Click to watch Shy Child's wonderful new video, "Dark Destiny"
I have been listening to this song on repeat. I mean, the whole album ("Liquid Love") is excellent but this song just gets me! The video too... The song is all about celebrities and how they can tumble right off the pedestal we put them on. I mean, obviously that's what you get from the video too... I just love the concept behind the song/video is so poignant. All the celebrity mug shots juxtaposed to footage of their glory days... I grew up with the Celebrity Princesses like Lindsay and Britney, and it really just kills me to see how far they've fallen. They were the poster girls of our generation and now... well, I really hope their fate isn't indicative of ours. (Not that Britney's been arrested or featured in the video but she has certainly had a rough go of it in the last 5 or 6 years.)
The video just makes me feel so... glamourously hopeless... looking at all those hopelessly glamourous people. Just the right amount of weltschmerz (which is the perfect word for it all-- don't you just love that? finding the exactly perfect descriptor?)
weltschmerz: noun: 1. mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
2: a mood of sentimental sadness
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