Steven Wilson - PERSONAL SHOPPER (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2020
- "The song PERSONAL SHOPPER sits somewhere between being a love-letter to shopping (which I love to do!) and the uneasiness I feel about the more insidious side of modern consumerism. Lucrecia’s blackly comic video captures that dilemma perfectly." - Steven Wilson
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“The track is a social criticism of consumerism and how we fill our lives with unnecessary goods to feel important, special or loved. But the truth is, the feeling of unhappiness won't go away with the next pair of sick trainers. Those feelings will only go away when we look within, and if we don't... well, then we're going to end up with a lot of stuff around us, but still pretty empty. Luckily the track being 6 minutes gave me the opportunity to develop an interesting narrative. I wanted to create a fictional world in which people buy goods and the transaction would not only be money but also a part of their body, alluding to the concept of the more you look for answers outside, the more you disappear on the inside.” Lucrecia Taormina, Director
Director: Lucrecia Taormina
Executive producer: Luke Tierney
Production company: FRIEND
Producer: Joseph Goldman
Casting Agency: Lane Casting
Casting Director: Hannah Ashby Ward
Cast:
The Consumer: Robert Lane
Cash Lady: Paula Benson
Shop Owner 1: Jill Buchanan
Shop Owner 2: Stephen Wale
Shop Owner 3: Amy Gallagher
Worshipper 1: Ocean Navarro
Worshipper 2: Karlu Solomon
The Thief: Romano Solano
The Shopper: Steven Wilson
Director of Photography: Pieter Snyman
Editor: Meg Thorne
SFX: Natasha Lawes
Grade: Richard Fearon
Production Designer: Oliver Hogan
Movement Director: Simon Donnellon
Styling: Flora Huddart
Wigs, Hair & Nails Artist: Natasha Lawes
Makeup Artist: Andrea Gomez Anzola
TFB Product Rendering:
Miles Skarin, Crystal Spotlight
VFX Artists:
Kelvin Chim, Steve Hawken, Rob Chandler, Abi Tomasiewicz
Crew:
Production Manager: Hugo Holford
Production Coordinator: Ash Teague
First Assistant Director: Ty Hack
Second Assistant Director: Heini Susanne
Steadicam Operator: Doug Walshe
Focus Puller: Phil Heron
Grip: Charlie Wyldeck - Flowers
Clapper Loader: Rob Hawkins
Camera Trainee: Jack Plumbridge
Gaffer: Peter Bishop
Sparks: James Leech, Matt Simmons
Spark 1st Day - Simona Pran
Spark 2nd Day - Greg Probert
Lighting Trainee - Josh Wood
SFX Prosthetics Assistant - Jess Heath
SFX Prosthetics Trainee - Alice Platts
Art Department Assistants: James Middleton, Rupert Wilson
Stylist Assistant: Molly Robinson
Runners: Joe Coulson, Tara Sadeghi, Tom Stuart
Location Manager: Dean Whittaker
Edit House: Cut + Run
Edit Producer: Maggie McDermott
Edit Assistant: Rob McGuire
Post House: Black Kite
Post Producer: Polly Durance
Commissioned by Natalia Maus
That's how you cameo in your own music video. Brilliant.
Alfred Hitchcock style.
Stan Lee style
I missed it
@@adj789 on the escalator
1:11
Lost in the mall, shuffling through the stores like zombies.
And in this way wish away each day
Sullen and bored the kids stay
"But what is the point; what can money buy?:
Shoplifting is getting so last year’s thing
My hands on a gun, and I find it hard to stay conscious
Elton John reading the list of shopping items at 3:47. One of the world's biggest shoppers. And he had to start with Sunglasses :) Poetic.
Haha!
Fair wether friends, right?
well spottet and put!
Looks like he met Steven Wilson coming down an up staircase...the encounter was clearly crushing.
