Video premiere: Louise Goffin's "Everybody But You"
For her latest album, Louise Goffin tapped the likes of Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp to provide backing vocals and handclaps on the track "Watching the Sky Turn Blue."
Being around loads of talent, though, is nothing new for Goffin. The 54-year-old singer-multi-intrumentalist practically has music in her blood: Her parents are Carole King and the late songwriter Gerry Goffin. So, it's no surprise that she got started in music early. At the age of 14, Goffin lent vocals to King's song "Nightingale" and released her solo debut album just a few years later.
Now Goffin's out with her sixth studio album, "Songs From the Mine." The set, released in July, was recorded in December 2013 and early January in Los Angeles and Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Goffin didn't just sing vocals on the album, she also produced it and played piano, B-3 and ukulele.
One of the album's tracks "Everybody But You" is a special one for Goffin.
"The lyric to the song is a reminder that in spite of the blindness we tend to have to our own goodness and gifts, and even in spite of negative messages we internalize that can take over the way we see ourselves, that each one of us is divine and unique, even though we can't see it in ourselves," Goffin told CBS News. "The song is written from the point of view of a friend reminding someone that everyone can see how much more this person is than is seen by the person themselves. In a world of bullying, sometimes the harshest bully is the one that lives in our head. This friend sings to the real person beneath the negative beliefs they carry, reminding them that someday soon, they won't be crying and they'll see it too."
Goffin recently put together a treatment for the song's music video, noting that the concept "came from playing with images that were universal, with no face attached, as a metaphor for running...either away from something...or to somewhere. The lanterns set off are a metaphor of letting each light rise up, to be shared as a greater collective light we all can be part of."
We're premiering the "Everybody But You" video today exclusively at CBSNews.com.
Watch it below:
