Doechii confronts all those internal fears, apprehensions, and stressors, in all their mundane and outrageous forms, in the new video for “Anxiety.”
Directed by James Mackel, the elaborate video begins simply enough, with the Florida rapper strolling through a grand home with an attentive staff. Then all those pesky, well, anxieties come crashing in — just like the SWAT team that repeatedly breaks through the living room windows.
The camera follows Doechii as she stumbles around and tries to make sense of the chaos, which includes everything from a stove fire to lifeless house guests, a mean-looking dog, a gigantic elephant, a falling chandelier, and a massive troupe of dancers. There are even two lookalikes of Gotye and Kimbra, a nod to the sample of their hit, “Somebody That I Used to Know” that anchors “Anxiety.”
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