Christian Lopez - I Don't Mind
Alt-folk country-rock artist Christian Lopez recently introduced the music video for “I Don’t Mind,” a track from his forthcoming third album, The Other Side, slated for release March 5.
Christian Lopez
Christian explains the song, “‘I Don't Mind’ was written in a psychedelic haze in Johnny Depp's personal studio in Hollywood, CA. (Billy Rassel, my producer is a nephew) It's about the pursuit of peace in every moment no matter what life throws at you. It's a song about making something beautiful out of life while also having the power to let go of it. For me, it was about letting go of mental blocks and fears that I discovered in myself as I grew older, and in order to make leaps forward I knew I'd have to overcome.”
From Martinsburg, West Virginia, Christian now splits his time between SoCal and West Virginia. While growing up, he immersed himself in the sounds of Appalachia and rock. At the age of five, he began playing piano and then guitar. While still in his teens, he was composing original music and touring. Signing with Nashville’s Blaster Records, he followed by dropping his EP, Pilot. In 2015, he released his debut LP, Onward, followed by a nationwide tour across the U.S. He’s shared the stage with Marty Stuart and Bill Withers, among a host of others.
“I Don’t Mind” travels on a rolling alt-rock melody, suffused by a gentle swaying flow.
Christian’s second LP, Red Arrow, collected vast praise from the AP, NPR, and Rolling Stone, which said, "Lopez can connect the dots for many young listeners.” After the release of Red Arrow, Christian’s sound assumed influences from Southern California, where he worked with producers Robert Adam Stevenson and Billy Rassel.
The video for “I Don’t Mind” opens with Christian playing a white piano in what appears to be a white room. Red, green, blue, and yellow whorls of paint begin to fall from the sky, soaking the piano and Christian in coils of color. The visual shift, displaying Christian at the piano in front of a white backdrop in the middle of a field, where four people squirt paint bottles at him. Later, enshrouded in mist, he takes a sledgehammer to the piano, symbolic of defeating psychological barriers.
“I Don’t Mind” travels on a rolling alt-rock melody, suffused by a gentle swaying flow. Christian’s lush voice, warm, and rife with deluxe creamy textures imbues the lyrics with nuanced sonic threads, simultaneously wistful, affectionate, and anticipatory.
Beautifully wrought and chock-full of elegant treasures, “I Don’t Mind” mirrors passionate apostrophes addressed to the mystery of life.
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