Video: Holy Wars, ‘TV Dinner’

Kevin Bronson on April 9th, 2021

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Who knew a phenomena as seemingly innocent as the TV dinner could be a metaphor for so many things?

Holy Wars, the industrial pop outfit led by firebrand Kat Leon, took a new single out of the oven today. It’s titled “TV Dinner,” and damned if the apple cobbler isn’t scorched.

The trio’s heavy metal meal, the follow-up to last year’s “Little Godz,” comes with the news that Holy Wars’ debut album, tentatively (the band says) titled “Eat It Up / Spit It Out,” would arrive later this year. Since the release of their 2017 EP “Mother Father,” the duo of Leon and guitarist-producer Nicolas Perez, have released a series of high-octane singles while Leon has also cultivated her dark-pop solo project.

The new single takes a torch to America’s cultural diet. “‘TV Dinner’ is a fun, energetic punch to the face,” Leon says. “I wanted to write a song that conveys the message ‘we are what we eat’ and at times regurgitate mindlessly … touching upon brainwashing, misogyny, social injustice, a masked religion, the empty promise of an American Dream and death of the paid artist, where art and music is valued by a ‘like’ on a fleeting app. I even let the listener inside my personal life by paying homage to my late parents in lyrics, ‘Dad was an auto mechanic, Mom was a tarot reader, I got blue blood in the veins, sick heart, we got a bleeder …’

“I was inspired to write this message as every day we consume what is given to us via all media … news, social apps, television and, yes, food.”

Director Erin Naifeh’s video, starring Jake Handler and Leon, is not to be missed. “We open up with a parody of a real 1955 TV dinner commercial where it reeks of misogyny,” says Leon, who strikes the media-manufactured ’50s housewife pose before all hell breaks loose. You won’t even care that ’50s TV dinners typically took 25 minutes to cook (not 5, as Leon’s housewife says). Here’s to a happy home.

||| Watch: The video for “TV Dinner”