I don't remember where or how I stumbled across this video of Tiny Vipers (aka Jesy Fortino), but I definitely remember when. I remember it well, because I sat here at this computer at around three o'clock in the morning pushing play over and over and over again, dragging my boyfriend in here and making HIM listen, with headphones. "At least watch until she starts singing!" I said. And he did, because he's nice, and then he took the headphones off and handed them to me and said "yeah, she's talented." But he was unmoved, because he prefers French rap and Freezepop (not that there's anything wrong with that).
But unless your musical tastes are solely limited to French rap and Freezepop, I dare you to watch this and remain unmoved. I love the lonesome, haunted quality of it, the way the camera watches her while she ignores it and looks like she hasn't slept all night, she's just been up stewing on what she's singing and then launches into this six minute goddamn EPIC...
That really was beautiful. It was perfectly calming for me today.
Thanks!