The video treatment for Georg Óskar by Andy Heck Boyd serves the shuffling downtempo song well. Its washed out colors with all the warm colors seemingly keyed out or de-emphasized highlight the figure slumped on the ground seemingly helpless while lyrics about being a failure and how everyone knows it and life keeps delivering losses and how that can get one into a cycle of thinking one is a failure, “a big, big failure.” The video looks like some bleak footage of life in the 1970s like some Super 8 documentation of a life that has tedium of debased existence and melted expectations. Yet the processed bell tones carrying the melody and even the eccentric vocals suggest the quality of irony and sitting in the feelings of lingering defeat as a way of working through them without setting unrealistic expectations. Its a piece of music that provides an example of morose downtempo breakcore that is too energetic to get trapped in a down mood. Watch the video for “I’m a Failure” on YouTube and follow Norwegian composer Georg Óskar at the links below.
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