Somegirlnamedanna Lets Us Meet Her Horses In Homemade 'Kitchen Table' Video

a number of months back, Minnesota's somegirlnamedanna (that's "some girl named Anna") introduced herself to us with an eas song titled "Hello I Am." On her latest release, she's gone deeper, probing back inside her childhood on "Kitchen Table," a personalized entry that looks back on her life so far.


As she told MTV News, she wrote the song while studying and working in Nashville, homesick for both her family member and the younger days lose don't get back. "I began writing freely about what I missed back residence, and I found that a lot of it surrounded my kitchen table," she mentioned. "I remember drawing rainbows in my notebook there even any time times were hard, feeling love, telling the truth, getting caught for skipping a class and getting grounded, crying in my hands any time my parents got divorced, and hugging my mom any time If I noticed out I got into college."


Naturally, a music video for this sort of artsy statement had to be just as intensely personalized. And the "Kitchen Table" clip, which premiered today (May 14), is indeed that, built around house movies and self-shot footage Anna captured while self-isolating back house in Minnesota. A lot of it takes place outdoor, which was a little bit of a challenge to film in the 28-degree weather.


"Those were some of the memories that flashed back any time As soon as I was writing the song," she mentioned, "and then my brother and I shot the rest of the video on the same VHS camcorder to define a flashback of me at an older age. I wanted to get my horse in it that I grew up with because horseback riding taught me work ethic, bring back my remembrance of running in the fields barefoot, and I wanted to show people where I came from."


there really are actually two horses in the clip, along with some dogs and cats. (In maybe the most fitting returning-home gift ever, her dog ended up consuming food some of the tapes for the video.) Although it's the horses Anna took excellent pride in showing off.


"The sorrel horse's name is Tate, who I stage name Tate the Good Anna mentioned. "I've had him since I was about 15. The bay is named Jack, nicknamed Jack Attack, and I competed with him through high school. They are both former show horses and were my best companions growing up. I was most certainly a horse girl."


As she works toward a debut release, Anna's been keeping busy, spending time with her brother and mom and recovering from the shoot in the below-freezing weather. Her mom even had to act as on-set medic, wrapping her in blankets to warm her back up right after running around barefoot. "Filming this entire video was such a memory in itself," she mentioned. "I right now watch it back and laugh because the funny memories we built around the making of it and I wouldn't wish to trade that for anything."


It's fitting, then, that the song itself, re-playable in the same way a particularly moving journal passage is re-readable, began with that one object — the solid-oak kitchen table, which Anna and her brother carried so she may pose on it for the video shoot. "No matter what was going on in life, the kitchen table was a congregational spot where we might unify as a family member, and every memory there helped make me who I am."


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