Getting High

Being at an Alison Wonderland show when you’re already high does something to you. Her beats are relentless, the synths pull you somewhere darker, and everyone around you has basically shut off their brain—just there for the feeling, everything else irrelevant.

She came out with a new one called High featuring Trippie Redd. The video isn’t trying to be anything—not trying to be cinema, not trying to be art, honestly incoherent if you’re halfway through the comedown—but it gets the job done. Alison and Trippie want to get high. They want you there with them. That’s the complete message and it works because it’s exactly that simple.

Sometimes a song doesn’t need depth. No story, no meaning beyond what’s already sitting right there on the surface. You just want some people, wine, pizza, and something good playing while you exist together for a while.

That’s what this is for. When you’re in that moment—sitting around with people you actually like, nothing to prove, nothing to do—that’s where High belongs.