Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra unleashed the new ‘Want It Back’ music video yesterday, offering another taste from her new album, “Theatre is Evil”, to be released on Palmer’s own 8ft. records (through Inertia) on September 7.
The video is a stop-motion animated video created with Australian director Jim Batt, and shot in Melbourne when Palmer and her band were recording the new album this past spring. The video continues a strong visual art theme, incorporating her naked body as a canvas for hand-painted lyrics to unfold across the screen. Body politics, and body pride, have always been a strong theme for Amanda: "I'm so comfortable being naked at this point that I almost forget... I'm also proud that that video has nudity, but it isn't sexual or erotic.... it's using the body as a raw canvas, which I love." Although a "censored version" of the video will be made available online, Palmer hopes the video will be widely seen in it's original form, despite some nudity. So, here it is in it's original form.
