Mobley Shares Powerful Video for 'Tell Me'; NYC Residency Continues Next Week

Austin-based singer/songwriter/producer Mobley is known for his boundary-pushing "post-genre pop" and is proud to present the powerful video for "Tell Me", which debuted at Billboard. "Tell Me" opens to blissful domesticity and evolves into a forceful social commentary on the normalization of racial profiling. The clip is Mobley's reaction to not only witnessing such events but also reacting to the idealized gentrification happening in his hometown of Austin (and all over the country).

The track is one of a series that Mobley's written which use the love song as a convention to explore his relationship with America, particularly as a black man. The refrain finds the speaker pleading with his lover to "tell me what you want me to be".

"It's a bitter plea when imagined on the lips of people abused by the authorities like Chris Lollie and Papa Diallo," says Mobley. "It's certainly one that's crossed my mind with increasing frustration as I've gotten older. Police brutality is, thankfully, a topic now being discussed more openly in this country, but, more often than not, it's a private citizen picking up a phone who precipitates these tragedies."

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