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Two Feet Releases Dark, Stirring Music Video for "You?"
If you haven't listened to Two Feet yet, you're missing out.
10.17.2019
Next time you need a soundtrack for strutting down the street, pretending you're in a dramatic movie about your own life, look no further than the music of Two Feet.
The genre-bending rising star first made waves with his hit single "Go F*ck Yourself," which became an immediate hit on SoundCloud, with more than 250 million streams to date. Since then, he's gained a significant following and performed all over the world. Today, he releases a stirring new music video for his song "You?"
"I came up with the idea for this music video after watching a French horror/thriller film called 'climax.' I loved the dance scene in the beginning of the movie," Two Feet (real name Bill Dess) says of the video. "My music has taken off in the dance community and I wanted to embrace that. Johannes (the director) and I recruited the incredible Dani Vitale (choreographer) and her team to help us bring this vision to life."
In the video, the artist's trademark warbling guitar rises slowly as obscured dancers surround Two Feet. Soon, he steps into the center and continues to perform as the reverb on his velvet voice builds. Upon release of the track, he stated, "I wanted to combine elements of my sound with some heavier elements of punk/grunge. While writing 'You?' I focused on how it would work as part of my live show and am mad happy with how it turned out."
Two Feet - You? www.youtube.com
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On This Day: Shakira Liberated Everyone's “She Wolf”
"I was in the studio in a bad mood that day, then I got inspired and went to a corner and I wrote the lyrics and the melody in 10 minutes. The image of the she wolf just came to my head, and when I least expected it I was howling and panting," Shakira said.
07.10.2020
By Fabio Alexx
11 years ago, on July 10th, 2009, Colombian singer Shakira released the first single off her third studio album.
"She Wolf" is a synth-pop banger built on a B minor progression. It was, in many ways, an insane song, born out of the singer's own frustration and ennui.
"I was in the studio in a bad mood that day, then I got inspired and went to a corner and I wrote the lyrics and the melody in 10 minutes. The image of the she wolf just came to my head, and when I least expected it I was howling and panting," Shakira said.
Though the music was composed by John Hill and Sam Endicott, lead singer of post-punk band The Bravery, the lyrics were all Shakira's own. "[Shakira] contacted him (Hill), asking if he had any stuff," said Endicott. "We never had her in mind. We just made the thing independently of her, and then she liked it a lot, and she sang over it. She used some of the melodies we put in there and then wrote these crazy lyrics about being a werewolf. And that's how it happened."
Shakira - She Wolf www.youtube.com
<p><em>It </em>could mean a lot of things. "She Wolf" is deeply campy and a bit weird. It features, among other strange lines, the lyric, "I'm starting to feel just a little abused, like a coffee machine in an office."</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>Its accompanying music video added another, fiercer dimension to the song. Featuring iconic images of Shakira dancing in a nude bodysuit in gold cages and various locations, it's actually a glorious protest and a celebration of Shakira's internal wild sexuality, completely on her terms.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
<img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzQ0ODcwNS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNjY1NzExNH0.mNZFXf4auVzoxi8TILV26idVgkkbuD4OQ5DvN0azdog/img.jpg?width=980" id="65914" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="58f318c66e52d02a98e1a7e256b60b71" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Shakira">
<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Shakira </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit..."><a href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nVnp-B4EynQ/maxresdefault.jpg" target="_blank">YouTube</a></small></p><p>But the song also touches on a deeper archetype: the inner wolf, an archetypal symbol of the internal "wild woman," the ancient, liberated and divine feminine source that appears over and over again in folklore across the world.<br></p><p><strong>With "She Wolf," Shakira asked her listeners to embrace their desire to be free from a boring male partner—but she also asked listeners to embrace their animal sexualities and desires. </strong>Even deeper than that, she asked listeners to tap into their deeper wild she-wolf.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>The book <em>Women Who Run With the Wolves </em>by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/901977.Clarissa_Pinkola_Est_s" target="_blank">Clarissa Pinkola Estes</a> explores the wild woman/wolf archetype beautifully, threading myth with modern anxieties, advising women to tap deeper into their true longings and spirits. </p><p>"The old one, the One Who Knows, is within us. She thrives in the deepest soul-psyche of women, the ancient and vital wild Self," Estes writes. "Her home is that place in time where the spirit of women and the spirit of wolf meet- the place where the mind and instincts mingle, where a woman's deep life funds her mundane life. It is the point where the I and the Thou kiss, the place where, in all spirit, women run with the wolves."</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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<img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzQ0ODY5NS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0ODI0NzM2NH0.2uPF1Y2XGHLzVNLLO0T5pAMIwj95BGQC1oQ6FvDJpqk/img.jpg?width=980" id="d7b11" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4e8d53ee70128dd8dea77b2c9dbcbcc0" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image">
<small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit..."><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jaSsORXP_E4/VvKp4i6vUlI/AAAAAAAAXyE/QIAc6SIZC5Q0x_8vlkyAKQ-0eCGTlnm8g/s1600/women%2Bwho%2Brun%2Bwith%2Bthe%2Bwolves.jpg" target="_blank">Frommoontomoon.blogspot.com</a></small></p><p>The Spanish-language version of Shakira's "She Wolf" is called "Loba"—a term that is also the title of a book of poetry by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/diane-di-prima" target="_blank">Diane DiPrima</a>, a Beat poet who dedicated herself to reintegrating the wild into the feminine.<br></p><p>Sometimes viewed as the female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's <em>Howl, </em>like Shakira's "She Wolf," DiPrima's poetry is about the reclamation of internal wildness. It "explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance," its liner notes read. <strong>Loba, DiPrima writes, is "the wolf / is taboo, w/ the bear / the birch, the owl because / because it forces / to see / bring the eye / to a focus of the semi- / or in- / visible."</strong></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
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<img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzQ0ODY5OS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYwNjM2NTM4MX0.4aUfq-Hz6wfGgrjNvzKsI9M1CpFw8iZTuwS8Y8K6MnY/img.jpg?width=980" id="150f9" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2af82ce1d397d2f6334de25a1e8f5382" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" alt="Diane DiPrima">
<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Loba</small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit..."><a href="https://pictures.abebooks.com/BOOJUM/22732782806_2.jpg" target="_blank">Abebooks</a></small></p><p>So Shakira's "She Wolf" entered into a tradition of female liberation in an era before #MeToo and modern intersectional feminism took flight. When Shakira sings, "There's a she wolf in the closet," she may have been talking about the ancient wolf archetype, or she may have been talking about internalized queerness or another deep secret held below the threshold of conventionality.<br></p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - undersecond12 - under_second_paragraph --></p><h2></h2><p>Either way, on this day 11 years ago, Shakira called a whole generation of wild women out of the closet, and we have no choice but to stan.</p>
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