There are two major themes in the VIDEOS for these songs, which is childbirth and religion, namely Jesus Christ in particular. This leads me to think that it tells the story of Mary giving birth to Jesus Christ. At the same time, however, I suspect that the videos are also about the life of Jesus, including his crucifixion and resurrection.
In the video for U-1, we see a mysterious man wearing only underwear and with pieces of tape on his face making a sort of beard and moustache walking through the forest, only to come upon a fortress made of boxes. This could be a connection to the "Fortress of your heart" in the song O. However, the pregnancy imagery is strong here, if one considers the fortress of cardboard boxes to be like the womb, and our underwear'd hero to be the baby. Let's not forget, also, that there is the lyric "you gave me life," which seems to definitely be a line spoken from an unborn child to his mother.
There is also the state of Jonna Lee in this video, too. She is not herself, to say the least -- Instead of Jonna Lee being in this video, we are instead presented with a cardboard-and-tape doll that resembles her, mouthing the lyrics. It makes sense, however, for Jonna to be depicted as a cardboard doll here, however, because cardboard is what the baby sees as the womb he is in. And since the womb is his mother, it makes sense for his mother to be cardboard.
Also, let's not ignore the fashion in which the "baby's" beard and moustache looks on his face -- he looks like Jesus! But more on that later.
Then there are the lyrics: Unfortunately there's not much for me to say on these lyrics, simply because I don't fully understand them. There is some sort of structure referenced in the song that is burnt and built and built back down, and this could be a parallel to the box-fortress in the forest of the video. Unfortunately, I don't really know what else to say. U-1, from the looks of it, is not very substantial in the way of what iamamiwhoami is trying to say with these videos/songs.
There are two major themes in the VIDEOS for these songs, which is childbirth and religion, namely Jesus Christ in particular. This leads me to think that it tells the story of Mary giving birth to Jesus Christ. At the same time, however, I suspect that the videos are also about the life of Jesus, including his crucifixion and resurrection.
In the video for U-1, we see a mysterious man wearing only underwear and with pieces of tape on his face making a sort of beard and moustache walking through the forest, only to come upon a fortress made of boxes. This could be a connection to the "Fortress of your heart" in the song O. However, the pregnancy imagery is strong here, if one considers the fortress of cardboard boxes to be like the womb, and our underwear'd hero to be the baby. Let's not forget, also, that there is the lyric "you gave me life," which seems to definitely be a line spoken from an unborn child to his mother.
There is also the state of Jonna Lee in this video, too. She is not herself, to say the least -- Instead of Jonna Lee being in this video, we are instead presented with a cardboard-and-tape doll that resembles her, mouthing the lyrics. It makes sense, however, for Jonna to be depicted as a cardboard doll here, however, because cardboard is what the baby sees as the womb he is in. And since the womb is his mother, it makes sense for his mother to be cardboard.
Also, let's not ignore the fashion in which the "baby's" beard and moustache looks on his face -- he looks like Jesus! But more on that later.
Then there are the lyrics: Unfortunately there's not much for me to say on these lyrics, simply because I don't fully understand them. There is some sort of structure referenced in the song that is burnt and built and built back down, and this could be a parallel to the box-fortress in the forest of the video. Unfortunately, I don't really know what else to say. U-1, from the looks of it, is not very substantial in the way of what iamamiwhoami is trying to say with these videos/songs.