New Mayer Hawthorne Video - "Green Eyed Love" (Stereogum Premiere)

"Green Eyed Love" is the downbeat album-closer from Michigan soul singer Mayer Hawthorne's Stones Throw debut LP, A Strange Arrangement. On first blush its lyrics seem to suggest he's got a thing with a tempestuous, ill-advised green-eyed girlfriend. Or with weed. The twist is that Mayer's green comes not via girls or herb, but through slotted spoons and sugarcubes. A fix of absinthe later, Hawthorne's watching lips grow out of bathroom tiles and girls get multiplied and colorized; not your average look for soul-rooted music, coming from a guy who's not your average look for a soul-rooted artist.

A Strange Arrangement is out via Stones Throw. "Green Eyed Love" anchors the new Green Eyed Love Remixes 12" which features reworks by Claxsixx and Waajeed. Buy that here.

Posted at 3:06 PM by amrit in Video
Tags: Mayer Hawthorne

6 Comments

awesome track and video

Posted by: Andy at 10/13/09 3:47 PM  | Reply
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Man, I totally thought it was about his love for the sticky icky-icky. I have been officially put on notice. All hail the Mayer!

Posted by: HubertGAM at 10/13/09 4:46 PM  | Reply
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Love it.

Posted by: K La at 10/13/09 5:26 PM  | Reply
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can't get this song out of my effing head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKx8PyE5qQ

love this guy.

Posted by: polecat at 10/13/09 8:18 PM  | Reply
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I would say that the song is actually still about weed. I went to his concert last week and he said his bassist would smoke all your green eyed love after the show. So I'm prettttty sure the songs still about that

Posted by: Brent at 10/14/09 10:38 AM  | Reply
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Umm, I'm pretty sure you're an idiot

Posted by: Dreama at 10/17/09 2:36 PM  | Reply
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