Watch Angel Olsen’s binary-smashing new video for ‘Big Time’
nme.comAngel Olsen has shared a new video for the title track of her upcoming album ‘Big Time’ – check it out below.‘Big Time’, which follows 2020’s ‘Whole New Mess’ and the previous year’s ‘All Mirrors’, is set for release on June 3 via Jagjaguwar.
It was announced last month with first single ‘All The Good Ones’.Like ‘All The Good Ones’, the ‘Big Time’ video was directed by Kimberly Stuckwisch, who said in a statement: “‘For ‘Big Time’, we set out to celebrate how humans identify and to subvert the old-fashioned gender binary and societal/internalised gender roles of the past through choreography, colour, and wardrobe.
To exist outside strict definitions is powerful and often not given a place in cinema.“This was our chance to hold a positive reflection in the space and to shout to the world that you are more than who you are told to be. ‘Big Time’ is what happens when we do not express our true identity but find freedom when we step out of the shadows into our most authentic selves.
In the first rotation, the lighting is drab, the clothes are monochromatic, the dance is monotonous… gender-conforming roles present.“However, with each rotation, something magical happens, both our cast and Angel begin to come alive, to feel free.
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