In This Shirt • The Irrepressibles
In This Shirt • The Irrepressibles
Dir: Roy Raz
V2 Coop • August 29, 2010
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If Antony & the Johnsons and Patrick Wolf had a lovechild with Vanessa Mae, The Irrepressibles’ ‘In This Shirt’ would no doubt be the result. A friend of mine posted a link to the video on facebook yesterday and it quickly spread through the facebookverse.
The Irrepressibles is a ten-piece orchestral ensemble. ‘In This Shirt’ is a haunting song and the video reflects that. The peanut crunching crowd on YouTube may ask, ‘what does it mean?’, and get rattled by the homosexuality in the song as well as the video, but that is just graffiti. There is a tension between the images, which trade on the sexualized commercialism of mainstream gay culture as well as MTV pop, and the emotion of the song. The meaning is in that.
And oddly this song is now being used in the latest BT broadband ad …