Posted by Lucy Blue’s transcendent rise has been nothing short of breath-taking.
Recent single ‘See You Later’ signalled the arrival of a bold, uncompromising pop voice, with the Irish born talent seizing her aesthetic and surging into fresh arenas.
If anything, new single ‘Your Brother’s Friend’ will simply amplify this even further – it’s the sound of someone breaking free, letting go of their inhibitions and operating with resolute independence.
There’s a cinematic sweep to the songwriting, while the poised, hushed vocal is endlessly suggestive, carrying within it numerous narrative pathways.
The video picks up on this, allowing Lucy Blue’s widescreen impulses to come to the fore.
Airing on Clash, she says the initial idea “was to be inside this phone box using this never ending phone cord that stretches with me everywhere I go.”
Seizing on this, the finished result finds Lucy Blue in a wedding dress, with her silent disconnect evident in every single shot.
She says: “The song kinda has this desperation of trying to get through to someone, so the phone cord is kind of me stretching that communication as far as I can. It’s kind of like that feeling of needing that person to hear you, so you’ll go to any length or talk about anything just to keep them listening. But it’s whatever people interpret it as, I just wanted to make a video that feels like the song to me.”
“The wedding dress I just thought would look good in places like the underground. I love the idea of putting things in an environment it wouldn’t normally be seen. I always found that switch so cool.”
In part prompted by the work of director Kar-Wai Wong, the clip for ‘Your Brother’s Friend’ has some of his drifting beauty in its DNA.
Lucy finishes: “Making videos for me, I don’t like it to feel super staged most the time. With my favourite type of filmmakers like Harmony Korine, his movies feel like almost improvised, I love that.”
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