Eterna’s video for “Trippin” begins as clips fade from two people walking around a parking lot in darkness to her silhouette visible against a red backdrop. Her rich voice creeps into the film and she is dancing under strobe lights in a black and white haze.
The synths rise and the strobe lights turn multicolor. The video a perfect recognition of the song’s disco undertones. Eterna lies still while hands hypnotically sway fog around her body, bathed in multicolor light.
The music video switches between stories. There is happiness and sadness. The feeling of loneliness is a room full of people. People dance around Eterna and she sits alone – a crown resting on her head. The video ends with people dancing and hanging out in a parking lot.
Eterna skates away as she sings the lyrics “I’m not sure what I’m running from cus this love is what I dreamed of, maybe I’m just scared of forgetting myself.”
The video ends with black and white strobe lights flashing over Eterna’s face. Someone in the distance watching her steadily, she says “I’m trippin over you”.
Estephanyart’s latest video for “MALA NIÑA” was released on August 26. The first frame of the video shows the artist’s name and song title on a cake. The camera pans out to Estephanyart swiping some of the icing with her finger and putting it in her mouth. The music comes in sounding like a twinkling lullaby. The next frame is Estephanyart with her hands over her head, the backdrop is of trees in a natural location. She sways around, eyes closed. Her voice smoothly becomes one with the visual landscape.
“El me dice que soy mala niña,” Estephanyart is sitting surrounded by girls around her holding pretty hand fans. The color effect of the video is faded and tinted slightly pink with a film grain. The clips switch faster and the music builds up. The girls have joined her against the dark night nature backdrop. She lights three joints, her pink fingernails matching her lipstick and makeup look. She dances in front of a multicolor wall as she sings softly “mami come on”.
The video arrives at the chorus where she and friends dance. Her eyes always focused on the camera, lighting every scene like electricity. She sings “me dice, mami come my way y modelame trajes de lingerie… deja la luz prendida, te quiero ver todita”. These Spanish lyrics translate to “he says mami come my way and model me lingerie…leave the light on I want to see all of you”. This song is a hit in itself. The video accentuates its energy, sending it higher than before.
Estephanyart and friends pose in front of the multicolor wall with Playboy magazines in hand and she sings “soy su modelo de Playboy, conejita, mala niña”. The hot pink color of the scene adding to Estephanyart’s elemental girl power. Estephanyart is undoubtedly on her way to stardom. She embodies the “femme fatale” as she steps between languages, ultimately creating a space for herself that she is already dominating.
Nascar Aloe’s video for Heaven PT. 2 was released on August 6th 2020 on the DEATHPROOF INC. channel. The video was directed by Myagi and Collin Casino, shot and edited by. Collin A. The video utilizes the metaphor of a television screen as a skeleton frame, the body: Nascar Aloe’s complicated sentiments about an afterlife, his trials with love, and his ultimate perception of self. The video’s colorplay and thematic arrangement elucidate Nascar Aloe’s revelations on “Heaven PT.2”.
The video begins with a blue screen that glitches, revealing a figure laying on a mattress next to a television. The TV is the only source of light in the room along with a thin rectangular light standing on the floor. The video zooms into the television screen utilizing its glitchy quality to glitch the viewer into other scenes. Someone writing in a journal. A figure in a blue, dark hallway. Next, a yellow like sunlight holds warm a blonde, shaggy haired girl, holding a joint carefully in her hand. The fire of the joint is seen against different backdrops, and Nascar Aloe’s voice comes creeping in through the dark “I don’t wanna go to Heaven anymore”. He sits up from his place on the mattress, quiet in the orange red room. The video is devoid of time. The flashes between Nascar on the bed and different perspectives of the room signify a loss of concentration, a loss of care.
Nascar Aloe sings “getting high until they find me on the floor, I felt your love and I can’t help but want some more,” as he molds his famous hair spikes onto his head, recorded on a camcorder by a girl who looks at him admiringly. A flashing light gives the effect of thunder, and it is used as a scene switches to Nascar Aloe lying in a dim blue hallway and he sings “I don’t want to go to Heaven anymore”. The image of fire reappears in the cigarette he holds, his eyes closed, scenes flashing between the room, the girl, the hallway, as if the memories are colliding and collapsing. “I wish I knew what you want me to say, a void in my chest cus im so far away, baby its torture im counting the days.”
Nascar Aloe sings, “ when i wept, it made me realize that i changed and I aint myself”, drums come over the previously solemn track and the clips switch faster, the television glitch shifting quickly. Nascar Aloe appears on the mattress, wavering around in anger. He appears in the frame of a window or door, caught in the rectangular shape, the video makes sense of him being trapped inside the television screen. He yells “NO MORE. I don’t want to go to Heaven anymore. They denied me and they’d probably close the door.” The video ends with a glitch effect and a blue screen. As if it were concluding perfectly the beginning to the video. Symbolizing the entrapment of the artist not only in a physical and motion space, but an internal one as well.
The music video for Nascar Aloe’s “Heaven PT.2” is in perfect harmony with the artist’s musical intention. A song Aloe called “ the end of my love life” on Soundcloud. The video is a long awaited visual imagining for a song adored by many since its release a year ago.
Ca$hrina’s new music video for “”iN MY heAD“ paints the feeling of a vivid nostalgia for times when things were so simple we thought they’d never change. For most who have been in some form of social distancing for months, the video is a collection of clips that pulls the viewer into a familiar teenage fever. It starts with a clip of her going down an elevator synchronizing with the gritty guitar melody that welcomes you into the song. Ca$hrina starts to sing “I’m always in myyy head, that’s just who I am” as she runs around the mall with her friends.
The clips switch from Ca$hrina dancing around to playing at an arcade to riding around the mall on a mechanical dog – all overcast in a blurry yellow hue. Ca$hrina mouths some of the songs’ lyrics occasionally such as “ why do you pretend that you want me to go when I know that you want me to stay”. Although the lyrics do not strategically match up with the video’s theme, the video feels perfect for its release. The familiar, home-made style in which it is filmed, combined with Ca$hrina’s carefree energy is reminiscent of one of those special, simple moments spent with friends.
The video screen gets juxtaposed with picture stills of her with friends. Scenes towards the end cut to her cutting her friend’s hair, dancing with a mannequin head sporting cat eye glasses, jumping on an empty bottle, and licking the inside of a Starbucks lid. And at the end, she’s dying her hair pink. Ca$hrina’s video for “iN MY heAD” is a soft ode to a carefree youth, which we yearn to see again soon.
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