Review - Lynda Wehipeihana "Thinking About You"

Music video on My Label through Hot Records/Didgeridoo

 

Lynda Wehipeihana has just released her first music video, being the first single from her forthcoming album “Project” on My Label through Hot Records/Didgeridoo. You might remember Lynda from various Songsalive! showcases around town a year or two ago, or from her debut album “Larger Than Life” which inspired much writing about and peforming by her at the time.

 

The video creative is a dream-state which producer Doug Hawkins says came directly from the song. A young woman drifts past a four-poster with swaying curtains and multi-imposed images that produce for the viewer the images that Lynda’s lyrics soon will. Then the lady herself is introduced in a style that could be Kate Ceberano, Kerry-Anne Kennerly, and/or Renée Geyer, drifting across the screen in a state fitting the song.

 

The song “Thinking About You” captures the emotion of ‘4a.m, can’t eat, can’t sleep, can’t think of anything or anyone else, trying to take your mind off but failing…’ Whilst the encapsulation of this mood seems to have been attempted through the music video (which is available in VHS video and PC and Mac format enhanced CDs) I found myself looking for a reason to enjoy it. I like Lynda and her work a lot, but could not get into this new release at all... bodes well for the album review, doesn’t it! In a pre-review communication with her manager I found that a number of people tried to put their ‘I would have done it this way’ into the post-release wash-up (everyone is an expert after the fact), but when you’re limited by time (only one day with the camera) and money (Lynda is still an independent artist) you have to stick to a plan which may not necessarily please everyone.

 

But the free-to-air programs and cable channels have added it, raising Lynda’s profile from suburban to national levels, which can only help the forthcoming album. And when you’re happy with the look of the video and it achieves that for which it was created then you’re on a very good thing.

PG (Jacky) Gleeson