HUNGER PREMIERE: watch the music video following six moments in six women’s lives

Becky and the Birds is the name you need to remember, and with a name like that you really should be able to.

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.

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Kitty Robson