Hans Zimmer would be able to transform something as mundane as brushing your teeth in the morning with a sleepy face into an epic of Homeric dimensions. The collaboration of the German musician with RAYE has been translated into images by Dave Meyers in a video clip whose aesthetic ambitions are at the height of the song.
‘Click Clack Symphony’ begins like a 1930s musical, with a black and white overture that evokes the typography of golden Hollywood film titles. From there, and in tune with the lyrics of the song, the clip transforms into a kind of representation of the daily epic, of the daily struggle to not stay in your own “Anderson shelter” made of cushions piled up on the sofa.
The house as a refuge but also as a mental prison. During the first half of the video, we see several scenes with metaphors about confinement and emotional paralysis: RAYE face down in front of a laptop, tied to the wall, as a side table (a nod to Allen Jones’ table-women), “watering herself” like a withered flower among hanging clothes, with a television instead of her head, covered in a blanket… But since “a Friday night is not for being depressed”, RAYE manages to emerge from her confinement driven by the click clack of her friends’ heels coming to the rescue.
In the second part of the video, Meyers changes register and, through the use of the fantastic image, narrates the odyssey of the group of friends to leave the house: doors that grow and musical notes that fly over the sky and with which you can fly holding on to them. In the end, he unapologetically embraces the epic: RAYE running through open spaces as if he were the horse from ‘Spirit, the untamed steed’, whose music was composed by Zimmer.
