M83 is French electronic music group whose musical style owes something to the shoegazing genre in its extensive use of reverb effects and lyrics spoken softly over loud instrumentals. The idea of youth – wasted, gilded or otherwise – has featured prominently in M83’s music. Says Anthony Gonzalez (aka M83) of new single, “Kim & Jessie”: “A lot of people always tell me that M83 is always about melancholy music, so I wanted to write something happy with hooks.”
“Kim & Jessie” is such a feel good song. The video (which came out last month but is just recently on Sweden’s ZTV playlist) features two teenage girls in tutus performing synchronized roller skating routines, battling yellow tutu girls, skating downhill, and inline skating with some guys. Roller skating is great. One of the girls (probably Kim) even has a pair of Nikes on a quad-skate platform.
A top notch video concept indeed, but I was disappointed when Kim & Jessie didn’t turn out to be lovers. They sure seemed tight for the first 2:30.
