Music Video

The music video "Is a Woman," by Lamchop uses the concepts of road to the center and symbolism of the center to demonstrate new life. The road leading to the center is a "difficult road' [...], that is verified at every level of reality: difficult convolution of temple [...]; danger ridden voyages [and] difficulties of the seeker for the road to self" (Eliade, 2005, p. 17-18). The road to the center in the video is the river that takes the leaf to its sacred place. It goes through a difficult path when it jumps over to the other side of the mountain. Once the leaf reaches its center it is no longer winter but now it is spring. The center of the leaf is the tree. The tree and spring both represent life; therefore, the music evokes that meaning of new life with the symbols and archetypes of center, road to the center, spring, and a tree. I think the music video is named “Is a Woman” because women create new life and that is the meaning it is trying to demonstrate.