayes
Starring Ash Rose, Joni Thomas, Luv Patel, Caylah May, Joe Colvette, and Harrison Forbes

Lyrics:
(by Parker Forbes, Cole Shugart, Tyelen Gibbs)
It comes and goes like a leopard in the snow
I guess I was told to stub it on my big toe
Should they be shocked that the wedding day fell through the floor

Got busted for Xan’s while he was on the deans list
Check on your friends, make sure they don’t agree with
Sweet Uncle Sam and all that he’s put us through

Stoned
It’s the sex in his tone
Talkings taking so long
Clever girl, she is one foot too far away from the door
But she’d like to laugh a little bit more

Check on your man, I think you left him in your briefcase
A much better plan, competing in the rat race
We gave a shit and that’s where everything went awry

I yelled as the drunk boy left his tab
And the ocean of emotion was too kind to stab
I said, “Hold on. He left his pants at his ankles”

Stoned
It’s the sex in his tone
Talkings taking so long
Clever girl, she got one foot too far away from the door

Stoned
It’s the sex in my tone
Talkings taking too long
Clever girl, she got one foot too far away from the door

I said it comes and goes like a leopard in the snow
I guess I was told to stub it on my big toe
Should they be shocked that the wedding day fell through the floor
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Music video by The Criticals performing Clever Girl. © 2023 Fantasy Records, Distributed by Concord.

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