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Watch: Krista Papista - "Bad F" [Premiere]

10 November 2014, 09:49 | Written by Laurence Day

Part-Cypriot, part-Australian "Sordid pop" abrasionist Krista Papista takes many liberties with the boundaries of electronica and pop with her new(ish) track "Bad F". In her video for the track, available exclusively on Best Fit, she plays faster and looser with the conventions.

Skirting the worlds of Crystal Castles, HEALTH, No Bra and other combative experimenters, "Bad F" is stuffed with raw electrics and yowling harmonies. However, it also strikes a melodic vein, with tropical synth earworms and steel pans juxtaposing the deliberate confrontation.

Speaking about the video and track in detail, Papista says:

"The song illustrates the different stages and dimensions you experience in the process of harsh realisations, when an illusion dies. The song begins with my character who is amplified with empathy and love for a fragile older loved one who is burdened with all the errors of a life time filled with bad reckless choices (she's past her forties now...), and my character through these feelings of empathy combined with youth's naivety felt a strength, a power, that my character is convinced can help and protect a dodgy intimate friend. Their relationship turns out to be a complete living nightmare, as you can see through the visuals in the beginning we resemble each other as we were dangerously close, I lose my identity and look lost and miserable, then the shipwreck of the relationship is portrayed through the violent scenes and conceptual portraits that illustrate suffocation/a dysfunction (the stocking scene etc.). Then at the "chronic mayhem" part (1:50) I have angry outburst, declaring my independence and proudly being the blue haired aggressive powerful Krista Papista persona, ending the song with (my favourite part) what I consider a very feminist statement/shot as it portrays the vagina for once being powerful, recklessly fucking the plant/self-pleasing or just being sexual with it in a humorous/very self-aware/powerful and in a highly aesthetic manner."

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Watch the video for "Bad F"below. Probably a little NSFW. The video was created by Krista Papista and blør.

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