Singer and songwriter Higgs Bossin releases his debut single entitled “Let’s Go Brenda (Duck Duck Goose),” which is out now along with the music video. The track is a direct response to the COVID-19 Protection Framework (traffic lights) system, with the release timed immediately before the system goes into effect.
“Let’s Go Brenda (Duck Duck Goose)” marks Higgs Bossin’s musical introduction with a politically conscious style fuelled by the global psychic tension of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Higgs Bossin’s debut is a deceptively upbeat hip-hop track, with an anti-totalitarian message thinly veiled in metaphors. “Let’s Go Brenda (Duck Duck Goose)” and its music video were written, produced, and filmed by Higgs Bossin. The song is available now on all major streaming services.
Higgs Bossin says about the track, “When governments around the world started mandating vaccines and progressively undermining human rights, I started writing lyrics four bars at a time to capture how I felt. New Zealand’s leaders started out saying there would be no mandates, but they quickly fell in line with the new global normal, and within a month I had several pages worth of lyrics.
Then they announced the traffic light system, which they happily admitted will create two classes of people. That was the last straw, and I decided right then to produce, record and release a track to coincide with the vaccine apartheid system going into effect.
Governments haven’t figured out how to entirely censor independent musicians yet, so I decided to get my message out in a way that they can’t control and can’t ignore.”
The music video for “Let’s Go Brenda (Duck Duck Goose)” is available now on YouTube. It frames official COVID-19 posters in a conspiratorial light, juxtaposed with the song lyrics madly scrawled across the wall. Director Higgs Bossin filmed the music video in one take. The video pans across the wall one poster at a time, showing paranoid and humorous reinterpretations of the posters and lyrics. At the conclusion of the video, the camera pulls back to suggest how a system of coercion and segregation was developed from the original narrative of kindness espoused by the government.
Higgs Bossin created a fashion range to coincide with the release of his debut single, under his independent label Large Beat Collider. The Duck Duck Goose Collection satirises COVID-19 iconography by putting a playful silhouette against the stark coloured bands used by governments around the world. The Duck Duck Goose Collection is available now to order through Contrado, which makes all items by hand on demand in their facility in the UK and delivers worldwide.
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