Buttress - Brutus (Official Music Video) 

Thank you everyone for continuing to listen to this song! If you like this then you may also like my brand new album titled ENDOFUNCTOR, available here on RU-vid music, Spotify, Bandcamp, and probably wherever else you stream your music! Thanks so much for listening! open.spotify.com/album/5Otiauk75tfrrosY8eGByz ru-vid.com/group/OLAK5uy_kPCWTljAOpmyqosUjoefORGO9yOClt0ng thebuttress.bandcamp.com/album/endofunctor

"that the people would see me as the poet and not just the muse" 👌👌👌👍😩😩

brutus: *going through the biggest crisis of her life* the chorus: 💃💃💃💃

I get chills when she says "i dont want what you have, I WANNA BE YOU!" she can barely control the anger in her voice. i love to hear this experimentation in music. Great song.

"Born of the cursed sex" oh dear, i never could've related to that line more.

I llove history nerds.I love history nerds who make music even more.

"Make way for him until the day that he comes" genius reference to John the Baptist. This has so many layers and is so perfectly crafted!

“My name is Brutus but the people will call me Rex.” Dopest line ever. For those who don’t know, “Rex” means “king”.

my nerd heart is so happy at this. female rage portrayed through events of ancient rome? sign me the hell up

"I want to be you" always sends chills down my spine, great song.

"I don't want what you had I want to be you." Every SINGLE time I listen to this song, those words make me shake. Holy SHIT. PLEASE keep making beautiful and inspiring music!

The opening chant is sampled from Ricreazione divertita (Finale) by Ennio Morricone. It’s an Italian chant that names popular 70’s Italian TV shows, and ends the sentence with “we can’t get any dumber than this.” The song was part of a score for an Italian movie called “A Mother’s Heart.”

The agony in “I don’t want what you have I want to be you” resonates with me so much. I’m a teacher and our principal always gets the recognition of the work his female employees work for. It’s torture watching him be congratulated for the work I and other women around him have contributed. This song has the same rabid energy I feel

I still cannot get over this 🙏🏻

"I don't want what you have, I wanna be you" hits me like a freight train every time. god.

Happy ides of March everybody, and happy birthday to me and to this song and video! 🗡🩸Excited to share the new music videos I've been working on with you! And if you don't like them now... perhaps you will in 7 years! PS. I have merch for sale for 2 more days only at www.buttress.store !

Wow I can't believe I'm finding this now, I don't think I've ever heard something like this before. It's rap but the voice is stark and emotional, the flow is almost slam poetry-like, almost as if she's voice acting for a show or movie

“My mother wish she’d had a son” just makes me so upset tho, in a good way. Actually that’s basically this whole song

"Even if I can't be the one, maybe I could at least help make way for him until the day that he comes." The the most painful stanza. It's not her ambition, it's the cage of her womanhood. She is not the ruler but maybe one day a sliver of her progeny will create a better future. I love this song. It's genius and it's painful to listen to.

The drop to "something wicked this way comes" is so good it scratches my brain

“AND RESTORE GREATNESS TO ROME” sends chills down my spine every timeeeee

My brother said “is this mad lesbian music” and I love it

thanks everyone for watchin!!

Female rage in this video is so real. I honestly loved this depiction of female rage. Brutus as a woman is just amazing. My nerd ass is in love with this song and its portrayal of historic events. Artists and songs like this are my solar eclipse

"something wicked this way comes" *instant flashbacks*

I'm Italian and in the song in the background it seems like they always repeat in Italian "piu cretini di così non possiamo diventar" which means “We can't become any more idiots than this"… I love it 😍🖤

this song hits when it’s ingrained in your fathers culture to not want daughters over sons and you have to watch the difference in how he treats you and your brother

"I don't want what you have, i want to be you" hits hard

不気味の谷から来たけど、めちゃくちゃかっこええ曲やん、、

I can already tell this upcoming album is going to be my most played of the year

"My name is Brutus and my name means heavy. So with a heavy heart I'll guide this dagger into the heart of my enemy 🗡️" one of the greatest lines

There’s something about the background music being airy and almost light sounding while simultaneously sounding like someone slowly snapping. It’s so distant and like the innocence of a nursery rhyme, but disconnect and disjointed similar to the female experience of feminine performance. Maybe I’m looking too deeply into this, but you capture the rage simmering in our guts at all times, and the fake laugh and smile we put on to make men feel comfortable even when they’re causing the discomfort themselves. Beautifully done.

Who would have known that the instrumental of this would become a worldwide horror song?

Brutus is probably the single most angry song I've ever heard, the low groan of the singing portrays such hatred with a barely composed tone. The music it's unhinged, the cadence of the world hold such venom like she's trying so hard not to fold someone with words or just scream.

“My name is Brutus but the people will call me Rex” gave me MAD chills when I first heard it.

