bat for lashes | lilies

Thought Beats: The acoustics are dream-like, minimalist.
Visuals to Song: The visuals do not match the song. There are puppets and stop motion backgrounds, despite how serious the song is.
Star Image: Lead singer visible whilst singing, not always looking towards the audience. She is interacting with her environment.
Technical Aspects: Stop motion backgrounds. Lots of attention on the mise en scene: large animal costumes, tiny sets and low key lighting. Smoke machines and interesting colours. The background is dark, black and plain.
Narrative and Performance: There are parts of a narrative involving a girl singing and who then attracts 'monsters'. That's as far as the story develops; the rest is abstract, partly dancing and partly miniature sets which have been painstakingly designed.
Portrayal of women: She is dressed in a bikini, but is not shown to be a sex object. Her movements are expressive and in lieu with the music rather than having her in a bikini just to appeal to an audience who have the "male gaze", wherein women are either sex objects or old.