Watch Noah Gundersen’s Intimate “Cigarettes” Music Video

May 9th, 2014

Nina Corcoran

Folk musician Noah Gundersen put out his excellent debut LP Ledges this February and has been slowly rolling out videos for his work since. Now we get one for “Cigarettes” that follows a complicated relationship between a ballet dancer and her perpetually love-struck boyfriend. The tension is obvious and glaring, contrasting the rather soft, clever song.

“Relationships are a dance — floating around each other and, often times, colliding,” Gundersen told CMT Edge. “There are ups and downs. Hearts bend and break. It’s messy, yet we continue in them because there are moments of overwhelming light… I started the creation process by free-writing comparisons to my on-again, off-again smoking habit. Everything seemed to fall into place over the course of about 30 minutes. As with most songs I write, I was trying to express the most honest, basic truths of a situation.”

Watch the video over at CMT Edge.