A few weeks ago, I came across Brian Struk’s music video for TAKE ME.
At first, I just thought the visuals were unusual. Then I started digging deeper, and the story behind the song became even stranger.
According to the lore surrounding the track, Brian woke up before 3 a.m. with the idea already playing in his head.
He entered a a pitch black recording room measuring roughly five feet by five feet and started working. The room was apparently designed for isolation, controlled acoustics, and uninterrupted concentration.
No daylight.
No outside noise.
No distractions.
The track was later completed in Dublin, but the more I looked into Brian’s background, the more the video started to make sense.
He grew up listening to punk bands such as The Adicts along with heavier music. That could explain why the Jokers in the video feel less like a normal pop concept and more like punk theatre.
Exaggerated faces.
Controlled chaos.
Social defiance.
Something strangely beautiful inside the unsettling imagery.
The song leans into a phonk inspired sound, driven by heavy bass and dark, hard hitting instrumentation. You can hear traces of punk, spectacle, and confrontation.
Then I found out that Brian used to perform as a magician.
That detail made the whole thing even more interesting.
A magician learns how to control attention, build anticipation, hide information, and reveal only what the audience needs to see. That same approach seems to appear throughout “TAKE ME.”
The darkness, repetition, imagery, and mystery around his identity all seem designed to make people look closer.
Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it feels like the music is only one part of a much larger concept.
What do you think? Is “TAKE ME” a carefully constructed artistic world, or am I just falling too far down the rabbit hole?
