Ex:Re - The Dazzler
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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2019
- 'The Dazzler' is taken from Ex:Re's self titled debut album, digitally out now on 4AD & Glassnote Records. Buy & stream 'The Dazzler' here: smarturl.it/ExRe
Actor: Maxine Peake
Person in the corridor: Alfrun Rose
Concierge: Fabian Prynn
Directors: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Producer: Hannah Bellil
Production Company: Prettybird
Head of Production: Hannah May
Executive Producers: Juliette Larthe & Ted Thornton
Production Assistants: Benji Landman & Chris Murdoch
1st AD: Will Jasper
Runner: Enrique Da Silva
Runner: Mark Bleziri
Runner: Ellie Taverner
Runner: Eloise Fleet
Director of Photography: Ben Magahy
Focus Puller: Ran Geffen
Sound Playback: Roger Cutting
Gaffer: Bruce Magahy
Electrician: Steve Dredlock
Makeup/Hair/Wardrobe: Emily Newson
Production Designer: Libby Uppington
Production Design Assistant: Joshua Douglas Bagley
Editor: Olly Stothert
Colourist: John Claude
Post Production Company: Dirty Looks
Label: 4AD
Special thanks to Sophie Brooks and Town Hall Hotel.
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'Here in my hotel room, I look gorgeous, I look like I'm 24, before, I caught your coldness, god I'm gorgeous.'
God that line is powerful.
actually it would be so much better without this line...
@@illiadozorenko37 naaaaaaaaa
Agreed! That's the line that got me
Also the line of "the falsety of hotel sex"
I thought it was, I look perfect
“I can shower for hours” me too girl
Lol o thought it’s only me 😂😂😂 I usually don’t feel the time when I’m there 😂
Favourite part of the song. When the piano comes in
Lucas Delhove same, I like the way she says it too
I'm a man and me too
I think that's weird
... "Come at me bro!" - *2024 Electricity & Gas Prices*
😋
What a great way to wake up
you are everywhere
Ahí vieneee.
Espero que la saques en tu canal. Besos 🌻
Sacala por favorrr
y cuando la subtitularas porfi?
I think I'm probably over analysing but the piano in this song sounds like a constant loop. As if she's stuck in her own self. With her own demons.
"This is living." sounds so positive. And then you watch the video and see a woman break down and it feels like her state of mind is endless.
And at the same time you hear Elena's heavenly backing vocals..
What a heavy, yet beautiful song..
Elena has a way of expressing this magnificent pain and sorrow through every single lyric.
This piece and Liar are my personal favorites. So easily they resonate with everything that so many people are or have gone through.
I would like to add, that personally,
The Dazzler shines brightest in these lines:
" Drunk in my hotel room
I look perfect
I look like I'm 24 before I caught your coldness
God I'm gorgeous
I keep begging for late checkouts
Let me stay here
Let me live here
In room 232 till I expire
I can shower for hours
Leave the lights on
I'm not paying those bills "
To be able to express the metaphor I think she is portraying here in this way is really artistic.
This song will definitely stay in my memory till I expire.
The music video adds a completely new layer to the meaning of the song, but I have made a way too long comment already.
I have to agree that that verse really encapsulates the feeling of the song! The Dazzler is just one of those songs that takes hold of you right away and doesn't really let go. Other than this one, Crushing, Too Sad and Romance are probably my favourites off the album.
Absolutely! These sentences make all the song
New York is my favorite
This song hit me hard in many ways, I relate to it, it brings me back to the nights in the city where I would wander around and see all the happy couples walking around, laughing, kissing, cuddling, having dinner, living. The loneliness I felt was suffocating, I would call up guys for a cheap thrill, some sex in a decent hotel with some drinks just to feel something other than the emptiness inside me, growing. I would feel sick after like I was degrading myself for sinking this low just to escape my problems.
I felt like nobody would love me in those times, I was kind of hoping that one day a guy wouldn’t just get up and leave once the sex ended. I was hoping they would stay and hold me and let me cry out all this sadness enveloping me, engulfing my being deep inside. There were many nights in that city, in those hotel rooms, of just loneliness, pleasure, relief, hopelessness and confusion, I could see the imprints of myself in the walls.
