![]() You're Not a Bad Person, It's Just a Bad World is telling everyone give yourself a pat on the back, you're probably doing just fine."Īccording to James, Rare Americans' live shows are also a uniquely positive experience. I find it personally challenging to have opinions on everything. "So many things you have to have an opinion on. The pandemic world was more divisive and polarizing than ever," James notes. The entirety of the band's new album, You're Not a Bad Person, It's Just a Bad World, in fact, has a focus on positivity. Plus, our songs usually tell stories, and to film them live-action would be a lot more expensive." "We thought animated videos could be a niche for us. "Everyone else is doing live-action videos," James quips. Rare Americans have now released close to 20 animated music videos, the latest of which is "Run the World," which depicts the story of an underdog dealing with a bully. "The rapper Killer Mike had a cool video for the song "Reagan." We found the animator and director, and he did our video for "Cats, Dogs & Rats." That was the video that connected with people," James explains. The cartoon aesthetic quickly became the band's calling card. The enthusiastic Canadian siblings shot six music videos for those songs, with one of them being animated. The brothers' first self-titled album came out in 2018 and quickly found an audience yearning for wordy and whimsy pop-punk reminiscent of They Might be Giants. He said, 'Screw that! Let's write an album.' Fifteen songs later, that's what we did." "I was in school for music production at the time, so I joked let's write a song together on vacation. I think he moved out of the house when I was 7, so we thought this would be a good trip to get reconnected," James says. James and Jared Priestner booked a vacation in the Caribbean for some brotherly bonding. That was how James became a musician, but how Rare Americans came to exist is an even unlikelier story. Very quickly, I wrote my first song and I was hooked." ![]() "I had all this spare time since I had no family around," James tells New Times. Ten years ago, singer James Priestner was a professional hockey player for the Western Hockey League when he found a productive way to kill the endless time while on the road. Rare Americans have one of the unlikeliest origin stories of any act out there.
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