Kelela - Washed Away (Official Music Video)
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2025
- Kelela - Washed Away (Official Video)
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Taken from the sophomore album ‘RAVEN’ out now via WARP.
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Director: Yasser Abubeker
Creative Direction: Kelela, Mischa Notcutt
DOP: Daisy Zhou
Drone Operator: Barney Clark
Production: YMI Studio
Editor: Amber Saunders @ Marsheen
Colour Grade: Megan Lee @ Electric Theatre Collective Makeup Advisor: Raisa Flowers
Styling Assistant: Cari Lima
Fixer/Local Production Coordinator: Mikael Tamerat Production Assistants: Agata Kassa, Jijo Kebede Health and Medical Care: Biniam Bahta (MD)
Logistics Coordinator: Mengistu Mesfin
Location Drivers: Amanuel Belay, Zerihun Fisseha, Aschalew Tsegaye, Aklilu Hailegabriel Drivers in Addis Ababa: Henock Teklu, Mikael Yimer
Special Consultant: Nora Juhar of Afar Bureau of Culture and Tourism
Chef: Brook Assefa
Camp Manager: Ayele Alemu
Special Thanks:
Ethiopia’s State Minister of Tourism Mrs. Selamawit Dawit, The Embassy of Ethiopia in London, The Afar Regional State Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Ato Habib Mohammed Yayo, Selahdin Habib Mohammed of the Afar Regional State Bureau of Public Service and Human Resources Development, The Communities of Dallol area, Host (Kelela’s Father) Mizanekristos Yohannes and Nigist Towers Hotel & Apartments for their wonderful hospitality and care.
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Extending the warmest thank you to everyone running up ‘Washed Away’ rn. Recorded this track in the midst of uncertainty and a lot of my first takes made it to the final. I really didn’t think I’d hit on anything that would resonate out the gate, but I can see now that it was my willingness to try that paved the way for self belief and renewal. Hope it makes you feel the same🫀
Thank you so much
Glad to be back here listening to your new music. Your voice is still clean as ever. Keep being great.
I told my nephew I've heard this vocal energy before from Inner City Life by Goldie. I just relistened to Goldie Sea of tears and have to say you tapped into a deeper vein of this energy. I'm sure you can go deeper if you're willing to lose yourself. I dare you.
I keep coming back to it, it's just so comforting and lovely. Thank you.
You are me 🌍We All must come together
OMG WHEN THE WORLD NEEDED HER THE MOST SHE CAME BACK!
Yessssssssss
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Record label dropped her, broke af, cat went missing , savings gone , ps5’s got stolen , bills were overdue ! She had one chance.
@@Thesurferfromthesouth and she made history
@@andrea9173 as she should 💅🏻 she’s serving us and there’s more to come.
SHE NEVER MADE A BAD SONG IN HER ENTIRE CAREER
EVERRRRR
Not one skip
The first verse in which language?
Issa fact 🤷🏽♀️
That’s on period!
Her symbolically removing her hair. Being cleansed by the earth in a pool shaped like the African continent. Going from constricted, tattered clothing to pristine, white and flowing clothes. She's entering into a transformative and new era. With a new sense of self, new art, and different direction. She's literally washed her old self away and been born anew.
Signed Sealed and Delivered. And you nailed it too
Perfectly said
PERIOD
so beautiful! Love what you put into words because that’s exactly what it looks like this represents! ❤
Wonderful analysis
Nah When she said "Sweboodeebahdoswehbadoodaaah" I FELT THAT
she was doing runs for like a minute and not one of us complained. the cinematography?! the voice? the beautiful head shape?! wow.
Beautiful head shape! Haha, so true. She's got a beautiful noggin ❤️😊
Only KELELA could do thisssssss!!!
Kelela needs to be given her flowers. What an underappreciated artist.
Wherever there is great music. I always fine you.
