Debut EP from twst, Welsh songwriter, vocalist and producer Chloé Davis, is out today. The EP arrives alongside a new music video for a previously-unreleased track “Are You Filming Me?”
“I wrote the song after spending time in the Jungle in Calais, and the whole experience was such a culture shock, coming back into a very surveilled western system after being in Europe’s biggest refugee camp,” twst says about “Are You Filming Me?” “After that, everything about London felt orchestrated and self-centered, like the Truman show. It really stirred up a sense of paranoia within me, which ended up being one of the main themes of the lyrics. And it poses the question, ‘Are we right in feeling paranoid in such a heavily surveilled existence?’ ”“I wanted to portray this mental instability in the music video. The sense of cabin fever is especially potent since this has been my and so much of the world’s experience during this pandemic. I shot this alone during quarantine and was really inspired by how I was feeling and still am. It was initially inspired by live-streaming culture which has obviously changed hugely during this period. I guess the video is a hyperreality take on live-streaming culture, and the paranoia and obsession with oneself online. But then, if I am being filmed, I guess I should play up to it?”
