“Kellen of Troy offers a look inside his creative process in the new video for his “Some Tune We All Already Know,” directed by Rachel Lichtman and premiering exclusively below.
The clip depicts the multi-faceted pop artist (real name Kellen Wenrich) in full-blown composing mode — writing, recording, conducting a masked string section, even getting frustrated and throwing his score sheets in the air at one point. “It’s pretty accurate, just sort of the manic-ness of it all,” Wenrich — who’s worked with Mumford and Sons, Jenny Lewis, G. Love, the Wild Flowers and others in addition to releasing three of his own albums — tells Billboard. “I played the majority of the music on (the new Vanity Project), so (the video) is trying to go for a fictionalized, tongue-in-cheek take on all the different roles and hats that go into making a Kellen of Troy record…