Deepsheep – Alice Bibette | Nubiyan Twist ft Nile Rodgers

Alice Bibette’s debut music video for ‘Lights Out’—a sun-drenched anthem from Nubiyan Twist’s 2024 album ‘Find Your Flame’—bursts onto the SXSW 2025 stage as a kaleidoscopic celebration of inner awakening. This vibrant, textural marvel follows an unlikely duo: a mischievous cat and a flickering flame, beaten down by life’s chill, that erupts into a radiant humanoid figure. Together, they embark on a journey that’s equal parts whimsy and wisdom, proving that self-discovery can be as thrilling as a jazz riff from Nile Rodgers.

The adventure kicks off in a barren landscape where the cat’s playful ball—a stand-in for restless curiosity—escapes, rolling toward a mountaintop where the flame dances like a rogue firefly. In a *Pixar-meets-painted-dreams* moment, the ball leaps, sprouts limbs mid-air, and transforms into a glowing, humanoid explorer. Suddenly, the pair is off—cartwheeling through prismatic forests, soaring over neon valleys, and diving into rivers of liquid light. Bibette’s animation, a riot of handcrafted textures and hypnotic hues, feels like Studio Ghibli on a soul-searching bender, with every frame whispering, ‘What if joy was your compass?’

But beneath the dazzle lies a metaphor as old as time: the duel between confidence’s bold trumpet and doubt’s nervous hum. The flame-turned-humanoid embodies that fiery voice urging, ‘Jump!’ while the cat—part muse, part skeptic—nudges it to pause. Yet instead of a showdown, their dance becomes a harmony, a reminder that freedom isn’t silencing one voice but letting them groove together. Set to Nubiyan Twist’s Afrobeat rhythms and Rodgers’ signature funk, ‘Lights Out’ is a rallying cry to embrace your contradictions, chase your sparks, and maybe… just maybe… follow the cat.