My life is better now, I’m lucky for what I have and the guy I have in my life. I’ll never forget though those feelings and how close I was to ending it all in one of those rooms, each night was like a dance with death. Those memories feel like a blur, they’re strangely nostalgic. This song brings it all right out of me. I’m grateful for escaping that cycle, I know some that never escape.
thank you for the comment. I'm really happy you're better now. wish you all the best in your life
I'm relay glad to see your happiness! Your story is very sad and dramatic, I hope u will never feel it again🙏🏻 I felt your every word, even though they were not written in my language. I just wanted to say that u not alone and I'm feel it all with u❤️ you have to be the happiest girl in the world！ I really hope for it！
Анна Прокопьева Actually I’m a guy, I’m Gay :)
This was beautifully written & expressed. Tears in my eyes. I'm glad you were able to get out of that loop.
Neal Finn Interesting, did I ever say anything about wanting sympathy? Unlike yourself who posts wanting attention by provoking a response, I simply wanted to share an experience from my past that a song brought back up to surface so that others may share their own personal histories or perhaps feel that something I said makes them not feel alone in what they are going through. It’s hardly related to asking for sympathy that’s why I added into the ending what my life is like now compared to what it was back then and how I found happiness and how I’m not alone, it might bring some hope to someone else who is struggling that they too can surpass their own personal struggles or pain.
You don’t know what strength is considering you sit behind a screen attempting to be a “keyboard warrior” because you’re immature and your brain cannot comprehend anything outside of your own self. I suggest getting a life, your words are about as meaningless as a speck of dust in my mirror and they carry about as much weight.
I really adore Elena’s artistic portrayal of sorrow and melancholy through her music. And the music video really adds the cherry on top of it.
And the end of the video... It seems like we are in endless time loop and can't get out when we are feeling down and it seems like it never ends
But it's just my opinion
moonieyo “im not supposed to give my opinion butttt”
@@Mo_msh that is petty man
wat happen to daughter?
@@ficrihasan5796This should explain it. My heart sank when I saw this. www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/daughter-elena-tonra-interview-new-album-solo-exre-music-a8648726.html
and she did it again.
She always does.
The thing I *really* like of Elena among many other things, is her ability to portray melancholy and sorrow in such an artistic way. It just touches my heartstrings every single time. I don't think I can ever express how much I love her music.
I am a Flight Attendant so I spend many of my days/nights alone in hotels. This song, and video are just so perfect. They capture the loneliness that comes with traveling and never being in one place for too long. Thank you for being so honest with your lyrics, they have touched my soul!
The breakdown of the actress it looks like she's dancing, her moves, but she doesn't idk how to describe it, but it's just so amazing, I can't breathe
SHE ONLY KNOWS HOW TO FLAIL SKSKSKKSKSS ELENA WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US
I love the red tone and connection between this mv and Romance mv
It's amazing
moonieyo yes!
Elena,
I've been listening to your beautiful songs for years and it took me courage to write this as I'm used to be unseen. I hope you will read it!
I want to thank you for what you are doing. You're gifted and talented! You've been helping me getting through my life for years.
Years of struggling, and I've finally become strong enough. I'm a warrior and I believe I will survive.
There are no words that could describe the way your voice aches in my heart. The tone and the sounds just perfectly encapsulate what I feel! I really appreciate what you are doing. Thank you!
You're a true version of humanity! And my favourite singer ;)
Best wishes,
I hope she noticed this ♡
I could not agree more.
Well said
GG ,You will survive because Warriors never give up and never give in.The strength within you shall protect you from the blows of life.
Beautiful words. 😌
Favourite song from the album for sure. Probably even the best song of 2018 imo, truly special
Omg i loved
Dude it's 2019.
@@saecsee the album was released in November dude
I agree. This is the song of the year for sure.
@@pyromaniac_kyle2631 I didn't know that. :/ Now I feel embarrassed for being wrong in front of an anonymous person on the internet. I'm not sarcastic. I really do feel like that. Isn't it strange? I always feel embarrassed when being wrong. Well, most of the time, while I could just accept that I was wrong and move on.
I've had a really rough start to my day, not to mention that we are in the dead of winter and life just seems a bit more difficult than it normally does. Elena's words have saved me more than I know. I get to escape into her world and for a minute, all of my worries about non-important things seem to disappear. Forever grateful for her.
one of the most important female singers of our times
"Oh, this is heaven
Alone
Yeah, this is living
Alone"
Love this woman. Seriously.
