The music video reinforces that independent spirit. Recorded and edited by Nessi himself in his Paris apartment, it reflects the personal and unrestrained nature of the project. There is no elaborate production behind it, just a creative vision that uses its own resources to build a visual universe.

Be My Wife is the musical alter ego of Federico Nessi, a Paris-based creative director who has spent more than two decades exploring music, imagery, and performance. After a moment in the spotlight in 2023, something shifted in his relationship with creativity. That turning point gave birth to a project that seems to exist somewhere between a nervous breakdown and a cabaret act.

Its identity draws from the legacy of post-punk, no wave, industrial, and goth, while also embracing the romantic excess of classic crooners and the deliberately imperfect spirit of underground counterculture. The result is difficult to categorise: provocative yet seductive, theatrical yet vulnerable, capable of moving from irony to honesty without warning.

In Be My Wife's universe, desire and embarrassment, glamour and ugliness, sincerity and pretence all coexist. Humour becomes a defence mechanism; heartbreak, an occupational hazard. Even the project's name, inspired by both a David Bowie song and a film by silent-era comedian Max Linder, reflects its fascination with contradictions and identities that never quite fit.

With “Long Haul,” Be My Wife isn't trying to perfect a formula, but to disrupt it. It's an invitation to embrace our contradictions, laugh at the things we usually take too seriously, and find something truthful in the middle of the absurd. Because sometimes, the joke is the point. And sometimes, it's all that's left.