Hannah Georgas's 'Enemies' Music Video Makes Dog Racing Seem Fun and Uncruel

Here is Hannah Georgas's new video for “Enemies,” a song about “that guy” who always seems to get caught with a slime trail of dirty texts and IMs between him and some hussy. The song is great, a propulsive indie-pop earworm capped by Georgas's snaky vocals, but it’s the video, directed by John Patton Ford, that really got us excited.

A lone dog trainer, played by character actor John Ennis (whom you might recognize from Mr. Show or Zodiac), and his dog, played by a greyhound named Nimbus, spend their days alone in a one-story shithole and their nights on the track, begging to beat the odds and win across the board. Despite the abject cruelty of the dog-racing industry—where dogs are often overworked, fed 4-D food from dead or diseased animals, at risk for breaking their legs and necks running on tracks ridden with potholes, prone to massive coronaries from the stress of overexertion, forced to live in crates 22 hours a day, and, at the end of it all, unceremoniously killed when they’re too broken-down to run—the video really does capture a crumbling, melancholy vision of soon-to-be-dead American individualism! And no animal rights activists can take that away from us, dammit!

"Enemies" is the fourth video from Georgas's self-titled sophomore record, which was released a few years back through Beetle Bomb Music. You should buy it right here. Also, if you’re British, German, or Canadian, Georgas will be playing in your country this summer. Tour schedule is below.

May 8–10: The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, UK
May 12: Ger Berghain Kantine Panorama Bar, Berlin
May 15: Shackwell Arms, London
June 14: CBC Music Fest (with Spoon and Tegan and Sara), Vancouver