A strange thing 2 say

1-. Who created this message?

This message was created on 2009 by Sopor Aeternus and the ensemble of shadows, a musical proyect created on 1989.

2.- what creative techniques are used to attract my attention?

First of all, the lyrics have an enigmatic identitie, with so much symbolism on every verse. But the central topic on the song is depression, how a person with this endogenous illness have to survive with sadness, and the constant feeling that this "human friend" (suicide) has to appear in any moment.
In Second place, but not less important, is the ambient and effects that the video clip was filmed. Every piece of the video have details that makes it gloomy and in concordance with the feelings of the performer.

3.- -how might different people understand this message differently?

The message itself is confusing and received by every kinds of interpretation, the artist is never clear about the central topic of the song. S/He calls it an "Introverted Exhibitionism" (which, in fact, is what every artist do). So, by the imagery of the performer, most of the people will be distracted and will not feel the intention of the song. For other people, they might understand the lyrics like a horror movie (being friend of a serial killer...-) so, a very few persons will understand what is the most similar interpretation of the message.

4.- what values,lifestyles and points of view are represented from this message?

Well, in fact, it doesn't promote anything about values or lifestyles, but the point of view of this particular message is that whatever, wherever or whenever you are, sadness (and also death) will appear in your life, we are just mortals, after all, it's natural that our minds thinks in those reflections.

5.- why is this message being sent?


Anna-Varney Cantodea, only human member of this proyect, said wrote in his/her website:
"(...)ANNA-VARNEY's multi-layered (yet fragile) art is mainly intended as a spiritual healing-process for the wounded soul …"