Archetypal Patterns Within Lambchop's “Is A Woman”

In the song, “Is A Woman,” Lampchop conveys the notion that life is an endless cycle. He expresses this idea through Eliade’s archetypal patterns: abolition of past time, restoration of primordial chaos, and repetition of cosmogonic act. In his music video, he portrays an end of profane time and a start of sacred time by showing a dead leaf gently drifting away from a tree in the fall and entering the river in the winter. As the leaf steadily flows through the river, it seems it has come back to life because the animal starts to notice the leaf’s presence and winter is shifting toward spring. By coming back to life in the natural world, it has become supernatural; the spirit of the dead “lives” again. When the leaf finally gets out of the river, several other leaves join with it – representing indeterminate unity – to search for a tree. After the long journey through the river, a sense of rebirth or renewal comes into sight when the leaves climb up a tree and attach onto the branches while the sun gradually rise from the horizon.