Mykki Blanco Swims Through the Ocean, Slays an Octopus in Epic "Coke White, Starlight" Video

Mykki Blanco Swims Through the Ocean, Slays an Octopus in Epic "Coke White, Starlight" Video

Mykki Blanco has shared a new video for comeback track “Coke White, Starlight”, released earlier this year as part of Blanco’s Dogfood label compilation C-ORE. Directed by Tristan Patterson, the epic clip sees Blanco get drugged in a bedroom before undergoing several awakenings in urban and natural landscapes. It culminates in a dramatic ocean swim, during which she stabs an octopus and holds it aloft in a cave. Watch the video below, via Dazed.

Speaking to Dazed about the video, Blanco said:

We wanted to allude to the darker side of ‘gay life’, (with) a stylised portrayal of perhaps what most heterosexual people don’t see. Right now in London and New York there is a bit of an epidemic going on with loads of gays taking drugs and having chemsex sessions. The hedonism is so 80s, but the whole thing is extremely lonely and unhealthy, with most of it happening on gay hook-up apps. I get tired of the ‘World Against the Homosexual’ motif, so I wanted to make reference to how the LGBTQ (community) can also eat itself alive sometimes rather than unifying.

Patterson added:

I felt like setting Mykki against the birthplace of western civilization was a potentially interesting juxtaposition. But I was also just really excited and curious about this unique moment in her life as an artist and where she was going to take it. I arrived in Athens with no plan, no agenda. We’d shoot all day and talk all night and somehow through this intense, insane creative process, we made a film together that I think captures this really personal experience we shared in such a crazy, cinematic way.

Blanco also said she’s finishing her album, prepping a feature film with Patterson, and is in talks to star in a new opera.

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