Interscope RecordsDaya tries to cure her “Insomnia” with a trip to the club in her new music video.
In the clip, Daya enters a late-night rave in an industrial warehouse, but instead of joining the club-goers on the dancefloor, she sits by herself and sings about missing someone she loves. Eventually, she gets up on stage and sings for the crowd.
“‘Insomnia’ at its core is a gritty club pop anthem about missing the person you love, so it felt appropriate to take the visuals in a rave direction in a grimy abandoned warehouse that feels like something you’d stumble into at 3am in Berlin to temporarily neglect whatever pain you’re feeling,” the singer explains of the video’s inspiration.
She adds, “[Director] Nick Harwood took this vision and perfectly brought it to life by adding intense strobe lighting and other atmospheric elements to capture these flickering moments of desperation and loneliness, even amidst a seemingly lively, crowded setting.”
“Insomnia” is Daya’s first new track since June 2018. Her last release was a song called “Safe,” inspired by the October 2017 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas.
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