Sound Up! Elina Filice Drops New Video

Canadian singer-songwriter Elina Filice is set to release a new music video for her most successful single yet, “Thinking of You.” Shot in Toronto, the music video features vibrant colors, quick cuts, and creative camera work by Toronto-based filmmaker Phil Kim. The song and accompanying music video depict a romantic relationship between Filice and co-star Ally Cantalini. 

The video follows Elina on an adventure from Kensington Market, to the Island Ferry, to Toronto Island, and then finally back home to the bedroom. She says, “The song discusses themes of movement, travel, and adventure, so I wanted to capture that by shooting different scenes across the city.”

She goes on to say, “The song is verbose, rambling, and nostalgic, with thoughts and memories swirling and haunting. I wanted to capture that with the scenes cutting forward and back in time. I want viewers to wonder if the scenes with Ally are happening in real-time or if they’re memories and flashbacks, and the journey is really happening alone.”

Elina says, “The video is pretty gay. It’s a little nerve-wracking to be this gay on camera, but … this is my life; this is my friends’ lives. Queer visibility is important, and as a creator, honest content like this is my way of fighting to normalize queerness and queer love. I think it’s important to recognize that feeling safe enough to be openly out, let alone shooting a music video like this, isn’t possible for a lot of queer people around the world.”

She goes on to say, “Queerness, especially between women, is usually blatantly over-sexualized, so I wanted the scenes between myself and Ally to be intimate and loving, and not at all sexual. There’s enough of that on the internet.”

“Thinking of You” has over 215k streams on Spotify, and has spent over twelve weeks on a Spotify Editorial Playlist  titled Butter. Check out the new video below.