This song destroys me. While i listening, sitting alone in my room. In my House alone. I barely remember how it's outside. Going out with Friends. But i barely have of those here. And the few never found time.
When i started living by myself y though It would be fun. I Will be free. But it's not. Every time i come home it's dark and lonely. Nobody waits for me anymore. It's horrid. I feel like i'm drowning, each day i have more trash in my room.
Each day it's more difficult for me to wake Up. And i don't know Who to reach.
And this song... It points out perfectly this feels. So good that It destroys me.
I know right.. When she says "this is heaven, alone. This is living, alone" It just does something to me... Like this is what I wanted, this is what I needed to break out from a toxic house so this should be heaven now that I'm alone, I should be living, but it's not what I wanted. And her voice and the melancholy, heavy music just cements that to me
Relatable. Hang in there mate. If you can, keep a pet, if you can't, get a plant. Hobbies help, develop one.
@@pulkitpandey8142 Definitely. I ended up getting a cat, which helps somewhat.
Hobbies are key. Moments of bliss from culture like this help also.
BE STRONG MY FRIEND YOU ARE NOT ALONE .
The way she sees how sorrowful she was at the end was incredible
I used to press my hand to the wall when I was a kid and imagine my older self doing the same.
I feel that smaller hand… it’s a different hand now. When the world was his to take until it beat him down. Then, one day, he stayed down.
Listening to Elena through the hardest of times left a mark on. It brings back the fragrance, the colours, and the desperate feeling. The energy of it is never going to sink in.
The night is young
At the Dazzler
I spiked my own drink
Took myself to bed
Alone I pondered the cheap thrills of hotels
The miniatures
The endless throw away towels
One from my hair
One from my foot
Another for my other foot
My face, my neck, my spilt beverages
Drunk in my hotel room
I look perfect
I look like I'm 24 before I caught your coldness
God I'm gorgeous
I keep begging for late checkouts
Let me stay here
Let me live here
In room 232 till I expire
I can shower for hours
Leave the lights on
I'm not paying those bills
The neighbours are quiet
No one is back yet
I think about the falsities of hotel sex
Expensive bed sheets
And the orange glowing filaments
The way you used to say you love me
In the heat of it
Holiday feeling
When it wasn't over too quick
Yeah I throw the TV out the window
And I'll paint the whole room of gold
I'm make potions with the minibar
Yeah I feel unbalanced
Put my feet on the walls
Trying to meet you all night
I'm not paying for calls
Oh
This is heaven
Alone
Yeah
This is living
Alone
Try and reach you all night
It is: paint the whole room gold. Thank you for the lyrics
Najihah Capry thank you
Tysm, now I can have my crisis at the fullest
Seriously, thank you
Favorite song from the album. There's something so beautifully lonely and cathartic about hotel rooms, and the way the song flows captures that perfectly. When the piano comes in around 2:25 I get chills
This is a masterpiece... music, lyrics, the whole atmosphere. It should have at least ten times more listeners on spotify, I just cannot explain it
Elena Tonra's solo album had never caught my attention, I thought it was not going to be to my liking and I have ignored the album for 2 years. It was when I ordered all the Daughter records and also Ex: Re. Yesterday they came to me, and my surprise is that, I have not stopped listening to the album, and this is my favorite of the whole album. I can say that Elena Tonra is a magnificent artist, she is one of those few who can open your heart and unleash memories, emotions that were always in the background and hurt, you feel like the soul is connected to the music and cries. I love you Elena Tonra, thank you for all your beautiful songs, thank you for being with me since 2017, I love you.
This song struck memories of staying at hotels. The unfamiliar but relaxing setting where you know you're not staying for long, so the feeling of being free from responsibility takes over. Loneliness relieves you of consequence/judgement from others. Feels like you could stay forever, a feeling that I haven't remembered for so long but crave often, so yeah, this song hit really close to home💜
This song is on repeat since the album came out
Same for me
Dazzler quotes that hit:
"This is living!"
"The neighbors are quiet ☺️"
"I could shower for hours, I'm not paying those bills"
"Let me stay here, let me live here!"
"I'll make potions with the mini bar! "
This Women could sing about anything and it would be bliss.
Like, litterally "one for my foot, another for my other foot" who cab make that sounds majestic and poetic as furk!!! So much appriciate for her voice and way after falling in love with this song!
