Holly Humberstone - The Walls Are Way Too Thin (Official Video)
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I wrote The Walls Are Way Too Thin about a time in my life where I felt like i’d lost control of where I was heading and struggling a little with finding my place in the world. It was a very strange period, I’d just moved to London away from my family and all of a sudden everything that I knew to be normal had changed completely. I moved on a whim into this little dingy room. I met some cool people but this place was pretty lonely and claustrophobic. I’m such an awkward person and even though I really liked my housemates I still felt worried about small talk in the kitchen or passing each other in the corridors. I had some fun times there, but I felt like I was mostly confined to my room whilst chaos was going on in the flats or streets around us. To avoid confronting how I was feeling I’d sneak out of the flat and go on train journeys to see my mates, get drunk, then come back hungover through the night or morning. I wrote most of Walls and the songs that come next on those trains. It was my place of therapy, in the middle of nowhere.

I wanted the music video to reflect how I felt stuck in my room with my own internal anxiety rising. The idea of being trapped in an air vent in a burning building came from that feeling of claustrophobia and panic that I felt throughout my time living in the flat. Shooting the video was chaotic, my elbows and knees look quite different now after 8 hours of crawling back and forth. The fire blast in the vent was totally real too !!

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Director / Exec Producer: Raja Virdi
Creative Director: Josh Sanger
Concept by: Josh Sanger, Raja Virdi & Holly Humberstone
Production Company: PHASE
Co-Production: Base & Apex
Producer: Frankie Willcock
1st AD: Chris Malin
DOP: Sam Meyer
Production Designer: Anthony Neale
SFX Supervisor: Matthew Strange
Stylist: Amy Holden-Brown
HMU: Emma Regan
VFX: tk-fx
Colourist: Connor Coolbear
Colour Grading Company: Electric Theatre Collective
Commissioner: Semera Khan
Label: Polydor / Interscope / Darkroom

Lyrics

I heard you talking till the morning
heavy whispers from the next room
You say it’s never your intention and
I’m just in a bad mood

There was a possible connection
On the table for a second
Then she made such an entrance
Can’t stand all this tension can you?

Then we crossed paths by the bathroom
But I’d just rather be out of the
picture
And I’ll do my upmost to talk to you
But I just wanna be out, I just wanna be out of the picture
And no I’m
not just gonna lay here and bite my
tongue
I only wanna be here when she’s gone
ooooooooo
The walls are way too thin
Oh I get down
I get down when she gets you high
I’m bored, I’m ignored, I’m being out
my mind
ooooooooo
The walls are way too thin
The walls are way too thin

You’re blowing smoke rings in the
corridors I feel so cold
How come it rains inside, the house is
full but I’m alone
With all the shit that still needs
fixing out of my control
It takes a hold of me
It takes a hold of me

The same old sad songs I cling to
Cause I just wanna be out
I just wanna be out of the
picture

And no I’m
not just gonna lay here and bite my
tongue
I only wanna be here when she’s gone
ooooooooo
The walls are way too thin
Oh I get down
I get down when she gets you high
I’m bored, I’m ignored, I’m being out
my mind
ooooooooo
The walls are way too thin
The walls are way too thin

And no I’m
not just gonna lay here and bite my
tongue
I only wanna be here when she’s gone
ooooooooo
The walls are way too thin

Oh I get down
I get down when she gets you high
I’m bored, I’m ignored, I’m being out
my mind
ooooooooo
The walls are way too thin
The walls are way too thin
The walls are way too thin

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Music video by Holly Humberstone performing The Walls Are Way Too Thin. A Polydor Records release / Darkroom / Interscope release in the USA; © 2021 Universal Music Operations Limited

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