Clay Pigeon - A Critique Of Current US's Gun Problem And Rise Of Fascism.

Clay Pigeon, an artist's song and video's P.O.V. on gun violence, correlated with the rise of US fascism.

Kali Goddess

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Ben Anderson's Clay Pigeon

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Clay Pigeon. Official video.

Excerpt from soundsaroundtown.net :: "The song paints a rather gruesome picture of the state of mental health in America and while guns may be more of a symbolic image of violence here, the focus on violence as a solution is more the focus as Anderson was quick to point out.

“‘Clay Pigeon’ is a song to raise awareness to the fact that we as a society, have violence strongly integrated into our culture,” Anderson said. ”The song is not pro or anti-gun laws. I truly don’t believe that’s the main source of the problem. ’Clay Pigeon’ focuses more on the lack of research and resources needed to help the mentally ill, the over glorification of violence through the media, and the lax enforcement of weapon sales.”

The subject matter has been on Anderson’s mind for some time now, but he didn’t have a way to make it click within a song for years.

“I’ve wanted to write a song on this subject for a while but it wasn’t until I came up with the song title ‘Clay Pigeon’ that I had a spring board to launch off of,” Anderson said. “The song composition is an amazing combination of Olivier and myself.”

The video though, is nearly as fascinating as the song and for some, it may be more so. The imagery, the storyline, the visual metaphors all match the poetics of the song, a subtle protest in the form of a cautionary tale.

“The music video plot came from the music,” Anderson sais. ” There’s Indian violin that serves as the centerpiece for the song. I felt that we should have either a belly dancer or some sort of Kali Goddess as a character in the plot. With the mentally ill aspect of the main character, it made sense to have her control the protagonist, since people that are mentally ill can feel powerless.”

What of the mysterious “Lady Kali Goddess”, deftly brought to life by LuxBot Lächeln? There are many questions about the phantom presence throughout the video and her role in the rise and fall of “Str8tShooterAK” (Anderson).

“We left it ambiguous with the Kali Goddess being real or not,” Anderson explained. “It might be a figment of his imagination, it might be real. It doesn’t matter. She is the driving force of his actions. Buy the gun. Gather the congregation. Lead a revolution.”

“The entire thing is an example of a man’s inner, darkest Id becomes an ethos of an entire society,” Anderson ruminated further. “When Philosophy evolves into Ideology.” -Mitchell Hillman

St8tshooterAK working his 'pigeons'.

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