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Lido Pimienta's “Fornicate es un Arte” Performance Lays Out the Laws of Love

The Toronto artist’s Audiotree North live session showcases a song that rejects the idea of ownership in polyamorous relationships.

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Loving is a beautiful, dangerous thing, and Lido Pimienta wrote a warning to the emotions that come with it. Especially for when more than two people are involved. The Colombia-born, Toronto-based artist performs the dreamy “Fornicate es un Arte” from her 2016 album La Papessa at a live session with a full band. The track title of translates to mean “the art of fornicating (with) you” or “the art of fucking you”—which fits tumultuous rhymes and Lido’s sensuous voice. The set was filmed at Revolution Recording in Toronto as part of an Audiotree North production. Audiotree is a company known for putting out these intimate in-studio performances, and Lido is a good fit for the vibe. "This song is about how polyamory is a dead-end road when people attempting to participate in it aren’t willing to subscribe to the ‘rules and regulations’ of their own arrangements,” Lido wrote to Noisey, “It’s a song about rejecting ownership of ‘the other’ when the most powerful person in the love triangle or hexagon or whatever expects you to be loyal to them but lose their shit when you act the same way as them. The words ‘You are mine’ can be romantic at times, but it’s also dangerous when the person telling you it believes it.” Devin Pacholik is a writer from Saskatchewan. Follow him on Twitter.