Oof... It has come come full circle. 🤯
My favorite comment thus far. :-D
Wasn't there a piece in the SW back catalogue relating to coming down the up escalator (from the deram years recordings).
Voyage 34 come back to us.
Hey, I got that reference. I did :D
Some Steven Wilson songs hit you hard after a couple of listens. This is one of them. I am getting addicted to it.
Me too! So, bought anything recently?
👍😘🇸🇪
I totally agree
I’ve been addicted to this song since day one .. but it sounds better and better to me each time
This video made it even better yet😎
Me too good friend
Word!
Best songs of his hit this way !!!
Just imagine the satisfaction of Steven Wilson releasing this on a black friday with the black friday hashtag. Man must be delighting in irony.
It's like an 80's video, 80's music, but both with a contemporary production, using the best of the resources available nowadays. This guy is always flawless. Hate to be such a fangirl, but I simply cannot find any bad music under his name
The chordchange in that "consumer of life" part is pure gold.
Completely agree it's genius
I agree too. I stopped figuring out how to play songs aeons ago, but this one I had to. Top quality songwriting.
Weird, creepy, funny and very catchy: welcome to the highly versatile world of Steven Wilson where there's no such thing as a single genre, just all music with a meaning and story you can get behind.
maybe industrial
I find it genius mixing the all together (art, storytelling, music,lyrics) it has a meaning, a life lessons for people to become more aware of what they do
If it wasn't for covid we could have seen a TFB pop-up shop with Steven removing your body parts
We would be like "Shut up and take my lungs!"
@joseph ka Hail Satan Bro
@joseph ka no.
@joseph ka we only speak euphoric atheist here sorry bro
@@lohankarachay476 :-)
"Wanna storm through gates of heaven
Backstage pass in hand
St Peter, park my car
There's angels on my mind
Take me through to see the big man
Where'd you keep the wine?"
This couldn't be more appropriate than today. But more importantly, being that close to each other, just rushing to have any piece of crap and also have COVID as free a bonus!
The biggest plot twist would be if we saw Steven buying shoes at the end of the video.
Lol
🤣🤣👍
He appears in starting n before ending. 😂💙😂
🤣
@@princechahal5093 before ending? when?
Weird. Creepy. FANTASTIC.
Have a great Black Friday mr Wilson! (...and Tim says "absolutely")
Steven is the best musician and producer of the last 20 years period. This is just fantastic. Speechless. Bravo. It will go over so many heads but I hope it makes some noise. We need more of this.
I have seen this like 50 times and this is better than half the movies out there. Good music, good message, symbolism and ambiguous meanings. The other songs and videos do not measure up to this one. This is his best work ever.
Have now, have now. Pay in another life.
100th like. Grieve now, grieve now. Have joy in another life.
Listeners, please read the description. The one thing I like the most about Steven Wilson is the way he elaborates his ideas/concepts musically and lyrically, be it the PT’s The Incident or this track. Brilliance personified.
This song gives new meaning to the expression “It costs me an arm and a leg”.
I think that's kinda the point
o me costó un ojo de la cara.
Hard hitting truthful song about the dangers of mental health surrounding consumerism. Thanks again, Steve.
That actors walk is just perfect
This is one of the most brilliant pieces of art I've heard/seen lately. Modern-sounding synth pop mixed with disco elements. Catchy yet still able to pack a punch of social commentary. I love the choral parts and the psychedelic vibe. In the video, the expressions of the salespeople are unforgettable!
Don't buy condoms guys, don't buy them...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And birth control pills! Is Steven telling us to make more babies?
@@NE0MAS he's talking about excessive consumerism. like "volcano ash soaps", limited edition exclusives, etc. stuff that we don't need but still buy for triple the price because the brands put pretty labels and unusual names on the packaging. condoms and birth control in general are a necessity, not luxury items (though sometimes they are priced like one).
