After we dropped the idea, Abdullah revealed to us that he was already having reservations about "Retrograde" because he thought that he had remembered a better option.
That option was "Otherside" by Perfume Genius.
In his passionate words (I use his words for such descriptions because I can never talk about music the way he does), "Perfume Genius is another one of my personal favorites. “Otherside” has the perfect structure for a music video; it starts off really gentle and minimalistic, and then has a giant, almost startling, glimmering, textural sonic explosion at the chorus, and then this pattern repeats."
When Abdullah played the song for us, we were already exhausted by the "Song Debate" and it didn't sound bad so we agreed. but its not like we disliked it, it seemed like something that we could work with and we trusted Abdullah, especially in matters of music, so the new song was final.
This means we are back to square one and will start by first talking about Otherside's genre, Art Pop, and then interpreting the lyrics of the song before moving on to other planning stage tasks concerning the music video.
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