At the moment, in the current climate where domestic violence has risen so dramatically under lockdown, it’s a topic that feels more important than ever to talk about. Bayley said: "I was too young to understand why she had blood on her nose…It was one of the toughest to write because it didn’t feel like my story to tell, but it also felt like a story that needed to be told. When you know it’s bad but also that you’re too young to really get it.”īayley further explained this in an interview with NME. I guess the song is about the helplessness you feel in situations like that. And then we'd all get back in the truck and she'd take me home. I remember it hitting me, just that it was so bad. My friend would turn to me and be like, 'Oh god, she's going to come out crying.' And his mom would come out of the house in tears with blood on her nose and things like that. We weren’t allowed in the house-we always played in this woodsy area nearby-but sometimes there’d be loud shouting from inside. There were dogs in cages, wild cats in cages I didn't really understand it. I went to my friend’s house after school one day, and it was a weird place. Bayley said: “This song was sparked by one of my very first memories-the first where I can trace the whole sequence of events. In an interview with Apple Music, Bayley explained the meaning behind Domestic Bliss. "Huge thanks to everyone involved in this project.Domestic Bliss narrates a tragic instance of an abusive relationship the mother of one of Dave Bayley’s childhood friends was in. I will always be grateful that he never bolted for the door! We embraced a Dogville aesthetic on this film. I had placed pretty severe creative restrictions on him in order to help the video to not become dark or moody one of my main references for lighting was a pretty ghastly screen grab from mid-90s Saturday Night Live. "Ruben Woodin Dechamps, the film’s cinematographer, excelled at working within the unenviable restrictions of needing to achieve the impression of a moving car moving at night in a flagged off, black studio setting. "Dave could sit in the car with the animatic playing on the iPad as we did final checks around him, allowing him to understand where he needed to be looking and when, and more importantly giving him little cues for performance (although the best stuff always came from him… Dave’s very good!) It also became an invaluable resource for Dave, whose boldness to approve this script and go for it, having no previous acting experience, will always be something I’m so deeply grateful for. The animatic allowed us to see the jigsaw puzzle of the day, and navigate all the camera positions (including a lengthy lock-off shot for the wides of the car where you see all the characters at the same time). What is Tangerine about The protagonist is feeling frustrated with his partner who is focused on her phone and social media, and has issues with her father. "With a 42 shot list and a 12 hour day (a COVID test delayed Dave’s arrival to 11am the morning of the shoot), that iPhone animatic became our life saver. I was hoping this would also show me where I could drop some shots in my horrendously long shot list… I couldn’t. So much so that I had filmed the entirety of the video on an iPhone with two actor friends, Josh Glanc and Luke Rollason, a few days before the shoot. The construct of the film had to be water tight. "This is a narrative video with lip-sync. "After showing some key references, such as BBC children’s TV show Big Babies to reassure the label and band that this was not going to become a dark, Chris Cunningham/Aphex Twin monster, but instead be tone of extreme playfulness and fun, the project was green lit. But then it became apparent how well this fit with the duality of the song’s lyrical content this video could now be seen equally as the relationship between four different people but also a communication between different parts of the same person. "I wrote a draft of the script where Dave played all the characters, purely to be production-friendly. I filmed the entirety of the video on an iPhone with two actor friends a few days before the shoot. But a car is a confined space (COVID), and the budget was tight for this very ambitious idea. I don’t think I would have naturally drawn the conclusion of Dave playing all the characters - after all, Glass Animals has three other band members. It’s amazing how restrictions can often lead to really exciting developments. A kind of combination of the film Night On Earth (1991) and the board game The Game Of Life. The script was based entirely in a car where the cycle of a lifespan occurred over the length of the film. "I had been nurturing a short film script for the past year or so. Dave then stated that it was also a reflection the relationship that he has with himself. "When talking with Dave (Bayley) about the concept for his lyrical content, my initial assumption was that the lyrics were about an argument with a partner.
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