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Music: Kurt Vile's video collaboration with Windows
Posted Jul 28, 2011
This series is a collection of short film essays that explore a day in the life of a creative Windows Phone user and is open to anyone who has access to a Windows phone. This entry has come from fashion photographer and music video/commercial director Todd Cole, known for his work with Charlotte Gainsbourg and No Age to Rodarte. The video for Kurt Vile’s track was shot in Cole’s hometown, Los Angeles, and explores the love story between a young couple and their everyday lives that play out in East LA. With sepia tones throughout the video, the love is constantly interrupted by a chaotic urban background, which instils the reality of the couples' love. Cole’s other works have been given the slick finish that we expect from directors of this calibre but the rough film work only enhances the setting of this short film essay, which is further exemplified by the music of Kurt Vile’s ‘Baby’s Arms’.
The song is also a collaboration with Meg Baird, from acclaimed acid-folk band Espers, who supplies backup vocals, notable towards the end of the track, on this refreshing folk excursion from Vile. The album, ‘Smoke Ring for My Halo’, which was released earlier this year, has been noted as his most personal work yet and resembles a set of conversations with himself and stretches more genres than he has before; folk, rock, blues etc. This song is constructed with layers of plucking and plays out the safety found within the arms of another and the dangers of putting your happiness on someone else that we can all relate to. The lyrics tell us:
'I will never ever ever be alone cause it's all in my baby's hands'
These lyrics are something that we can all relate to in love, when we think that one person can grant our happiness and blinds us with the fear of loneliness.
This collaborative approach from Windows is another exciting example of personal technologies connecting people through the arts and allowing people who consume these technologies the opportunity to communicate on a different level.
Finally, it is up to you to experience this entry from the Windows Phone Me series, enjoy!
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Written by Ben Taylor
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