‘Gentle chaos’ on John Cale’s video for new POPtical Illusion single Shark-Shark

John Cale previews his new album.

John Cale has premiered the official video for Shark-Shark ahead of the release of POPtical Illusion on June 14th.

“Sometimes you write a song purely for a mood,” he’s said. “When you’re feeling too much of the real world, the best diversion is something that puts a grin on your face. I don’t know how Abby & team kept this shoot together – being ‘unserious’ was a lot of fun!”

Cale teamed up again with Abigail Portner for the promo, the director immediately struck by the song’s ‘gentle chaos’:

A chaos that’s not dangerous but a playfulness that happens at a sleepover party or in an 80s comedy. I was in Oslo last summer with John and I had taken a bunch of pictures of the band in the National Museum standing in the hall of busts, looking very stark and cold. This idea popped into my head of what if the chaos in this song was sculptures coming to life and breaking all the rules!

“The concept of taking something like the National Museum or Swan Lake and having the art itself turn it upside down seemed fitting for this song.”

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