Honestly
You need to make a playlist on RUclips, cuz your ✨TASTE✨ >>>>>>>>>>>>
Frr I’ve been seeing ur comments for years
@@solargeknowles4354 literally
Imagine a place where there is no fear, no anxiety, no phobias, no anguish, no pain, no trauma, no shame, no euphoria, no anger, no melancholy, no regret, no worries, no rush, no limitations, no desires or frustrations.
A place where everything has been washed away and there is only the absolute state of contemplation of your own existence, with absolutely no needs, just freedom.
I find this place every time I listen to this song or watch this video, and it has been my cure, my refuge, since its release.
Thank you Kelela.
Wow, I feel what you're saying. That place actually exists, and we'll live there for eternity one day. God willing.
As a Kelela stan and a Geography nerd, this feels like a prayer answered. When Björk announced Fossora, I said “All we need is Kelela and 2022 will be complete”
and we're served
Great times we live in
Aw 🎉 congrats to we
Time sensuality for sure Björk 🙌🏽
iam here because i listen to bjork and this was suggested lol
This sounds like how that first sip of water after many hours without drinking on a hot summers day, feels like
THREEE AM SIP OF TAP WATER!
Yes very unique
What a great description
These visuals remind me of Erykah Badu’s ‘Didn’t Cha Know’. On a path of healing, an ascension.. it’s very moving. Can’t wait to hear more. Girl, we missed you so much!
Saaaaame here!!🎯💯💯💯💯🔥💚💚💚💚💚
That's exactly what I thought!!!! Incredibly moving. Almost tear inducing....
@@kida758 Oh I definitely cried 🥲 This music is a release.
Thought the same as well, amazing vid!
Also Björk's Jóga.
Holy shit is this real life???? Kelela knows we've been dry and scaly AF out here without her. The accuracy of this video!! I am *crying* My day...no, year...no, entire post-"panorama" existence is MADE. Thank GAWDESS aka Kelela herself. WE LOVE YOU!!! **proceeds to watch video on repeat all day**
YUP YESssssss Yuppppp omgggggggg lol
Omg chill 😂
dry and scaly AF, I- 💀⚰️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not dry and scaly 😂😂😂
I burst into tears when she removed her hair. Locs are so spiritual and letting them go signifies a part of yourself you’re letting go.
This has to be the most ethereal, gorgeous comebacks since Solonge's "Cranes In The Sky"!!! I'm here for this new era Kelela is serving us!!!! Can't wait to hear what's next!!!
They're really good friends actually too!
I feel the same. I can’t stop listening
'90s are back man!
She definitely giving Solange vibes
The next thing is the integral remodelation of the entire global socio-economic system, since people's minds are more prone to be open to new perspectives in the way things could possibly be
By 2050 we'll be experiencing the period of "The great transition", i believe.
Can't wait for it too! We should appreciate witnessing the poverty of real social activity while we can before the process of unification finally begins e.e'
Only kelela could come here and make a 3 minute interlude with more vocalizations than lyrics one of my favorite songs this year
*I'm obsessed with gliding synths/pads. Any song that has this sound is due to go platinum in my household* 🥺
I cannot get over how good it is.
@@ronnieleebriggs so sonically nice
Incredible.
Amen
1000%
THIS FEELS LIKE A DREAM, SHE'S BACK OMG
Crazy how the world gonna start healing after this!!!!!!
Right omg
We gon be healed bitches. New era 😂
She can reserve global warming I know it
@@krystingrant6292Heyyyyyyyy sis i was in the live stream!This was fiyyyyah!🔥🔥🔥🔥✨💫✨💫🔥Good to catch you here outside of the other platform's!💛
Or this is thw final kiss of death. In a beautiful way
i'm so happy to live in a world where Kelela exists
I love the comment section really, feels like surrounded by people who speaks my language.
this is the longest interlude, without being an interlude, without never ever someone mentioning that this is an interlude, but a total interlude mood, totally interlude vibes, an interlude without the length of an interlude, but the longest interlude ever existing, an ode to all the interludes, this is the epitome of interludeness, the condense power of an interlude, without being short, the strong melodic sense of an interlude, without being rhythmic, this is an absolute cheeky song wanting to be an interlude so bad, a force of a fucking momentum, an undisputed sonic language of an unforgotten interludium scored by kelela mizanekristos ... I love you
Ora.
