“Generally my very own physique/ Doesn’t really feel like my physique/ However positively don’t kiss me.” So goes the hook on “Don’t Kiss Me,” the most recent from Melbourne folk-rocker Maple Glider aka Tori Zietsch. The tune is a slow-build colossus based mostly on the expertise of being hit on (and worse) by older males. Right 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 obtained 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 commonly at exhibits. It’s a tune about consent, and the expertise of being predated on by older males as a lady/younger girl. I feel 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 she or he has so much to share about that too:
Once I was a child, my nice grandmother used to provide 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 making an attempt to fall asleep. I wished the video for “Don’t Kiss Me” to be a bit unnerving and peculiar, and for some cause I stored enthusiastic about these porcelain dolls.
The premise of the storyline is that I’m making an attempt 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 guide, and thought it will be cool to by no means actually outline who the villains are. In the long run, my nemeses all come again as zombies, and I have to study the facility of laser beam myself to really finish them and to seek out peace in my alone-ness.
I preferred the sensation of enjoying a robust character, particularly to this tune, which has felt fairly empowering to write down and to carry out. It felt like I used to be form of conquering little fears I’ve surrounding it via humour and play.
We had the imaginative and prescient of filming the video as if it have been a college mission – tremendous lo-fi and really tacky. Certain, I feel there will likely be a heap of people that in all probability received’t get it, and that’s completely superb (LASERED). For individuals who do, rock on, I hope you discover your peace.
Watch under.
“Don’t Kiss Me” is out now on Partisan.
