The track is pulled from the artist’s latest release genesis.
LA singer-songwriter Misty Boyce is an artist that has really come into her own as of late, reinventing herself as a truly captivating creative force in independent pop.
‘Charades’ is not only a wonderful example of the nuance and power that her sound holds but is also a deeply reflective and expansive piece of storytelling. Originally penned as a break up track, ‘Charades’ morphed into much more, becoming an uncompromising and reflective inward look at white privilege and the unknowing advantages and power that it can provide people with. Misty Boyce and close friend and actress Lia Bonfilio fully formed this idea and crafted it’s stellar music video to reflect it, and it has made for one of the most thought-provoking and powerful pieces of art in recent memory.
“This is the first video I’ve ever made that I wasn’t a part of in the boots on the ground way.” Boyce says of the video, which was filmed with Covid precautions at Bonfilio’s home in upstate New York. “It was really cool to see my friends and strangers take this idea and run with it and birth something.”
“The character thinks she really knows herself and her goodness, but she’s just not who she thinks she is,” Bonfilio explains. “The woman is just so unaware of how much power she wields because of her whiteness. Her fixation is on [the tree] as the thing that’s not exactly how she wants it to be. It’s in the way of her feeling how she believes she’s entitled to feel. She’s dangerous.”
