{"id":34608,"date":"2020-07-12T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34608"},"modified":"2020-07-12T09:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T13:43:30","slug":"young-knives-share-video-for-new-single-society-for-cutting-up-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34608","title":{"rendered":"Young Knives share video for new single \u2018Society for Cutting Up Men\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Young Knives (brothers Henry Dartnall and The House of Lords) have shared a third track lifted from their forthcoming album\u00a0\u2018Barbarians\u2019. Society for Cutting Up Men<\/em> is named after Valerie Solanas\u2019 feminist political pamphlet the SCUM Manifesto. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry says: \u201cI really just wanted to write a song from this position. The basic idea is that women should rise up and the man is obsolete. It sounds extreme but when I read it she is so spot on about how men work and how we have deemed certain things to represent \u201csuccess\u201d and \u201cpower\u201d, but really it can be argued that it\u2019s all a myth and we are free to change this if we really wanted to. So it\u2019s an imagined female uprising where it\u2019s not about a peaceful march, or using the traditional \u201cmale\u201d routes to law changes etc., it\u2019s about violently and passionately removing men from the picture. The Society for Cutting Up Men will rise to the top.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due out on July 8th,\u00a0Society for Cutting Up Men<\/em> is accompanied by a video complete with lyrics and a journey that Henry describes thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe approached the video for \u2018Society for Cutting Up Men\u2019 with absolutely no plan. The only idea was that we would go shopping because there was a new shopping centre in Oxford and shopping centres are one of the many “towers” that the song possibly refers too: towers of power built by the “patriarchy”, or at least male dominated big business. Secretly we just wanted to see what it was like; filled with expectation and eager for the massive dopamine hits that a new retail experience promises. Other than that, the idea was just to capture those couple of hours inside this palace of the senses and see what came out. The f*****g jumpers were \u00a330 each! We tried to get one in Primark but it was so close to Christmas that they were sold out. But the drug was already in our blood and we had to do it, we needed that look. \u00a360 quid later and the video had its beautiful centrepiece. Considering that Primark was sold out, we were the only people actually wearing a Christmas jumper, which seemed counter intuitive. So when better to release a Christmas video than mid-summer, so we can peer into that alien other world of retail madness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Society for Cutting Up Men is available to stream \/ download\u00a0here<\/a>. But, you can watch the video\u00a0clip via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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