Bria Salmena - Where Have All The Cowboys Gone？

What this video is

Released November 2022 as the lead single from Cuntry Covers Vol. 2 (Sub Pop, 2023), this video situates Bria Salmena's cover of Paula Cole's 1996 feminist pop landmark within a Toronto DIY post-punk context. Salmena has described her intent to make the song 'even more dystopian by turning it into a dreamy dance track,' amplifying Cole's original critique of gendered domestic labor into a hypnotic,…

Why it matters

A key artifact of the early 2020s Canadian indie-punk feminist covers movement. The video pairs a synth-dance reimagining of a canonical 1990s alt-country feminist anthem with a fast-cut, high-contrast visual language that bridges post-punk aesthetics and club-inflected indie. It represents…