{"id":18274,"date":"2013-08-27T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=18274"},"modified":"2013-08-27T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:10:50","slug":"watch-the-nationals-official-video-for-graceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-08\/watch-the-nationals-official-video-for-graceless\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The National’s Official Video for “Graceless”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The National’s<\/strong> members have mentioned in the press the mayhem that they engaged in during the making of their new video for Graceless<\/em><\/strong> off their Best of Year Album<\/strong> (take that, Arcade Fire<\/strong>) Trouble Will Find Me<\/strong><\/em>. You may notice that a beer or two (OK, maybe three), were consumed during the filming, which took place at singer Matt Berninger’s folks’ house<\/strong> in Cincinnati. Berninger<\/strong> told Rolling Stone<\/strong> that along the way the band “kind of destroyed the place and ourselves along the way.” And no stunt men were injured (or used) during the filming of the video. “I gave myself a minor concussion, head injury on the slip and slide,” bassist Scott Devendorf<\/strong> told RS. “I had a serious face injury, Bryce [Dessner]<\/strong> had a back injury,” Berninger<\/strong> said. Berninger<\/strong> also got beat up (repeatedly) filming the sequence in which he rides a bike into the family pool. “My face hit the water hard all three times,” he told RS. “I had glasses on, I had bruises around my eyes where the glasses hit. It was the most brutal video we\u2019ve ever done. It was really fun, but it cost us. No one died, though.”\u00a0 Berninger’s father can be seen in the background sweeping up the mess and mowing beer cans on his sit-down.\u00a0 Heartwarming stuff.<\/p>\n

To us it just looks like 40 year-old guys (in suits of course) refusing to grow up while acknowledging their inner juveniles.\u00a0 Who would do such a thing?<\/p>\n

Check out the Graceless<\/strong><\/em> video below.\u00a0 As the band said with its’ release: “Graceless is full of punks and cannonballers.” The songs’ lyrics follow.\u00a0 The lyrics mesh well with the video, including the “bullets [potatoes?] through rotten fruit.”\u00a0 When performed live, Berninger<\/strong> sings the last portion of the song with vitriol, which belies the fun-for-all treatment in the video.\u00a0 Read a little closer and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n