{"id":6251,"date":"2015-09-21T19:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T00:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexz.net\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2015-09-21T19:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T00:19:25","slug":"alexz-johnson-premieres-ruthless-love-online-substreammagazine-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexz.net\/?p=6251","title":{"rendered":"Alexz Johnson premieres \u201cRuthless Love\u201d online &#8212; SubstreamMagazine.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great article about &#8220;Ruthless Love&#8221; the song, video, and Alexz&#8217;s plans for the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/substreammagazine.com\/2015\/09\/alexz-johnson-premieres-ruthless-love-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indie artist Alexz Johnson released her self-produced music video for her song \u201cRuthless Love\u201d online today. This past Saturday, Johnson threw an event to share the video with a sold out crowd at the Golden Box in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver native premiered her music video on Vevo this afternoon. You can watch \u201cRuthless Love\u201d below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8xCOhm54J0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuthless Love\u201d was directed by Montana Mann, who is known for her work in commercials and short films. She is the daughter of director Farhad Mann,  who worked with Johnson on \u201cDevil\u2019s Diary\u201d in 2006 and \u201cThe Listener\u201d in 2011. Mann;s father would tell Johnson, \u201cYou should really meet my daughter, Montana. You guys would get along great and you should work together on sometime,\u201d so when the vision for the music video came to Johnson, she reached out to Mann.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can look forward to another Mann and Johnson collaboration in the near future according to the singer.<\/p>\n<p>If \u201cInstant Star\u201d fans think they see a familiar face, they won\u2019t be wrong. Laura Vandervoort was the woman in the black makeup mask in the video. Johnson had a dream one night of Vandervoort being in her video, so the singer called her the next day and their schedules matched up and a T.V. sisterhood was reunited.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson told the inspiration behind the song: \u201cProbably the most intense feeling we feel in this life is love. We find ways of destroying it, sabotaging it, and damaging it and loving it, breathing it, and creating life with it. I think it\u2019s so powerful. So the song came about [out of] the simplicity of how powerful love is and how ruthless we are within it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video itself is a, \u201cvery artistic portrayal done in a studio about all the inter-motions that happen with people, and in the video, all the universal emotions inside of a woman. I hope that everybody can relate to it in some way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really wanted to tap into the freedom that we\u2019re born with, the freedom that we feel we lose, and the fear that we\u2019ve bound our spirits. There is a sadness to the video, but also an energy to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want people to question what they\u2019re watching and I want [them] to take out of [the video] what they want to take out of it and pull their own feelings from it based on their experiences. I didn\u2019t want to be too specific, I wanted to set a tone and a feel based on the images that they\u2019re watching. I hope I do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson predicts that the video cause an intense emotional reaction from the audience based on what she\u2019s seen from people who have already seen the video. While editing the first version of the music video, Johnson\u2019s eyes began to water and asked herself if it\u2019s \u201cweird that I\u2019m crying watching this and is it weird that my friends that had seen it were getting emotional?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer is taking a short break before touring again and recording another album, not to say that she won\u2019t be working on music in the mean time. \u201cI\u2019m going to be taking a seat back. I\u2019ve been writing a lot of music lately and I need to gage what I want to do next. I\u2019m going to be thinking about what\u2019s next for me. What do I want to do?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to feel and see what I want to do, really listen to myself. Sometimes things can get so busy it\u2019s like, \u2018What am I doing? Where am I?\u2019 I think it\u2019s really important to put something up you really believe in and let that sit and breathe for a bit and then quiet with myself and think about what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She is actually playing the University of Minnesota at the end of October, but then that\u2019s it until she gets some much needed family time. Information about the show can be found here.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s next for Johnson? \u201d I\u2019m working on a project with an artist in L.A., something I really believe in that\u2019s already finished, so I\u2019m going to figuring out when I\u2019m going to be releasing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And South American fans be on the look out: \u201cI do want to tour; I\u2019d love to tour South America. I have a plan on doing that. 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