Yung Lean, Swedish star from Minsk, released a harsh music video with incredibly hypnotic dancing. You have to see this!

As we wrote earlier, Jonathan's biography is closely tied to Belarus. In the late nineties, his mother Elsa, who herself grew up in the Soviet Union in the family of a famous Swedish journalist, came to work at the Minsk office of the UN Development Programme, dealing with human rights issues. She sincerely wanted her son to have a childhood similar to her own, so the first language of the future idol of millions became Russian.

Jonathan's father, Swedish writer Kristoffer Leandoer, also lived with them in the Belarusian capital. He managed to establish excellent connections with our writers and even published a joint collection of translations with Ryhor Baradulin and Ales Razanau.

The family spent three years in Minsk, and the ordinary Soviet nine-story building on Pulikhava Street, where they lived at the time, turned into a real pilgrimage site for music fans. It got to the point where, when the building recently underwent major renovations and lost its authentic gloomy appearance, music fans began to organize online protests against the destruction of this peculiar "historical heritage."

The new release is a collaboration between the Swedish artist and French electronic producer Surkin, who creates music under the pseudonym GENER8ION. The music video, which includes two parts of the composition, transports the viewer to the near future. Banners in the frame announce that it is the year 2034, and the action unfolds in an elite British boarding school for boys.

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An atmosphere of anxiety prevails here, where adults are absent, and power belongs to teenagers. Hosted plays the role of a cruel bully who holds the entire school in fear.

Despite being almost thirty years old, the singer fit into the image of a hooligan schoolboy very naturally, smashing 6G towers to smoke some as-yet-unknown weed extracted from it, and beating and humiliating his loser classmates — that is, anyone in this strange school upon whom he casts his malevolent gaze.

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Music critics unanimously evaluate the video as an extraordinary event, noting that this disturbing and harsh depiction of boarding school life, in the style of "Lord of the Flies," keeps the viewer in hypnotic suspense from the first to the last second. It's a world where there's no room for dialogue, and all emotions are conveyed through instinctive movements and brutal actions.

The music video was directed by Romain Gavras, son of the famous director Costa-Gavras. Romain has previously directed music videos for artists such as M.I.A., Justice, and Jamie xx, as well as the feature film "Athena." Gavras is known for his ability to depict mass chaos and street violence in such a way that it's impossible to tear your eyes away.

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Yung Lean plays the role of the main and only bully in the school in his music video. Still from the music video

The collaboration with Gavras is an important step in Hosted's career, as he moves further away from the image of a depressed cloud-rapper from Soviet courtyards and takes a confident step into big cinema. It was Gavras who invited Jonathan to his first full-fledged role in the film "Sacrifice," where the Swedish musician acted alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Evans.

The "STORM" music video serves as a calling card for Hosted as an actor, proving that he is capable of holding attention without a single word spoken on screen.

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The real magic begins in the second half of the video, when the track "STORM II" plays. The tension and violence of the first part are suddenly replaced by the ecstatic unity of the schoolchildren dancing on the steps of the grandstand, where they gathered as if for a group photo.

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Distinguished choreographer Damien Jalet created an absolutely captivating spectacle, in which several dozen boys create a highly complex, continuously changing pattern around the motionless singer with a cigarette in his mouth. This living organism becomes sometimes wavy, sometimes symmetrical and patterned, as if in a kaleidoscope, only to explode with the music an instant later, scattering into a chaotic sea of sharp, aggressive movements. The bright faces, hands, and identical white shirts of the dancers swirl in the dark blue sea of strict school uniforms, putting the viewer into a trance. The movements are honed to incredible synchronicity.

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Jonathan Hosted has come a long way from a gloomy Minsk stairwell and drug problems to the status of a cult figure working with the best visionaries of our time. And if his skill previously lay in transmitting his own depression, he now proves that he is capable of being a central figure in art of a completely different level.

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