Watch Lykke Li’s Tribute to Summer in Liv’s NSFW ‘Wings of Love’ Video
New pop supergroup liv includes Lykke Li, Andrew Wyatt and Pontus Winnberg of Miike Snow, Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John and producer Jeff Bhasker. Liv released the music video for its new song “Wings of Love.” The clip, directed by Lykke Li, follows a naked woman walking in the woods.
The clip has the lustrous, slightly grainy tone of a film from the late Sixties or early Seventies. The visuals closely match the sound of “Wings of Love,” which is full of scrubbed guitars and group vocals that reach back to Crosby, Stills & Nash circa 1969 or Fleetwood Mac in 1975. The lyrics feel intentionally vague: “How many lies do I have to shake? How many nights should I lie awake on fire? Someone take me higher.”
In a statement, Lykke Li said the “Wings of Love” video is an ode to Swedish summer. The video is accompanied by the following poem:
“If you were a drug I would die in your ecstasy and your name would be utopia.
I would gladly jump a thousand feet into an pitch black lake just to have something to remember in mid-November when the darkness wraps around us.
I remember the sun, who refused to go down.
I remember your naked back; the most beautiful painting I’ve ever seen.
I remember you kissed me and all I could think of was;
Don’t forget me, don’t forget me.”