@@disgsteng6755 glad you caught the joke
NoIsE CaNceLliNg CoNdOmS
The ending reminded me of one of the final scenes of Lars Von Trier's _Antichrist_ (2009) for some reason. I don't know why, the shots are similar.
Steven is a master of his art and his marketing plan tfb is one of the best things he has done in recent times.
100%
It's why I love the album already before actually hearing it all. The concept alone is fantastic, and the way he is executing the marketing is genius.
Guy: *buys a necklace*
French revolutionaries: Its free real state
As Steve said, "Lost in the mall, shuffling around like zombies." This is pure feel. LOVE.
Masterpiece of new era.
Congratulations Mr. Wilson
All I could think of when the narration started was "Fitter, Happier, More Productive..."
Yeah, Steven's got a textbook of rock music. He often draws from it.
Hah lol XD
"The more you look for answers outside, the more you disappear on the inside.”
Lucretia Taormina - Director
Such a Tears for Fears vibe im getting. Especially that chord at 3:58...sounds just like opening to Pale Shelter!
Yeah the acoustic part but not the rest.
The sonic quality of this track is amazing! The production, the mix! Those drums! Ear candy!
Had to be released on a Black Friday. The whole concept and marketing is great. Love the "Easter egg" for the limited edition box set, after he announced one a few days ago. Steven and his Midas touch man..
At this point this song is already one of my all-time favourites from him.
And I'm a fan since "On the sunday of life..."
It's got such a catchy beat too. I love that Steven does kind of different style than when he is in porcupine tree. Just like how Blackfield was different as well, simple songs about the pains of life, a girl leaving you after a summer fling type of music. Catchy and mainstream, would be a huuuuge hit if they had based the band in the states.
He writes like everyone and no one else on earth at the same time it's fucking unreal how amazing he is... and his VOICE too. Not all amazing song writers are great singers or singers at all, what a gift to have such unique head voice. It's very very cool.
The content of this song as well is very accessible and the meanings behind it are plain and clearly stated as opposed to mysterious like some of PT songs aren't totally always obvious about the theme and lesson he wants to impart on society. IMO I could hear a song like this coming from, say, Taylor Swift, easy - I mean Elton John DID read the spoken word interlude. So it's very multilayered and sounds amazing. His production value is always super high as well because he spends so much time in the studio mastering and stuff - way more imo than most musicians.
I love how Steven tells you the truth right at your face! I can relate to all of his music!
Everytime I am about to make an impulsive purchase, I will watch this. Thank you Steven Wilson.
And I love the self-mockery you are able to show, not everyone has this sense of humour 👏👍
The shop staff remind me of the deranged people in 'Black Hole Sun'. Really fun and disturbing vid.
That's what i thought at very first moment
Exactly.
Or that skunk anansie's vid
Also first lady in blue eyeshadow was Lynchian almost
I got this raccomanded under that video
those key changes in the chorus are genius
I know it sounds silly but I feel like he wrote this song having the video in mind already. Black Friday and other consumerism strategies are idiotic, glad Steven shares this feeling. A world in which people only buy what they truly need would be, without a doubt, a much better world.
Absolutely love the bass line on here x
Nick Beggs is a genius
1:13 Is it just me or the guy looks like that vocalist from porcupine tree? I might be wrong, it's been a long time
Well yes, it is Steven Wilson... :)
STEVEN!!! ::)
I'm pretty sure it's the guitarist from No-Man
You guys are all wrong, its that dude that is in Blakcfield with Aviv.
@@mefistothegreat You sure that's not the actor who plays the homeless guy in "And no birds sing"?
Why do I feel like a piece of garbage for buying his T-shirt of his website now?
Someone doesn’t have a sense of humour.
@@kennyk9076 There's no wink & a nod with this song. It's a clear indictment of runaway capitalism and greed... from the guy that has repackaged and resold everything he's ever done - not to mention the remixes he's done for other artists. Go buy that Tull album again - Wilson remixed it!
