New Vid!! Resident Evil!!!

[sisabet]

So, this is my last vid that premiered at VVC last weekend. This one was made for the Fuck You Challenge and as such, should probably speak for itself.


Get Low
Song by Lil John and the Eastside Boys

No, really. Fuck you.



I embedded this one at Vimeo due to content (nudity, language, sexual violence, but NO EYE PLUCKING. Which is kinda sad).

The password is: alice

If you have a vimeo account you can also download from there.



ETA: disregard the above.


Download Here


Mega-huge thanks to sockkpuppettfor keeping this secret tight and under wraps for months and months and months and helping me through my own post- Women's Work blockage by embracing the sheer visceral nature of this project. It was gleeful, y'all. Also, thanks to caphricacorn who cannot keep secrets* at all BUT DIDN'T BREATHE A WORD OF THIS all throughout Vividcon, even though it was killing her.

Finally, major kudos to absolutedestiny for watching an early draft and not only getting it, but embracing and encouraging. This vid is for you. I feel so UNDERSTOOD! You get me. Sniff.


*she really can't. One year for Christmas, she was so excited when she saw me that she blurted out "I got you a present! It's a surprise, but it smells nice and you can burn it!"



Okay, so I keep debating how much I am gonna say about this project. I mean - it is out there, and I am one of these people who don't really give two shits about authorial intent, you know? When I watch/read/consume something, what matters to me is what I get out of it. So, this vid exists and what matters now, is what you, the viewer, take away from it.

That being said - last year there was a lesbian desire reading of Women's Work that kinda made me go, "huh" and also "ooh, I'd like to have made/seen that vid" and years ago I was filled with a certain sadness when I read a rec on a TWOP board for "Closer" that said it wasn't a slash vid (really? I tried to be extra-special explicit there) -so sometimes I do feel all "WTF" about certain readings, but, for the most part, I enjoy it more than pie. It is a part of this entire wonderful process: sharing what you've made and seeing what people take away from it.

I do... I do want to say something about this song choice, give it a little bit of context: "Get Low" is a hugely popular song that is about five years old (I think?? It's been out for a long time). It still gets tremendous airplay and even years later, it is still a club favorite (for a while there, you could not GO ANYWHERE without hearing this song). Hell, Cappy says they played it at her prom.

I love it. I mean, I love it with reservations, but don't you know, I love almost everything with reservations (it is the only way for me to be this involved with pop-culture/media and still be sane). This is one great, amazing song with a killer hook. "To the windows, to the walls" has been co-opted as short-hand for rap/crunk for years now and with good reason. People all over the world now know what "skeet, skeet, skeet" means and thank you so much, Dave Chapelle.

It is also tremendously problematic. It is a seduction and also a seduction using intimidation ("you scared, you scared") which is even argued later in the song as part of the *attraction*. I'm not even gonna bother posting the lyrics, because I think they are pretty apparent in the song and also? I kind of butchered it in cutting it down from over five minutes. If you need the lyrics, they are very easily googled. If there is something in the song you still don't get, please ask if you think it will help your interpretation of the vid/song. I don't mind at all.

It's just... well, last year there was a lot of discussion post-VVC about Kanye West and potentially misogynistic lyrics and I just kind of boggled. I mean, seriously, Kanye is pretty much a dog about some things, but he is a gentlemanly sort of quaint compared to everything else (and I do NOT mean Progressive Hip Hop - I mean your everyday, basic, Popular Music. Except for Chris Brown. He is love. Unqualified love).

So, um. Enjoy.
 

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wow.