“Star,” the newest single from S.C.A.B., captures the aching beauty of being caught in life’s endless loops — love, guilt, rebirth, and the inevitable return to the same mistakes. Set against the band’s signature mix of raw city grit and dreamlike introspection, the track feels both cinematic and confessional, as if it’s happening in real time and memory all at once. The accompanying video, directed by Sampson Dahl, turns this emotional spiral into a haunting visual parable. It follows frontman Sean Camargo and his friend through a tragic, surreal narrative — a friendship fractured by betrayal, death, and resurrection. What begins as a story of regret becomes a strange, poetic resurrection tale, where life and death exchange places and the cycle repeats itself. The imagery of the Frankenstein-like revival serves as a metaphor for how we revive our pain, reshaping it, reliving it, never truly escaping it.
Dahl’s vision frames the narrative as both personal and universal — a meditation on how love and loss blur until we can’t tell which side we’re standing on. “The inevitable cycle of love and loss finds us all,” Dahl says. “We play both the victim and the monster.” His reflection resonates deeply with the song’s core, where passion and destruction are intertwined. The idea that we can’t escape our own patterns — only change their color — feels like the emotional thesis of “Star.” It’s not a song about redemption as much as it is about recognition: seeing the loops for what they are and accepting that to feel deeply is to risk the spiral.
Sean Camargo’s lyrics dig into that paradox with striking vulnerability. When he sings, “They’re gonna make a big star out of me,” it’s both a cry and a confession — fame as self-delusion, rebirth as denial. His words blur the line between transcendence and tragedy, between wishing on a star and becoming one. “You never have to die,” he offers, “you can stay delusional with me.” It’s a line that aches with tenderness and futility, capturing the emotional space S.C.A.B. inhabits so powerfully: where nothing hurts and nothing gets better, but somehow, you keep feeling anyway.
“Star” feels like the heartbeat of Somebody In New York Loves You! — a song that embodies the band’s ability to turn pain into poetry, to make ruin sound radiant. It’s an anthem for the emotionally haunted, a reminder that even in the cycles we can’t break, there’s still color, there’s still beauty, and there’s still something — or someone — to love.
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