"The Spoils" by Massive Attack, featuring Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval as a guest singer, is a 2016 musical piece that I consider one of the group's best works. It is a deeply atmospheric and emotional song about transformation, detachment, and the pain of being forgotten. The music video, starring actress Cate Blanchett, visually reinforces these themes. As the song progresses, her face slowly transforms, deconstructs, and morphs into something unrecognizable, symbolizing dissolution, identity loss, or metamorphosis. The melody is slow and mysterious, exemplifying the best of both Massive Attack and Hope Sandoval, who gained fame with the similarly slow and ethereal song Fade Into You.
