Music Video Premiere: Choose Me by Khang

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Choose Me is an experimental electronic pop song about the sweeping desire to give everything to be chosen by a lover despite being someone who is largely independent and self-sufficient. The lyrics and textures of the song evoke a sense of desperate discovery of having found something or someone that can't be ignored or given up– a realization that feels so resolute that the thought of life before it feels like a dream.

The music video for Choose Me centers on an internal exploration of Khang's gender nonconformity. It features Khang and movement director Matilda Sakamoto, and follows the reckoning tension between the masculine and feminine aspects of a person's inner life through impressions of intrapersonal strain (as opposed to any hyper-characterized form of masculinity or femininity.), depicted through abstract scenes of obsession and violence, as well as ecstasy and bliss. Undertoning the video are visual inspirations from Japanese psychological thriller anime movie Perfect Blue (1997) and various Hong Kong new wave films.

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Song and concept: Khang | Directed, shot, edited, words: Bao Ngo | Movement direction: Matilda Sakamoto.