Ruby Rose Fox, “Dance Of Frankenstein”
A force in the Boston music scene, Ruby Rose Fox showed off some ghoulish patriotism in “Dance of Frankenstein,” her October video single filmed and edited by Roger Metcalf. Fox noshes on some chicken in the video, and even broke a tooth in the process. But it couldn’t slow down this vision of Frankenstein: “As I went into the Mary Shelley rabbit hole,” she says, “I became even more obsessed with how Robert Oppenheimer’s inability to disarm his a-bomb mirrors this classic so closely (the U.S. basically hunted him down and ruined his career). I couldn’t stop thinking about how weird it was that the two stories are so similar. When I was a kid, talk of nuclear weaponry was folklore. It was a thing of the past. But, it’s still very much alive like it was for the villagers in the novel. Nuclear weapons are strangely a forgotten threat to my generation as the Frankenstein keychain at CVS except the only difference is they are real.”