pipilotti

pipilotti uses video and appropriated popular songs to enfranchise the music consumer. videos like "sexy sad i", "i'm not the girl who misses much" and "i'm a victim of this song" seem to treat the pop song as a readymade object and foreground the listener's consumption of that song. i can't understand exactly the choices that she makes. beyond this concept the videos' content seems to be intuitively generated. i say this because they appeal to me and they are humorous, but it's hard for me to say why exactly she has made the choices she has.

"sexy sad i", for example, is footage of a naked scraggly man flailing around in the woods. the camera is trained most often on his dick. he seems to be fighting the camera, kicking at it, swinging his arms at it defensively or maybe playfully. his face is never really visible. there is a humor here that derives from such crazy imagery juxtaposed with a beatles song, whose sound i've always thought to be sweet and naive. apparently the song itself is about the maharishi, the spiritual guru under whom celebrities such as the beatles and mia farrow practiced transcendental meditation. apparently john lennon wrote the song about his guru after the guru purportedly made sexual advances to mia farrow.

the naked body in "sexy sad i" is absurd, not beautiful, awkward. the video makes me think about mocking the preciousness of propriety and sexual morality.



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