Ur so real for this
U said what needed to be said and we love u for that
I never wanted to kiss someone so bad and eat their brains.
you said it !
This song hits me in such a deep rooted place. Everybody say “Thank you, Kelela”.
I would if I could speak.
Same.. it's the craziest feeling
THANK YOU GOD FOR THIS SEASON OF ABUNDANCE!
Some say that when you go under anesthesia, you experience a taste of the underworld ... A few days ago during surgery ... I had my air pods on playing this song on repeat, and I feel like the frequencies in this song brought me closer to god than I've ever been ... I cannot think of another way to describe it. This is a very healing song she has made ... and the shortness of it keeps me coming back. I will never forget that feeling of hearing this while being in and out of consciousness & traveling through different dimensions ... I felt this song on my soul. And I have been healing so well too ... I believe this song blessed my surgery. Thank you Kelela!
I couldn’t have agreed more, this song gives healing tones ❤
This is so deep, I feel exactly the same
🥹
I know this post is a year old, but I had a very similar experience a few weeks ago except I was high (lol). But it was an out of body experience and I literally felt my old self being washed away and being reborn in to a new version of myself. Being closer to God is what I felt too. Very hard to describe, but I completely understand where you are coming from!
Still not over this. Truly healing
So atmospheric and lush, I love the synths and her voice is just pure bliss
take me apart is truly a healing album… i’m excited to see what’s in store next
me feels it's more healing but in the vein of releasing. take me apart was very much (imo) a meditation on love and lust (for the self and some), understanding yourself and your boundaries in relationships, testing societal and self imposed limitations of what it means to feel good and be good in a relationship (with some and the self).
I partly feel like K2 is going to be in the vein of a lot of 2022 music- letting go, feeling free, releasing (washed away), but with that amazing kelela touch that always breaks our hearts and bops our heads.
Cut 4 Me still got me in a chokehold
Can't believe this is happening Kelela you are an icon and literally nothing has topped Take Me Apart since it dropped💜
This transcends gratitude
First verse in which language?
Not a single ep from any artist has topped TMA!!!
@@BeingNaruto I believe it is Amharic
💜💕💕
This music video is a classic and will age like fine wine
What happened to her dreads?
The video is a piece of art itself. Beautiful Ethiopian landscape
What happened to her dreads?
ISNT it great eh
One thing about her... she will never disappoint
Never
This is the year to elevate, evolve, and ascend and I KNOW Kelela's about to give us the perfect soundtrack to do so 🧘🏿♂️✨️✨️✨️
EXACTLY what I thought!!
@@taninigames7116 ✨️✨️✨️
what a perfection of a goddess
Literally !
🙌🏽⭐️💕✨
I’m legit emotional. I’ve been following Kelela since I was 14 during the 2012-2013 SoundCloud era, all the way up to this point. I am so proud of her and where she has taken her career. I knew as soon as I heard her mixtape and features that she was going to be a star. 🌟 I could say a lot more but let me stop here! ✨😭
Same here 😭. She is coming and we are here for it.
Same here!! Exact same age too and yes I'm so so happy for her and where her career has gone and is going
[[[[[[[[[[[[bruh i has a little tiny breakdown of sorts]]]]]]]]]]
yeeee^^* gang gang
I can relate, though I started my Kelela journey later, but after I did, I went back and tried to find every piece of music I could. Glad to have found her. She's a regular in my playlists now.
