Bath-based artist Jamie Beale has bounced into a solo career after many years touring Europe with Novatines. His new music captures dreamy-pop sensibilities with the added element of a hardened touring veteran, adding a wisdom to his writing that can only come with experience. ‘Hello Nimbus’, his debut album showed off this new sound and saw a fanbase begin to build around the artist.
With boundless emotion and a simple arrangement, Jamie Beale has released an acoustic studio video for his track ‘Champagne People’. A stripped back piano instrumental, with warmth and dynamics, sets the scene for a duet performance from Jamie and musician Hari Morris. Each lyric and harmony becomes more evocative as you are drawn further into the lyricism of the track, describing losing yourself in the speed of life and the pursuit of fame. The video is set in black and white, with gentle lighting and plenty of handheld camera angles, putting you right in the room with the musicians, deepening the connection to the track.
Speaking about the track, he says “Champagne People is a song about someone forgetting who they are, where they’ve come from, and who their true friends are while pursuing success and fame. I feel that we are living in this weird age where people are willing to do anything for fame. You see it all the time on social media – it’s so easy to put up a veil and hide all the realities and imperfections of life that ultimately make us human. Quite often, in these industries that promote the idea of fame as success, people surround themselves with an entourage of fake people; people that are only really there to further their own careers. On the outside looking in, it seems that no-one in these circles are truly content, but instead are lonely and looking to fill that void with possessions or short lived moments of attention and gratification. I guess I can’t help but feel for these people, so I wrote a song about someone who’s trying to climb the social ladder, and ends up alone, hiding behind a pretty picture of how they want their life to look.”
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