Alex Ebert Reinvents Groundbreaking Colbert Performance In New Video

When Golden Globe-winning indie music trailblazer Alex Ebert took the stage at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this year, he wanted to flip the script on what a “late night tv performance” could be. He delivered ten-fold with his performance of “Stronger”, that found him donning an oversized suit that turned him into a living green-screen allowing images of outer space, workout videos, and a bar color test screen to be displayed on him.

Inspired, he elevated the idea in a new video for a rereleased version of the song titled “Stronger (Future Suit Mix)”. Out today, the video follows the multihyphenate as he wears the green suit while rollerskating around an empty lot and parking garage. The video, with the feel-good whistling of the song and playful nature of the skating choreography, feels especially poignant and hopefully joyous during this current time of self-isolation.

“Stronger” is a cut off Alex’s recent solo album ‘I vs I’ which was covered by Rolling Stone, Billboard, Flaunt and KCRW, and continues his legacy as one of music’s most eclectic, indefinably prolific artists. Whether for founding much-beloved groups like Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Ima Robot, for his Golden Globe-winning original score for 2014’s “All Is Lost”, or for the series of thought-provoking, soul-stirring, and captivating short art films he’s created surrounding the tracks off ‘I vs I’, Alex has become a beacon of creativity within the indie world over the past two decades.

The visuals for ‘I vs I’ unfold like a diverse collection of artful short stories including the trippy biological footage of “Fluid”, the backseat free-love roadtrip found in “Automatic Youth”, the spiritual beachside community in “Hands Up”, and the first-person home-movie aesthetic of “Her Love”.

The current full collection of short films from ‘I vs I’ is available to view HERE, with more to be added in the near future.

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