This is my version and performance of Talk Talk's (and later, Gwen Stefani's) song, "It's My Life".
I have been waiting ten years to upload this and it has been in the background buzz of my life, collecting moments of affirmation of what this song meant to me and why it was so powerful. My intuition was always right even when, at times, I didn't want to believe, listening to this in March-April 2014 and knowing that in a blink of an eye something would be attempted to be stolen from me; a destiny, if you will.
This song represents the Power within and the unleashed feminine power that has been oppressed and subverted here for so long. In this video, it is unconfined.
Filmed in the lower level of OCAD in an empty dark studio with a spot light and rented equipment, I put this together with a vision on March 31st 2014 at 8:55pm.
This footage was intended to be a backup behind the scenes shot. Behind the webcam is a Canon 5D camera (sought after at the time) and all the footage was lost when in 2015, in a chaotic time in my life, I dropped my backup drive and it had many unfinished music cover videos on it including this one...never posted and waiting to be gazed upon. The video was edited at school with Final Cut with a spotlight effect and the entire video looked SO PROFESSIONAL with the 5D footage. There were many shots in the stairwell also that I tried to perfect wearing those Demonia punk platform boots, crouching down and getting different angles I planned to edit into a full fledged video. There is also a video of me in a pink puffy dress wrestling a vacuum cleaner as a critique on women being domesticated and seen as incapable of forging their own path (etc.) and that was also gone. Among that is another music video I did in the snow (Alizee Gourmandises location that I filmed alone by a tree and have not seen since) with that same (returned) puffy pink dress that had something to do with Una and the Lion (2014) that was also gone and from the same month of March. There was so much interlaced during that time and it will be returned as of Now.
The last time I tried to edit and post this was when I was sick with C-v-d in 2021 and survived, as I was getting better, the one song I thought to spring up and edit when I was fully better was this one, "It's my life, it never ends."
But, finally getting to edit the last behind the scenes shots into this music video performance, ...into this version of "It's My Life" is a moment I've been waiting for! Here it is...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJxc6VguP5w
Halfway through the set, I couldn't stop tears from streaming down my cheeks because #ToveLo always makes me cry when listening to her music...You can't expect everyone to understand sensuality, but I know that this is why Tove Lo makes her music.
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That's the reason her album's logo #LadyWood is what it is, and why she was sprawled out in the middle of the floor touching herself in black leather overalls and a see-through pastel blue crop-top. 4 years at art school's got my back. I get it.
~and not crying tears of joy would intrinsically be an insult to her art!~
I truly wish I could do what she does, using her platform with her art to release the masses from our entanglement in the trenches of society; free of shame, guilt, suppression - the very same feelings I tried to put in my performances as Little Witch. They only went so far, the next ones will go farther. Sitting in the audience was enough, to breathe in the energy she exudes. I needed that. This concert was very necessary for my evolution as an artist going forward and I think I did my homework at this one...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAcuoPDl8s
I am the student…and you are the teacher; I am going to fail this ‘video editing class’ we call “YouTube” so bad because I stole most of the footage from other youtube videos. Lol In all seriousness, this is my version of “Unusual You” by Britney Spears that I threw together quite faithfully so. Why did I do it? For fun, creativity and to suit my vision. Credit goes to ALL the creators of “Unusual You” and all the clips used.
Can you guess what inspired this mélange? :)
Lyrics:
Nothin' about you is typical
Nothin' about you's predictable
You've got me all...twisted and confused (it's all new)
Up 'til now I thought I knew love
Nothin' to lose and it's damaged cuz
Patterns will fall, as quick as I do
(but now)
Bridges are burning
Baby I'm learning
A new way of thinking now
Love I can see
Nothing will be
Just like it was
Is that because?
B-aby you're so unusual
Didn't anyone tell you,
You're supposed to..
Break my heart,
I expect you to
So why haven't you?
Maybe you're not even human cuz
Only an angel can be so unusual
A sweet surprise I can get used to
Unusual You
(Ahh, Ahh..)
(Ahh, Ahh..)
Been so many things when I was someone else
Boxer in the ring, Trying to defend myself
And the private eye knows what's going on
That's long gone
When I'm with you, I can just be myself
You're always where.. you say.. you will be
Shocking cuz I, never knew love like this
Could exist
Tables are turning
My heart is soaring
You'll never let me down
Answer my call
Here after all
Never met anyone
Like you..
B-aby you're so unusual
Didn't anyone tell you
You're supposed to
Break my heart, I expect you to
So why haven't you?
Maybe you're not even human cuz
Only an angel can be so unusal
A sweet surprise I can get used to
Unusual you
(Ahh, Ahh..)
(Ahh, Ahh..)
Can't believe that I
Almost didn't try
When you called my name
Now everything has changed..
B-aby you're so unusual
Didn't anyone tell you, you're sposedta
Break my heart, I expect you to
So why haven't you?
Maybe you're not even human cuz
Only an angel can be so, unusual
A sweet surprise I can get used to
Unusual you...
(Ahh, Ahh..)
(Ahh, Ahh..)
CLIPS (Credit goes to the owners!):
Manta Ray's are Flat Sharks: https://youtu.be/OHlXGcawrHo
London Eye Landmark 2019 - 4K Ultra HD https://youtu.be/yI98xvBJ0i4
Virtual Bonfire with Crackling Fire Sounds - https://youtu.be/bbLDfueL7eU
Cozy Camp in Eerie Forest - https://youtu.be/LYF2VzCN0os
Divergent - Tris & Four Holding Hands - https://youtu.be/_v8EqdQ9TkQ
Learn About the Jaguar | Big Cat Week - https://youtu.be/tx6r7QX2iXk
Mis-en-Scene:
Eyeshadow: Too-Faced Sweet Dreams Palette in 'First Dance'
Eyebrows: Benefit Gimme Brow
Lips: Charlotte Tilbury in Gracefully Pink
Eyeliner: Stila Stay all Day Micro Tip
Foundation: Maybelline Dream Radiant Liquid in Porcelain Ivory 10
Nail polish: Gabriel Cosmetics Inc. in "Iceburg"
Earrings: Hudson's Bay
Costume Necklace: C&A Frankfurt, Germany
Sweater: American Eagle
Négligée: Victoria's Secret (as close as it gets) shorturl.at/giqsG
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8I3EmD4m-o
Christmas without Mommy, December 24 2006, Part 1. Just another stop along the way and another side of me/life.
There is no sound until 0:34
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z30woOQdLA
I walk by my **friends'** house often and 5 mins from her house are these notable trailers being put up (taken in January 2022). What is this new construction? These numbered trailers that take up what used to be a parking lot for commuters' cars who have to take the TTC to go downtown T.O. Is this a weird urban planning move or what?
I am posting this video for purposes of people interested in the Urban Planning hobby.
Will delete this after I post it so make sure you download my video if you want to see it again.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxL1qB4PsPQ
This is a dream I had of being taken underground by crafts. The locale of the Penthouse in the major city I describe would have been Houston, Texas or maybe Las Vegas, NV. Maybe even Nashville, TN. The small town would have been located in the outskirts.
The crafts encircled the building, They were in a line formation to begin with, and they had a circular machinery at the end of the line of crafts that encircled the entire skyscraper building we were in (hotel?) and scanned down the side of the building.
I just woke up, and hadn't had coffee yet so my speech is a little tired. If I had coffee though, I wouldn't be able to remember all the astral detailings.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaSCuElFnXo