Lulu Miller

But we did.

Alan, my amazing collaborator and friend and musical genius, made this little thing about Roy G. Biv.

OK, so I'm just going to play you this.

OK, so this is the moment of discovery.

And this is like the industrial lie getting printed into our minds.

The point is, it got like it was this handy way to remember colors in the rainbow that was maybe so handy.

It just like got.

I think that's a big I think Indigo is like a bit of a emperor's new clothes.

Like, is that a thing?

But but so so this goes on and it's kind of this idea that like light has been we have cracked the rainbow.

We have literally cracked it open, seen its insides at seven colors.

Cool.

But then there were like a lot of painters and poets and like stoners all over the world who weren't fully convinced that this was accurate.

So Keats very famously wrote this poem like being like, how dare like like he basically accused Newton of having killed the magic of the rainbow.

Oh, there's a line about how he like dared to, quote, unweave a rainbow rainbow.

By like reducing it into these cold colors and then Goethe like had all these kind of poetic theories about like well when I feel purpley the purple is different than the purple I see like no colors come from feelings and then Turner the storm painting guy like painted all these rainbows with all these tons of colors as kind of like a F you.

Yeah.

And just people being like, how do we know my blue is your blue?

And are we so sure like colors are concrete?

And like, really, how is my blue your blue?