"I don't want to be human no more... if being human means working like a dog..."
When art and anxieties collide sometimes impactful things happen and when the art in question is divergent music it can easily seep right into one's psyche. Odd Beholder is the art pop project of Swiss singer-songwriter / musician Daniela Weinmann and her track "Accept Nature", from her sophomore full length "Sunny Bay", is that kind of art expressed sonically and visually via the Official Video as directed by Weinmann herself.
Sonically, "Accept Nature" has a wonderful sway running gracefully on what feels like a machine beat and light and heavy synths but what I like the most is Weinmann's vocal and lyrical aesthetic. She expounds on the song and video:
The song «Accept Nature» tells the story of an insomniac that watches funny animal videos on her phone at night. She’s chronically stressed out because she feels that she has to compete with machines at work - so she wishes she would either become a machine, too, or survive like an animal in the wild, where her instincts / feelings would be an advantage instead of a disadvantage.
In the video, the protagonist has transformed the trauma of her chronic stress into a cathartic object love. She falls for her exercise machine. To live her relationship or her kink she has to break into a gym at night.
Ironically, the wish to fit in into a merciless competitive work environment ultimately makes her drop out of the mainstream (sexuality). She explores a passion more interesting than productivity and conformity - and this exciting exploration helps her deal with the anxiousness she feels every night. I mean if you can't sleep anyway - you might aswell break into a gym and seduce an exercise machine, right?
One night, she is discovered by a cleaner. This woman observes her quietly and doesn’t interfere for quite a while. Like the dancer, the cleaner breaks a few rules: She brings her dog to work and she spends the night in the gym, prying on the intimate moment between the woman and the exercise machine.
When she finally decides to step forward by switching on the light, she doesn’t call her out. Instead, she signals that she would like to join in.
I interpret this as a second step in the personal development of the two women: After turning to dogs and machines in search of love, comfort and warmth, they finally see each other. They finally discover solidarity and get curios about each other. Happy end: The stressed and singled out employee finds an unexpected ally after she dares to live out her wildest and weirdest feelings.
The song «Accept Nature» tells the story of an insomniac that watches funny animal videos on her phone at night. She’s chronically stressed out because she feels that she has to compete with machines at work - so she wishes she would either become a machine, too, or survive like an animal in the wild, where her instincts / feelings would be an advantage instead of a disadvantage.
In the video, the protagonist has transformed the trauma of her chronic stress into a cathartic object love. She falls for her exercise machine. To live her relationship or her kink she has to break into a gym at night.
Ironically, the wish to fit in into a merciless competitive work environment ultimately makes her drop out of the mainstream (sexuality). She explores a passion more interesting than productivity and conformity - and this exciting exploration helps her deal with the anxiousness she feels every night. I mean if you can't sleep anyway - you might aswell break into a gym and seduce an exercise machine, right?
One night, she is discovered by a cleaner. This woman observes her quietly and doesn’t interfere for quite a while. Like the dancer, the cleaner breaks a few rules: She brings her dog to work and she spends the night in the gym, prying on the intimate moment between the woman and the exercise machine.
When she finally decides to step forward by switching on the light, she doesn’t call her out. Instead, she signals that she would like to join in.
I interpret this as a second step in the personal development of the two women: After turning to dogs and machines in search of love, comfort and warmth, they finally see each other. They finally discover solidarity and get curios about each other. Happy end: The stressed and singled out employee finds an unexpected ally after she dares to live out her wildest and weirdest feelings.
This is when you might be saying to yourself "what the fuck?" I said the same thing but, then, I absolutely love songs, art with 'what the fuck' moments.
Odd Beholder's sophomore album "Sunny Bay" will be released on Sept. 10th, 2021.
Odd Beholder's sophomore album "Sunny Bay" will be released on Sept. 10th, 2021.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Odd Beholder, the electronica / art pop project of the Swiss musician Daniela Weinmann, releases "Disaster Movies“ on April 9th, 2021. It's the first single from the sophomore full-length album "Sunny Bay"!
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Odd Beholder, the electronica / art pop project of the Swiss musician Daniela Weinmann, releases "Disaster Movies“ on April 9th, 2021. It's the first single from the sophomore full-length album "Sunny Bay"!
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