U.S. Girls - Woman's Work

A religion of beauty and it won't lead to bliss.

Album: Half Free (5th album)
Genre: Art Pop, Hauntology, Hypangogia
Album Release: September 25th 2015
Single Release: June 30th 2015 (lead single)
Length: 7:13
Producer: Onakabazien
Vocalist: Meghan Remy
Label: 4AD Records

Music Video [short version]


Live on CBC in 2013


Official Audio [full version]

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Spotify: Over 400 thousand
YouTube Music: Over 200 thousand

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• In the video for 'Women's Work', a frightened woman awakens from a dream. The video presents a reality, a present, which at the end is reframed as a figment of the past that haunts women till this day, while still representing a potentially nightmarish future.
  
  The video alternates between close-up images of a crotch, showing woman as an object of sexual desire, the ladder in her tights, showing the flawed feminine, and a religious icon which, in juxtaposition, reveal the higher ideals of woman as mother. It also includes extreme close-ups of various womens faces: young, middle-aged, and old, depicting the entire journey of life.


• 'Woman's Work' is about the pressure on women to be beautiful, which is to fight an impossible fight, because beauty inevitably fades. Society puts pressure on women to look good but no amount of face-crap, make-up, spa days or exercise can reverse the ageing process. "There's no reversal, you can't stop ageing, it's always on the way".
  
  

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