The Texas Theatre has screened countless films, but for Swiss-Ecuadorian guitarists Hermanos Gutiérrez’s new single with Fort Worth singer Leon Bridges, they turned the camera on the Oak Cliff landmark.
The duo dropped “Elegantly Wasted,” their first English-language song, and its music video on Thursday.
Bridges croons “Love has got me wasted / elegantly wasted” on the chorus. Undulating rhythms accompany the guitar work.
The video opens with brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez stepping out of a Buick Riviera and walking into the theater. A marquee sign displays the group’s name alongside Bridges’.
The Cowtown native then appears, clad in his typically dapper style — an all-white suit this time.
With its hazy lighting, the video takes on a dream sequence-like quality. At points, the three musicians perform seated on the theater’s stage while a large screen behind them plays clips of men riding horses — a possible nod to Bridges’ hometown, a city with strong Western roots.
Hermanos Gutiérrez performed with Bridges on the first leg of his North American “The Leon Tour” in 2024, which included a sold-out stop at Dickies Arena that November. Bridges had released his self-titled fourth album, Leon, in October.
Before a show in Nashville, Bridges heard “Elegantly Wasted,” which the brothers had been working on for months, according to a news release.
“He took a microphone, and he just started to sing a melody over it. It sounded like an angel,” Hermanos Gutiérrez said in a statement.
The instrumentalists called the song a “product of being on tour together.”
“Touring is fun, but sometimes it’s like you’re on a nonstop journey. You can feel that in the music and in the sound. There’s something really happy, but also a bit nostalgic.”
