Pissed Jeans - Romanticize Me

What this video is

Released in summer 2013 to support Pissed Jeans' fourth album Honeys (Sub Pop, Feb 12, 2013), 'Romanticize Me' arrives at the apex of a critical reappraisal of noise punk and post-hardcore as vehicles for adult-life alienation. Honeys received a Metacritic score of 82 ('universal acclaim') and was described by Sub Pop as 'an ode to the misery and shackles of being a responsible adult.' The video's concept — a…

Why it matters

A rare successful fusion of noise punk and narrative comedy-realism in the music video format, 'Romanticize Me' exemplifies the early-2010s Sub Pop indie underground aesthetic: high conceptual ambition on modest budgets. The video extends Pissed Jeans' tradition of channeling blue-collar…

The director

Joe Stakun is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker working across comedy television, music videos, commercials, and documentary. He grew up outside Philadelphia and has directed music videos for Modest Mouse, Future Islands, The Bird and the Bee, and Pissed Jeans.…