AI-Art: Holly Macve - "Beauty Queen"

Описание: This video is a visual interpretation of “Beauty Queen” by Holly Macve, from her most recent album "Wonderland", released in 2025. The song tells a deeply personal story — one of vulnerability, shame, awakening, and ultimately liberation. It reflects on a young woman’s painful passage into adulthood, the weight of others’ judgments, and the long journey toward reclaiming self-worth and freedom.

The imagery in this video was created using AI tools to translate the emotional landscape of the song into a series of symbolic scenes — not as literal illustrations, but as poetic visual echoes. Each image represents a stage of the narrative: innocence, imbalance, shame, escape, spiritual searching, female friendship, healing, and finally, self-liberation.

AI here is used not to replace human expression, but to explore how technology can support storytelling, memory, mood and metaphor — and to see how digital imagination can hold space for experiences too delicate or painful to show directly.

This project is a tribute to the courage in Holly's songwriting — to survival, to resilience, and to the quiet strength it takes to outgrow both the crowns placed upon us and the smiles we learn to wear.

Thank you for watching.
If the story speaks to you, may its light stay with you.

BEAUTY QUEEN

I was just 18
Days ago, I was a child
It was his birthday
45 years round the sun

No one seemed to think that I was out of place
In the bar, drinking beer with all his friends
No one ever asked me if I was okay
When I was too drunk to stand
They just walked away

He took me home with him
Into the darkness hand in hand
Never felt more shame
It took me years to understand

Eyes upon me, like I was the one to blame
Like everyone in the whole world knew my name
Temptation he could not resist
My young body, my rosy red lips

Be free, beauty queen
Don't wear that crown forever
There's more to you than they can see
Ooh, be free (be free), beauty queen
Don't wear that smile forever
There's more to life than you now know

Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh
Woo-ooh
Woo-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

Soon I left Brighton
I took a train home to cure my blues
I dreamt of heaven
Gap in the clouds
Light to break through

It was just the beginning
I thought it was the end
I was yet to meet my two best friends
Told me all of the shit that they went through
Without them, I don't know what I would do

Be free beauty queen
Don't wear that crown forever
One day you will shine without it
Ooh, be free (be free), beauty queen
Don't wear that smile forever
Sometimes you're stronger without it

Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh
Woo-woo-woo
Woo-ooh-ooh
Wooh-ooh-ooh, woo
Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo
Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh
Woo
Woo-woo
Woo-woo-woo