Synopsis

Busdriver performs against a rapidly changing series of brightly colored backgrounds while the image fractures, shifts, and glitches around him. His animated delivery drives the visual rhythm, with selected lines appearing as vivid neon text across the screen. Rather than presenting a conventional narrative, the video turns the rapper's face, gestures, words, and digital surroundings into a constantly rearranging graphic collage. The result matches the song's unstable mixture of confession, bravado, desire, and self-criticism with an intentionally disorienting visual style.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was released in August 2012, several months after "Utilitarian Uses of Love" appeared as the opening track on Busdriver's album *Beaus$Eros*.

• It was created through the New Masses project, whose online catalog includes the clip among its music-video work.

• The video's neon colors, shifting backdrops, and digital distortion mirror the album's move away from Busdriver's earlier straight-ahead experimental rap toward more melodic, electronic, and pop-influenced territory.

• Busdriver described "Utilitarian Uses of Love" as the most personal song on *Beaus$Eros*. He connected it to the damage his own behavior caused in a relationship and to an addictive pattern involving women.

• The visual avoids illustrating that backstory literally. Instead, it emphasizes the song's internal conflict by making Busdriver appear surrounded by unstable images and fragments of language.

• The song's production was made with Belgian producer Loden, who handled additional production, beats, mixing, and production duties across *Beaus$Eros*.

• A live version of the song was later included in Busdriver's 2012 Violitionist Sessions appearance, expanding the track beyond the heavily processed studio-video presentation.