HUNGER PREMIERE: watch the music video following six moments in six women’s lives
Releasing her self titled debut EP earlier this year, she spanned genres and mixed up her vast influences, resulting in a highly acclaimed first endeavour. The moniker of Thea Gustafsson, a 21-year-old from Örebro, Sweden, she decided she’d had enough of featuring on all-male producers works, and take her future into her own hands. “I always had this voice inside me—society’s voice—that was like ‘No, you can’t, ‘cos you’re a girl, that’s for the boys” she explains, “I was like, I can’t do this any more—having all these dudes mansplaining, sitting with their spread legs, I was just so frustrated. When you have a really clear vision yourself, it’s difficult to compromise.”.
Deciding she would celebrate the power of women through music, Becky and the Birds has created an 11-minute visual interpretation of her EP. Translating each train on the EP into a moving video, it follows six moments in six women’s lives: “through intimate portraits of love, melancholy and surreal hedonism, the video is a hugely perceptive study of emotion, character and relationships”. Watch the video below now and follow Becky and the Birds on Instagram here.