There are very few artists who manage to match the spirit and feeling of a single with their videos. Yet Rogue Dynamo, Atlanta native and microphone femme fatale, has managed to once again go against the grain, this time with the video for her new single Roulette from the EP Roses and Karma.
Using dark imagery in a secluded room, Rogue looks back on her career, her struggles and pain. With haunting visuals inspired by the psychological film, PinkFloyd 'The Wall', Roulette asks the questions, just how much control do we really have over our own circumstances and how do we maintain our sanity while trying to uncover the answers?
Since Rogue first hit the Indy scene she's stated emphatically that she was unconventional and a rebel. Her ballads are painted from a pallet of her deep emotional pain. Roulette more than lives up to this example.
With a flower slightly leaning up against a television playing old footage of her past videos and performances against a black wall, you start to get a sense of Rogue's complex nature.
Is there truly beauty in pain? Does Rogue truly win? In this game of roulette, does she simply go for the least painful option? In what could be considered a violent release or perhaps better yet, frustrated acceptance, the Rogue M.C., gives her response.
Here's the video for Roulette below.
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