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Karen O – “Ooo” Video (Feat. Elle Fanning) (Dir. Spike Jonze) Sep 12th '14 by Tom Breihan @ 4:44pm 3 Comments Tweet Elle Fanning Karen O Video
Spike Jonze is arguably the greatest music video director of all time, but he’s mostly retired from the art form. But he just made a quick exception for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs leader Karen O, who just released her debut solo album Crush Songs , an album of quiet acoustic home recordings. The video for the album track “Ooo” is strictly an impromptu affair for Jonze — recorded on the spur of the moment, and possibly without Karen knowing about it, while Jonze and the actress Elle Fanning were preparing to stage a oneact play at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House as part of Fashion Week. The video is just Fanning dancing and mugging across the stage and the backstage area at the Met, and yet it is still somehow unmistakeably a Spike Jonze video. Watch it and read some words from Jonze below.
Jonze writes: On Sunday we made a oneact play for my friend Humberto’s company, Opening Ceremony. The idea was to do a play instead of a regular fashion show during Fashion Week, and, miraculously, we were able to do it at the New York Metropolitan Opera House. (Thank you, Peter Gelb and everyone at the Met!) Also, this week my dear friend Karen is putting out her first solo album of precious, personal love and heartache gems titled Crush Songs. They are songs made so intimately and spontaneously alone in her bedroom a few years ago that they feel more like unguarded whispers from her heart than a traditionally produced album. So on Sunday, during a tenminute break as we were rehearsing and lighting at the Met, we made a very impromptu “music video” for Karen in the spirit of her album. It just seemed like if you have the Opera House, that song, and Elle Fanning together, you shouldn’t let the opportunity go by. So we made this as a surprise gift for Karen to congratulate her on her album. She is going to see this for the first time as you do. I hope you enjoy. (via Vice ) Crush Songs is out now on Cult . Tags: Elle Fanning , Karen O , Spike Jonze
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Comments (3) 1. foxythekid | Posted on Sep 13th
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When the theater is revealed in it’s stunning glory, with the hazy, low light footage, I realized that this is the best possible way for a music video to be made for any song on the album. Reply 2. Jesse Wingard | Posted on Sep 13th
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That was not a music video. Have you ever seen Peter Gabriel’s “Big Time”? C’mon. Reply 3. Brian Caiazza | Posted on Sep 13th
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garbage…. Reply
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