BETTER // jocelyn mackenzie

Описание: The first single from my album PUSH, out now Righteous Babe Records
https://righteousbabe.myshopify.com/p...

This video was made during quarantine, using hundreds of photos submitted by creative people all over the U.S. and Canada. The chorus is not just a compliment, it's also a call to action for each of us to try to make the world better in the way that only we can.

CREDITS

BETTER
by Jocelyn Mackenzie
String Quartet Arrangement and Beats: Sam McCormally
Vocals: Jocelyn Mackenzie
Additional Vocals: Syd Caldera, Jo Lampert, Barrie Lobo McLain, and C.K. Sanders
String Quartet:
Violin: Ludovica Burtone
Violin: Delaney Stockli
Viola: Jonathan Echevarria
Cello: Emily Hope Price
Strings Engineered by Adam Schatz at Chamber of Commerce Studio, BK
Vocals Engineered by Dan Brennan at Soundtrack New York, NYC
Mixed by Nadim Issa at Let 'Em In Music, LA
Mastered by Jett Galindo at The Bakery, LA
Righteous Babe Records, 2021

MUSIC VIDEO
Produced, Created, & Edited by Jocelyn Mackenzie
With contributions from over 70 people in quarantine

STARRING... IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Jocelyn Mackenzie - Brooklyn, NY
Solomon Barkat - Brooklyn, NY
Lauren Pollack - Garwood, NJ
James Kochalka - Burlington, VT
Mary "Aunt Bee” Johnson - Iowa City, IA
Daron Whitmore - Greensboro, NC
Mike Reilly - Westfield, NJ
Lily Madden - Portsmouth, NH
Ken Yapelli - Elmhurst, IL
A.p. Harbor - Morehead, KY
Dailyn Brown - San Diego, CA
Candradasa and Laura Horwood-Benton - Portsmouth, NH
Stephen Yaeger - Philadelphia, PA
Jonathan Echevarria - Houston, TX
Atoy Spates - Elgin, IN
Danielle Corsetto - Shepherdstown, WV
Guy Capecelatro iii - Kittery, ME
Hannah Casparian - Austin, TX
Leigh Poulos - Astoria, NY
Carissa Azar - Brooklyn, NY
Sam McCormally - Mount Rainer, MD
Rachel Lord - Mount Rainer, MD
Mona Lord-McCormally - Mount Rainer, MD
Samantha Issa - Los Angeles, CA
Franz Nicolay - Oakland, CA
Jeremy Lloyd-Styles - Brooklyn, NY
Emily Hope Price - New York, NY
Dolores Boruch - Toms River, NJ
Ed Boruch - Toms River, NJ
Lucy DeMuro - Weehawken, NJ
John DeMuro - Weehawken, NJ
Dale Mason - Los Angeles, CA
Noelle Viellette - Sandy Hook, CT
Gillian Applegate - Blooington, IN
Abby Rosenstein - Worcester, MA
Adam Rivera - Philadelphia, PA
C.K. Sanders - Saugerties, NY
Juliet Hinely - Ypsilanti, MI
Olivia Boruch - Verona, NJ
Neil Paradise - Worcester, MA
Marty Allen - Brooklyn, NY
Hans Agustave - Brooklyn, NY
Corvyn Appleby - Kent, OH
Harry Bolles - Brooklyn, NY
Vilray Bolles - Brooklyn, NY
Haley Kean - Newtown, CT
Charlotte Moroz - Salt Lake City, UT
Annemarie Arlington - Scotch Plains, NJ
Meridith Arlington and Arthur - Frenchtown, NJ
Barrie Lobo McLain, Quinn Franzen, and Justin Randall - Miami, FL
Cheryl Nunes - New Orleans, LA 
Jules O’Connell - Athens, GA
Marguerite Casparian - Austin, TX
Rachel Casparian - Brooklyn, NY
Chaele Davis - Brooklyn, NY
Miso B. Roth - Brooklyn, NY
Toby the Tortoise - Bloomfield, NJ
Phoebe Hunt - Portland, ME
Ludovica Burtone - Brooklyn, NY
Syd Caldera - Brooklyn, NY
Ariel Lauryn - Inwood, NY
Anthony Napoletano - Brooklyn, NY
Mike Nelson - Brooklyn, NY
Ellen Winter - Brooklyn, NY
Rebekah Schwartz - Bloomfield, NJ
Ellie Williams - Greenville, SC
Ethan Harper and Kat Spada - Los Angeles, CA
Jimmy Acevedo, Maria Schanz and Julie Hoover - College Park, MD and Odenton, MD
Spencer Lott - Cold Spring, NY
Kathryn Selman - Cold Spring, NY
Jocelyn Murphy - Toronto, ON, CA
Cassie Magzamen - Brooklyn, NY
Meghan Dalton and Jimmy Byess - Brooklyn, NY
Shanna Quackenbush - Garwood, NJ
Kate Boisvert - Manchester, NH
Peter Boisvert - Manchester, NH
Sophia Boisvert - Manchester, NH
Violet Boisvert - Manchester, NH
Danielle Arroyo - Portland, ME
Ashley Tata - Chatham, NY

LYRICS

Listen up!
The whole world's in the flux of a fever
Sent to search and destroy by the aether —
Everyone's either breaking up or breaking down.

Who'd have known
We would both end up smolderingly lonely?
Now I've only one thought when you phone me —
Will you heal me from bottom up or top down?

Cause you make it better (better, better, better, better!)
Than it was.

Simmer down!
No one said a thing about forever,
But I need you right now more than ever.
Praise and thanks to the space-time continuum that it's always now.

Cause you make it better (better, better, better, better!)
Than it was.

We have all lost at battle before,
And we can't stand to lose anymore,
But if we don't let go and get vulnerable
Then fear will have won the whole war -
That's no victory that I can afford.

You and I
Have been mutual blessings for ages.
On what staff, with which notes, on what page is
The melody to our song gonna get written down?

Anyhow,
We will come out the other side smiling,
And I'm grateful you're here and you're trying.
Oh, let's go for it, bottom's up and top down.

Cause you make it better (better, better, better, better)
You make it better and better and better...