WATCH: Katelyn Tarver Releases Music Video For “Year From Now”
WATCH: Katelyn Tarver Releases Music Video For “Year From Now”
An All-Too-Relatable Track on the Healing Power of Time
Words By: Jordyn Kieft
Picked from her recently released album Subject to Change, indie pop artist Katelyn Tarver just released the all-too-relatable music video for the hit track “Year From Now,” a folk-infused track on the healing power of time. The song — featured in Toyota & SiriusXM’s “Home For The Holidays” campaign — is the perfect follow-up to previews singles “Hurt Like That,” “Nicer,” “All Our Friends Are Splitting Up,” and “Shit Happens.” With lyrics that capture a bracing specificity that strikes every raw nerve, she documents a turbulent period in her recent past, shedding light on all the grief, confusion, and a lost sense of self. Infinitely brightened by her radiant voice, the result is the musical equivalent of a brutally honest conversation with a close friend – one that leaves you undeniably rattled but with a renewed clarity and deeper understanding of your own chaotic heart.
The music video for “Year From Now” by Katelyn Tarver begins with the title of the song on the screen, Tarver in the background in a robe watering in her plants outside her home. The simple guitar strumming begins the constant beat of the track. The scene switches to Tarver laying face down on a couch before switching again to Tarver sitting at the table, a happy birthday headband on and a cake in front of her. She begins “I can’t wait for a year from now/Maybe by then I won’t drive by your house.” As she sings about her hopes a year from now she is shown at the table eating the cake and on the couch, now looking at the camera. As the song transitions into the chorus, Tarver sings “All there’s left for me to do is wait, just wait/’Cause I lose a little more of you each day.” The video depicts her in various scenarios – in the bath, under blankets, watering her flowers, by the poolside – where she is waiting. As the song continues, the video continues to switch between the various scenes we have seen so far, seamlessly transitioning as Tarver sings in each of them. We can find ourselves relating to Tarver more and more through her lyricism and the images. As the music comes to a close, Tarver leaves us with a hopeful message as she waters her plants outside: “I can’t wait for a year from now/When all the little things I learned to love, I’ll learn to live without.”
With her radiant voice and soul-baring songwriting, Katelyn Tarver delivers a finespun brand of indie-pop that’s both intensely vulnerable and powerfully cathartic. After getting her start performing in prestigious talent competitions as a child growing up in Glennville, Georgia, she moved to Los Angeles at age 19 to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. In 2014, she experienced a major breakthrough when “Crazy Stupid Love” shot to #1 on the UK Singles Chart. Tarver soon made her debut as an artist with the 2017 single “Weekend Millionaires,” a much-buzzed-about track that later appeared on her Tired Eyes EP. In 2018, Tarver released her second EP Kool Aid, before releasing her first full-length album, Subject to Change, in 2021. To celebrate the release of her new album, Tarver will be embarking on a run of headline shows from New York to Los Angeles before setting out on a larger with JOHNNYSWIM next year.