“This death will be art!” I LOVE that line

BRUTUS BRUTUS BRUTUS BRUTUS💃💃🗣🗣

this is the only song that ive seen capture the feeling of being female perfectly. no romanticization, no femme fatal or having to relate female rage to beauty in some way. just carnal anger and raw emotion. wow

The fact that Brutus is portrayed as a woman here, changes the dynamic to something pretty interesting

"I don't want what you had, I WANNA BE YOU" god that simultaneously gave me goosebumps and made my nose sting

I love how their skin looks somewhat like clay

The balance of both feminine and masculine energy and rage in this track is fucking heavy and im fucking living for it. Artists like u only come around once in a lifetime and im grateful to be alive during the lifetime of your existance.

thank you everyone for all the new listens, im glad you’re enjoying it this spooky season. im dropping some new music later this month, hope you come check it out :)

I'm extremely obsessed with this song right now... I've replayed it so many times 😭 I love the anger in her voice, it feels so liberating.

This is a modern opera. Beautiful, Gross. Haunting. Buttress is a master of her craft. a witchy woman with mystical prowess. watch out.

"published on 15 Mar 2016" i see what you did there this hits so close to home though - you smashed it again buttress

I love the storytelling in this video. My favorite part is how in the begining shes still in the background, despite the song being ABOUT her. She's still behind him, behind his fans, hidden in the background. It shows that even despite its her story, her pain -- hes still the focus of everyones eye. Its incredible.

This song gives me goosebumps. Not in a heard-on-uncanny-valley-tiktok way but a female-rage-and-history-are-combined-with-great-emotion-in-her-voice way.

The fact that the instrumental is made to sound heavy too is actually insane to me, I felt the pure rage and hatred come through so well oh my god??? You did a great job

As a writer trying to create a female character in the ancient world making a way in a male dominated society, I found this song to be so beautifully crude and honest. Works perfectly as motivations for this character and her inevitable triumph.

this is poetry, raw, unfiltered, real thoughts put to vocalization unhindered by societal wants or fear of reprimanding from the masses

Not the first person to say this but I have to agree, “I don’t want what you have, I want to be youuuu” the growl/rasp I absolutely love it 🖤🖤🖤

1:05 “Frater meus” meaning: brother my. Such great use of vocabulary and amazing choreography. No part of this is not a masterpiece bravo!

You may not be the most known artist but what you make is genius, inspirational, and thought provoking. You probably wont even see this but I just absolutely adore your work and i hope one day to create things with as much meaning as the things you write

I made a drawing inspired by you last year because Brutus moved me to my core. Your lyrics are like ancient beasts: fierce and wise, with a beauty not everybody can comprehend but must respect. I know Brutus by heart and I always feel stronger whenever I sing it

It comes from deep seated rage, entitlement and frustration. I mean it's obviously more complicated but just to boil it down. And each event's reasons and excuses vary but those feelings are a common denominator. It's absolutely true that no pop culture influences are entirely to blame, people committed different rageful atrocities long before those mediums ever existed. Methods change but anger in humans has been there since the dawn of time, it can be fed and aided but not created out of thin sir by some external influence.

Female rage my beloved

“My name is Brutus and my name means heavy, so with a heavy heart I’ll dive this dagger in the heart of my enemy, my whole life you were a teacher and a friend to me, please know my actions are not motivated just by envy. I too have a destiny. This death will be art, the people will speak of this day from near and afar This event will be history, and I’ll be great too, i don’t want what you have I want to be YOU.” The chills that gave me

“please know my actions are not only motivated by envy.” is a great reference to the tragedy of julius caesar, this too, could be the dream that his wife had. Something about men, bathing their hands in his blood, coming from his statue.

よく辿り着いた流行に敏感な者よ。

HAPPY IDES OF MARCH

I once heard that “jealousy is admiration turn sour” and this captures that perfectly

You are the most inspirational artist i have ever witnessed. These songs and videos you produce are hauntingly beautiful, with the strongest most bitter taste of originality that goes unmatched. I adore you.

the REAL female rage

when they say womanhood is fragile and The Buttress drops no, STABS this masterpiece into the system.❤‍🔥

Damn I wish my dumb ass found this earlier then 2020

I am unspeakably obsessed with this. I feel like most popular music is popular because everyone has a shallow liking for it, but this is the kind of song that absolutely consumes a small minority. Like I'm so obsessed that I wan't someone to write me some fanfiction about female-Buttress Brutus so I can delve deeper into this obsession. Holy shit I'm in love

Ugh this is gorgeous.. i mean.. it sounds poetic and her voice is so intensely deep, hot and psychotic!! The maniac laughter at parts.. everything is so beautiful!!! As someone who loves reading and writing poetry, i love the lyrics, theres such a beautiful touch in them What a refreshment after hearing songs that include only cuss words and then there is this beauty that has such awesomely written lyrics!! And i swear this song is a masterpiece ❤️

3:08 i LOVE the amount of latin in this song!

The passion and emotion in her voice is real.

You did an amazing job with the lyrics. The fact that you used Rex instead of King makes it much more real-sounding, like in their time of Rome, and awesome at the same time. Amazing song and amazing video! I hope your day is going well! ❤

This really is female rage

What an absolute treasure, finding this artist at a time like this. We live in an unprecedented time for such art to be watchable for free.

Wicked and dark, just the way I like it.

