Hedonist | Borg Queen (Official Music Video)
Hedonist is the fourth piece in the series and is visually and sonically the darkest. The preceding song Little Miss Liquid Courage is a satirical dig at mainstream beauty ideals and while light and pop sounding it hints at something much darker hiding beneath the surface.
Hedonist is the revealation of the darkness, pain and dysfunction that I was dealing with at the time by self medicating with various hedonistic vices.
Borg Queen is an electr-goth rock project from Vancouver, BC led by multidisciplinary artist Jenny Kirby and was released it’s first LP Sex, Drugs & Shiny Brass Poles January 29th, 2017. The album is a follow up to the release of the 2014 single Lap-dance Romance. The album received a very favourable review in Jamsphere Indie Music Magazine stating, “From the second “This is Real” kicks off the album, you realize it doesn’t even matter if you’re not into industrial, alternative or electronic music because
“Sex, Drugs & Shiny Brass Poles” really can’t be classified or labeled, in such a limiting way. It’s just amazingly composed, brooding, haunting music which takes you into another level of consciousness.”
Originally, the project began as a series of surrealistic paintings that were a form of art therapy, but has now evolved into a full blown multidisciplinary art project. Vancouver DJ Jeremy Baker of CFOX 99.3FM describes Jenny as, “a one woman content producing machine!
‘She plays and records all the instruments and does the engineering and production. Each song has a corresponding painting done in large format acrylic on canvas. Borg Queen has evolved into an assimilation of all the different artistic mediums Jenny has trained and worked with professionally including, painting, animation, acting, set design, dance, musical theatre, production design and of course music.’
Sex, Drugs & Shiny Brass Poles will feature 10 original paintings and 3 new music videos.
The perfect showcase of Borg Queen’s unique integration of mediums are the music videos, where Jenny takes a very hands on approach as an art director who also designs and makes the sets, costumes and props herself.
It's An Artist's Life ~ The Borg Queen Blog
For more insight into Borg Queen video Hedonist please check out the links below. Chalked full of the thoughts, machination, purpose and an in depth view of the making of the video. Please check out the 4 links below from Borg Queen/Jenny KIrby herself.
The Art of Sexual Assault:
A Dark And Enlightening Journey:
I’m A Dirty Girl
Pre-Production Madness
Hedonist
I use to be a good girl
I used to really care
But when you came along
Then I began to disappear
Since you think you’re God
Then create someone new
Someone better than me
That’ll serve only you
Hey You! Look what I’ve become
I’m your hedonist baby
All I want is to cum
You’re getting used
While I’m being abused so
I need an anesthetic x3
To numb me to you
You got what you want
You made me this way
I’m gonna drink, dance, fuck
And snort the pain away
‘Cause you got what you want
You made me this way
I’m gonna drink, dance, fuck
And snort the pain away
I must confess that I love the drugs
And I like to fuck, and I don’t care who
And that my darling is why I love you
Hey You! Look what I’ve become
I’m your hedonist baby
All I want is to cum
You’re getting used
While I’m being abused so
I need an anesthetic x3
To numb me to you
You got what you want
You made me this way
I’m gonna drink, dance, fuck
And snort the pain away
‘Cause you got what you want
You made me this way
I’m gonna drink, dance, fuck
And snort the pain away
I can’t take this anymore
There’s nothing strong enough to numb me
I’m your whore
You’ve imprisoned me
In your web of lies
You struck my body
When I carried your child
You violate what’s left of me
In every way
So I poison myself
To keep your assaults at bay
But these wounds you inflict
Are bleeding out as I pray
While I still drink dance fuck
And snort the pain away
‘Cause there’s a hole deep inside me
That you RAPE everyday
So I’ll just drink, dance fuck
and snort the pain away
Hey You! Look what I’ve become
I’m your hedonist baby
All I want is to cum
You’re getting used
While I’m being abused so
I need an anesthetic x7
To numb me to you