Early in the year, they made their first top ten showing on Billboard's Hot 100, with the infectious "Roses." Then, they released the smash summer EDM anthem "Don't Let Me Down," which proved to be one of summer 2016's top 5 streaming songs. Chainsmokers Smash It In 2016ĮDM duo, The Chainsmokers, otherwise known as Drew Taggart and Alex Pall, went from strength to strength in 2016. Staff writer Grace Z.Top pop music duo The Chainsmokers have officially passed over one billion YouTube views for their smash 2016 hit song "Closer." The team have also just released a brand-new song entitled "Paris," which they hope matches the success of their previous hits. Their relationship is over, but will their role in this ever-playing music video be? They look at each other, eyes heavy with meaning and regret. At the end of “Closer,” the two characters walk outside and seem to still be on unhappy terms. So will Halsey and Taggart ever escape this timeless state? Will they ever find their way out of the music video? The answer is unclear. The grayness implies that because time cannot undergo its natural course with the couple, it must find a way to pervade somehow-hence the urgently gray tones in the video. And yet Halsey and Taggart remain as youthful as ever. In this case, the gray envelops the video, suggesting that time should be passing. Gray can symbolize many things, including age, decay, and the passage of time. And they look as young as they did when they were still happy in love.Īppearances can say a lot, as evidenced by their youthfulness, and by the overwhelming gray tones in the video. Several years after the breakup, the two see each other at a party again in the video. The two are trapped in time, never aging. Why the intensity? Perhaps they really are not growing older. At 3:10, Halsey and Taggart start aggressively singing “We ain’t ever getting older,” over and over again, building in tension with every repetition. When can we escape from this dimly lit room?” would be a more detailed phrasing. “And I, I, I, I, I can't stop / No, I, I, I, I, I can't stop,” Halsey sings. This same desperation is brought to the surface with the lyrics. “Help us.” The desperation is thickly layered in the video.
“When are we going to put on real clothes?” Taggart’s constant shirtlessness begs to ask. “We can’t stop singing,” Halsey’s disgruntled expression seems to say. And because these clips are constantly played through all four minutes and six seconds, it seems like the kissing and touching are endless. Your eyes are forced to concentrate on their faces, like how Halsey and Taggart may be forced to keep up this charade. The tight frames suggest confinement-there is no negative space.
It all seems to be happening in the same room, which may come off as banal and repetitive. The majority of the video is close shots of Halsey and Taggart kissing, over and over again. This repetition-paired with the close shots, the repeating lyrics, and the grayish tones-suggests that Halsey and Taggart are trapped in time, never aging and forced to go through the motions of kissing, touching, and singing over and over again. The video is composed of clips from their time together and apart, tampering with the temporality of the video. “Closer” follows a tumultuous relationship between Halsey and Andrew Taggart. It’s definitely not the first song to lament over the end of a romantic relationship, and yet the Chainsmokers and Halsey’s “Closer” music video seems to bring something suspiciously sinister to a clichéd storyline.
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