This says everything that i couldnt find the words for. The rage of having been born a woman, in a world built by men, and feeling such intense jealousy and self-hatred that ill never be a man. When main characters in media default to a man, when ill never be a doctor, lawyer, politician, but a "female" doctor, a "female" lawyer, a "female" politician, when gender roles engrained into society teaches girls and boys that women are less capable or logical or rational, when these boys grow up to see/treat women as a different species entirely, when every author i enjoy writes women more two-dimensionally than their male counterparts. Listening to this i finally feel like a human being, not just a "woman". This sort of media really help me accept the fact that i shouldn't have to be a man to feel like a person.

My latin teacher played this song the other day,best class ever

Her ability to express rage and heart ache is so fucking powerful and poignant.

i forgot to share a while ago that the lyrics are now included in the captions for anyone who wishes to read along!

this is literally my favorite song in the world, it changed something in my brain when it came up on my discover weekly on spotify. i listen to it almost once a day. it's gone from spotify and i'm so, so sad about it. i guess i'll just have to come back here everyday.

This makes my toes curl, in a good way tho- I love this song ❤❤❤❤

I'm writing a book based on this song

I love how this combines elements from Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and also a bit of Greek Tragedy with the Chorus. A splendid re-imagination of the Classics, and the "people would see me as a poet and not just the muse" was so powerful and resounding.

being a woman feels like this song

This is art. Love this shit.

God! She is acting through music.

I'm just putting the lyrics because every single one of these lines hit so hard I've been watching him for my entire life I hate the air he breathes His foolish decrees, his words so contrived And I hate the way the townspeople gather outside They hang on every breath Cling to his chest, home to his heart full of pride The oracle told him to beware the Ides And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't wishing for untimely death or demise Or am I just wishing I could be like you? That the people would see me, too, as a poet And not just the muse Oh it's not true, I don't wish harm upon you From birth we've been like brothers of different mothers Within the spirit of the same womb May the gods strike me down if I forsake you Frater meus, you're beautifully made And to you I'm forever grateful I'll never forget that you showed me to make art And I know the love you showed me came From a pure and noble heart I love you, and if you want, I'll call you king But why do I lie awake each night thinking Instead of you, it should be me? Something wicked this way comes And as I set to face it, I'm unsure should I embrace it, should I run? What motivates me? Hatred? Is it love? What's more wrong, that I too wish to be great Or my mother wished she'd had a son? And even if I can't be the one Maybe I could at least help make way for him Until the day that he comes Maybe my name could also be known That I helped return good to the people And restored greatness to Rome Butus! Brutus! Brutus! Brutus! Butus! Brutus! Brutus! Brutus! Butus! Brutus! Brutus! Brutus! Butus! Brutus! Brutus! Brutus! My name is Brutus and my name means heavy So with a heavy heart I'll guide this dagger Into the heart of my enemy My whole life you were a teacher and friend to me Please know my actions are not motivated only by envy I too have a destiny This death will be art The people will speak of this day from near and afar This event will be history And I'll be great too I don't want what you have! I wanna be you! I always knew I could be the one Though I feel the endless pain of being And I am scorched by the sun Of humble origins and born of the cursed sex My name is Brutus, but the people will call me Rex

I love the absolute grit you put into certain words, it really conveys the essence of the song, the absolute anger and discontent with staying in your place because of your sex. It's very raw and personal. It's incredibly powerful.

I like to think the laughter is from the oracle , who predicted this moment happening. Edit: MOMIMFAMOUSSSSSSSS

Its surprising to me how much I love this song

2:16-3:53 this sends me chills every single time

I love this song so much, it has so much anger but it's not beautiful anger. It's jealous, bitter, spiteful anger that tells a very bitter story without mellowing anything down. Usually when I see angry songs about females it's either romanticized or made to seem like the lady was crazy or it simply doesn't go in-depth into her anger like this. Most times it just tells but this shows and every sentence has so many layers of experience and emotion... Amazing song, Soul searching lyrics... I love your artistry

This song dragged me out of art block

この曲について全然知らないけどホラーとポップな感じが混ざっててすごく好き

"i too have a destiny" Buttress, have you read Temple of the Golden Pavillion?

This song is such an "Eldest Daughter" bop

Honestly reading the lyrics and hearing her tone of voice I don't just see this as like "man hate" or a "penis envy"... I see this as like a rivalry and jealousy amongst two individuals that probably had a lot of love and compassion between each other. If you had siblings in your life you would completely understand what I'm referring to.... The need to outdo or to be better than your sibling sometimes you might even try to assassinate their character figuratively. It can be quite devastating at times being the person that's receiving the "hate" but knowing your sibling you realize that they really deeply care about you. There's usually a level concern and protection where if someone else were to try to attack you, that same sibling would stop being a Brutus and would be your best Ally.... The true dichotomy of a love-hate relationship

This gives me a witchy vibe. Like I would play during a type of ritual in the woods and autumn.

Most unique rapper I've heard by far

I get so sad when i only see videos with the instrumental because the lyrics are fireeee

聞いてたらすごい不安になるけど癖になる…