Timothy Everett’s March release “TRACK 4” is a smooth song with chilling visuals. With many of the shots set before a plain white background, with Everett himself donned in a white straitjacket and seated in the middle of a circle of candles, the music video is mind-bending. It’s full of visual effects like a spinning camera, strobe light flashes, superimposed images, and rapid montages. Everett gazes at the camera, head cocked, with a disturbing and almost unhinged look in his eyes as his arms remain strapped across his chest. However, the video toggles between this sterile background and a blue-lit scene of Everett with his arms free, swinging a sword morbidly back and forth. Throughout it all, his eye contact is near-constant. He wears light-colored contacts that will instantly unsettle you, prompting a reaction in the viewer that will demand your attention.

The visuals aren’t all that will draw you in, though. Throughout the song is an eerie and constant beat that effectively backgrounds the lyrics: “I’m just tryna find a way to end my pain.” The lyrics are fraught with suffering, and their second-person point of view demands accountability from the woman who has hurt him—a woman appears periodically in the video, donned in white and often seated back-to-back with Everett in the middle of the candlelit circle that evokes a cult ritual. One of the final scenes of the video shows a masked guard entering the room and restraining Everett in order to inject him with a needle, presumably a sedative. In this way, the video plays with the theme of insanity; in this case, Everett is driven to the brink by a lover. He regrets his encounters with her but can’t stop perseverating, through his words and motions alike, on all that went wrong. This music video, and Timothy Everett’s penetrating gaze, will make you think.

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