German Art Pop Act Bodi Bill Share Surreal New Music Video “Be Sure”
After returning from a seven year hiatus in 2019, German trio Bodi Bill released a handful of new singles. Shifting into more electronic soundscapes and more free-flowing song structure, their first single of 2021 “Be Sure” is a welcomed exploration into their new territory.
The band say: “‘Be Sure’ deals with relationships on the line. Take Elon Musk’s neura-link vision of the future, which evokes the questions if human interactions will be more a matter of calculation than feeling. How can we be sure about our relationships with you? It’s quite a dystopian perspective. The song went from being rather busy to rather spacey, we tried to minimise it to the elements that are absolutely necessary.”
Through low tones, swelling synthesizers, and droning folktronica vocals, the band create a dystopian and mysterious energy that follows the surreal and mind-bending storyline of the accompanying music video.
About the video, the group share: “The point of the video was the idea of uploading and downloading someones’s identity into the cloud. Some sort of eternal life. It opposes sleeve death to actual death. The antagonist is returning, and the showdown you see in the very beginning will probably happen over and over again. In an way, that the video is the start of a small series, several parts that refer to each other. It’s all about parallel worlds, what is real, what is simulation, what is reality, what is memory? We’ll face some fundamental changes within the next decades. And that’s as fascinating as it is frightening.”
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