“Wishing Well” is one of the emotional songs from Juice WRLD’s No. 1 debuting, posthumous album «Legends Never Die.» The 21-year-old creative from London who directed and animated the song’s music video explains its key moments.
“Wishing Well” is one of the emotional songs from Juice WRLD’s No. 1 debuting, posthumous album Legends Never Die. The song—which details struggling with mental health and addiction—has an animated music video packed with visuals, like huge ants and nebulas.
Juice WRLD’s former managers recruited Jide Carolan, a 21-year-old creative from London, to direct and animate the video. Carolan said he has been a fan of Juice for years, but he never got the chance to meet the legend before he passed away.
“It’s a weird, kind of awkward situation to be in control and direct something for somebody that’s no longer there that you never knew,” Carolan said. “When I got the track, I literally just replayed it about 2,000 billion times, just picturing what I wanted.”
His animation was guided by the words of every line, he said.
Drugs are mentioned throughout “Wishing Well,” but Carolan felt drugs were a sensitive topic, especially since he didn’t know Juice personally. Instead, Carolan found other ways to portray lines talking about drugs by using emojis and painting a “story about him battling himself or not knowing how to feel, which is what he says in the song.”
The mix of literal representations of lyrics and quirky twists make for an interesting and emotional video. Here are backgrounds behind some big scenes and details.
The first shot includes a nebula that circles around to Juice’s signature “999” written in stardust. Carolan recruited the help of German visual effects artist Jann F.
