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Stream: Follow Papista: I Love the Smell of My Pussy is Krista Papista’s new feminist Sordid Pop anthem, taken from her recent anti-nationalist album Sultana. In collaboration with intrepid performance artist Florentina Holzinger Berlin-based filmmakers Ouroboros - the music video was shot on the set of Holzinger’s show Apollon with her all-naked female cast including Florentina herself, integrating Krista centre-stage in Apollon’s iconic visual landscapes, styled by Spyros Droussiotis. I Love the Smell of My Pussy is a celebration of both artists Florentina and Krista; a homage to Holzinger’s piece Apollon, and the dialogue it has with Papista as a performer and narrator of the song. Papista shares a nostalgic tale of her adolescent queer sexual fantasies, confessing she only hung out with her friend because of a crush for her mother, idealising womanhood via a daughter’s romantic gaze. When we got real tight; baby I was in love with your mother. Through the lens of her youth, Papista’s reflective queer-girl diary expresses an awakening dissatisfaction growing up and navigating her place in a hetero-patriarchal and post-colonial society, with a keen interest in the sensual and sexual changes she is experiencing. video by Ouroboros styling: Spyros Droussiotis hair & make up: Sabina Pinsone light technician: Oscar Maio garments: UY stage design: Nikola Knežević cast: Krista Papista, Florentina Holzinger, Renée Copraij, Evelyn Frantti, Annina Lara Maria Machaz, Xana Novais, Maria Netti Nüganen, Stephan Schneider lyrics: FOIA ME WHEN WE GOT REAL TIGHT, BABY I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOUR MOTHER WHEN I WAS BORN, YOU WERE NOWHERE MY MUM WAS SO YOUNG, SHE DROVE LIKE A STAR THOSE TEENAGE GIRLS WERE A NIGHTMARE, THEY FUCKED ME TOO YOUNG, THEY STOLE MAMA’S CAR THAT CRAZY NOISE WAS THE SOUNDTRACK WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR SEXUALITY? IN THE DEPTHS OF OUR SENSUALITY DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE LONGING OF A MORE COMPLEX HEROINE? THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE 21ST CENTURY THE UNPLEASANT ECHOES OF THE COLONIAL PAST, BABY I FEEL YOU THE UNPLEASANT ECHOES OF THE PATRIARCHAL PAST, BABY I KNOW YOU YOU’VE BEEN SINGING THIS SONG FOR A WHILE
