monsters_still_jette6squareThe video premiere of the second a glow single monsters is out NOW: the very fashionable KALTBLUT Magazine presented the stunning video that was created by Cologne-based visual artist Uli Sigg in close collaboration with Jette and myself.
Jette sings about the monsters, fears and thoughts that haunt us in our dreams and which we can not banish from our heads.  Uli dresses the song into dystopian images of a dissolving world as presented daily by the media. Reality crumbles literally before our very eyes.

Jette’s lyrics of the song exist for quite a while now. They are basically about the hidden fears that haunt us, the monsters under the bed, the hidden claw, the vampires at our door. However in 2016 we realised that the lifestyle and the decisions made in our societies are more and more based on fears than on facts. Especially by the pictures we see on TV and the WWW, people get scared and irrational. They take non-constructive action and by voting for those parties and leaders, who promise to “make those pictures go away”, we even exacerbate the situation.

When we entered the new millennium, many people believed that the future will be shaped by peace, tolerance, rational thinking and equality for all. We were hoping that the internet could be the tool to unite people from all over the world by communication and shared values. Now we discover that the world we thought we knew is crumbling in front of our eyes, just like the walls of Aleppo. Nothing seems safe anymore and people are torn to follow their deepest fears and those, who promise to protect them.  Like a child we need to learn anew to separate fears from facts.

a glow – monsters – roter punkt

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