Because what is her music, what are her videos, if not an elaborate way of saying, 'No, I'm not that girl from the video. It's actually one of the album's most straightforward songs, but its chorus is unequivocal in its equivocations: 'Is she the girl that's from the video?/ You lie and you lie and you lie.' And all that artifice, in turn, is a way of making truth out of the lie. No, I get that a lot.' She addresses this situation on her debut album, LP1, with the song 'Video Girl'.
And so, she has said, you learn to lie: 'No, that's not me. The British musician and performer born Tahliah Barnett got her start in the pop-industrial complex as a backup dancer in music videos, a career that led, for a spell, to a strange kind of almost-fame-you walk around and you get recognized, but not for being you, necessarily, just for being that girl from the video.
