When singer Laura Gibson set about making a video for her new single, “Domestication,” she thought of the women in the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
It’s not a compliment. Rather, it’s the latest example of the FLDS being used in media as a punchline or warning. In a news release promoting the video, Gibson refers to the church as “the FLDS cult.”
The song, she explained, is a fable, of sorts, "the story of a wolf trying and failing to live as a woman. I was thinking a lot about shape-shifting.