Chloe Star’s “Wasted Youth” Video Rages and Heals the WiMN

“This song is about my experience going through that program, but it’s also a song that brings light to the fact that if I hadn’t been sent there, I wouldn’t be where I am now,” she says. “Without it, I wouldn’t be able to share my story and open the door for others to share their stories.”

The video, directed by Alicia Becker, is defined by brilliant juxtapositions.

After we see now-Chloe going to bed and suffering from a PTSD flashback, we’re dropped into a fantastic single-shot, unflinching depiction of Chloe being forced into a van to go to the program.

The absence of editing cuts as the orderlies force her down and she hollers and fights back, then as they carry her out the front door while her tearful mom begs her to “just go with them, Chloe!”,makes it tough to take in, in an incredibly effective way. By the time the track begins …