In Stranger, Bill Waters reflects on how sobriety changed his relationships over alluring bass riffs and deep synth drone. Bill navigates this with an acerbic sense of humor and sexual ambiguity; opening with “I used to fuck with the boys" then slyly submitting to loneliness as he sings "Now I act like it's a choice, I'm staying home for the night"
Bill doesn't appear in the video, but instead, a male go-go dancer on an elevated platform in an empty room. The room is lit by red light, while the platform is bathed in a yellow glow, with a cold spotlight on the dancer.
The dancer listens to the song on a Sony Walkman; his thrusts and gyrations are relaxed and cocky, but sadness flickers in a fleeting glance to the camera each time the chorus plays.
The room's emptiness and the go-go dancing platform become a symbolic threshold, blurring boundaries between performer and spectator, and providing a meta-commentary on personal narrative as an art form. Daring its audience to scrutinize whether Bill is finding strength in himself or shrugging off whatever sympathy he may be seeking.