Elena Tonra brings so many feelings up with just her vocals. its incredible and just so beautiful
I love this girl and her angelic voice.❤ I can't even describe how I feel while listening to Elena, it feels like someone stabs me in the heart and I feel weight on my chest, nostalgia hits back but in the other hand not in a bad negative way, I feel alive. It's not just her voice, everyone who worked on this music deserves a huge applause.👏 Thank you guys!
It fucks me up when a song can explain/ Express the emotions iam feeling better than I can....
I always love Elena's vocals, but I especially love her punchy delivery with this new project. Top notch.
I feel so guilty when I heard the dazzler for the first time, I always imagined myself going to hotel just for the sake of doing what I want, drink, smoke, bath all I want 😂 I never thought it will be interpreted into a music
There's some feeling in going to hotels, I can't explain...
I know!! This song captures that feeling perfectly, I was so shocked when I listened to it the first time
she saves my soul / heart with her smooth voice i’m actually crying it’s just so beautiful and relaxing
i relate too much
From Russia with love to Elena
yes, yes, yes!
russia loves her ♡
Tak dryg rasskaжi kak oni stali Ex.Re esli buli Daughter
Ex:Re это сольный проект вокалистки Daughter
The instrumentals are gorgeous. Elena, you really are an inspiration to me. I seriously want a Fender Telecaster one of these days because of the sound you bring.
Idk why this song reminds me "to belong" of daughter but just the visual part.
Love u elena 💙
THIS MUSIC IS SOMETHING MORE THAN MUSIC.
Its kinda a chronicle, the feeling of a person who is trying to make live worthy being alone. Is someone trying to let behind all the shit about love and making things better with memories. We all should do what she says in this music, go to a hotel room alone, drink alot, enjoy the "endless trhowaway towels", think about the times you made sex with your ex lover in this same hotel. And, the most importat, enjoy your own existance and your whole complexity of a human being.
We all born and die alone, at the end of the life.
Perfection. Please "too sad.."
An underrated masterpiece...
only 100k views? are you kidding me?
I relate this song with Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the dark so much. It perfectly captures the sense of alienation, the loneliness, the precarious nature of hotels, the heavy drinking, the hollow lovemaking, the self-destruction. Amazing how a song released in 2019 can relate so much to a modernist novel.
The lighting, movement, lyrics, and musicality of thos song. I am truly in awe. This is art, this makes me feel or at least remeber how it is t to feel this way. Feels like I caught a glimpse into the darker part of someone else's soul and my own that we don't dare say aloud. Sadly and optimistically somehow more connected.
😭🤧😢I feel you, its such a devoid feeling that is somehow comfortably melancholic. I love that darkness. oddly.
The saddest videos have Elena in the TV
RIGHT
Bless us...bless us all with this gift of music.....I enjoy everything and every word you say...it's just mellow and breathtaking!!!
I am in an amazing loving and understanding relationship and yet here I am vicariously feeling all the emotions in this song.
One of my favorites from Ex:Re
I listen to this everyday. No joke.
I love Elena soo much! Her voice is so similar with Florence Welch’s voice, hope one day they could collaborate together in a song❤️
I connect to daughter because even though I hate the feeling of being somber I also crave it. The raw sadness I get from her it makes me get in this mood ..just I love it. I remember touch was the first song I’ve heard by daughter way back and now this project is amazing.
this song talks about my life daily
I was in room 232 for decades. This mortal coil the endless death spin of self introspective ponderings mixed with self-destructive habits just had to put down that last drink.
