“I always joke that in the photos that are swirling around in the video, you can always find mine because they have a red background - my bedroom.”Ī fond memory, thanks to the band that always believed in futures. “I definitely do not get noticed or anything like that, of course, but as I’ve made friends in adulthood it’s come up and it seems like everyone knew that song,” she says. And Lanham has a wholly unique high school story to drop on people. Jimmy Eat World recently released Surviving, their 10th album and best in at least a decade. After all, what’s harder than figuring out what to do with yourself after high school?Ī prolific music video director at the time, Webb went on to helm major films like (500) Days of Summer and the Amazing Spider-Man series. Jimmy Eat World never actually appears in the Madison portion, but the city is where their lyrics about navigating difficult situations came to life. The final video features Lanham and her fellow Regents chatting, brooding and smashing appliances around Webb’s old stomping grounds. They came to my work at a local video store.”
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“They did a series of me waking up in the morning, at my house at 6 a.m. “I spent a long time with the camera crew,” she tells The Bozho. For Lanham, “Work” was an overwhelmingly positive experience, even if Webb and his crew had to drag her out of bed. She works as an optician, and that boyfriend is now her spouse. Then 18, Lanham told the State Journal that “it was a rush” to participate in the video and recalled going to her boyfriend’s parents’ home to watch “Work” play on MTV’s TRL. “They wanted to make a video about a typical high school and high school kids.”Īmong the students was Margot Lanham.
“The record label approached me,” Webb told the Wisconsin State Journal in 2005. He asked if he could feature members of her current class in the video. Webb had stayed in touch with his former theater teacher, Rebecca Jallings, returning on occasion to speak to her classes. It featured actual West students waxing poetic on their high school experience. In 2004, director and Madison native Marc Webb chose to shoot the “Work” video at West High School, his alma mater (class of ’92). While Futures featured hits like its title track and “ Pain,” some Madisonians may remember “Work” a bit more clearly. And though their popularity has waned slightly over the years, their influence has not.Ģ019 marks the 15th anniversary of Bleed American’s follow-up, Futures, an idealistic and at times bleak album that’s probably Jimmy Eat World’s most outwardly political work to date. Their platinum-selling 2001 album Bleed American - featuring instantly recognizable hit “ The Middle” - turned Jimmy Eat World into a household name.
Formed in 1993, the group exploded out of the western emo scene and into mainstream consciousness several years later. 6, is eternally youthful - and it’s not just because of ageless frontman Jim Adkins’ good looks.
The Arizona quartet, which will perform at The Sylvee on Nov. If ever tasked with listing the most enduring rock bands of my youth, I’d put Jimmy Eat World near the top.
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