Youth

Shawn Mendes and Khalid let some powerfully impressive Youth show the way forward in this epic music video co-written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas students Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg and starring an array of inspirational young people in the great melting pot of NYC.

The rule of Chekhov's Gun says if we see a gun in the first act, we better see it get used in the third. It doesn't typically apply to music videos, for lots of reasons, but most depressingly because so much imagery in our field is nothing more than simplistic posturing. Directing team BRTHR know better, and although we never see the gun go off or the knife go stab, it's very clear that they have an awful payoff planned for this twisted love story.