Perfume Genius’s “Die 4 You” Video Is A Disconcerting Look At Love

Watch the official visual for the No Shape song.

May 09, 2017

Perfume Genius's "Die 4 You" is a song that uses erotic asphyxiation as a metaphor for committing entirely to a partner. “It’s a metaphor for giving all of yourself to someone else,” he recently told The FADER. “You can push it so far that I might even die and that would be OK.” Today, May 9, we get the stunning visual for the song.

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Directed by Floria Sigismondi, the video begins with Mike Hadreas contorting his body in time with the eerie song. before things take a turn for the unsettling. Check out the video, which features a costume change, a floating chair, and Hadreas being drawn toward an amorphous fleshy mass, above.

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Perfume Genius’s “Die 4 You” Video Is A Disconcerting Look At Love