Verde
a music film by neptunemuse
Pulling inspiration from 70's soul, Latin jazz, and bossanova, Gabrielle Tola, artistically known as NeptuneMuse, is an Ecuadorian-Colombian-Egyptian independent R&B/Soul artist, singer-songwriter, poet, astrologer, creative director, dancer, and music producer based in Miami.
Dedicated to world-building a lush sonic and visual dreamscape through her music and poetry, NeptuneMuse’s mission is to heal and uplift others through ethereal artistic expression inspired by eco-sensuality, astrology, romance, magical realism, and pleasure activism. Her biophilic artistry is powered by her Piscean devotion to contribute her idealistic visions to a bigger mosaic of queer liberation and joy for QTBIPOC.
The music video for Verde (self-produced and directed by NeptuneMuse) travels through the story of Violeta, the lone anastasia lily flower in a bouquet centerpiece in Verde’s bedroom (both characters played by NeptuneMuse), as Violeta falls in love with the leading lady for her carefree nature, human beauty, and gentleness. Verde is the parallel character to the love interest in Lorca’s Romance Sonambulo, aloof, seemingly distant, but still zealously fond of her flowers. Violeta is restrained in her desire, confessing her yearning for intimacy with a seductive, gentle vocal tone. Soft, silken, and raw, she is solitude in a metaphorical white room reflecting her subconscious space, sparring between staying true to her identity as a flower and defying rationality, pursuing an unrequited love. Violeta is the central dancer in the performance of elegance and beauty, surrounded by the neighboring flowers in the bouquet called“ the Bouquet Babes,” who represent the status quo/her subconscious state of mind. Violeta represents the archetype of the hopeless romantic in this surrealist and campy love story between humans and nature. Throughout the music video, we see the two seemingly in a cat-and-mouse loop of seduction where Verde invokes Violeta through her affection and Violeta seduces her back through her understated sensuality, as plants have no other way of communicating with humans but through their appearance. The mission of the music video is to divest from current social hyperfixations on evolving ecologically disastrous technologies and shift the focal point to the sentience of nature. If nature could speak, what would it have to say? And if flowers could speak, what would they tell us they feel?
