Steven Wilson PERSONAL SHOPPER ( Official Video)
The song PERSONAL SHOPPER sits somewhere between being a loveletter to shopping (which I love to do ) and the uneasiness I feel about the more insidious side of modern consumerism. Lucrecias blackly comic video captures that dilemma Steven Wilson Preorder the new album THE FUTURE BITES Stream, buy PERSONAL SHOPPER : The track is a social criticism of consumerism and how we fill our lives with unnecessary goods to feel important, special or loved. But the truth is, the feeling of unhappiness won t go away with the next pair of sick trainers. Those feelings will only go away when we look within, and if we well, then we re going to end up with a lot of stuff around us, but still pretty empty. Luckily the track being 6 minutes gave me the opportunity to develop an interesting narrative. I wanted to create a fictional world in which people
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