Tags: 2010's psychedelia, Berlin, molly nilsson, psychedelic wave, swedish psychedelia, Veronica Manchego
Before western 80s pop culture went back into full hippie mode with the rave movement, it presented itself mostly decidedly anti-hippie: cold electric or neon lights, urban and nervous, glamorous and vein. Still a lot of visual language of psychedelic culture found its way into the music videos of the time. It’s rather interesting to see how it got transformed.
Jacob Frössén’s video for “Strangers in the Night” emphasizes the psychedelic undertones in the aesthetics of Dark Wave.