Joe (character)

“	Said he dreamt of God's search light	”
	— Joe's Dream

"Joe"
Affiliation	The Bride Magenta Mysteries
Biographical information
Marital status	Dead (Car accident)
Date of death	2016
Place of death	Piney Point, Maryland
Physical description
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Eye color	Blue

"Joe" is a character on the universe of Bat For Lashes' fourth studio album, The Bride. He is portrayed by Jeff Ward.

Background

Joe is only seen and represented on the “Sunday Love” music video and is not featured in any more The Bride media, with only his name mentioned on “Joe's Dream”.

Natasha said:

“He was supposed to die, but I feel like they made a spiritual contract, where he made a roadmap for her of this honeymoon they were supposed to go on but he knew he was never going to go on it. It’s almost the perfect journey that he knows as a soul she needs to go on to become a fully-fledged woman and to find happiness.”

Physical appearance

Joe is introduced to the story like a handsome young man with brown hair and blue eyes. The music video for “Sunday Love” and the lyrics of the album reflect in him a loving and quite fearful personality, it also seems that he possessed a certain gift of premonitory dreams due to the fact that the night before their wedding he dreamed that he was going to die.

History

None is known about Joe's life prior to his ill-fated wedding and death. The story of Joe can be divided into two parts (The Wedding Day and The Sadness).

The Wedding Day

The night before his marriage with the Bride, he tells her he had a foreboding dream that something bad was going to happen, so he is comforted by her on “Joe's Dream”. He dreams he dies while riding his motorbike. On the day of their wedding, he leaves the Bride waiting on the altar until news broke that he died on a car accident in Piney Point on his way to the church. The Bride, brokenhearted, leaves the church and embarks on a honeymoon alone.

On “Never Forgive The Angels”, the Bride mourns the groom's death and blames it on the angels and the higher force.

The Sadness

At the beginning of this new stage, The Bride presents a feeling of sexual desire with the “Close Encounters” track, a clearly loving feeling, but then she develops despair and sadness. Regarded as an avant-garde track, Natasha Khan explores a kind of mystical union that transcends any plane of both life and death.

On "Widow's Peak", The Bride is taken over by grief. By the tracks "I Will Love Again" and "If I Knew" The Bride character starts to find herself, being open to love again and being thankful for Joe's love.