Kid Moxie’s CREEP

Kid Moxie’s cover of Radiohead’s CREEP is a haunting song that feels timeless and yet still very modern at the same time. We took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s painting entitled Lady with an Ermine. The painting has an extremely warm inviting tone, and the lady has a perfect expression with a mild Mona Lisa smile.

The animal, the ermine, is a white mink, and was chosen by da Vinci as a physical representation of purity, because it was believed it would face death rather than soil its white coat.

CREEP has extremely self-deprecating lyrics in which the singer proclaims I’m a weirdo, I wish I was special, but I’m a creep. We like to interpret that as the singer confessing to not being so innocent, and having a legit kinky side. We thought it would be fun to play the renaissance aesthetics against a modern character by tearing up the traditional formal dress, giving the character tattoos and an electric guitar, and exchanging the purity of the ermine for the wisdom of the owl.

In my mind the Lady of da Vinci’s painting has time traveled to modern day, Bill & Ted style, torn her clothes in the process, learned to play the electric guitar, and has traded in her ermine and purity for sexual knowledge, represented by her owl :)