alternatively, if you consider this tree stump her real-life stage, you could argue he’s cheering on her stage persona — a hyper femme and sexually liberated drag queen. As Coleman himself said on twitter to clap back at a homophobe “we are born naked and everything else is drag.”
Sab & her drag prof exit a back door into an alleyway reminiscent of the back of a NYC restaurant (or the delicate mv) wearing a 70’s Disco-inspired fringe set (originally worn by naomi Campbell in ‘03). They dance the night away with a mysterious red headed woman nearby leaning against a car. 🤨
It IS funny to me that there is a sign that says “world meats” by the door. If I were to take a page out of Sab’s vulgur humor, she could be saying she’s leaving sex w men. 👀🤐 Again, they are dancing during the night which we’ve seen NRs associate with coming alive (like bats and werewolves!)
When we look at the arc of the story being told, we can see Sab makes a full transformation from prim and proper mid 20th century woman to a more sexually liberated woman (inspired by 70s-80s) dancing the night away with her new queer pals. That is… before they kick her out of the “haunted” house!
The final dance break has a lot of fast moving clips w tons of Easter eggs to explore. a few that stood out: 1) A joker-coded man chiseling an ice sculpture that looks like a certain iceberg 😆 2) an unidentified observer wearing a coin-adorned coat 3) a zebra coat 4) Coleman in green fur
In the original ending from 8/29 Sabrina is thrown out of the “haunted” (gay) house and ends up back in her original outfit, only to find the man she thought died in the car accident is still alive looking for her. She impales him with her heels (because one has to die) & breaks the fourth wall.
I realized as I was doing this thread that she dropped an alternate ending and replaced it in the original video (which is kind of annoying lol but I guess I like the audience engagement aspect of it). original ending: youtu.be/FHuzd5D-R0M
In the updated ending released today 9/1 she slams her fist on the porch and it elicits a lightening bolt, which just misses him. Then, her fist hits the porch again & a tree falls on him, presumably killing him. This could symbolize that the haunted home has the power to ward off bad energy. ⚡️🌳
She could also be nodding to the philosophical question “if a tree falls in the forest, but nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” it’s giving “if a person drops a queer code/hairpins but nobody around picks up on it, is that person really queer?” 🎀 🥖🍞
I tried to be chill and surface level about this but it’s impossible. To me it is a metaphor for exploring your relationship to sex/gender/sexuality, and the liberation many people feel in a safe space of queer people - whether that’s the closet, the dance floor, or in your own home.
The field/heath/farm represents the outer world or industry filled with social structures and norms that she feels confined to — or “the public” perception. The haunted house of drag represents an inner world or community that is a safe place to be yourself or discover, explore, experiment. 🕺🏾🪩🧟♀️🎃🌈
ugh stop this has me cryinnnnnn 🥹
smart, so smart
ily I want to discuss it more because I think there’s sooo much more to be uncovered