Brown Rice Video
“Released March 29, 2018, “Brown Rice” arrives at a prolific time for Vogel who, until now, had been known primarily on New York’s indie music circuit, with performances at the Brooklyn Museum and National Sawdust. The video is the third to be released from his six-track debut EP, “Serving Body”, and had racked up more than 40,000 views as of Sunday afternoon. Calling Vogel’s song “haunting and gorgeous,” (director and choreographer Eamon) Foley aimed to paint a picture of “a man chasing a thrill or some sort of climax, but falling short of satisfaction.” Still, he stressed that “Brown Rice” isn’t meant to “judge a certain subset of gay men or cast a shameful light on certain actions.”
—Curtis M. Wong, Huffington Post
“Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Natti Vogel has been tackling body image through the songs and accompanying music videos off his six-track offering, Serving Body, released this past January. “Each song on my record is about the ways we value or don’t value bodies, our own and others,” Vogel explained to Billboard.
“Brown Rice” was written while Vogel was reflecting on a man he loved who couldn’t bring himself to commit to anyone. (“He still can’t, by the way.”) A teenager at the time, Vogel took it personally. “I just turned myself into a self-improvement machine, not to get revenge but to make myself retroactively worthy of him in my own mind.””
—Billboard, March 2018
“Every gay guy can relate to Natti Vogel’s “Brown Rice” video.”
—Arnaud Marty for HighClouds
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