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Bay Area champion of post punk laptop rap MC Lars is about to drop his latest album The Zombie Dinosaur LP on October 6, 2015 via Horris Records, and spent the summer performing his latest single titled ‘Dragon Blood.’ Based on his favorite television show Game of Thrones, he talked about his latest video.
“This season got weird…I won’t spoil anything. You know what I like about it? I’m such a literature nerd. I love the Shakespearian stuff. We’re trying to make it metal,” he said.
He spoke about the storyline behind the video, including how he incorporated his favorite character from the series into his theme about good versus evil.
“Her name is Chell Stephen. She’s a friend of the director’s. The whole album is this theme of the underdog surviving, and that’s why I like Game of Thrones. You don’t know who’s going to survive and it’s good versus evil but good doesn’t always triumph. I like the character Daenerys [Targaryen] because she’s always trying to do good. That’s like her tragic flaw.”
“We wanted to do a video about a woman in an office who gets fired and comes back to kick butt. The problem was I was rapping in a female perspective but I didn’t want to dress up as a girl necessarily, so we got this talented woman who’s clenched blonde and looks like her to learn this song. So the concept was revenge and post feminism – the modern feminism, the sexy heroine.”
Despite the strong female character, MC Lars himself took the fall and got beat up towards the end of the video, but got to throw down doing a dance with Stephen’s character at the very end of the video.
“The theme was each level she kicks the butt of each house. I was the symbol for the white corporate oppressor capitalist boss when she punches me in the nuts is like smashing the patriarchy. So it’s like symbolism. It’s maybe very literal but I’m the zombie character. In Game of Thrones, they have these things called the White Walkers, which are like the scariest zombies. So the idea was I wanted to be in the video somehow. I wasn’t going to star in it.”
“Max [Isaacson] & Morgan [Faust] from BroSis are a director team that I’ve known for a while. They’re great. They knocked it out of the park.”
Aside from music videos, MC Lars had an app of his own in develop but potential developers could get in on helping him reach new fans within the mobile world.
“Yeah man. If anyone’s reading and wants to help me develop an app, hit me up. Lars@MCLars.com.”
“When I was in LA, I was working at USC in the computer science department on an app, but it didn’t pass the prototype stage. We had three months to do it. It came out dope. It was like a Guitar Hero where you click on a rhyme. It would have to be good though. I wouldn’t want to put out something that’s bad.”