Kimbra‘s new video for Come Into My Head is the most exciting she has released since Settle Down (all of two years ago, she now has something like six studio and countless live videos available online). It’s instantaneous, and in this video more obvious than ever the amount of pure talent and super-human focus the 22 year old New Zealander pours into her music and performances.
Isolated in a sterile psychiatric ward, she seems more sane than the emotionally tattered medical staff observing her even as she opens her forehead with a scalpel and lies with a sly sneer on the floor atop a growing puddle of blood. Surrounded by swarming brass and reeded instruments interlaced with spasmodic guitar riffs she takes her unique brand of funk-laden, adventurous pop to a new level of chaotic elation. Every movement she makes is simultaneously fiercely organic and minutely precise.
As her captors in the video find out, to their horror, they cannot contain the irresistible force that is Kimbra. It’s to our delight that we learn the very same lesson. For my money, I’m willing to call Kimbra a generational talent. You decide for yourself but my pencil is down.
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This video is the most dynamic, expressive and head-banging, fun-time video I have seen in years and it’s really cool to see her shedding the little girl into full-blown woman-hood like a rebirth!!! Givin’ it up and steppin’-up and into the big-time show-this-up-I-dare-ya attitude!! Bravo Kimbra! You really really are a true talented rock star! Never stop making your music!
Agree wholeheartedly. I called her a once in a generation talent a year ago, but then again I’m from Australia and have been listening to her songs for over a year. Seen her live a number of times and she is brilliant and getting better by the month. I never thought we’d see someone with the ability to write songs of different genres like Prince as he is/was a once in a generation but Kimbra is ready to take the mantle in this generation.
For real! I think if she keeps up the energy in her videos like this, and already controversy over this one’s “psycho type theme”, she could become the new MJ! Every project she is involved in musically, it seems, is just so much better because of that involvement, and that really shows she has mastered her art in great ways. Hearing she is already working on new material just makes me “HAVE TO” look at her bandpage every day for news of any new material! Yeah I think she is that good! A generation, averages 10 years, so at 22…she has so much music to give to this one, the next and possibly even the next! Great talent Kimbra has!