American Idol winner Kris Allen's first music video has been released. The music video features a giant digital clock in the desert. Kris Allen talked to PopEater about the concept behind the music video.
"It was cool because we actually shot it in the desert in L.A. in the middle of nowhere in this junkyard and we had this set, it was this huge digital clock which was really cool and it was kind of raggedy looking and we shot it from 8PM to 8AM in the morning. That was crazy, with no breaks at all. The video is really cool ... It looks great. The idea behind it is that I plug in the clock and I'm pulling the big cord through the junkyard and through all these other things and then I plug in the clock and it starts counting down to zero and there's performance stuff in there. I'm playing the guitar and playing the piano and singing, too. In the end when it hits zero, it's kind of like the song, it's like we only have so much time so we gotta do what we want to do."
Coincidentally, American Idol star Katharine McPhee's recent music video for "Had it All" was also shot in the desert. However, her video was shot in daylight and lacked the giant digital clock. The desert has also been a good backdrop for music videos.
Kris Allen's first album, Kris Allen, hits stores on November 17th, 2009. Here's the music video for "Live Like We're Dying."
