Steven Soderbergh adds some Abe Lincoln to DTCV’s new music video

One of the great things about directing a music video is that, unless a song presents an extremely clear, point-by-point narrative, a director has all sorts of options in interpreting it visually. Apparently, when director Steven Soderbergh heard “Histoire seule,” from California duo DTCV’s latest album, Confusion Moderne, he thought of two things: split screen and the Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln. DTCV singer Lola G., who performs the song entirely in French, maintains that the song itself was inspired by Jean Luc Godard’s ambitious ’80s/’90s video project Histoire(s) du cinéma and that the lyrics are about “how women tend to get erased from history.”