i am totally totally obsessed with this.
i will tell you all the reasons why, but first you should watch.
now here are all the reasons, in no real order:
1. they both have the best, biggest mouths. but different biggest. like. he's all wide and teeth and tight-lipped all at once. and she's all lips and pushed forward and open. and i love mouths. i love them. remember that collage i made of people who's mouths i love? i do. and if i re-made it, they would for sure be right there in the middle.
2. the way kimbra rolls her shoulders and then slides.
3. the line 'i told myself that you were right for me, but felt so lonely in your company...' oh. man. have i been there. oh.
4. the way his face goes when she's singing at him. and how he sings away, like he's flinching... defending... getting hit by her singing. pouting.
5. hey look, there's some hair on a mural. WAIT! THOSE ARE THE SINGERS! such a great concept.
6. in the chorus he sounds kinda peter gabriel-y, doesn't he? he does.
7. does his tongue get really pink at the end?
8. i think he says 'friemds'. like. 'you said we could still be frieMds...' pretty sure.
9. the pan out to reveal kimbra. ah man he looks awkward/sad/pathetic. and then the way he breathes deeply, like a shrug/sigh/clenching in response to her first line...
10. the almost nausea-causing base drone that runs under kimbra's verse, like there is something eating away at his perspective. it is falling apart a bit. like maybe the whole song should really be about her and he is an unsympathetic character... maybe. drone drone...
okay, so pretty much every second has some amazing tiny little thing in it. some movement that just makes me so sad/glad. so simple. so brilliant.
happy (holiday) monday!!!
1 comment:
Oh yeah! I saw this one before, as a link from another one of yours! And I thought: Most duets are lame. This duet is Not! Lame! They are really good actors. Which is weird, for a music video, no? I like it. I like it a lot too.
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