All We Found Was More Despair

Why are robots so damn sexy? Beyond the obvious machine like attributes (i.e. going all night, etc.), maybe it’s their supposed lack of messy emotions, which keeps intimacy at a distance and seems to bring desire so close. Today’s post features a couple of recent ground-breaking clips that star robots in lust and also in love.

British indie darlings Bloc Party fulfill the promise of early flirtations with discopop–hinted at in singles like “Banquet” and “This Modern Love”–and come storming on to the dancefloor with “Flux” a bonus track patched on to a re-released version of last year’s A Weekend In the City LP. Drenched in vocoders and oscillating wildly, at Mach speed, “Flux” telescopes with infrared precision and high-pitched emotion a relationship in change and in crisis.

The video–in which the band doesn’t appear–is a piece of bad sci-fi movie heaven. Giant, line-dancing, rubber monsters attack a non-descript stage-set city, whose defending robot guardians become swiftly smitten. Which begs the question, amidst so much destruction: Isn’t love worth a few broken buildings?

Snarling and aptly named (for today’s post) UK female electropop duo Robots In Disguise chart the perils of becoming mindless automatons before the monolith of desire with their single “The Sex Has Made Me Stupid.” How does one rescue oneself from such a quandry? Why robot porn of course!

Blowjobs. Lesbianism. Threesomes. So like us.

~ by agitpoptimist on January 21, 2008.