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Syvelocin
May 23rd, 2011, 03:40 AM
Is anyone familiar with Jonna Lee/iamamiwhoami?

http://www.youtube.com/user/iamamiwhoami

I absolutely adore her. I found her right before the actual music videos started to come out (the bounty videos). If you don't know her, I'd really like to share this with you. Whether you like the songs or not, the videos are worth the time alone.

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Explanation, too long, just skip it.
So these random youtube videos started to pop out almost out of the blue. On a strange youtube account, these scenic, ominous videos set to some electronic instrumental tracks kept being released periodically. Each video however is a piece of art really. Each can be interpreted in so many ways. And a lot of the meaning of it even goes over my head, which I'm usually pretty good at figuring it out, but I just have come up with bits and pieces. People were making wild guesses based on what she looked like, as her entire body was painted black in the videos and most of the time you could barely make out many facial features. So she's blond, people came up with Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga (which isn't a bad guess, but assuming this is such a low key thing, I very much doubted Lady Gaga would come up with something like this), Goldfrapp, among others.

The storyline is hard to pick apart, I get a bit more of it every time I watch it, but the small bit I got of it, she sort of "blooms" in the last video of the first series, and the videos change pace, and go into the "bounty" phase, where she actually sings the songs as well. Each is named after a letter in the word, though there's a u-1 and a u-2. So by about B or O, they started figuring out it was Jonna Lee, a Swedish singer-songwriter. both because the domain of the site was registered by her, and there were some coincidences. Of course, by T, she's highly visible and it's completely obvious that it is in fact Jonna. Then, at the end of Y, she sort of goes back into a cocoon when her skin as completely turned black again. My theory is that she bloomed to accomplish a task, and then in Y, the "little hope" arrives, like letting the younger generation be born and take over, and so now that she's not needed, she leaves. That's just my opinion though. And after all the bounty videos came out, there was a "concert." The quotations because she picked someone from youtube to help her and he was the only attendee other than the people helping with the concert, so she sang all the songs all throughout some Swedish forest. The concert was streamed live, and I was lucky enough to catch it, as it was just mesmerizing. And after a long gap between the videos, she has just recently posted a new music video.

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If you end up taking a look at the videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/iamamiwhoami), they go in chronological order, so you start from the bottom. It'll obviously make more sense that way.