I'm choosing to review "right here, right now" by Fatboy slim and a live performance I say of Bellatrix the Beatboxer.
Plot of the video
I love this music video its a really cool and deep all in one and the music video goes so well with the music. It starts off telling us that it is set 350 billion years ago as blue electrical current and a call that turns into a jellyfish swimming though water then morphs into different types of fish. As the species get more advanced a turns into a mud-skipper and comes out of the water and moves on to the ground. It then turns into a lizard in a jungle.It then climes up a tree and turns into a monkey. The monkey is crossing different parts of the earth and turns into a gorilla. The gorilla jumps into the desert and runs through a rock storm and turns into a neanderthal man who starts running on two legs. He then gets dressed and turns into present-day man. He starts eating junk food and gets really overweight. We then see that he's really unfit and he sits down on a bench. It fades away with him pictured in a city at night.
Feedback
I think this video is really deep and funny because it takes you through the evolutionary stages of species according to Charles Darwin. I also love how the lyrics work really well with the video and how the music builds up throughout the video building up. I think This song has a message because towards the end the human starts getting fat and unhealthy. This is a comment on how we've come so far but nowadays it seems like were going back.
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 30th November 2016 - Bellatrix the beatboxer
What did you enjoy about the performance?
I enjoyed watching Bellatrix because she was an amazing beatboxer and she interacted with us an taught us how to do it. Her style is really original because she used her singing voice with he beatbox. When she first went on stage I didn't expect her to be a beatboxer because she was quite small and her image was quite casual and not the usual thing you'd expect. Her performance was really loud and strong and she was an excellent performer and I found her really inspiring as a young woman myself it was good to see a girl in this genre of music because it is male-dominated. I'm saying this because I'm a drummer and it's also quite unusual for women to be drummers and come up against discrimination.
Background on her
Bellatrix
Name: Belle Ehresmann
Age: 20
Known as: The Musician: is studying at London's prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama
"It is a bit of an addiction," says one of the UK's few female beatboxers. "I first heard my friend Duke Box doing it when I was about 15 and I haven't stopped since."
As an accomplished musician – she plays coronet and is studying jazz double bass – Bellatrix's approach to beatboxing comes from a distinctly classical background. "Because I'm a musician in training," she says, "I'm doing music all day every day. Whether beatboxing or double bass, one affects the other."
Here is a video of her performing in front of us at the Lyric Theatre
Bellatrix has recently returned from Berlin, where she was crowned the best female beatboxer in the world and awarded a golden microphone. "I choose not to make a big deal out the whole woman thing," she says. "Beatboxing is dominated by men and that's just a fact. All the guys I work with are always really supportive and, actually, as a woman, it's nice to be able to surprise people and show people we can do it too."
Recently, Bellatrix got together with four jazz-singer friends, also studying at Guildhall, and formed a female a capella group called The Boxettes. "They are all incredible singers and very different," she says. "We have this chemistry between us so it works really well. They're all learning how to beatbox, so now it's turning into a female beatbox quintet."
With a busy calendar of festival performances and double-bass exams lined up, Bellatrix plans to spend her time flitting between both disciplines. "Playing the bass and doing The Boxettes are my priorities. In both, I just want to be the best musician I can possibly be."
Here she is on the BBC news explaining how to beatbox
Fatboy Slim is awesome!