Last night, a clip of Jade appeared, filmed so tenderly I was surprised we were allowed to see it. It was just… really loving camera work. (And the song clip! GUYS! I am so excited about the SOUND!) It has been a long time since we have seen Jade depicted through a lens of kindness—of anything but scorn and indifference at best and murder at worst. The Anointed video was astonishing for the same reason: it showed us a Jade who didn’t die, wasn’t substituted by a Murder Girl, a Jade who ended up on the same side of the narrative as Davey at the end, when they enter the Queer Matrix and presumably live happily ever after, with heteronormative expectations exorcised.
What I want to talk about today is white. By my count, Davey references the color white on six notable occasions (Girl’s Not Grey, The Great Disappointment, On A Friday, Fade to White, Down Here, and The Face Beneath the Waves). Some of these references pack more metaphoric punch than others; he also frequently references paleness, light, fading, and clean/dirty parallels that certainly intersect with his usage of white. I’m going to frame my exploration around the song Fade to White, which is one of the more impactful instances, for all that the word doesn’t appear in the lyrics themselves.
(Here’s the song clip released last night that I’ll be referencing.) Continue reading
Tonight, In the Whispers 