Ben Official - Petty

Nigerian-born, Chicago-raised singer/songwriter Ben Official has returned with something new, something different, something... Petty.

Ben has been working diligently on a project that will be released later this year. He describes his sound as raw but truly from the soul. He’s presenting “Petty” as his first single. Ben says, “I was really in a confusing space when I recorded 'Petty.' It was inspired from a couple of friendships/relationships that didn’t end too well at the time. I couldn’t understand where things went wrong. The back and forth pettiness between us was really getting out of hand. There was so much built up emotions that ranged from anger to anxiety to depression to finally just being at peace with it all. I would think about it daily but eventually one day it clicked that I just needed to care less in order to move forward.”

In this video, Ben takes you on a journey of these different emotions. It opens with him sitting on the stairs, in a trance, at where we assume is his home. We do not know what it is, but he looks down at something in his hand and he walks to the bedroom and places it in the drawer. It then cuts to him completely losing it and thrashing the bedroom. He then goes back to the drawer and we eventually find that the item in his hand is a gun! The love interest finally comes home to find that her living room was flipped upside down. Scared but cautious, she finds him on the stairs with the gun pointed at himself! What is he planning to do?! You have to watch until the end for the incredible, heart-wrenching plot twist!

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