Its either that or a double box set with teeth whitener. Come on boy, you're in the matrix bitc*.
😂.
👍😘🇸🇪
@@hecticdmc in a recent interview he said that this song is more of a love letter to consumerism than preaching + that the album is meant to be humorous at times. I guess it's not translated that well in the song as is, but it's more obvious in the vid. It's meant to be a mix of admiration, anger and fun or something like that.
Excelente crítica social !!! No sabía si reir o llorar.... Este es nuestro mundo real... Comprar y vender y preparar a los jovenes para ser "exitosos" y puedan seguir sustentando este sistema, que lleva al hombre a perder su esencia.
Now everytime I buy something I have this song in my mind...
The man is so busy. I can't keep up with all his videos and releases 😅
It's the only way to stay relevant this days. Times of releasing an LP every 2-3 years and thinking that it's enough is over.
So addicted to this video. Its got everything!
I can`t believe how much this song has grown on me.
Me too
Fight Club, "The things you own, end up owning you."
This song just keeps me coming back again and again. So well crafted and presented.
This is taking back to PT's initial albums... Steven Wilson can never break your heart.
Awesome song, utterly love it. Nick Beggs bassline on this is just mind blowing.
Jak zwykle MISTRZOSTWO! Takie utwory może tworzyć tylko Steven Wilson 🥰
"The things you own, end up owning you."
- Tyler Durden
Steven Wilson is a freaking genius! The song we all wanted to make and express.
I'll bet that if you saw him on the street he would talk to you like a normal person.🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Lyrics:
Have now, have now, pay in another life
Kickstart the future, accept this loan
Fill in the form, you're pre-qualified
You're now the sum of what you own
Buy now, buy now, have a better life
Close out transactions without remorse
Apply for credit, it's your given right
Buy it all then buy some more
Buy for comfort, buy for kicks
Buy and buy until it makes you sick
Buy for England, buy it all
Buy online and in the shopping mall
Sell it on then buy it back
Buy the shit you never knew you lacked
Buy the update to compete
Buy the things that make your life complete
Consumer of life, hold my hand, extend your rights
It's the power to purchase to excess
That sets you apart and can give you the ultimate high
Abuser of time, if there's something that you want
You don't need it, but have to concede
It's making you happy and that's all that matters to you
Buy the box set and the kind of stuff
You've bought before a million times
Buy in green, buy in blue
Buy in patterns 'cause I tell you to
Buy the dream, buy the spin
Feel the bite down of the trap you're in
Buy the lies that I tell
Lap up everything I'm here to sell
Buy now, buy now, at a better price
Give in to excess, lose control
Just keep on spending, never compromise
Rack up more debt and fill that hole
Buy for comfort, buy for kicks
Buy and buy until it makes you sick
Buy for England, buy it all
Buy online and in the shopping mall
Sell it on then buy it back
Buy the shit you never knew you lacked
Buy the update to compete
Buy the things that make your life complete
[Interlude: Elton John]
Sunglasses
Teeth whitener
Deluxe edition box sets
Volcanic ash soap
Anti ageing cream (Self-love)
Multivitamin supplements
Noise cancelling headphones (Self-esteem)
Designer trainers (Self-indulgence)
Diamond cufflinks (Self-obsession)
Detox drinks (Self-obsession, Self-defence)
Smart watch (Self-obsession, Self-defence)
Organic LED television (Self-love, Self-control, Self-obsession)
Fitness club membership (Self-indulgence, Self-esteem, Self-doubt)
Fake eyelashes
Monogrammed luggage
180 gram vinyl reissues
Branded water
Self-help books
Consumer of life, hold my hand, extend your rights
It's the power to purchase to excess
That sets you apart and can give you the ultimate high
Abuser of time, if there's something that you want
You don't need it, but have to concede
It's making you happy and that's all that matters to you
Buy the box set and the kind of stuff
You've bought before a million times (Self-doubt, Self-obsession)
Buy in green, buy in blue
Buy in patterns cos I tell you to (Self-awareness)
Sell it on then buy it back
Buy the shit you never knew you lacked (Self-esteem)
Buy the update to compete
Buy the things that make your life complete
[Outro: Spoken word & Elton John]
Fitness tracker
Birth control pills
Bluetooth headphones
Designer trainers
Lipstick
Mobile phone skins
Scented candles (Self-obsession)
Media streaming hub (Self-expression)
Self-defense
Self-doubt
Self-love
Self-indulgence
that moment when the producer of your favorite death prog albums writes a better Pop song than anyone since the 80s goth era.
