Animal Farm is the latest and the first pre-release single from Bibi’s upcoming album ‘Lowlife Princess: Noir‘, which is scheduled to be released in November. The song is creating a sensation since its release as it shows Bibi’s unrivalled artist capabilities, the music video that robbed the eye, the heavy resonance contained in it, and the story planning, directing and acting of the entire song, are being praised.
The song takes on the theme of “false standards of the world and rebellion against the existing system” according to her agency Feel Ghood Music. The song, as well as the rest of the full-length album, is produced by Bibi. She also wrote the lyrics to Animal Farm and the description of the music video reads – I wanted to tell the story that in any society, there are bound to be victims.
In the album, BIBI is said to take on the role of Oh Geum-ji taking inspiration from Lee Geum-ja from the Korean thriller classic Lady Vengeance. The album, which is set in a dystopian 2044, will see Oh Geum-ji rise to be the leader of an underground society. Lowlife Prince – Noir will also be published in a form of a webtoon as well, which will be released in November.
Animal Farm Music Video Breakdown
The music video starts with an intro from Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G Minor Op. 23 No. 5. Rachmaninoff had been known for his outstanding preludes which are full of melancholy and heroic vigour, and as it fades out, we see that Bibi also lifts her head and throws away the apple in her mouth as the blaring music riff plays.
Leading to the start of the party where the singer walks in wearing a white dress and describes the atmosphere of the party through her lyrics. She expresses it by saying that the people here are exchanging the words of sin and wearing masks of hypocrisy, overflowing in the ballroom.
Until she gets a look at the katana, displayed in the room, she takes it up and starts walking on the table. Grabbing everyone’s attention, she starts running toward a person that looks like a pig and cuts off his head. Eventually, it takes a bloody route as she is completely soaked in the blood, with everyone on the table lying dead.
What she really wants to express through this song is the hypocrisy in her field of work. There’s always a hierarchy and power dynamics, where the leader at the top controls everything and the ones below blindly follow the set of rules, be it right or wrong. That’s why everyone is living a life full of lies, where they can’t do anything according to their wishes but go along with the people in power.
After slaying the ‘powerful people’, their blind followers are coming after her for what she has done, and in the lyrics, she calls them shameless friends and asks who’s next. Come and fight with me, if you win then hang the pretty head of mine in your room. And criticises if this is a society or an animal farm where we live with a herd mentality.
In the end, she kills everyone and plays a white guitar standing amidst all the corpses and enthrals everyone. It’s like a message that she will not play by the rigid societal conventions that don’t even let her express herself, the way she wants. She will do what she wants and in this case, create music that she likes.
The album was earlier said to be inspired by Park Chan-wook’s revenge thriller film, but the visual aesthetics of the video clearly tells an uncanny inspiration from Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, which also is based on a woman’s revenge story. Especially the white dress, the katana and being drenched in blood.
While the video is 6 minutes and 37 seconds long, the song ends at the 4-minute mark and the credits with behind the scene pictures start rolling. In the ending two minutes, a haunting melody starts playing, which is said to be a song called ‘Wet Nightmare‘, which fits aptly with the visuals of falling rain on the decapitated and bloody body parts.
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