Composure

This cover song by Art of Ensemble featuring Sarah Slean is a work of art. This video is so well done it honestly sends chills down my spine. Sarah Slean is a gentle female beast. See the smeared blood on his chest? See the red splatters on the white floor? Sarah's civilized portrayal of love/hate as raw animalistic violence is striking. It's carnal. It's primitive. It's raw because it is so removed and detached.

Void of emotion, Sarah sings in an even voice that removes her from her violent acts against her lover. She is a woman way past anger. Past feeling. But not past caring. She still cares for revenge. It’s as though her every emotion spent, all that remains is cool exact fact. And that fact bleeds a pure white hate that lusts for revenge.

Sarah’s cool detachedness is most unsettling as you listen to her lyrics and the precise classical music rises and falls in time behind her. The way she so mockingly sings back her lovers’ unkept promises and then “oooooooh baby,” Omg! This is a woman scorned. Hell hath no wrath like her.

Sarah’s in control now. She is changed. And her lover has become the prey. She is dressed like a lady in pure virginal white as she so coolly confesses in proud half-smiles of how she ripped out his heart, put three bullets in his face, and hung him from a tree for all the others to see. Like a traitor. And her composure is just wow. You never got tough, like this woman got tough. But no, she'll never tear you apart.

Ladies, it's just a metaphor. Please don't try this with your ex-lovers at home.