Have you ever wanted to watch a former Disney starlet eat a tube of lipstick? Or the serious actor Riz Ahmed whisper into the ear of a giant pink teddy bear? The last month has seen a sweep of music videos from female solo artists that are delighting audiences with their eccentric aesthetics.
In Dua Lipa’s colourful and acutely choreographed video for “New Rules”, the British pop singer glides around a Miami hotel with eight seamlessly in-sync girlfriends in pastel dressing gowns. “Perfect Places” shows Lorde utterly alone in different sites of natural beauty. Charli XCX’s “Boys” features male celebrities (Stormzy, Joe Jonas, Tom Daley) flirting with the camera in a way usually reserved for female models. And Selena Gomez’s “Fetish”, directed by artist Petra Collins, is a suburbia-set horror film in which she writhes around on the floor covered in food. They’re all wonderful.
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