Seduction gets complicated when one person knows the future, and the other is still getting accustomed to being human. Geneva Jacuzzi takes that imbalance to an entertaining extreme on Nu2U, a song she described in a 2024 interview with The FADER as an encounter between a primordial being and a caveman. Sex comes with a preview of the centuries ahead, including the suffering humanity has yet to invent for itself. Some lovers bring emotional baggage; this one brings the entire future of civilization.
The Los Angeles musician and multimedia artist now gives that peculiar proposition a theatrical setting in the video for Nu2U, taken from her third album, Triple Fire, released on Dais Records in August 2024. Produced by Jacuzzi with co-production from Josh da Costa, the track supplies an appropriately crooked dance floor for an encounter across the ages.
Nu2U bubbles and clangs with eerie, clamorous synths and foot-stomping percussion, making a persuasive case for synth music for cavemen. The occasional, emphatic keyboard stabs have an unmistakably prehistoric character, placing the track in the same mischievous tribe as Toto Coelo’s “I Eat Cannibals,” but if they ate edibles instead of flesh. Beneath that primal stomp, an intricate, melodic bassline curls through the arrangement, deepening the groove and giving its heavy steps a supple, sensual movement. Jacuzzi’s cool delivery, evocative of Erotica-era Madonna, presides over the gathering with a shamanic poise, her voice suggesting secret knowledge passed between bodies. The whole thing acquires a ritualistic pull, as though the discovery of electricity has given an ancient fertility dance some intriguing new possibilities.
Directed and edited by Jacuzzi, with cinematography and art direction by Shannon Cornett, the video places its performers inside a set that recreates a work by artist Steven Arnold. Costumes are credited to Stacy Ellen Rich and Jacuzzi, with lighting by Tom Nixon and Fred Joseph. The official video credits make clear how many hands went into this compact, extravagantly strange production.
Jacuzzi presides over a miniature theatre of cutout flames, suspended shapes, spirals, and stars, wearing an enormous geometric headdress above a pale costume punctuated with black circles. Her painted face and deliberate gestures suggest a celestial hostess who has been repeating this demonstration for several thousand years. Around her, figures pose in sculpted torso pieces, metallic-looking body paint, and elaborate accessories, turning the human form into another decorative element in the set.
Deep blue lighting gives way to hot pink, red, and green, while stark monochrome close-ups interrupt the wider tableaux. Faces fill the frame; arms lift and bend; a crescent becomes a frame within the frame. The visibly handmade scenery lends the spectacle the intimacy of a toy theatre, even when its inhabitants look capable of rearranging the cosmos. There is a lovely absurdity to the scale of it all: the future of humanity appears to be under discussion in a cabaret small enough to pack into a van.
Watch the video for “Nu2U” below:
That meeting of pop music, costume, and performance has long been central to Jacuzzi’s work. Following Lamaze and Technophelia, Triple Fire brought her songs into sharper focus while preserving their appetite for strange characters and exaggerated situations. With Nu2U, another of those characters gets a stage, a formidable hat, and a captive audience.
Triple Fire is available through Dais Records and Bandcamp.
Geneva Jacuzzi is set to perform at The Chapel in San Francisco on September 19, 2026. She will be joined by EX-HEIR, Diesel Dudes, and Nick Moss, who will also DJ. Doors open at 8 p.m., and the all-ages show starts at 9 p.m.
Tickets are available here.
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