Elena's voice and words profoundly express our dreams and demons. God I love your music, it hurts
„Oh
This is heaven
Alone
Yeah
This is living
Alone”
This is heaven = my own hell
It’s like going through brakedown...suddenly i feel this again and i want everyone go away and be alone in my safe place = my personal hell
Lyrics:
The night is young
At the Dazzler
I spiked my own drink
Took myself to bed
Alone I pondered the cheap thrills of hotels
The miniatures
The endless throw away towels
One from my hair
One from my foot
Another for my other foot
My face, my neck, my spilt beverages
Drunk in my hotel room
I look perfect
I look like I'm 24 before I caught your coldness
God I'm gorgeous
I keep begging for late checkouts
Let me stay here
Let me live here
In room 232 till I expire
I can shower for hours
Leave the lights on
I'm not paying those bills
The neighbours are quiet
No one is back yet
I think about the falsities of hotel sex
Expensive bed sheets
And the orange glowing filaments
The way you used to say you love me
In the heat of it
Holiday feeling
When it wasn't over too quick
Yeah I throw the TV out the window
And I'll paint the whole room of gold
I'm make potions with the minibar
Yeah I feel unbalanced
Put my feet on the walls
Trying to meet you all night
I'm not paying for calls
Oh
This is heaven
Alone
Yeah
This is living
Alone
The video and music just reminds me of being in a really bad time with depression in uni. Like things are intense and overwhelming - analysing a lot of details in the room and past memories. The late check out line brings back feelings of just wanting to be up in the night without consequence of exhaustion and having to face another day when it hits sun rise. Christ this song hit me deeper than expected. Thank you Elena! ♥
Your music was a laser Into the Heart of a severely dark heart... This is why you are not a billionaire... If I had my way... Your music would be on every radio station in the nation... I'm happy that I found you while you were singing in the band daughter
She sings tears into my eyes like the mother I never had
Haven't felt this way about an album since Turn on the Bright Lights. Already strapped it to the deepest parts of my heart.
EU TE AMO DEMAAAISS PORRRA
Us
tem brasileiro q ouve essa deusaaa
Tbm huasuhas
Amo dms bixo
OUÇO DESDE 2017 🤧🤧🤧🤧
Amazingly accurate depiction of my old ways... So depdessing... Sober now. What a difference..
Yes. Yes it is.
I have so many memories of sad, lonely nights in hotel rooms. This song captures it all.
Saddest part is knowing that this is me filled with emptiness and trying to fill it with drugs and alcohol and reminiscing on the experiences of the past that could’ve been but never happened
Loneliness is the worst. Constant despair.
I feel you!
That same vibe you got from the music video of Still, but more mature
you know you've reached peak bleak / excellence when maxine peake appears in your videos.
impecável como todas as coisas que a Elena faz 💙
there's a portishead-y vibe to it that i just can't describe, i just sit back and feel it.
omg true..I thought the same
When she sings 'I can shower for hours' that just hits me hard every single time
God, you have no idea how excited I am to see you making more content!!! I can't wait to see what else you've got in store
The background piano truly touches the depths of my soul. Everytime I listen to this beautiful work of art by Elena, something stirs within me. Something that brings tears to my eyes, yet also fills my heart with hope. I cannot explain what emotions her voice alone, makes me experience. Thank you so much for making this song. If I could possibly like more than once, ah, I'd have pressed that like icon a million times already.♥️
This is basically Daughter with a new name :) Still the same old greatness.
thank you for existing..
Love this song
I was waithing for this.. I love your music.. It makes me feel something.. ❤️
elena is absolutely brilliant in so many ways
_And that is where I see myself (alone), in a cornered hotel room, with the lights off, while I am slowly getting drunk feeling how my tears are falling until they reach the ground, once they are there I lie on them and I try to dream or imagine that for a moment I feel happy being sad._
This always leaves me crying, but it's beautiful.
I love this song with my soul. Thank you, Elena, I love all your music from deep down in my core. ❤️
Again.she stirs my soul.I want to watch her perform live before I die.
something i haven't seen anyone ever talk about this song is how the guitar sounds a lot like the guitar in dreams of william. obviously they were recorded around the same time, but it makes me wonder of a thematic connection. this is a sequel; where you end up after grief
artwork, i have no words
This is aesthetic! Love from all around the world!
OMG WHAT this is one of my fav songs off the album im glad it has a mv now
I can listen to this all the day
Thanks for another song 😊❤️ Hope you are feeling better by now~ much love x
so happy to see and hear this!! keep up the fantastic work💕 much love
beautiful just added this to one of our playlist
I love this song way to much
this song hurts my chest
Essa música é tão imersiva! O instrumental, a voz da Elena... Até as cores usadas no clipe e a atuação da atriz
I've been listening to this so often these past few weeks ❤️❤️ one of my faves for sure
A REALLY WONDERFUL PIECE OF MUSIC. LOVE IT .
YOU MAKE SUCH GREAT MUSIC!
A carreira solo tá melhor do que eu imaginei. Elena Tonra maravilhosa. ❤
so touching
This song breaks my heart. And yet I keep coming back