The music video for Obi Blanche’s single “kry4m3” has the quality of a cursed film or Uncanny Valley territory. In black and white we see a figure walking through a rather large diorama of a city in partial ruins, a giant strolling through the abandoned remnants of human civilization with figures set out taking a break from reconstructing a society. It’s an apt metaphor for a song about heartbreak and perhaps exploring ways to reconcile. We see teeth speaking the lyrics sung in both male and female vocals. A woman in a long black coat is scene walking among the same diorama and toward the last part of the song the two figures walk by each other seemingly unaware of the presence of each other, a model for the disconnect we hear in the song whose refrain is “I cry because I want you to feel better, I don’t cry for me.” The hovering tones, hazy drones and spare percussion create a truly otherworldly atmosphere like the action of this healing separately before the hint of coming back together in the end is possible. The aforementioned lyric is like a mantra and a reminder of a path to returning to a more normal frame of mind and hearing it from both voices is a subtle way of conveying the time for suffering in silence over some slight that isn’t a dealbreaker in the end has ended. The female figure who we see crying in earlier parts of the video is shown smiling and looking into the camera rather than looking forward to where she’s walking, an unmistakable symbol of how the mood has changed and the hypnotic tenor of the song fades out. Watch the video for “kry4m3,” made by Obi Blanche and Isotta Acquati with art direction from the latter, on YouTube and follow Obi Blanche at the links below.
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