Riah - In My Dreams

What this video is

Released August 16, 2019, 'In My Dreams' arrives during a peak period of streaming-platform-driven indie dream pop, when artists like Tove Lo, Broods, and Phoebe Ryan defined a lane of atmospheric alternative pop that Riah was critically positioned within. The video's pastoral, sun-drenched visual grammar — open fields, a horse, grainy film overlays — reflects a broader 2018–2020 trend of indie artists deploying…

Why it matters

A textbook artifact of late-2010s indie dream pop video aesthetics: the pastoral outdoor setting, lo-fi film grain overlay, and emotional intimacy between artist and natural landscape codify a genre-visual vocabulary that was widely adopted by streaming-era independent artists seeking to evoke…