The video for the Chopper single “Living for the Night” shows gritty scenes from the night time with vocalist/songwriter Jonatan K. Magnussen sitting in a bathtub commenting on the conflicted acceptance of youthful nihilism. All while his other self travels the city at night smoking a cigarette in the back of a car and getting to a nightclub bathed in lurid lights and the kind of hedonistic fun one supposedly found at the legendary Manchester club The Hacienda in its heyday. But the song with its mélange of Madchester sleaze and what might be described as psychedelic darkwave glam juxtaposes that mood with the hyper-reality of modern desperation and malaise at what seems like a hopeless situation in the world and embracing getting in some enjoyment rather than be drug under by a despair that serves no one but those that benefit from the twenty-first century’s dystopian slide. Chopper leans into a different kind of spirited resistance even as the song uses a decadent aesthetic to shake off the doldrums. Watch the video for “Living for the Night” on YouTube and follow Danish post-punk/glam/avant-pop artist Chopper at the links below.
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