Synopsis
A young woman emerges from a river and moves through an idyllic natural world before entering a crowded city marked by misery, alienation, and lost perspective. Rather than allowing the urban environment to overwhelm her, she responds through dance, treating movement as a form of meditation and inner resistance. As the dance intensifies, she is transported back to the forest, where she removes a black veil representing accumulated grief. Her spiritual journey ends at the river, suggesting release, renewal, and reconnection with the wider cosmos.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video's story was inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel "Siddhartha," particularly its themes of spiritual searching, worldly experience, suffering, and enlightenment.
- The river functions as more than a setting. The video's creators describe it as a symbol of the cosmos and as the place to which the central character ultimately returns.
- Dance is presented as the character's form of meditation. It allows her to preserve her sense of self while surrounded by a city whose inhabitants have lost their perspective.
- The removal of the black veil provides the video's clearest visual metaphor. It represents letting go of grief and sadness after the character's difficult experiences.
- "How You Love" was released on October 30, 2013, as part of Delakeyz's "Inner Peace EP."
- Delakeyz is described as a Swiss artist whose music draws on electronic, jazz, and house influences.
- The track was written and produced by Samuel Morris and Suleika Muller.