As a statement on unrealistic beauty standards, a Hungarian pop singer has released a music video in which she undergoes the sort of digital transformation usually seen in glossy magazines. (Credit: Video screenshot by Michelle Starr/CNET) It's the worst-kept secret of fashion magazines: the models who appear on the pages therein are Photoshopped to the moon and back. It's this method of perpetuating unrealistic standards of beauty that form the basis of a new music video from Hungarian singer Csemer Bolglarka, aka Boggie. The song, called "Nouveau Parfum," shows Boggie undergoing a digital makeover treatment in real time as she sings. It is not, in fact, a real retouching session but rather clever CGI. For a start, the interface looks like no photo-editing software we've seen, and there's no photo-editing software, that we know of, that can work in video in real time. Moreover, the video credits list VFX artists -- but it's still very clever. We see Boggie having her skin tone evened out and lightened, her eyes evened out, make-up applied, her neck thinned, and a new, neater hairstyle applied to her head. The lyrics, translated from French, tackle the same theme: the singer rejects make-up and becomes her own perfume, which is quite a refreshing theme for a pop song, really. We've put the translated lyrics below the video. I am Prada, Hugo Boss, Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Cartier, Azarro, Sisley, Escada, Gucci, Naf Naf, Nina Ricci, Lancome, Kenzo and again, again I am Bruno Banani, The Bastidane, Estee Lauder, Guerlain, Burberry and Thierry Mugler, Bourjois, Chloe, Jean Paul Gautier, Valentino and I do not know more Which I choose? Why I choose? Who wants me to choose? I'm not their product Of beauty, preciousness They can not change me Peerless, nonpareil, The new fragrance is myself new perfume I am mascara, blush, lipstick, lipsticks, lip liners, eye shadow, foundation, nail, pressed powder and I do not want it Which I choose? Why I choose? Who wants me to choose? I'm not their product Of beauty, preciousness They can not change me Peerless, nonpareil, The new fragrance is myself new perfume (Source: Crave Australia via Business Insider)
As a statement on unrealistic beauty standards, a Hungarian pop singer has released a music video in which she undergoes the sort of digital transformation usually seen in glossy magazines.
It's the worst-kept secret of fashion magazines: the models who appear on the pages therein are Photoshopped to the moon and back. It's this method of perpetuating unrealistic standards of beauty that form the basis of a new music video from Hungarian singer Csemer Bolglarka, aka Boggie.
The song, called "Nouveau Parfum," shows Boggie undergoing a digital makeover treatment in real time as she sings. It is not, in fact, a real retouching session but rather clever CGI. For a start, the interface looks like no photo-editing software we've seen, and there's no photo-editing software, that we know of, that can work in video in real time. Moreover, the video credits list VFX artists -- but it's still very clever.
We see Boggie having her skin tone evened out and lightened, her eyes evened out, make-up applied, her neck thinned, and a new, neater hairstyle applied to her head.
The lyrics, translated from French, tackle the same theme: the singer rejects make-up and becomes her own perfume, which is quite a refreshing theme for a pop song, really.
We've put the translated lyrics below the video.
I am Prada, Hugo Boss, Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Cartier, Azarro, Sisley, Escada, Gucci, Naf Naf, Nina Ricci, Lancome, Kenzo and again, again
I am Bruno Banani, The Bastidane, Estee Lauder, Guerlain, Burberry and Thierry Mugler, Bourjois, Chloe, Jean Paul Gautier, Valentino and I do not know more
Which I choose?
Why I choose?
Who wants me to choose?
I'm not their product
Of beauty, preciousness
They can not change me
Peerless, nonpareil,
The new fragrance is myself new perfume
I am mascara, blush, lipstick, lipsticks, lip liners, eye shadow, foundation, nail, pressed powder and I do not want it
Which I choose?
Why I choose?
Who wants me to choose?
I'm not their product
Of beauty, preciousness
They can not change me
Peerless, nonpareil,
The new fragrance is myself new perfume
(Source: Crave Australia via Business Insider)
