The song that I am creating my music video to is Control by female singer-songwriter Halsey.
“Control” is a track from American singer-songwriter Halsey’s debut album, Badlands, released on August 28th, 2015. The song is a personification of Halsey’s bipolar disorder, which she recently opened up about in several interviews. She questions who is in control in the depths of her diseased mind. On Twitter, Halsey noted this song as the most emotionally difficult song to write: I remember feeling like “wow, is this really what I think of myself?”
“Control” is a track from American singer-songwriter Halsey’s debut album, Badlands, released on August 28th, 2015. The song is a personification of Halsey’s bipolar disorder, which she recently opened up about in several interviews. She questions who is in control in the depths of her diseased mind. On Twitter, Halsey noted this song as the most emotionally difficult song to write: I remember feeling like “wow, is this really what I think of myself?”
(taken from http://genius.com/Halsey-control-lyrics)
Control
The song lyrics describe the effects of bipolar disorder, which is a mental health condition. To do this, the lyrics focus mostly on imagery, which represent the hallucinations that are caused by mania, an aspect of bipolar disorder. The chorus has the lyrics "all the kids cried out 'please stop, you're scaring me'" which represents the fear she is experiencing from her own mind, and that she's urging the hallucinations to stop. As this is repeated throughout the song, it shows that her mind isn't listening, and is continuing to make her experience intense psychosis. She also repeats "who is in control?" which shows that she believes she is not control of her own mind, a symptom of bipolar disorder.
(Taken from http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Bipolar-disorder/Pages/Introduction.aspx)
Another example of psychosis and the effects of bipolar disorder is Sarah Kane's play '4.48 psychosis', which is subjected on clinical depression. The play consists of no characters or stage directions, but is merely words and phrases that Kane hears in her own mind. When the play was written, Kane had been admitted to a mental health hospital in London. It is said that the title '4.48 psychosis' was chosen as 4:48am was the time when Kane would usually wake, low on medication and experiencing severe depression and hallucinations. This links to Halsey's Control, as both texts are an insight to bipolar disorder, and were written during intense psychosis episodes.
(Taken fromhttp://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Psychosis/Pages/Introduction.aspx)
(Taken from http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hallucinations/Pages/Introduction.aspx)
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