#hostagevideo

[dogkisser]

I get such a kick out of Bubby - this is a horrible picture - it’s like a hostage video that someone sent to me & they are threatening to kill Bubby unless I do something - Bubby looks so miserable- but can a dog be truly miserable when they are doing criss cross applesauce? That is the question I ask - I don’t think it’s possible - I’d like to propose that Bubbys not unhappy - it’s just that I have not found the sweet spot of how to find the spots where he wants to be scratched matched to his need to tell the world how unfairly life has treated him #bubbythebichon #sunday #crisscrossapplesauce #silly #hostagevideo #cute #rescuedog #dogkisserinternationalheadquarters (at Dogkisser International Headquarters) https://www.instagram.com/p/CboSR-DtwSH/?utm_medium=tumblr

[eilish]

hostage out now on apple music http://apple.co/HostageVideo

this video is about loving someone so much that it hurts. that it becomes overwhelming and unhealthy. most people have experienced one side of that or the other... or maybe both. there seems to be a beauty to it, but ultimately it is dangerous and not the kind of love that can or should be sustained.

thank u stromae, luc, henry, peacock, devyck, and apple music for helping me make this.

[nosyculture-blog]

Billie Eilish takes us hostage on a beautiful video

On Wednesday night, the 16 year old American singer Billie Eilish released the music video for her song Hostage off her Don’t smile at me mixtape; which she had been teasing for the past few weeks on her Instagram. The Apple music exclusive video (or at least as of now) was directed by no other than the brilliant Stromae (who Billie says she is a fan of), and his brother Luc Junior Tam. The video which was choreographed in Philadelphia and then shot in Toronto, stars Devyck Bull as her lover and is set in a white room where changes of lighting seem to mimic the ups and down of their relationship. The video opens up with Eilish sitting at the top of a white staircase, while staring at her partner who is lying on the floor of the room he seems to be trapped in.

Billie herself says the video describes “the feeling of trying to be so close to someone that you can end up suffocating them and destroying the very thing that you wanted so much”. The couple indeed swings between tender moments of hugging and ear biting, and rougher ones where they push each other away. The choreography truly emphasizes the duality of a relationship where Eilish is so in love and afraid to lose her partner, she has no other choice than to turn him into her prisoner.

As the song progresses he starts to get caught in her ties and therefore, starts to be more and more repulsed by her behaviour. His pain is translated visually by the white walls which start to come alive to imprison him and kick him several times, while Eilish stands there unbothered. Finally he ends up completely tied and stuck in the room of her own creation and the video ends on a shot of the young singer, sitting at the top of the same stairs than at the beginning, looking completely broken while staring at her prisoner.

The project succeeds perfectly at telling a haunting tale of loss and struggle while in no way sugarcoating the difficulties of heartbreak, but on the contrary highlighting how toxic one can be when faced with overwhelming love. Eilish herself describes the relationship as “unhealthy”. One might be fooled by the pretty aesthetic of the video and choreography, and by the tender moments, but she reminds people “there seems to be a beauty to it(the relatonship), but ultimately it is dangerous and not the kind of love that can or should be sustained.”

The power of the video obviously lies in its absolute authenticity but also in its universality as Eilish herself says “Most people have experienced one side of that or the other... or maybe both.” In less than 4 minutes, the viewer can’t help but feel fascinated but also terrified by a heartbreaking tale supported by a slow guitar led song, that gives the word haunting a whole other dimension.

The video which Eilish describes as “her favorite project so far” is a beautiful and gloomy testimony of imprisoning the ones you love in order not to lose them; and proves how even at a young age, Eilish is a real experienced being whose vision truly manages to shine through everything she creates.

- 13/07/18