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Rating: Walter Stern (Gbr): Videoclip of "Teardrop", Massive Attack (Gbr) from "Mezzanine" (1998)
The line between sweetness and unease is always thin: what attracts us the most often coincides with what scares us the most. We are at the mercy of our emotions even before we are born, but perhaps even before that. In the mind of a god or several gods... or maybe simply the cosmic void: (ir)rationally more plausible.
Inside the warm maternal womb, we cannot even imagine what awaits us out there: how could we dream of something for which we don't yet have any image? How could we be scared of it? How could we be attracted to it?
We are here and we feed on small perceptions: messages that reach us among the sounds of maternal physiology, a perfect rhythmic heartbeat, and the more confused ones coming from the outside. These noises are our tranquility. This little space is our kingdom.
Millions of possible combinations have led to our creation, genetically older than our parents, in an evolutionary drive that we currently ignore but is within us.
The line between sweetness and unease is always thin: only by being born will the answers come, but perhaps we still have some time to feel like masters of our imagination.
The video was created by combining digital processing with the animation of a puppet made of plastic material: the movement of the fetus's lips was digitally reworked from that of singer Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins): here is the genesis of the idea.
Tracklist and Lyrics
05 Euro Zero Zero (04:23)
3D
Sitting in my day care
It was day-glo painted
You see me i'm a drinker
You see me now i'm sainted
Chased by the plaintive
Haunted by the medium
Too high to flow too bored to break the tedium
Glow from my tv set was blue like neon
Activate the remote i put the BBC on
I've seen this city, so on
I'm looking out for no-one
Pilot in my eye it gets blue like neon
It gets blue like neon
It gets blue like neon
Horace Andy
Can't see nothing wrong
Can't be nothing wrong
Inside of me
Daddy G
I walk in a bar, immediately sense danger
You look at me, girl, as if i was a
A total stranger
3D
Hysterical, ecstatical no matter, call me stags(?)
It's kind of hard to get a drink or
Just a girl to relax on
Phono, no go zone i go through
Aching aways just to relocate you
Kill us with your fist
So you mix it with me
I function better when i get approximately
High by my technical flyby
I function better with the sun in my eyes
I function better with the sun in my eyes
I function better with the sun in my eyes
Horace Andy
Can't see nothing wrong
Can't be nothing wrong
Inside of me
Daddy G
Take a second of me you beckon i'll be
And when you're sad i'll mourn
And when you're down i'm torn
Take a second of me
Said take a second of me
I stand firm for our soil
Lick a rock on foil
Reduce me, seduce me
Dress me up in stussy
Will you be my victim
Show me where to stick em
Take a second of me (a second to see)
3D
In my day-care
On my sofa
One spliff makes daddy go sleep
Makes daddy go sleep
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By The_dull_flame
You listen to it and become paranoid, that voice so sensual and childlike enters your ears and imprints on your mind, becoming so real it disturbs.
Not just trip hop, not music to suffer, but music that suffers and imbues a disturbing maternal aura while listening to it.
