For those that might remember the Swedish rapper Yung Lean from the early 2010s when he kind of helped create emo rap with his weird songs and videos, he apparently is still pretty relevant overseas at least. His voice is probably annoying to most people but this video with a French artsy type music project called Gener8ion is pretty impressive.
The song itself is pretty decent but the music video with the prologue altogether is an experience. The choreography is beyond impressive and the whole message of the video, to me seems to be a tribute to young masculinity and how the demonization of it in general in todays society has smothered out a lot of it, the good with the bad. Can't remember the last time a new music video or movie put out by the main stream has had any real positive takes masculinity and how it shows up in young men. Not that everything they do in the video is "positive" but, as a whole, it's a positive trait that shows up in men, that is needed in society still.
My interpretation of it is that it is kind of a Fight Club inspired look to a decade down the road at an all boys school in the UK, where instead of it being a hyper capitalist, materialist society has driven men into being worker bees and killing off their masculinity, it is the society itself and the education system which has snuffed out all "toxic masculinity" and all it takes is one rebel, even with all his flaws, to help ignite it back into a group of young men.
The song itself is pretty decent but the music video with the prologue altogether is an experience. The choreography is beyond impressive and the whole message of the video, to me seems to be a tribute to young masculinity and how the demonization of it in general in todays society has smothered out a lot of it, the good with the bad. Can't remember the last time a new music video or movie put out by the main stream has had any real positive takes masculinity and how it shows up in young men. Not that everything they do in the video is "positive" but, as a whole, it's a positive trait that shows up in men, that is needed in society still.
My interpretation of it is that it is kind of a Fight Club inspired look to a decade down the road at an all boys school in the UK, where instead of it being a hyper capitalist, materialist society has driven men into being worker bees and killing off their masculinity, it is the society itself and the education system which has snuffed out all "toxic masculinity" and all it takes is one rebel, even with all his flaws, to help ignite it back into a group of young men.
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