FROM PAGES OF POETRY TO SPOKEN WORD TO VISUAL STORYTELLING: Your Mistake is here to prove that love poems are more than just sappy sweet stanzas or heartbreak haikus.
We had so much fun making this video because let’s face it–both the poem and track are ruthless. (Big up to Silence for NAILING the heat in this beat.) Shot “in quarantine,” Gregory B. Cooke and I collaborated to tell this story of a fiery woman delivering the ultimate troll on an estranged boyfriend.
Adapted from the Angry Love chapter of Cries From Quarantine: Poems About Love, this gritty track perfectly embodies the vibe of the poem. Like the lyrics, the visuals reflect confidence, comfort and sensuality. She’s rising up from the pain and settling into her bad b*tch energy. It’s his loss, and she’s here to tell him.
The first of the CFQ: The Gallery Remixes videos, the storytelling intentionally happens within the walls of my own domain. Simple and authentic, the poetry in motion lives inside of the real world in which the poem was created. How’s that for blurred lines?
Like what you see? Subscribe to the YouTube channel–there’s more to come and you’ll be the first to know. What spoken word track from the album do you want to pull into another dimension? In the CFQ space, words have no limits!
Share your thoughts or Angry Love story in the comments!
