Cuban-Irish singer Qbanaa has released a music video for her recent single ‘ Shrink’.
Directed by Produced by Qbanaa and directed by Andrew Asco (Khakikid & Carsten2X’s ‘Underbite‘ and Bricknasty’s ‘Fashion’), the video explores “the personification and surrealism of struggles with eating disorders and addiction through kaleidoscopic imagery, using tinsel as a symbolic motif.”
“I chose tinsel as the secondary character because you usually associate it with colourful nightlife and parties. It represents a dirty little secret masked in the illusion of loud confidence. It sort of becomes the main character in the end. Which is what life struggling with this felt like at times. Disillusion, a total car crash. I think Raye made a really good point that women don’t tend to speak about addiction struggles because it’s still seen as a taboo or unfeminine. I’d like to shine more of a light on that in Dublin. I see a lot of people far and close to me struggling but too afraid to talk about it in case they’re judged poorly when it’s something very (silently) common.”
Qbanaa
Qbanaa will release a new EP soon, with a new single next month.
Qbanaa Tour dates
2nd June – Forbidden Fruit
13th June – Le Pop Up, Paris
15th June – Badehaus, Berlin
17th June – Hydrozagadka, Warsaw
18th June – Café V lese, Prague
19th June – B72, Vienna
Video Credits
Director: Andrew Asco
Producer: Elizabeth Villazon Figueredo
D.O.P: Daniel Bolaños Meade
Gaffer: Bornil Anurag
Focus Puller: Carlos Miguel
Makeup Artist : Amie Dunne
Hair Stylist : Eilish Mulcahy
Extras : Aoife , Tara, Daya, Wei, Roisin, Jaq
Music Credits
Producers: Elizabeth Villazon Figueredo and Chris Bubenzer
Mix: Daniel Doherty
Master: New Machine
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