Awesome music and great sarcastic lyrics... thank you Steven Wilson!
Nice cameo Steven!
IS THAT A BRAND NEW PRODUCT? I MUST CONSOOOOOOOM!
don't ask questions just consume product and wait for next product
@@fredericktarr8266 I liked it because I understood that reference!
My only regret is not consooming the new product
Robert Lane is the actor who portrays the main shopper, he did a great job !
Yep he was superb
Nick beggs basslines are just addictive to hear. I love this song
I know .. great !!
The future wouldn’t bite if I had Steven Wilson headphones and home stereo system!
Casting agency: Lane Casting
Main Actor: Robert Lane
Hmmm, yes I think they did cast Lane.
Best listening to this with headphones on! What a difference!
Ahora entiendo, es buenísimo, gracias Steven, es la crítica que necesitábamos sobre está maldita sociedad de consumo en la que vivimos , es una idea perfecta y muy bien ejecutada. Si bien es cierto que no hay que olvidar que esto es música el concepto es brillante.
This song was all I listened to right before the pandemic. It took a while for me to find it again.
Wow! What a great pop song with dark lyrics. Big Heaven 17 vibes on this. 🙏🏽
Oh, so it's actually "Personal Chopper" !! ;)
Brilliant video !
Increible video!!! Para una increible canción!!! Steven Wilson es un verdadero Artista!!!
Most styles of music can sound good as you put in the effort, like Steven does.
You couldn't write it.... After (yet another) view and listen to this fantastic video and track, Mr. UA-cam sends me directly into a 'Head & Shoulders' advert!
The vocal harmonics and also the song has some "Ghost" band type feel.
Same thing I was thinking, very Tobias like
'ghostcore' lmao
There's a psb feel too.
Perfect vision of contemporary life
The Brilliance of SW and the people that created this video are astounding. Nothing like having a product narrative by Sir Elton John included. When you are a great lover of music, and a musician sometimes we over purchase gear to out shine the next guy. There will always be someone with better stuff. So go back to your basic self and ask, do I need to be someone else? Such a huge world of PPL that must satisfy vanity. Love how its captured here.
Ridiculously brilliant! Haunting yet beautiful ... The Master has struck again!
As creepy as this music video is, I think the teaser that was posted yesterday was even scarier. That Black Friday footage was real, and people really do resort to actual violence and reprehensible behavior in order to consume these products.
so true! really great footage and matches the music perfectly... it seemed like little ants going crazy
exactly!!!
Another masterpiece, incredible and original!
Jeesus! On Black Friday no less. Excellent music and video.
These are an excellent song and music video ! A great bravo to the actors and the direction ! What a clairvoyant and sensitive vision ! Steven Wilson, as many people, I'm really touched by all your work.
It's a shame but that dude without eyes still saw as many concerts as I did in 2020
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”
Fight Club - 1999
I've heard this song dozens of times already. This video provided even more clarity and I enjoyed it even more. Bravo.
Amazing, simply amazing. What a great musician. 👍💪💪
This video really highlights what the mood of the song was from the 1st day it came out : funny, ironic though slightly creepy. Just bad it comes out only now, months after the song coming out, as most pple didn't seem to understand during this period that it was written in a sarcastic and not pontificating mode. So now the images put the final note on that great song...
