Katie Alice Greer’s “FITS/My Love Can’t Be” pounds your head with consistent drums, booming over-arching vocals, and static gritty guitar hooks – in fact, it is Katie’s jittery voice that is a highlight of the song, in which, where sound and concept originally began in May 2020, as the isolation of the pandemic became interrupted by global demonstrations.
With the release of this song, which happens to come off the release of Katie Alice Greer’s debut solo album – due out for release in June – she wanted to try and capture all that she was feeling without so much as re-telling events that inspired the emotions themselves.
“I’d spent something like 70 days mostly alone since the pandemic started,” Katie says on the original inspiration of the song. “Then one weekend I biked out to Fairfax Avenue and found myself amongst thousands of people. It was jarring… To go from mostly the stillness of a barely-lived-in bedroom to projectile shopping carts, strangers chanting, phalanxes of beige gun-toters and tanks parallel parked outside luxury underwear and grocery shops on Melrose.”
That aforementioned notion fits perfectly into the visual representation of these long, which sees Katie produce a surreal public news broadcast from the “Barbarism News Network.” The correspondents are both played by Katie as well, and they are just as affected by the unfolding chaos as they are covering it.
“I’m not a journalist, but maybe to underscore the contrast between a reporter and a storyteller, I wanted to make a Network Howard Beale-inspired music video to visually communicate the cacophony of feeling,” Katie concludes.
