Waterparks' Chaotic Puppet-Based Video For 'TELL ME WHY'

Waterparks have shared a video that was never meant to see the light of day for the opening track of their new album ‘JINX’, and that is a lot going on.

The clip is for ‘TELL ME WHY’, a wild old track that features appearances from Mark Hoppus, Dillon Franic, Danny Elfman and Eric Nally and tells the story of what happens when Awsten Knight dies and has to face both the Devil and God and repent for what he has done; the video matches the chaos perfectly.

With puppets.

The video was never likely to see the light of day if those four artists didn’t agree to be a part of it. But because they are, we get to share in this very particular creative choice.

Awsten had this to say about it all:

The “Tell Me Why” video is detrimental to the song. Without it, there would be no features. I will explain. The song itself is a borderline miracle, but most people didn’t understand what they were listening to at all until they came back, I explained myself, and they’d listen again and their heads would explode. Everyone told me it was such a masterpiece, but that they were just confused by the story when it was only my voice singing all the parts, and that a visual component would help. So I spent $400 on puppets and shot this “music video” in my apartment with my sister and her boyfriend on an iPhone. We did this just to try and secure the guest vocal features, with no real intention of it ever seeing the light of day. However, everyone who has seen the video loves it, and the label is adamant that we put it out. So I hope you enjoy. Hopefully it makes you want to sing on our song like it did for everybody else involved.Thank you so much. Someone please show this to Donald Glover. Thank you!”

Oh, and you see that Red Guitar patch? Yeah, that’s one of ours. You can grab it from right here.