Waterparks’ sixth studio album, JINX, dropped in July, but a new music video has just arrived. The trio just dropped the visuals for “TELL ME WHY(feat. Mark Hoppus, Danny Elfman, Eric Nally, and Dillon Francis),” and it also features a lot of puppets.
Lead singer Awsten Knight says, “The ‘Tell Me Why’ video is detrimental to the song. Without it, there would be no features. I will explain. The song itself is a borderline miracle, but most people didn’t understand what they were listening to at all until they came back, I explained myself, and they’d listen again and their heads would explode. Everyone told me it was such a masterpiece, but that they were just confused by the story when it was only my voice singing all the parts, and that a visual component would help.”
The singer continues, “So I spent $400 on puppets and shot this ‘music video’ in my apartment with my sister and her boyfriend on an iPhone. We did this just to try and secure the guest vocal features, with no real intention of it ever seeing the light of day. However, everyone who has seen the video loves it, and the label is adamant that we put it out. So, I hope you enjoy. Hopefully it makes you want to sing on our song like it did for everybody else involved. Thank you so much. Someone, please show this to Donald Glover. Thank you!”
Check the full tracklist below and listen to JINX here.
JINX Tracklist:
- TELL ME WHY (feat. Mark Hoppus, Danny Elfman, Eric Nally, and Dillon Francis)
- RED GUITAR
- IF LYRICS WERE CONFIDENTIAL
- PROWLER
- BETTER THAN THERAPY
- NOBODY BUT YOU
- GWEN STEFANI
- NO NO NO NO NO
- PLAYING MUSIC
- MIRAGE
- TASTES LIKE TANGERINE
- ANY MINUTE NOW
- GIRLS NEED GUNS
