 a video: goldfrapp's »happiness« bobby van, »small town girl«, metro-goldwyn-mayer technicolor, 1953 bobby van (en.wikipedia) born december 6th, 1928, was an american singer, musical actor and »entertainer's entertainer«. in the 1953 lászló kardos-directed musical production »small town girl«, bobby van plays the character of ludwig schlemmer, whose »hippity hop«-dance performance with it's 8523 hops soon became very popular. more on »small town girl« is avaiable in the new york times' review.    goldfrapp, »happiness«, dir. dougal wilson, 2008 goldfrapp (en.wikipedia), is a 1999 formed british pop music duo concisting of singer alison goldfrapp and producer (i.e. »keyboarder«) will gregory. »happiness« is the second single off their fourth album »the seventh tree«, the video in question is directed by dougal wilson (videoville). recent works of his include videos for jarvis cocker, bat for lashes, four tet, lcd soundsystem and the latest goldfrapp-single, »a&e«. in the video for »happiness« we see – once again – a kind of suburbia. alison goldfrapp is being shown in the opening scene, sitting on the stairs, singing. nice! but it's getting even better. a young man pops up, pops down, pops up and down, over and over until the end of the video. though it might seem as if it was being filmed in one shot, there are several cuts in the piece. but back to the jumping man again: he's dressed in a nice cut white suit, wearing white slippers and a black&white tie. the similarities in the imagery of »small town girl« and »happiness« are huge, dougal wilson's music video obviously is a deep hommage to the musical. we see alison consistently in different cameos (the nerdy girl at the bus stop, the rigid police officer, the flower girl), we see skipping children, bmx-bikes, the friendly postman, construction workers, a lovely old couple and – a dancing dog! crazyness! find more information on the single-release here, a broad discussion on the clip at videoville, but i'm sure you would like to buy the limited 7"-picture-vinyl of »happiness« (itunes here) right away. but let's have a look at this splendid video first: download quicktime, 22,3 mb (right click, save target as) by the way: i counted 391 hops. how many did you see? waldar - 5. Apr, 21:17 link | 2 kommentare | kommentieren | 0 trackbacks 
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