That's a bit dark! Love it. Let's play "What's in Steven's bags?"
DOG TOYS (read with Elton John's voice)
Records from the Revolution Records store.
Body parts
Well this has taken off !
Trains
Brilliant! Best bass player in the world👏❤️
Hahaha love Steven going down the scalators, yeah love this so MUCH!!!
Getting strong Terry Gilliam vibes from this video, especially some of the closeups
This is like 9 ½ minutes of 70s disco meets neo prog, sprinkled with some musical cocaine Abba dust, intertwined with a bit of hypocritical ironic Dwight prose, an acid rock guitar solo amidst a YMCA Donna Summer infused drum backdrop of genre bending, decade blending, involuntary foot tap provoking, uncontrolled micro head bob inducing sound that draws you in like a musical moth to a bright overdriven amplifier tube under Svengali Wilson’s cauldron stir stick of musical wizardry playing loudly beneath the rotating strobe lights and alternating color spots illuminating the dark dance floor of a current underground dance club somewhere in central Europe that seems to play out in three minutes, and which begrudgingly forces you to hit the repeat button way more times than you’d care to admit. It’s like all the soda flavors at the 7-11 studios were genres and Steven mixed ‘em all together into a swamp water and it somehow tasted great! I’m really not certain if I like this track or not, but I can’t seem to stop repeatedly tapping my inner ear looking for that bulging aural vein so I can inject one more play. OK, Just one more time. But I can stop any time I want…
It's dope as fuck. I love how much production value and time he spends in the studio to hone his recordings as well. He's invaluable to music imo. He's got multigenerational appeal out the wazoo imo but not great marketing :(. IMO there are tons of porcupine tree songs that should have been top 40 hits in the states when they were released, just like teh beatles. Amazing vocalist as well. As complex and as many older types of music as this borrows from - I came to listen to this song because Taylor Swift's song Karma sounds kind of similar, has a sort of proggy chorus the way she wrote the rhymes. It's very accessible AND complex all at the same time, as a fan of PT and Steven, it's very stimulating to listen to ^______^
And some Laurie Anderson.
Toda una AUTORIDAD para hacer éste tipo de videos. Y sí, a los humanos los descabezan con tanta información, con lo "políticamente correcto", con lo comercial, con lo que vende; incluso, hasta el hecho de poner a una persona a que decida por tí: Cómo vestirte, qué debes ponerte, como peinarte, maquillarte, hasta cómo decorar tu propia casa, qué debes hacer o no en tu vida y en tu tiempo libre. Todos quieren la aprobación de otros y ser parte del montón y del rebaño para ser parte de esa sociedad "cool".
¡Muchas gracias Mr. Wilson! 💯🍷
This song feels to come straight from the Paper Gods Duran album! Which I truly love, so big big compliments on this super song! Would love to see a Nick Rhodes/Steven Wilson project!
Amazing song and video. Great new direction......can't wait for the new album. The shopping list monologue by Elton John is a fun surprise.
Steven Wilson es el músico de Rock más importante de la historia, humilde opinión.
Can't stop watching this. Amazing acting and editing I think. The flying ear.....
I type this some 12 hours since this I watched when this video was premiered live. Song has been out for a while now, didn't know what to expect. Love this ❤
Replete with a Mrs. Slocombe for the 21st century. Brilliant.
Are you free Mrs. Slocombe?
I get the message, but now I feel bad cause all I could think of is that I really need to buy that racoon t-shirt 🤣
It’s from fat face, it’s actually mine and wore it to the shoot, they then ditched all the tops they had for me in costume and used my own top! Don’t know what that says about my fashion sense...
Man I love this and haven’t been able to stop listening since I started.
I just wish they could have fit the beautiful choir section in after the product listings.
Steven.. your music has given me so much pleasure over the years .. you keep releasing amazing music ..thank you for that . I hope to see you live one day.. if COVID passports aren't required that is