Act as quickly as possible.
"I always say to him, 'You act as a lover,"' she murmurs, eyelashes aflutter.
Never mind that, when Carmen and José — the singers — finally meet as lovers in Act II, she announces that she will dance for him.
Because the video lacks a strict narrative format, ballet dancer Maria Kochetkova's haunting movements, interspersed in between the shots of the lovers, act as the glue that binds the piece together.
Narcissism, a new song swiping at mummy's boys who expect their lovers to act as their slaves, is full of smirks and insight, Morissette tilting her head as she plays her guitar, as though the object of her derision is standing before her, her manner conversational, her words full of spite as she casually demolishes him.
Imagine: in 1870, while his peers were wearing terrifying masturbation-inhibitors and penis clamps and Rousseau was whining about going to hell for stealing apples, this guy signed a legal contract with his lover to act as her slave.
It's a sound that Toolroom can now claim for its own since their #RESET campaign; big-room, techno, and other forms of dancefloor music that can act as a bridge for EDM-lovers to the darker side of house music. .
Lewis presents the pair of academics partly, like all the greatest double acts, as star-crossed lovers – in their formative years, each of them seems, in retrospect, to have been waiting for the other to arrive in order to find out exactly what he was capable of.
And Sarah Heltzel, vocally striking and visually appealing, walked away with the second act as Desideria, Michele's vindictive, doomed lover.
