WIESINGER’s motto is Fun Music for Fun People. Despite being located in the rural county of Barrhead, WIESINGER is quickly carving a name for themselves as being one of the hardest working and catchiest up-and-coming pop rock acts in Western Canada. While only having begun releasing songs in early 2022, they have already performed alongside Tyler Shaw, The Royal Foundry, Martin Kerr, Jon Bryant and many more amazing acts.

The trio consist of husband and wife duo Justin (lead singer/bass/keys/songwriter/video guy) and Chelsey Wiesinger (drums/percussion/samples) with Daniel Bellerose on lead guitar. Numerous songs on their sophomore album, Stuck in Your Head, are based on experiences from Justin’s award winning memoir The Childlike Heist (2019). He dealt with mental health struggles for much of his young adult life and used a few songs from those seasons, as well as newly penned ones, to help share hope and his journey of recovery with listeners.

There’s freedom in laughing at yourself and choosing to get off the couch and live your life. The record’s lead single, “Sitcom,” tackles the realization that we are characters living our own story – we don’t have to be stuck living through a character on television. 

1. Tell us the story of this song, why did you choose to visualize this song specifically?

The story behind the song is how we wake up one day and realize we’ve spent most of our “free time” loved on the couch. We vicariously live our lives through this idealized fictional characters we identify with on television screens. We avoid living our own story cause there’s always risk and danger when we choose to step into the unknown. I want the listener to “get off the couch, don’t hold your breath” and be inspired to go live a life of meaning. For most of my young adult and adult live I’ve lived collectively physical copes of my favourite movies. I’ve only recently realized the consequences of the meaningful stories and moments I’ve missed out on that I can never get back.

2. What was the inspiration behind this video(visuals, storyline, etc.)?

This concept sort of came by a whimsical accident/surprise. My friend owns a thrift shop in the small town we live near to, and he was complaining how nobody buys VHS tapes – and he asked for my help. I died I could take them off his hands and try to sell some of them at a vintage retro market I was helping out on in town. Much to my dismay not many titles were sold so I was stuck with 300+ VHS tapes. I had the image of me lying in a sea of videos of tapes in the music video – so I taped my monopod to the highest level of my ladder – and the rest is history. Yes I shot and edited and directed the video all by myself.

3. What was the process of making this video?

Being I shot it myself with no camera guy I had to use fixed off shots on tripods etc and the vertical shot on my ladder. I shot in 4K and added digital pans/zooms/rotations to give it some movement. It’s hard to notice we didn’t have a team working on the video. I’m thrilled with how it turned out!