Embrace The Ugly

by HAWXX

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‘We’re brothels and temples, we’re mothers and sluts’

Embrace The Ugly is a call to come alive in beautiful disobedience of everything that’s expected of you.

The video, directed by Adam Razvi, is a lo-fi ugly recording from our punk metal gig featuring our beloved kettle heads, including icon and star of the show, Copper Topp from Ru Paul’s drag race UK season 4.

Everyone performs their own ‘ugly’ dance, their own beautiful, unhinged, improvised ritual to shed expectation and transform into something brave, queer and powerful.

We dedicate this song to our amazing friends and fans (our kettle* of metal)
*a group of hawks is called a kettle

lyrics

Lyrics:

Intoxicating toxicity
And where's the autonomy in my own body?

Animal and cerebral, cannibal
Eat the light from your soul
And the filth from your bones

We’re bodies and vessels
We’re brothels and temples
We’re mothers and sluts
We love and disgust

Dig up the grave
We’ve been erased
You’re not gonna win anyway
We are alive
When we forsake and disobey

Cause you don’t owe the world your beauty
Embrace the ugly
We are untamed
I dare you
Disobey

Softness, asymmetry
Let yourself be seen
But when can we unlearn our muscle memory?

Watch the chaos unfold
Frightened hearts be bold
Show me revolting and start the revolt

We’re bodies and vessels
We’re brothels and temples
We’re mothers and sluts
We love and disgust

Dig up the grave
We’ve been erased
You’re not gonna win anyway
We are alive
When we forsake and disobey

Cause you don’t owe the world your beauty
Embrace the ugly
We are untamed
I dare you
Disobey

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released August 15, 2023

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HAWXX London, UK

HAWXX are a shapeshifting, punk infused alt-metal band.

As a feminist band, we want our music to embody feral sisterhood. To be the thread that binds us together in love and rage, holding women and our queer community at its core. Our shows are the place where this message comes alive, both on stage and within the beautiful community we have built. ... more

shows

Jul 13

Upcote Farm, Withington

Cheltenham, UK
Aug 3

the old market

Brighton, UK
Aug 3

The Old Market

Hove, UK

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