Nicholas Krgovich shares “Bedlam”

Nicholas this week shared the third single and video in advance of his new album “This Spring” releasing next week. In his own words “I first heard Veda Hille’s song Bedlam in 2002. I would have been 19 or 20. I was a young person with “wild feelings” but I didn’t know what to do with them back then so I mostly did nothing. I was pretty guarded and unsure and intimidated by a lot of life at the time. I think that’s why this song always rattled me a bit - the whole lyrical refrain of “if you do nothing, it means nothing” felt like I was getting this sage advice plopped on my lap and I willfully ignored it, mainly out of fear. Veda’s basically saying “feelings are great but action plus feelings is better”. I have to agree, but everything in its own time I guess.It felt radical making this song kind of sweeping and romantic. Most of my crippling inaction back then was rooted in not taking a chance on love stuff. Now flash forward a million years later and I’m this old man crooning into a microphone that’s not plugged in, against a cityscape highly inspired by Melanie Griffith’s Staten Island Ferry rides in “Working Girl”. The melancholy and the longing is still there fr.om time to time but I’m no longer upside down. I just wanna sway and lip sync and listen to Joseph Shabason work the saxophone. Also, making this video, beautifully shot by Derek Janzen, gave me an excuse to wear this Savile Row tuxedo I found at a thrift store for 10 dollars. The pants are a little too billowy for my taste but I think the jacket fits great!”