Kathy Zimmer’s song and music video “Extremist” is out on all streaming media including on
The digital link for “Extremist” streaming on platforms like Amazon, Apple, Spotify is https://bit.ly/3VBPCi3.
Bandcamp fans can listen and download
“Extremist” at kathyzimmer.bandcamp.com/track/extremist.
The song, which declares, "You make me happy AND depressed," is about the love and hate in relationships. "I was looking for a simple way to bring different visual extremes together in one video," says Kathy, "and we opted for the day-night quick edits that you see. Kind of a stark difference to go from bright daylight right into moonlight, and back again. It may even be a little disorienting, which is exactly right! The video was filmed on my rooftop on the lower east side of Manhattan."
The production was helmed by cinematographer Alex Levin, who has worked with major brands including Nike, Conde Nast, RedBull, NatGeo. He says, “I believe a good story deserves to be told no matter the scale.”Kai and Victoria Vallas-Cullen edited “Extremist.”
Kathy’s an indie-pop-singer-songwriter for fans of artists like Kacey Musgraves, Phoebe Bridgers, Weyes Blood, Maggie Rogers…. A resident of New York City, Kathy Zimmer is a native of rural Nebraska. Her original love of acoustic guitars and tight vocal harmonies was the product of being raised in a large musical family. In school, Zimmer studied classical music, her education culminating in a master's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.
Rock n’ Reel Magazine has declared Kathy as the “latter day Joan Baez.” The Roots Music Report proclaims, “At various turns enchanting, haunting and soothing—and at times a bit of all of these—Ms. Zimmer’s sophisticated song crafting never fails to charm.”
EXTREMIST
Everybody
needs a little balance
A kiss from heaven, kick from hell
A proper love and a shadowy dalliance
A swimming pool, and a deep dark well
All things in moderation
Sweet and sour, this and that
A little virtue, salacious temptation
A puffed-up ego and a trip and fall flat
But you make me happy and depressed
You are nothing in the middle
My own personal extremist
One moment, I’m on top of the world
Tightrope walking, I can see for miles and miles
Next minute, cut me down to size
A wrecking ball
You capsize me
Night is dark and day is light
Don’t know to expect love or a fight
I open up to snap back shut
I can’t figure out, what do you want?
C 2022/2023 by Kathy Zimmer, BMI, Zimmer, Katherine Louise, All Rights Reserved
*www.kathyzimmermusic.com* ~cosmopolitan folk in your ears~
