Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Taylor Eigsti - "LOOK AROUND YOU" ft. Becca Stevens - Official Music Video
From the album 'Plot Armor' - Now Available Everywhere: orcd.co/plotarmor

"'Look Around You" tells the story of 4 mothers showing their young the importance of appreciating your environment. This piece was originally part of "Imagine Our Future", a mixed-multimedia commissioned song cycle premiered in 2022, where I took ideas from over 100 young students and wove them into a 9-piece set of music based on different themes gathered from those ideas. This song was the theme of "Environment," where a young girl, a rock, a fish, and a bird are all personified - this is about acknowledging all of the little things around us, and how they make us who we are." - Taylor Eigsti

Music and Lyrics by Taylor Eigsti

Taylor Eigsti - Piano
Becca Stevens - Lead Vocals
Gretchen Parlato - Vocals
Julian Lage - Guitar
Ben Wendel - Tenor Sax
Harish Raghavan - Acoustic Bass
Benjamin von Gutzeit - Viola
Rebecca Kleinmann - Flute

ANIMATION
Isabella "Isamorix" Moriconi (Creative Direction, Animation Direction, Mixed Media Essistance Editing)
Arthur Botafogo (1st Animator, Editing Assistance)
Iris Inoue (Production Animation Assistance)
Antonia "Toti" Quintiliano (Creative Direction, Mixed Media Direction, Animation Assistance)
Rodrigo "Digdin" DeFreitas (2nd Animator)

Produced by Taylor Eigsti and Josh Giunta
Recording Engineer: Josh Giunta
Additional Editing: Steven Sacco
Mixing: Josh Giunta
Mastering: Andrew Balogh
Recorded at GSI Studios (NYC) and EastWest Studios (LA)
Project Manager: Tondrae Kemp (World Swirl Productions)

LYRICS
A young girl looks up at her mother
'Look Around You' she said
A planet big enough to hold one another
Spins quietly as you rest your head

A young rock looks up at her mother
'Look Around You' she said
A thousand like-minded cooled bits of lava
Rest where their journey of fire has led

Believe in the little things around you
Endless possibilities surround you
Believe in it - just Look Around You
Believe in it - just Look Around You
Believe in it - just Look Around You
Believe in it - let me remind you

A young fish looks up at her mother
'Look Around You' she said
A coral reef is our castle undercover
Keeps us safe from the world overhead

A young bird looks up at her mother
'Look Around You' she said
A bright blue pond filled with life like no other
The water shines bright and the sky's painted red

Believe in the little things around you
Endless possibilities surround you
Believe in it - just Look Around You
Believe in it - just Look Around You
Believe in it - just Look Around You
Believe in it - let me remind you

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