Jessie Murph’s Graphic “1965” Music Video Crossed A Line, & Fans Are Not Having It

Jessie Murph is no stranger to pushing buttons, but her latest music video for “1965” has people wondering if she’s taken it too far, or just totally missed the mark.

The Alabama-born singer first grabbed attention with her breakout track “Blue Strips,” and of course her “High Road” duet with Koe Wetzel, but this new release has fans scratching their heads, and honestly, kind of disturbed. The video starts off simple enough: retro filter, big hair, white dress, grainy camera footage. It feels campy, like a Pinterest wedding meets ’60s fever dream. Then it shifts. I’d embed it, but let’s just say it goes beyond your standard NSFW warning label.

We see Jessie dancing in front of her supposed husband and his family, looking calm, detached even. Then he walks off with another woman, and Jessie just sits there smoking a cigarette. No emotion. No reaction. Nothing.

But it’s the 1:30 mark where things go from strange to straight-up uncomfortable. Jessie stands there and watches as her husband cheats on her… right there, onscreen. It’s graphic, not in a TV-MA way necessarily, but enough to make most people stop the video and say, “What the hell am I watching?”

Comments under the video show how viewers really feel:

“I didn’t think this video could be that bad but y’all weren’t lying. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone put sumn like that in a video especially on YouTube.”

“I just know she thought this was gonna be revolutionary.”

And adding even more fuel to the fire, right before that scene, a little girl hands Jessie an iPad. Fans were not okay with that either:

“There was absolutely no reason for a child to be in the scene right before or even in this music video at all. Insane.”

There were A LOT of negative comments about that with many even threatening to report the video on YouTube.

Now, weird doesn’t always mean bad. Some artists lean into discomfort. But what made this video fall flat for so many is that it just didn’t make sense. There was no clear message or narrative, and honestly, if there was supposed to be a deeper meaning, it got lost somewhere between the rope scene at 2:00 and the half-hearted cheating subplot.

And then there’s the song itself. The production feels dated, and the lyrics? Rough.

“I might get a little slap slap
But you wouldn’t hit me on snapchat
Don’t f****** text me at 2am saying where you at at
Boy f*** you”

It’s being called out for normalizing domestic violence in a throwaway line and trying to pass it off as some kind of edgy Gen Z anthem. People aren’t just mad. It genuinely made a lot of listeners uncomfortable. Also, movies were definitely a thing before 1965, not even sure what that line means…

As backlash grew, Jessie responded, claiming the whole thing was satire:

@jessiemurphhh♬ 1965 – J E S S I E M U R P H

But the comments aren’t buying it:

“Why you lying.”

“It’s not, you’re just embarrassed now.”

If this was supposed to be satire, it missed the mark by a mile. And if it was supposed to be some kind of genius marketing stunt, there’s got to be a message, a boundary, or at the very least, some good music behind it. That’s nowhere to be found…

But one thing’s for sure: Jessie Murph has people talking. Whether it’s for the right reasons or not… that’s still up for debate.The post Jessie Murph’s Graphic “1965” Music Video Crossed A Line, & Fans Are Not Having It first appeared on Whiskey Riff.