Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The official music video for "The Natural World", the 2nd single from Jenny O.'s new album 'Spectra', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Stream/save/share/order here: mamabird.lnk.to/mb059

Filmed and edited by Sam Gezari.
Color by Zoe Lambert.
Special thanks to Schentell Nunn, Peter Barker, Jacqueline Suskin, Daniel Stessen, Bryn Carter, Folklife Farm.
Filmed in the coastal redwoods of Northern California on Yurok and Wiyot ancestral lands.

/// Credits:

Produced, Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Kevin Ratterman.
Written by Jenny O.

/// Players:

Jenny O. - Vocals, Bass, Synthesizer, Guitar, Piano, Sampling
Josh Adams - Drums

/// Lyrics:

Living soundly
I believe in love and curiosity
Living lively
I am fascinated with the natural world
Living soundly
I believe in love and curiosity
Living lively
I am fascinated with the natural world

I quit the tradition
It was an old superstition
And I made up a new one from experience
It's a practice of wonder
To keep the mind from going under
I’ve been granted permission
To be marvelous

Living soundly
I believe in love and curiosity
Living lively
I am fascinated with the natural world

Living soundly
Trying hard to give and to know my bounds
Living lively
I am activated in the natural world
Living soundly
Staying elemental in the body
Living lively
I'm infatuated with the natural world

So I quit the tradition
It was an old superstition
And I made up a new one from experience
It's a practice of wonder
To keep the mind from going under
I’ve been granted permission
To be marvelous

Yeah I quit the tradition
It was an old superstition
It was bordering on being perilous
It's a practice of wonder
To keep the mind from going under
I’ve been granted permission
To be marvelous

Living soundly
I believe in love and curiosity
Living lively
I am fascinated with the natural world
Living soundly
I believe in love and curiosity
Living lively
I am fascinated with the natural world