Credit: Oli Erskine
Words: Sam Geary
Directed by Rianne White, Lucia & the Best Boys have shared the official video for 'Perfectly Untrue'.
Lifted from their upcoming EP The State Of Things', to be released on October 9 via Sweet Jane Recordings, the clip sees the Glaswegians link up with fashion designer Charles Jeffrey, with Lucia wearing his latest collection LOVERBOY.
"'Perfectly Untrue' was written a couple of weeks after I wrote 'Let Go', says frontwoman Lucia Fairfull. "This recording is in its original form, which Chris Greatti and myself powered on an all nighter till 4am, as I was leaving LA the next day.
"Its funny to listen to them both back to back as it shows the many mixed emotions I was going through during heart-break, feeling strong and capable one minute, then distraught and confused the next. The only way through seemed to be to pretend that everything was fine or perfect whereas in reality it was perfectly untrue'.
"I can definitely say now looking back that this is the worst solution ever, but also I know that it is just a coping mechanism that people use as escapism. When you are in a weird or dark headspace you see many versions of yourself that you didnt even know existed. 'Perfectly Untrue's 'happy go L
lucky' sound portrays the fake joy I pushed myself to feel in order to avoid the sad truth, which is displayed in the lyrics that are also coated in glitter and glamour - dressed up in gold and dance until I die."
Speaking about the new video, White said: “Lucia drives both the bravado and beauty of femininity across vignettes that contain an emotional distortion of reality. We see her transform between a striking contrast of manic caricatures and intimate states of purity and vulnerability.
“The story of Saint Sebastian is a metaphor threaded throughout the visual narrative - piercing Lucia through the chest with an arrow. This symbolic representation of Lucia wearing her emotional wounds as armour, paralleled with the posed smiles and theatrics of the clown, illuminates our own relationship with our need to perform to cope with emotional pain."
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