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.
featuring
Jose Manuel Pradas
as“The Dancer”







