This New St. Vincent Music Video Features the Bear Orgy You’ve Been Looking for All Pride Month
Thew new St. Vincent video is here, and we’re loving it. For the track “Fast Slow Disco,” the video places St. Vincent herself, Annie Clark, right in the middle of a bear orgy. Clark performs the song as bears in fetish gear dance, writhe and strip.
Though “Slow Disco” appears on her most recent album MASSEDUCTION, the version in the new St. Vincent video is tweaked, as hinted at by the subtle name change. Clark says about the new version, “I always felt this song could wear many different outfits and live many different lives. Here she is in disco pants, sweating on a New York dance floor.”
There are three distinct parts to the video. It opens with scantily clad leather bears dancing for their life (and not fucking it up). But soon the bears start stripping and the video cuts to a writhing bear orgy as Clark lays across the top of them. Finally, as Clark sings “Don’t it beat a slow dance to death?” the bears all wind down with, well, a sweet slow dance.
The new St. Vincent video was directed by Zev Deans, who has directed a number of videos for metal bands like Cannibal Corpse, Ghost and Lamb of God. On his official site, Deans refers to the video as “St. Vincent tries on 50 shades of GAY” and describes the video as “a celebration of Pride Month, in the year 20gayteen.”
Though some might accuse her of trying to cash in on Pride, Clark herself is openly queer. She’s been romantically linked with Carrie Brownstein, Kristen Stewart and, most famously, Cara Delevigne. (It’s believed St. Vincent’s song “New York” is about the end of their relationship.)
