Adanowsky - Would You Be Mine
Adanowsky is Jodorowsky’s son. Jodorowsky, the guy who blew John Lennon’s mind and spent decades making things so strange they barely qualified as entertainment. So when his kid makes a music video featuring Stoya, two geishas, and what appears to be an infinite amount of pink, I’m going in assuming there’s a point.
The video is sex without a punchline. Adanowsky plays this character—the lover, the predator, the god who has it all figured out—and he commits to it completely. Mustaches, crosses, Stoya doing what she does, all drowning in pink. It reads like someone’s fever dream except the person dreaming actually had the resources to film it.
I can’t tell you what any of it signifies. The geishas, the religious symbols, why everything has to be this aggressively gorgeous and explicit. Maybe it’s all purposeful. Maybe it’s just about being so provocative that nobody can accuse you of subtlety. The kind of video you close out when your boss walks by. The kind of thing that reminds you how completely adrift your parents are on the internet.
But there’s something to be said for committing that hard to a vision. Not hedging it, not wrapping it in theory or irony, just putting this much sexuality and weirdness out there and trusting that some people will get it. That counts for something.