“Sometimes my own body/ Doesn’t feel like my body/ But definitely don’t kiss me.” So goes the hook on “Don’t Kiss Me,” the newest from Melbourne folk-rocker Maple Glider aka Tori Zietsch. The tune is a slow-build colossus primarily based on the expertise of being hit on (and worse) by older males. Here’s what Zietsch needed to say about it:
I didn’t suppose a lot of this tune once I wrote it. I had a horrible recording of it on my voice memos the place I wailed out of key, and it received buried someplace in there for 2 years or so earlier than I uncovered it once more. I felt so linked and prepared for it when I discovered it once more that I began enjoying it often at reveals. It’s a tune about consent, and the expertise of being predated on by older males as a lady/younger lady. I believe many people are conscious of that sturdy urge to say “fuck off” and be left to our personal.
Zietsch and Joshua Tate got here up with the video, and he or she has quite a bit to share about that too:
When I used to be a child, my nice grandmother used to offer me actually bizarre porcelain dolls. They freaked me the hell out, and would poke their heads out from the highest of my wardrobe and unsettle me as I used to be attempting to fall asleep. I wished the video for “Don’t Kiss Me” to be a bit unnerving and peculiar, and for some purpose I saved fascinated by these porcelain dolls.
The foundation of the storyline is that I’m attempting to get out of the town to get a while alone, and anybody who will get in my means is LASERED by Wanda the doll. I imagined the entire clip as a comic book e book, and thought it could be cool to by no means actually outline who the villains are. In the top, my nemeses all come again as zombies, and I have to be taught the facility of laser beam myself to actually finish them and to search out peace in my alone-ness.
I preferred the sensation of enjoying a strong character, particularly to this tune, which has felt fairly empowering to put in writing and to carry out. It felt like I used to be sort of conquering little fears I’ve surrounding it by humour and play.
We had the imaginative and prescient of filming the video as if it have been a college undertaking – tremendous lo-fi and really tacky. Sure, I believe there might be a heap of people that most likely received’t get it, and that’s completely high quality (LASERED). For those that do, rock on, I hope you discover your peace.
Watch under.
“Don’t Kiss Me” is out now on Partisan.