Ryan Adams - Gimme Something Good

Gimme Something Good is from Ryan Adams' upcoming self-titled album - and a very good tune too.

Anything with Elvira needs *horrorshow and *femme - and although it is a brand new video, it is very 80's-ish; VHS tracking noise, Elvira and all.


Rolling Stone:
Last month, Ryan Adams unveiled "Gimme Something Good,"the bluesy opening track off his upcoming self-titled album. On Tuesday, the prolific rocker revealed the ghoulish black-and-white video for the lovelorn single, and to give the song an extra sense of foreboding, Adams cast Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, as the music video's love interest.

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From its opening moments showing a spooky mansion in warped VHS quality to the closing frames of Elvira holding Adams in a gothic embrace, the Michael Reich-directed video is an ode to shows like Fright Night and Movie Macabre that would showcase b-horror films on local TV stations in Los Angeles.

Throughout the video, Elvira – wearing her trademark cleavage-revealing black dress – runs the gamut of moves that made her a television mainstay, eerily blowing out candles and staring hypnotically at the camera while Adams, ensconced by shadows, performs the track. While the video is all mood and no plot, the lyric "I'll been waiting here, 'til the end of time" suggests that Adams will be pining away forever for Elvira, who looks ridiculously good for a sexagenarian; she might really be the ageless vampiress she plays on TV.

The bleakness of the video also captures Adams' state of mind the past few years prior to working on Ryan Adams. As he told Rolling Stone of his long battle against Ménière's disease, "All of a sudden you start seeing double and then my hand starts shaking, and then it's like you're in an elevator and the bottom just drops out and your bones feel 1,000 pounds."

Ryan Adams is due out September 9th on Adams' own Pax-Am label. Along with "Gimme Something Good," the singer has also debuted new track "My Wrecking Ball" in concert.



I can't talk
My mind is so blank
So I'm going for a walk
I got nothing left to say
I can't see
There's a darkness on the rise
I'll be waiting here
Till the end of time

All my life been shaking
Wanting something
Holding everything i had like it was broken
Gimme something good
Gimme something good
Gimme something
Gimme something good
oh no

I was playing dead
Didn't make a sound
Holding my breath
Going underground
So I can't talk
I got nothing to say
It's like there's no tomorrow
Barely yesterday

All my life been shaking
Wanting something
Holding everything i had like it was broken
Gimme something good
Gimme something good
Gimme something
gimme something good
oh no

All my life been shaking
Wanting something
Holding everybody back too
Round and round so (?)
Gimme something good
Oh no

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