Lorde’s ‘Yellow Flicker Beat’ Was Inspired By This Surreal YouTube Video
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While most of us spend our time on the Internet looking at cats yelling “nononono” and taking quizzes to determine which eating utensil speaks to our souls, Lorde is watching totally bizarre interviews with iconic movie stars. Or, at least one totally bizarre interview — a conversation between Mae West and Dick Cavett that served as the inspiration for her video, “Yellow Flicker Beat.”
“It’s this really surreal interview where [Cavett] basically walks across this airport airplane hangar and then Mae West is reclining in his chair in this creepy little interview setup,” director Emily Kai Bock told MTV News.
Lorde was taken, Bock said, with the way the West video featured tiny worlds inside massive spaces, and wanted to replicate that idea in “Yellow Flicker Beat.” To do that, Bock created dark worlds lit by singular light sources — a neon sign, a chandelier, a confessional — worlds that bleed into each other as the video progresses in such a way that the viewer isn’t sure if we’re inside, outside or in a purely fabricated reality.
So do you guys think they'll combine the sales/streams of YFB and Flicker? I mean. it's somewhat like a remix of the original, but it's titled differently
Yellow Flicker Beat #7 New Zealand (Because we deserve it be bolded )
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#15 Brazil
#15 Hungary
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#26 Russia
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#30 Germany
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#60 Belgium
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#63 El Salvador #69 United States
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#89 Turkey
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#154 Namibia
#161 India
#170 Saudi Arabia
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#182 Fiji
#185 Romania
#197 Chile
#198 Portugal
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