Reading that you were 14 in 2012 makes me feel so old, lmao
[Chorus]
Far away
Far away
Far away
Washed away
[Verse]
The mist, the light, the dust that settles the night
The hope, the longing, fade away, blurry-eyed
Riding out on metal rays
Moving on, a change of pace, and I'm
[Chorus]
Far away
Far away
Washed away
Away, way
I listen to this album every day. Every Day. I fall asleep to it. I wake up to it. I hear echoes of whatever's my favorite song of the hour and I start playing the album over and over. I'm obsessed.
No...but the way my spirit has been CLEANSED by her voice and these visuals. Immaculate soul! Thank you for blessing us. We really really needed this 🙌🏾
This was amazing. Those shots of her walking on the water are AMAZING omg
This song makes me float. It relaxes, comforts, uplifts.
i am reborn every time i hear this track. a slate neutralizer. a palate cleanser. we do not deserve you kelela !!!
Saw her last night in TOronto; it was just her on stage, no band no dj just lighting and her transcendent stage presence. And trust, THE MIC WAS TURNED ON 10/10👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I'm beyond happy that Kelela is back! Such a beautiful song and visual
The nerve of Kelela to come back and give us a cinematic experience!! How dare you! 😍🥰😍
I can’t believe we all lived to see some new Kelela 😭
🤠🖐📍
This is the most beautiful song I've heard in a while. I FELT IT.
This is so haunting yet ethereal and addictive to listen to. I honestly repeated this for the fourth or fifth time now.
I suggest Tweets song "Neva Gonna Break My Heart Again"...Man! if they collabed!!!!🥰
Kelela’s music is like… If you know you know, If you don’t you should!
Welcome back 🙏🏾
The queen of Far&B. Because this is R&B... But far into the future
If heaven had a voice this would be it. Definitely the refresh we ALL needed after yesterday. Thank you and welcome back!!
no like for real
She gives the best looks from her outfits to them eyes! and seriously controls that voice like she got it on a leash. She is so powerful on a lot of levels.
This
0:00 - 3:54
THE POWER THAT THAT HAS, THE INTELLIGENCE THAT THAT HAS, THE CLEARANCE THAT THAT HAS, THE ACCESS THAT THAT HAS, THE INFLUENCE THAT THAT HAS, THE PROFILE THAT THAT HAS
Kelela carried the visuals, the primar notes, the lightness, UGH something to be proud of
The song was beautiful and ethereal ✨️ Kelela looked amazing. Her voice was angelic and soulful as always. 🤎
Loved this girl since the moment she captivated me back in 2014, Cut 4 me was the soundtrack to my teenage years. I finally got to see her in 2018 at Roundhouse and was so blown away I cried! She’s Incomparable and iconic this new era is about to be legendary!
We’re about to eat so good because I know this album is going to be incredible. Kelela is so talented
Wait. She’s releasing an album?
@@WowwowLulu it hasn’t been announced officially but with the new era and an announcement from her saying more music is to come i’m sure we will get an album. ❤️
her team equally
Those jam city synths?!?!?!? She's amazing. Happy she's back we needed her.
OCA synths 😇
Super excited and I love that you showcase Ethiopia 🇪🇹 In this video. So proud of you.
Deep down I knew such a long hiatus was going to be worth it. This is the perfect reintroduction for a new era. 🖤
Absolute PERFECTION. Kelela... I've missed you so much. You're so ethereal, beautiful, and magical. This was such a frequency shift for me. I cried. I marveled at your beauty. The surroundings. EVERYTHING. This was nothing short of a cinematic and musical MASTER PIECE beautifully intertwined like the moon controlling the tides. I needed this. I'm so happy you're back.
This is so ethereal. And magical. Non stop been on repeat.
When she took off the leather dreads that’s exactly how I felt after clicking play on this video.
She back y'all, numerous times I shouted just from the SIGHT of her in this video! 😍
Kelela is pure art. thank you for bringing your gift to the world.
