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Today, Ottawa-Hull-based indie-rock band Pony Girl share “Enny One Wil Love You,” the second single off their forthcoming LP, Enny One Wil Love You, due October 14 via Paper Bag Records.
Speaking on their new single, the band wrote:
“‘Enny One Wil Love You’ sounds like dizzying video game that you’re not sure how to win. While the words actually come from a child’s drawing we saw on tour, it also struck us as the perfect backhanded compliment for false prophets. ‘Anyone will LOVE you’ for their charisma, yet ‘ANYONE will love you’ despite their bullshit. Community doubt only benefits their toxicity, so you better pick a side. The only thing worse than doubt is indifference.”
Video concept from the UK/Beijing director Shiyi Li
A woman wakes up on an empty bed, there is a piece missing in her memory and she can’t recall how she ended up in this room. There is a memory puzzle on her wrist, she has to find the lost piece in a hyper-reality world. She puts on VR goggles, enters the virtual space, and looks for the lost piece. She finally finds it and puts the lost piece where it belongs. Suddenly, she wakes up again in the same bed and in the same room. Two giants look over many rooms in different dimensional spaces, they raise a hand to close the girl’s window. The different worlds are loosely based on the stages of grief. They are almost like trials that our character needs to pass. The character has literally lost a piece of herself and the only place she will find it is within herself.
What’s the inspiration behind the song?
The song title was inspired by a friend’s childhood drawing. While on tour we would crash at their moms house and this was up on the wall. For some reason, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I finally asked them if they could scan it and send it to me. The drawing is an outdoor scene with a large tree, a smiling sun and grandma having tea. In the middle of the drawing there’s a red heart with the words “Enny One Wil Love You ” written inside of it.
I started writing the lyrics a few years later. It became a kind of call out song. I wrote it after someone in our community was called out for their actions. We had so many discussions that came out of that. There was disbelief, anger, debates and told you so’s. It didn’t really matter what you thought about the situation because someone had come forward with their story and there was no place to doubt that. The song is about speaking up and listening. It’s about making and giving space. It pokes at centrism, pseudo-intellectual male culture and complacent energy.
