Southern Storms

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"Southern Storms" is the second music video to be released from Siren and Sir and is one of the songs that can be heard on the "1" album. It was released on YouTube on April 5, 2020 in 1080p and made private on August 8, 2020. It is five minutes and two seconds long, and was released 106 days (3 months and 2 weeks) after "California Rocket Fuel".
(Trigger Warning: [All taking place after the 2:30 timestamp] Irresponsible marijuana use and alcohol abuse, alcoholism, suggestive content, psychiatric wards, hospitalization, spousal abuse, abuse of a pregnant woman, child abuse while intoxicated, onscreen (non graphic) molestation of a child, onscreen suicide attempt)
== Events ==
The video opens on an establishing shot of Oakdale Wells High School. The lighting is dark and it's raining. The camera zooms in slowly, as lightning begins to strike. Eventually, a tree is hit, and it lights on fire.
Cut to inside of the school, Sir (and other students such as Ponytail and Brunette) are running through the hallways, clearly panicked. As Sir is running, he runs past Incidental 1 and Amber, who look at him with amused expressions, and then Chad, Victor, and Mr. Tim. Mr. Tim is smiling until he notices Sir run past him, while Chad and Victor's heads follow in Sir's direction. The three of them all look at him strangely when he passes, until Victor makes a comment at Sir, to which Mr. Tim begins to laugh at, while Chad shakes his head, a wide grin on his face.
Cut to the outside of the school again, Sir is running through the rain. His foot lands in a puddle as he races through, and he passes by the tree that had been struck by lightning, which is now up in flames.
Cut to a busy street in Oakdale Wells, the storm rages on as people run and struggle with umbrellas. Two cars collide as Sir is pedaling through the road, but he doesn't stop.
Cut to an establishing shot of Sir's house, lightning continues to strike as Sir pedals forward down his street. The camera zooms in on his house. Cut to the outside of the front of Sir's house, Sir races inside, not even bothering to stand the bike up or lock it. Inside the house, Kristen is seated on the living room couch in front of the television with a worried expression. As Sir comes in the door, the wind blows the curtains and her hair. Kristen speaks to Sir as he struggles to close the door, after panting for breath. She smiles at Sir, who then looks at her, then the television.
It's a news broadcast from a station called CSB on a show called CSB: This Morning, with an rodent anchorman who strongly resembles Anderson Cooper. As the anchorman speaks, the headline under him reads: SHOWER TIME: TORNADO SPOTTED AS HEAVY RAIN FALLS IN OAKDALE. TAKE SHELTER. The headline below that advertises an up and coming interview with an adult film actress on a show called 50 Minutes. "Adult Film Actress Details Alleged Affair & Threats on 50 Minutes."
Cut to Kristen looking away from Sir and frowning at the television, shaking her head in despair. There's a cut back to the news station, and then another cut back to Sir's unfortunate face. Cutting back to the television again, there is now a graph titled, "Tornado Report" on the screen showing three tornado graphics on the lower east coast of the United States. The eastern half of the United States is also painted with yellow, orange, and red, presumably to indicate hot spots for projected rainfall.
Kristen and Sir look at each other, clearly worried. Kristen points over Sir's head, instructing him to do something. Sir follows her instructions, running deeper into the house. 
Cut to Sir in his bedroom, he is seated at his desk, typing on his laptop. The camera zooms out to show Kristen standing there with her hands on her hips, looking at Sir. He turns to her, (presumably only noticing her due to perhaps some sound she made) screaming in fright. Kristen points at Sir's open window, where the storm is still raging on, and lightning continues to strike. Outside of Sir's window, a large, swirling tornado can be seen. Sir's eyes widen in fright, as he turns to look out his window as well. Kristen says something, continuing to point.
The winds of the tornado can be seen causing the power poles to sway back and forth, and the trees shake. Cut back to the inside of Sir's bedroom, Kristen and Sir are holding each other, as the rain pelts them. The door is moving back and forth due to the force of the wind, and Sir's paintings have come off of the walls, moving around in the room. One of the paintings is noticeably different. Whereas before the painting holding the knife that was behind their back was clean, this knife is now bloody, and painted onto a simple green gradient background. The camera pans up to show that there is now a hole in the roof of Sir's bedroom, where his paintings are taken out of.
