Gamers unite! For the longest time there was never really a catchy pop-punk anthem about playing video games with your best friends – until now, that is.
Understanding the importance of always having that solid secondary support in your virtual-gaming life, LA-based band Cold Weather Kids have created the nerd-tastic new single “You’re My Player 2.”
Written about their trusted go-tos when some games get a little too tough, as vocalist/bassist Ryan Scottie notes, “You’re My Player 2″ is a nod to pre-internet days when you had to hunker down with friends for hours to conquer certain levels.
“Growing up a 90’s kid, I was heavily influenced by cartoons and video games,” says Scottie. “My first artistic aspiration was to be a cartoonist, I spent most of my childhood drawing long before I discovered my love for playing musical instruments. Animating became a passion early in high school primarily starting by taking old 90’s era video game graphics and writing my own stories as to how I would animate them.”
“‘You’re My Player 2′ was an opportunity for me to take all of these passions and mold them into one project that was also completely doable from home,” Scottie added. “(Made during active stay-at-home orders) The video starts off by giving the viewer nostalgia for your classic side scroller games then evolves to include more modern trends seen in gaming today like online play and DLC content.”
The skilled songwriter went on to say, “Referencing the days where the internet was not readily available at your fingertips, these games were not simply solved by finding the answer from someone else online who’d already done it. Instead, we’d rely on that friend or older sibling who could beat the trouble spot for us.”
To check out the friendly new ode to video game teamwork, be sure to look below. Afterward, for more from Cold Weather Kids – like their recently released EP Quarentunes – head here.
