Mit der neuen hymnischen Single „Heavy“ veröffentlicht die renommierte britische Indie-Rock-Band Black Honey am 7. November einen nächsten Vorboten, der sich hörbar von Grunge-Sound und Attitüde der 90er Jahre hat beeinflussen lassen.
In „Heavy“ beschäftigen sich Izzy Phillips & Co. mit der Thematik der tiefen Trauer nach dem Tod des Gründungsmitglieds ihres Fanclubs. Noch am selben Tag der Kenntnisnahme entstand der Song „Heavy„, in dem Izzy ihre reelle, persönliche Trauer lyrisch mit der traumatisch-mystischen Todesszene von Artax in Die unendliche Geschichte verbindet (“Serotonin let us down/Don’t wanna watch the white horse drown”).
Izzy Phillips: “We wrote this song the day I found out the founder of our fan club passed away from Covid-19. We were talking about the weight of grief and the way it holds you down, about the parallels between grief and depression. The weight of mental illness and how it brings you a deeper understanding grief. There’s always a glimmer of light though and I love how Heavy has that kind glitter darkness. It’s in my nature to become co-dependant and I think in this song I’m reaching for someone to help me climb back out. I talk a bit about the never-ending story as it was my first dialog with death and depression as a child. Watching Artax the horse getting swallowed by the nothing whilst Atreyu screamed helplessly from the edges of a swamp really spoke to me.”
„Heavy“ feierte seine Radiopremiere bei BBC Radio 1, bevor im Laufe der Veröffentlichungswoche das Musikvideo zur Single erscheint. Für die Regie und Hauptrolle wurde hierfür Dakota Schiffer von Drag Race UK engagiert: “For my directorial debut it was crucial to me that Heavy centred around the themes of trans femininity. A self-portrait of a struggling trans person whose exterior appears alluring and glamorous but is constructed out of a need for survival. That survival has led many trans people in history to endanger themselves in pursuit of euphoria. The showgirl aesthetic, the location, and the pastel colour pallet puts the creative firmly in a distinct era but everything is not as it appears. Writing the lipstick on the mirror as a reference to Butterfield 8, an infamously misogynistic movie starring Elizabeth Taylor, is the finale to a dreamscape of an evening in which the song narrates perfectly.”
Fotocredit: Laura Allard Fleischl
