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Rosie Lowe - Games

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ArtistRosie Lowe

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Synopsis

Two young women spend a night moving through the city, their closeness shadowed by an uneasy emotional distance. They appear to enjoy themselves at first, but flashes of discomfort and isolation gradually surface. Their evening eventually leads to a shabby karaoke bar, where the pair remain detached from the surrounding celebration before leaving. The video keeps their relationship deliberately opaque: they could be friends, sisters, or something more complicated, allowing the tension to remain unresolved and placing the viewer outside their private world.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video was released in February 2014 as part of the promotional campaign for Lowe's Right Thing EP, which was issued through 37 Adventures.
  • Lowe described the song as being about unspoken friction in a friendship, shaped by resentment, jealousy, power, and control.
  • The central relationship was intentionally left unclear. The women were conceived as having an intimate bond that might suggest friendship or family, but the audience is never given enough information to define it.
  • The creative approach deliberately places the story in a culture different from Lowe's own. This reinforces the song's feeling of being an outsider who cannot fully enter or understand the relationship at the center of the video.
  • Yennis Cheung and Shin-Fei Chen play the two central characters. Their restrained performances were important to the video's atmosphere of ambiguity and emotional unease.
  • The production was handled by Colonel Blimp, with cinematography by Jaime Feliu-Torres, production design by Dave Paul, editing by Ryan Beck at Final Cut, and color grading by Framestore.
  • The karaoke sequence was highlighted in contemporary coverage as the video's turning point, shifting the story from an uneasy night out into a more visibly uncomfortable social setting.
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