I‘m so blessed to be alive at the same time as Kelela
not this goddess being 39 years OLD and still making the most futuristic music we could ever hope for T_T
Fourth time returning to this in the past 4 hours
Same
It's so good
I just have it on repeat all evening
She came back when we needed her most
Yessssssssss
Probably the most visually stunning music video I’ve ever seen
This is like finding an oasis after missing her music for so long even though it's not been thaaat long. Amazing like always.
SHE'S BACKKKK last time I saw her it was live in Sydney for the Take Me Apart tour and that was pre-pandemic and it was with someone I loved very much.. and we are no longer together anymore.
Clean. Easy To Digest. Purifying. Simplistic.
Gratitude to you Kelela. Thank you for taking the time and space away to focus on you and whatever matters that are most important in your worldly/spiritual experience (life). Thank you for not feeling the pressure or need to cater to the industry, fans, or society when it comes to sharing intimate parts of yourself with the world. Thank you for choosing you, first. Born, again 🖤
Woke up to this crystalline voice, felt like a gallon of water was poured down my dry throat, the sand was washed away and I could go back to my original form: the little mermaid 🧜🏾♀️
This is a work of ART. The song, the lyrics, the soundscapes, and the visual video just WOW.
Her voice literally lifted me up. I felt something rise in me. I know that sounds dramatic af but it is what it is. Can't change that. I feel magical, loved and emotional from this. Wow. Just WOW!
What a Song!! and the Video OMG
Everything about this is gorgeous.
Masterpiece isn’t even the word for what I just saw/heard. Everything about this is so euphoric, you truly outdid your self with this one Queen Kelela. The world missed you terribly, thank you for gracing us with the soundtrack/visuals from the Heavens!!! Ethiopian goddess!! Please don’t leave us with just this, drop that album ASAP!
This song gives me the chills and feels with her fairy ethereal voice. It's like she is a goddess singing about her long-lost love who is far away and she misses him. Kelela if you are watching this.....please collab with Disclosure.... your voice and musicality are what Disclosure looks for...love from your Kenyan African sista. I look forward to your next song.
She’s back?!??! This feels like a dream.
What is washed away is a heart after spiritual intentions. Bad feelings and motives are washed away.
Her unmatched energy, haunting vocals, the visuals…
I was transfixed the entire time.
This feels like I just stepped out of the most rejuvenating fresh water spring, and I'm ready to fly to outer space.
I'm so happy to hear more music from you!
That perfectly sums it up. 👍
This look like she purchase a piece of land on mar , this is her first song video from Mars🥺 beautiful i can see future sister u are beautifully executed
fresh. clean. wholesome. happy. unbothered. healthy. IMMACULATE. this is everything
When we needed her most.. she SERVED
Kelala is a huge inspiration to me and I WILL produce a song for her one day.
me too
Kelela does no wrong! Can’t wait to play this on the 77inch with the surround speakers 🙌🏽
SHE RETURNED DURING VIRGO SEASON!!! 😭 thank you Kelela, we missed you dearly!
That's crazy that's it's already been a YEAR since this dropped omg. Can't wait for the Raven remix album💛
This song is so soothing…
Loving the Terra Nulius atmosphere, the somewhere in outerspace feel of it. And this shaved head serve?! Kelela, we’ve missed you!
Immediately liked at 0:01
This feels like heaven right now ! The visuals urgg 😍
The cinematography. It's beautiful.
Im keeping this forever in my music collection. It cleanses my soul and makes me feel pure unfiltered peace and love. 🤍
One of the most stunning and captivating pieces of audio I have ever heard. The emotions and bouts of bliss that that come from her vocals almost brings tears to my eyes. Wow
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Kelela is climbing back to the top from the lowest place on earth ! (I really need to visit Ethiopia !!!)
I swear to God it's been nothing but Aquaphoria, Cut 4 Me, And Her Other EP That's been getting me through.... And now she drops this after so long the chills I'm getting I literally screamed to the top of my lungs when I saw this.
FIVE FREAKING YEARS KELELA GODDAMN I MISSED YOU
i cant believe she disappeared on socials then put something out like this i cant i- all this art i cant handle