What do angels, a beach, and a feminine Ronald McDonald costume have in common? Nothing, which is why it’s so weird that all of those things appear in the video for “Stupid Paradise” by Grazia. But hey, weird can be good, and it certainly is in this case.
Grazia are a London duo made up of Heather Dunlop and Lindsay Corstorphine and together they’re releasing their debut EP In Poor Taste on February 2. Today we’re featuring their latest video for “Stupid Paradise” which features the duo in a number of unusual costumes on a video that looks like it was shot on camcorder in the ’90s. It’s a bizarre trip through a strange and uncanny world that always feels clever enough to have tongue firmly planted in cheek.
“Stupid Paradise found its meaning after the music was made, an attempt at a country song or something approaching that,” explains Lindsay Corstorphine about the song.
“Mellow and unnerving, lurching and catching up with itself, almost falling into it in the way that just completely checking out and shutting down and opting for nothing can be quite elating when you are tired of fighting with your own head all the time.
“The video takes place beside Dreamland, on a grey Margate beach (slightly abject, dilapidated British tropical paradise) and Abney Green cemetery in east London on a rainy day—both scenes shot in the summer, though it really doesn’t look like it.
“We landed on doing a slightly dragged up unlicensed fast food franchise clown and burger thief—and angels in paradise dancing amongst the graves.
“If we are going to make a song about dealing with a compromised headspace—It still has to be dumb and fun.“
Check out the video below.
In Poor Taste is available for preorder on Bandcamp.
Photo courtesy of Robin Christian
