Arthurian Imagery Keeps Turning Up in Pop Media, Cliffs and Round Table Included

The Matter of Britain has had an enduring influence on popular media — films, documentaries, commercials and music videos — and the borrowings are not always reverent. In 2026, the music video for Troye Sivan's single “Party” is set in an Arthurian-like landscape of dramatic cliffs and grasslands, complete with a queer-coded equivalent of the Knights of the Round Table. What travels in a case like this is the staging: a landscape, a band of companions, a name. A Round Table is useful furniture — you can seat anyone at it, which is probably why it keeps getting booked.