Cut to the kitchen, the pots, pans, and Daniel are being moved around as well. Daniel is smiling and clearly enjoying himself. Cut to the living room where the same is happening to the furniture in there. Cut back to Sir's room, he is sucked out through the hole in his roof. Cut to the outside, Sir sees Cora in the air with him as he's up there, and she sees him. Cut to Sir then falling to the ground.
When Sir reaches the ground, landing hard in the street. He is noticeably younger, and wearing a different outfit. This outfit is a yellow t-shirt with blue pants, a recolor of the pair he wears in the present. Sir looks up, and looks over to the right with a worried expression. The camera pans over to show the front of Sir's house. Cut to Sir opening the door of his house, panting as though he's out of breath. The camera then zooms out to show the rest of the living room, where Matt and Kristen are seated on the couch, and Daniel is on the floor with some blocks in front of him. Daniel is wearing a t-shirt that says "sex immediately" and without his signature red cap. His hair appears to be slicked back. They're all in front of the television. Kristen's hand is on Matt's thigh while his legs are crossed, and Daniel chin is in his hand while he watches the television. 
When Matt and Kristen look over at Sir (who appears shocked), he points, presumably at them. Cut back to Kristen and Matt on the couch, they're both smiling at him. Kristen says something to him, and Matt says something as well after her. The both of them are noticeably different in appearance. Matt, aside from his clothing change, has a full curly beard. While Kristen is wearing a long sleeved blue shirt. Sir shakes his head in disbelief, and runs into the kitchen, and then his childhood bedroom. There's a panning shot of the inside of his bedroom that shows the edge of the bathroom, with the same paintings from before seen again on his wall. 
Sir comes back into the living room, going to stand in front of his parents. They notice him walking over, then make room between themselves for him on the couch, to which he takes the opportunity to sit down with them. Sir puts his hands on Matt and Kristen's thighs. 
Cut to the television, the same broadcast from before is being shown, before it is then replaced by large white text on an orange background that says: TORNADO WARNING! Then again by text that says: THREATH LEVEL: SEVERE. Sir points at the screen in fear, and Matt promptly stands up. Cut back to the family, they all look at the television, very worried. Matt then runs out of the living room, into the kitchen. As Matt opens the fridge, it is shown that it is filled on all shelves with cans of beer. His fingers wiggle as he prepares to take one. As he drinks the first, he then begins to smile as he downs one after the other. Then is holding a bong which has nothing in it. Matt smokes from it, exhaling, and his eyes immediately turn bloodshot.
Cut to the bathroom of the house, Daniel smiles mischievously to himself as he pulls out the plug from a sink filled with water. The faucet is shaped like a penis, similar to Kristen's dildo. When he does this, household items begin to be sucked into it, as well as Daniel, whose expression has changed to be one of fear. Matt is also sucked in, still holding his bong and can of beer. Kristen, Sir, and the paintings are also sucked down the drain. Cut to what appears to be the inside of a well-like structure with purple liquid like water at the bottom. The family falls in, one after the other. 
Cut to a close up of Sir's mouth, we see him yelling with his arms stretched up as the camera zooms out, the rest of the family also looking up and speaking through what appears to be a drain pipe. From out of the drain grate comes a strange ghostly essence, which forms Sir curled up in the fetal position with a pained expression. He is now dress in purely white clothes, likely intended to be patient scrubs.
Cut to a panning shot of a hallway of what appears to be a stereotypical version of a psychiatric ward, the camera slows and stops on Dr. Schwartz holding a clipboard in front of Matt and Kristen. Matt has a worried expression, and no longer has a beard, now being longer, with sideburns. He's wearing a long sleeve dress shirt and a red and pink striped tie. Kristen's hair is tied into a loose bun and is a reddish color. She's wearing a long sleeve orange jacket over a white shirt and a black skirt.
Cut back to Sir in his "room", he gets up off of the floor to sit on the mattress on the floor that serves as his bed. Sir looks out of the window to see his parents looking worried at Dr. Schwartz, who is just out of view. Cut to outside of the room, Dr. Schwartz hands off the clipboard to Sir's parents. The top paper attached to the clipboard has a title that says: Suicide Prevention Plan. Kristen takes the clipboard. Her and Matt look at it sadly, having a vision of the younger Sir from before on the floor with a belt tightened around his neck. Cut back to Matt and Kristen, who then have another vision, of a green coffin with a wreath made of leaves on it. There's a priest present with a book open. Matt and Kristen are dressed in funeral attire, and Kristen's nose is blue as she cries, while Matt looks at the coffin sadly. Cut back to Matt and Kristen, red lights start to flash, as an alarm presumably went off. They appear frightened.
