“We revolt because, for many reasons, we cannot breathe.”
Stop Motion’s new music video, “Enough,” captures Franz Fannon’s quote from 1961 painted on the side of a Denver building, and it’s an apt quote for their release. The music video offers a refreshing visualization of their lyrics written as protest boards surrounded by the ambient scene of the city’s changed landscape since the death of George Floyd and the following protests.
Across the many mediums of social media, people beg to be heard. Every day a new ploy of a dangerously dividing regime furthers its agenda of exploitation. Stop Motion captures the many faces of Denver who have had enough. As they hold their signs to the camera, there are the eyes of the hopeful, the disheartened, and the repulsed. And the music brings that alive—with the posed exhaustion behind the lyrics pleasantly juxtaposed to a musical energy that is charged and ready for vindication and justice.
As the instrumentation escalates, the vocals clouded by slight transistor-esc distortion, the fire behind our city’s people climbs and summits with the crash of symbols synchronized visually by a young musician throwing down his drum stick onto a snare—finally falling back into the isolation of the guitar and vocals—enough is enough. The outro sonically blurs into the background sound of protestors, crowned by the words of Angela Davis:
“I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I’m changing the things I cannot accept.”
Written by Tommy Clift