So, All Time Low dropped some new music videos recently and boy of boy do I have some feelings.

Their new album Last Young Renegade is coming out in June on Fueled By Ramen (the label of Panic! and TØP, so hopefully they get some mainstream airplay); and they’ve already dropped two singles – “Dirty Laundry” (which I used in last time’s music video comparison) and “Last Young Renegade,” the album’s title track. Both of these songs have videos.

And the videos are where it gets interesting.

“Dirty Laundry” came first and it is literally my aesthetic right now.

The video starts with a title card of sorts:

If you look closely, it says “Vol. 1” in the little rose picture. Compare that with the “Vol. 2” in the “Last Young Renegade” Video:

So, these two videos at least are connected. This is further supported by Alex getting into his car at the end of “Dirty Laundry” and being in his car at the beginning of “Last Young Renegade.”

Both also end with “A Young Renegades Production”

 

 

 

Now that we’ve established that the videos are linked, it’s time to get into the fun part . . . symbolism (yes, groan because the curtains are just blue, goddammit!)

Like their previous album Future Hearts, Last Young Renegade also appears to have a symbol; which if you look at it, appears to be the same symbol upside down in a spade.

 

 

 

As shown, the symbol features prominetly in both videos, and even flashes on the TV at the end of “Last Young Renegade.” This in a way reminds one of the propoganda of the anti-music cult lead by Courtney Love (yes, that Courtney Love) in The Youngblood Chronicles.

The images on the title cards also appear on the jackets of the band members. The rose from “Dirty Laundry” is on Alex’s jacket and the skeleton hand thing from “Last Young Renegade” is on Jack’s. The design on Jack’s also includes the spade eye “logo.”

 

 

 

The rose is also featured elsewhere in the “Dirty Laundry” video; both in the window of the laundromat and on the wall opposite of the spade eye.  I’m not sure if there’s a real meaning to that, but it adds a bit of continuity and it’s aesthetically pleasing.

There also appears to be small hints towards the next video in each one. “Last Young Renegade” can be heard at the beginning of the “Dirty Laundry” video, and Alex’s ringtone might be a hint to the sound of the next song, which will likely be “Nice2KnoU,” based on this accentuated sign.

So, in conclusion, All Time Low’s next album appears to be leaning towards at least a minor longform of videos with lots of mild symbolism that is perhaps setting up for something big in future videos (why else would there be a flickering image of the logo for nearly 10 seconds?).  Also, if there isn’t a full set of albums with an eye version of the suites of cards, I will be irked. I will also be irked if those jackets aren’t merch, because I already own a Fall Out Boy replica jacket, but that’s a winter jacket and I need to be able to show how hard core I am in all seasons.