Chiiild - Bon Voyage

What this video is

Released November 9, 2022, 'Bon Voyage' serves as the lead single for Chiiild's second album 'Better Luck In The Next Life' and signals a deliberate artistic pivot toward cinematic self-examination. Montreal-based and multi-genre by nature, Chiiild's work sits at the intersection of R&B, alternative, and electronic music, reflecting the post-Hope For Sale artistic evolution of a Juno-nominated artist. The video's…

Why it matters

A key document of the early-2020s Canadian Alt-Soul movement, 'Bon Voyage' illustrates how artists like Chiiild fused R&B vocal sensibility with experimental production and indie visual aesthetics. The video's noir-tinged, psychologically escalating structure distinguishes it from contemporaneous…

The director

Trey Lyons is a music video director credited on the official Dailymotion and multiple editorial sources for directing Chiiild's 'Bon Voyage' (2022), produced under Muddy Waters LLC. Active in the independent R&B and alternative music video space in the…