Alex Lahey - Don't Be so Hard on Yourself

What this video is

Released February 20, 2019 as the lead single from Alex Lahey's sophomore album The Best of Luck Club (Dead Oceans, May 17 2019), the video arrived at a cultural moment of peak 'burnout discourse' — coinciding with widespread media coverage of millennial overwork and hustle-culture fatigue. The track's message of self-compassion was amplified by its theatrical, humor-driven video, which uses a mock research…

Why it matters

A key document of the late-2010s Australian indie pop-punk wave, 'Don't Be So Hard on Yourself' exemplifies the genre's synthesis of confessional lyricism, anthemic hooks, and wry self-aware humor. It stands alongside peers such as The Beths and Tired Lion as evidence of a distinctly Southern…

The director

Callum Preston is an Australian music video director. He both wrote and directed the video for Alex Lahey's 'Don't Be So Hard on Yourself' (2019), the lead single from her second album The Best of Luck Club on Dead Oceans.