Cut back to Sir in his room, he looks away from his parents to look up at the television in the ceiling corner of his room. The same news broadcast from before is playing again. Cut to outside on the streets of Oakdale, there is a tornado swirling, as cars race through the roads, and lightning flashes. Cut back to the ward, Matt, Kristen, and Sir are sucked into the air by the force of the tornado. Cut to outside, several buildings in Oakdale have been toppled by the tornado.
Cut to Sir's childhood room. There is a calendar on the wall that says 2007, and the bedroom is very different aesthetically from Sir's in the present. It has blue painted walls with an exposed section on both walls near the floor that shows the brick. Next to Sir's bed, which has a blue blanket over it, is a pile of clothes and toys blocks. The room has orange carpet, and an orange rug with red trim. As Sir falls gently onto his bed from above, a picture hangs itself on his wall, which is of a happy looking dinosaur. 
Sir gets up from his bed to go into the living room, where Matt has a glass of scotch in one hand and Kristen's wrist in the other. On the floor near Matt is a mostly full bottle of scotch and a bong. There is a television on the floor, a blue bean bag, and a strange triangular ornament. As Matt has Kristen's wrist in his hand, they struggle, and Kristen's expression implies that she is in pain. Matt then pushes her down by her chest, and she lands backwards on the bean bag. As Matt points and yells at her, with Kristen looking up at him sadly, Sir runs forward at his father, who bats him aside with a swing of the arm holding his glass of scotch. Sir is knocked into the wall, and looks up weakly as he then sinks further to the ground.
Cut to outside, the tornado is still going strong, having sucked up paper into itself. The power poles are swaying as lightning continues to strike. A piece of paper flies up to and attaches itself to the camera, showing a "southern storms" picture that is similar to the news broadcast graphic from earlier, and appears as though a child drew it, with skull and crossbones and stick figures adorning the piece. 
The paper flies away from the screen, which transitions to an even younger Sir, possibly only two or three years old. He appears to be in a preschool or kindergarten, and is sitting at a small table. A younger Pete stands above him with his hands on his hips, looking down at him with an evil smile. Cut to a closer shot of Sir's face from around Pete, he frowns, looking at Pete's groin. Cut to Pete's groin, he unbuttons his pants. Sir grimaces.
Cut to the Sir that wears a yellow shirt. Only his feet on a stool in front of his bedroom door can be seen initially as he knocks it out from underneath him. He begins to struggle and kicks as the belt around his neck chokes him. Cut back to preschool age Sir's feet kicking as his chair is tilted back. Cut to Kristen with a baby Sir swaddled in a white blanket in her arms. Cut back to Sir crying as he chokes on the belt wrapped around his neck. Cut to preschool Sir's legs kicking. Cut to Kristen smiling down at baby Sir, who she then leans down to kiss.
Cut back to Sir going limp against the belt. The belt then suddenly slips from the door, and Sir falls to the ground. He weakly opens his eyes, only to undo the belt from his neck. He then falls back down.
Cut to the end card, which shows "Southern Storms" being written. Then, "Siren & Sir".
== Captions ==
=== YouTube ===
Sir started sharing his daily life at Oakdale Wells High back in July. Over the months, the good, the bad, and everything else in between has led him to this moment. Is Sir hallucinating? Did he overdose? Is he in a coma? Look for the clues and follow Sir’s story now, social links below. Get the album and other merch on sirenandsir.com
[Links to the official website, Instagram, and Facebook.]
=== Instagram TV and Facebook ===
"Thank you for being there for me! I’m glad we’re still friends. You’ve given me the courage to post my story here."
== Trivia ==
# In the scene where Sir is running through the hallway, Amber is not animated with a tail. Her expression also suddenly shifts from a mischievous smile to an oddly regular smile.
# This is Chad's first appearance in a music video and outside of the official series.
# The company CSB is a parody of the real life television broadcasting company, CBS. The show CSB: This Morning is a parody of the CBS show, "CBS: This Morning". The show "50 Minutes" is a parody of the CBS show "60 Minutes".
# Threat is misspelled as Threath on the second news broadcast.
# The bong that Matt smokes from has literally nothing in it. This is most likely an animation error, but could also be interpreted as Sir not fully remembering these events.
# Modern day psychiatric wards do not resemble the one shown in the video.
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