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Mazzy Star - I've Been Let Down

Music Video | 1997
ArtistMazzy Star
SongI've Been Let Down
AlbumAmong My Swan
DirectorMichael Costanza
IntroNo
OutroNo
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown
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Synopsis

Mazzy Star's "I've Been Let Down" video follows Hope Sandoval and David Roback through a wistful, dreamlike Paris. Sandoval wanders through an old European cemetery, while the pair move separately and together along quiet cobblestone streets. A peacock, amusement-park imagery, and brief simulated performance footage add to the clip's surreal atmosphere. Shot with a hazy pseudo-Super 8 texture and fisheye distortion, the video mirrors the song's contrast between disappointed lyrics and a gently rolling, country-tinged melody.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video was released in 1997, promoting a song from Mazzy Star's third album, "Among My Swan," which was issued by Capitol Records on October 29, 1996.
  • The footage was shot in Paris, although the specific European locations used in the video have not been consistently identified.
  • Its roughened Super 8-style appearance, fisheye effects, and deliberately murky photography give the clip a home-movie quality rather than the polished look associated with many mid-1990s alternative videos.
  • The video combines cemetery and street footage with amusement-park images and staged concert material, creating an impressionistic travelogue instead of a conventional narrative.
  • A peacock appears in the cemetery sequence, one of the clip's more unusual visual details.
  • "I've Been Let Down" was issued as a promotional release connected with "Roseblood." It was not a major chart hit, unlike "Fade Into You," but it became one of the more memorable visual documents from the "Among My Swan" period.
  • The song's spare arrangement centers on acoustic guitar and harmonica, giving the video a lighter, rustic mood than the darker, more heavily atmospheric imagery often associated with Mazzy Star.
  • Following the "Among My Swan" era and the 1997 release of the video, Mazzy Star entered a long hiatus. The band did not release new music until 2011.

Lyrics

I'm sailin, sailin
Place I've never seen
That's way down south
Sweet old New Orleans
Cause my hometown friends
Treats me awful mean
If I could holler, yeah holler
If I could scream and cry
It hurts me so
When I look up in the sky
Cause my friends turn their heads
As they pass em by
Now it's rainin, it's rainin
...
© Mazzy Star - I've Been Let Down. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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