That Cicero Guy Reviews Sweeter Than Ever

July 1, 2019
VIDEO REVIEW | BLACK SCREENS
By Dr. Andrew “Configa” Laidlaw
CEO at Laidlaw Media/Configaration Records

Check out our homeboy That Cicero Guy’s review of the new Black Screens video “Sweeter Than Ever”!

He opens the piece by adeptly going behind the message being delivered by the group: “Imagine the absurdity of picking up your cell phone with the sole purpose of looking at it’s black screen...simply pick it up to stare at its reflective surface, only to see yourself.”

The core concept of the duo is all about rediscovering and reconnecting with one’s individualism as Cic relates to us: “The absurdity is to see one’s true self in the reflection of the black screen, as a reminder you are a person, not a number, not a follower, not a view, a like, a comment or a subscriber”. The predominant theme is that of true self-reflection in a world of technological madness.

“This reflection of one’s self is the essence of Black Screens. The people who listen to their music are the center of the story… Black Screens isn’t concerned with identifying as individuals, but rather their entity as a whole of what they represent, cinematic music-making.”
– THAT CICERO GUY

Keeping the notion of physical self-awareness Cicero Guy states that their debut song presents to us “a physical desire for the human touch” placing the “intense emotions produced by the touch of another person’s body” over the seduction of “an ever-growing world bonding emotion with screens of technology”.