{"id":2520668,"date":"2026-07-28T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2520668"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:37:13","slug":"watch-deepstates-video-for-new-single-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watch-deepstates-video-for-new-single-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch deepState&#8217;s Video For New Single &#8216;Games&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Winner of 2023&#8217;s Te Tohu Kohinga Mariu (Favourite Album) SRN award and finalist for 2024&#8217;s Te Manu Taki T\u0101hiko o te Tau (Best Electronic Artist) T\u016b\u012b award, <strong>deepState<\/strong> aka producer \/ songwriter <strong>Jessica Morgan<\/strong> teams up with animation maestro <strong>Simon Ward<\/strong> (driving force behind P\u014dneke&#8217;s <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theimage04.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">theimage<\/a><\/em>) for her new single and video &#8216;<strong>Games<\/strong>&#8216;. Feeling aptly ambitious in scale and execution, the locked-in trancy club energy of &#8216;Games&#8217; is brought to visual life by Ward&#8217;s glowing, iPod ad-like figures in motion. Made with support from <strong>NZ On Air<\/strong> and out today via Sunreturn, hit play on &#8216;Games&#8217; and look forward to deepState&#8217;s imminent third album <em>Rain\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 dropping on September 11th&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>&#8220;I feel Games really encapsulates my love of house and electronic dance music. The song&#8217;s lyrics allude to the often repetitive nature of day to day life and the ways we seek out excitement or difference in on and offline social interactions. I wanted the Games to be uplifting, make you feel good and want to dance, aligning back to the original intent of house &amp; dance music.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For me, the song&#8217;s sound has a carefree feeling that juxtaposes the lyrics and I hope people can enjoy that aspect of it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was so excited to have Simon make this video as I have been a fan of his work for a long time, going back to my art school days so to say I was stoked would be an understatement! He brought the song to life with all the movement and colour, he\u2019s managed to manifest the song\u2019s intent visually in such a beautiful way.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"deepstate - Games\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d98QNmz8_1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0px; width: 100%; height: 373px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2528674927\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"&quot;https:\/\/deepstate-music.bandcamp.com\/album\/rain&quot;\">Rain by deepState<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>&#8216;Games&#8217; is out today on major streaming platforms via Sunreturn.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '341421363133505');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n     fbq('track', 'ViewContent');\n\t }, 3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.undertheradar.co.nz \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of 2023&#8217;s Te Tohu Kohinga Mariu (Favourite Album) SRN award and finalist for 2024&#8217;s Te Manu Taki T\u0101hiko o te Tau (Best Electronic Artist) T\u016b\u012b award, deepState aka producer \/ songwriter Jessica Morgan teams up with animation maestro Simon Ward (driving force behind P\u014dneke&#8217;s theimage) for her new single and video &#8216;Games&#8216;. 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