I have loved Alex G’s “Adam”—one of several bonus tracks on his 2012 album Trick—since I first first heard it. The song is a beautifu, sad, and creepy take on a bully’s obsession with his victim. It’s tragic when someone’s psyche is so tied up in knots that it compels them to torture the person they love, and my goal with the cover was to hone in on the sadness of that situation by reinterpreting the original track as a ballad, with a cello riff by Serafim Smigelskiy. This video takes one short sequence from a 1952 educational film called The Bully (in The Prelinger Archives collection) and then repeats it over and over as a sort of visual mantra, meant to evoke the obsessive nature of the abuser’s attachment to his victim. The track was from the 2022 EP Midterms.