The last week of August was rich in music video releases and half of them announce new upcoming albums.
Removed choreography embodying contagious rumor at Calogero, delicate watercolor animation made to measure for Pomme, Jean-Claude Van Damme improvising a dance for Aaron, disillusioned nature and end of summer at Julien Doré, 2020 reassembly signed Spike Lee for a hymn by Michael Jackson, schoolboy action scenario for Run The Jewels: here are the six clips that you should not miss last week.
Calogero “The Rumor”
She ran, she ran the rumor, of the return of Calogero who had begun to distill clues of his return since July on social networks and on the radio. It was confirmed Thursday, August 26 with the release of the clip of The rumor directed by Ybao Benedetti around a superb choreography. The opportunity to settle their accounts with devastating gossip and bad buzz – “She runs from mouth to mouth, door to door / You press a key and she is exported / Short and runs and she loves to scare / She points at you, the rumor “ – and to announce the release of his next album, Downtown, for November 6.
“Grandiose” apple
The young singer, songwriter and musician Claire Pommet, known as Pomme, celebrated on Sunday August 30 a year since the release of I don’t know how to dance, first single from his second album Loopholes which made take off her notoriety and was worth to her the Victoire de la musique revelation 2020. She wanted on this occasion to release a new clip and it was Grandiose, poignant song about the desire for a child of a girl who loves girls and refuses “the life we are being sold well traced” – “Since I don’t have the right / I want a child in the womb“, she begins… The beautiful watercolor-style clip is co-signed by Apple and the Canadian feminist Ambivalently Yours, who produced the visuals for the cover of Loopholes.
Julien Doré “Barracuda II”
The singer of Alès released Monday August 24 his second single as a prelude to a new album expected Friday September 4. This is a delicious stripped-down song, for which Julien Doré is accompanied only by his piano and a children’s choir, as we can see in the clip produced by his faithful accomplice Brice VDH. Filmed in a natural setting of old stones and wheat fields bathed in warm late summer light, this sober clip ideally accompanies this melancholy melody, in which the singer mixes self-mockery, sadness and politics – “Everyone has something to say about my hair or the weather, although both are going for the worst, no one is going to fight for it.“
Aaron “Ultrarêve”
And now a little curiosity with this delightful clip of the French electro-pop duo Aaron released on Friday August 28, in which Jean-Claude Van Damme dances, or rather gently swaying between two martial arts postures. According to the group, the Belgian actor had contacted them to ask them to participate in his feature film project. After many discussions, “the idea a little crazy“came to them to ask for their next clip.”In full confinement, Jean-Claude (…) offered to carry the clip on his shoulders, calling on his daughter Bianca for the production. Filmed in Los Angeles in a never-before-seen context the (ultra) dream has become (ultra) reality”. Ce single sensible – “Under the limed light of the cities, on my blue skin the night passes, crosses the emptiness of the week, grazes my lips in the weekends“- announces a 4th studio album for Aaron, Anatomy of Light, expected on September 18.
Run The Jewels feat. 2 Chainz “Out of sight”
The American rap duo are taking a little political break and having fun with this rather spectacular clip unveiled on Friday August 28 which illustrates a track taken from their fourth album released in June. We follow a team of four friends breaking into a luxurious residence in search of the precious golden gloves that serve as the logo at Run The Jewels and adorn all their pockets. They find them, put under glass like in a museum, as well as a box of precious pink gems which, when ingested, cause psychedelic effects. The four kids are actually the actors of the series Get Ducked ! and the director of the clip is none other than Ninian Doff, the author of this schoolboy series visible on Amazon.
Michael Jackson “They Don’t care about us” revisité par Spike Lee
‘Lgreat protest songs can neither age nor become obsolete because the fight continues“, explains the director Spike Lee, about this clip of Michael Jackson that he decided to update to celebrate his birthday – dead in 2009, the King of pop would have celebrated his 62 years on Saturday August 29th. The American director mixed the footage from the two original clips he shot in Brazil and in prison with footage of police violence and recent protests around the world against racism, from New York to Madrid, Rio, Atlanta, Cape Town, Paris , Gaza or Melbourne. For Spike Lee, this song, which intended to denounce the injustices towards all humanity, “is the anthem of this chaotic and pandemic world in which we all live“and this clip a way to”continue the fight for equality for all “.
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