“The summer festival” is now more of an aesthetic than an event. In fact, it is not lacking as a category in the hippest online stores or as a curated selection in physical stores, so much so that the “Coachella look” is now a mood that we also know well in Europe. We had also written about it when talking about Primavera Sound, the coachellization of festivals is something that is actually happening here too. And we’re not just talking about flower crowns around the neck on white dresses (the outfit Midsummar), cowboy boots and colored glasses, but also a whole social attitude that has taken possession of these reviews. Think of the large writings with the name (or payoff) of the festival in front of which to take a picture, selfies under the stage or all those points of the festivals designed to be instagrammable.
Since the festival season is in full swing, there are some who enjoyed taking these clichés starting from the symbolic festival of the European summer, Glastonbury. Those someones are Munya Chawawa, an English actor and comedian of Zimbabwean origins, and Thundercat, two Grammys and a desire to fuck around that has remained that of the beginnings. The two presented on their social networks a new version of No More Lies (collaboration last year between Thundercat and Tame Impala) with an unpublished text focused precisely on life in the festivals and a video shot inside Glastonbury itself. “I saw Thundercat at Glasto, 45 minutes later he had a song together,” Chawawa wrote alongside the video.
“Sorry to have lost you in a field, but there is no Wi-Fi. I bought you some gluten-free nachos, they cost me like a mortgage and I had to queue and I ended up with a random guy”, sings Chawawa accompanied by Thundercut playing with a series of stereotypes that will continue throughout the song, dedicated to his “princess of the pit”. “You left me drowning in a sea of white girls wearing flower crowns while cartwheeling for their BeReals” or “I waited for you while you were suspended in the air inside a chemical toilet” and the more canonical “everyone has a bad odor”. All accompanied by a low budget video where the two interpret a series of typical festival situations.
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