Sexy Boy

It's late at night here in Gogginland, and the perfect time for the soothing and altogether mind-deepening music video of “Sexy Boy” by one of my favorite artists, Air. The two members of this French band are Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Their music is pretty much all a smooth blend of resonating electronica, tranquil melodies, and light rock that reminds one perhaps of the seventies. I have never heard any other band quite like Air, a band whose music carries a steady flow and has a feeling both otherworldly and intimate that makes one think of how things will be two million years into the future. They also created the soundtrack for the movie “The Virgin Suicides”, which I have never seen.

My favorite songs by Air:

• Kelly Watch The Stars
• Alpha Beta Gaga
• Sexy Boy
• Cherry Blossom Girl

Now about the music video. The song itself has that fascinating baseline that acquires a captivating overlay of rough resonance between light and dark metal, and the powerfully repeated and eponymous line of “sexy boy”. It is the kind of song you might listen to while falling asleep in order to be taken to a place far out in deep, deep space, where the place you came from looks no different than all the places around you, and so you contently continue your amazing journey to another world far away while thousands of years go by. The music video obviously has a different take on the song, of course based on the words that are mostly in French and so have no impact on my interpretation because I don't know what they mean. But Sexy Boy goes to the moon, so clearly the outer space feeling is strong. The use of drawings and basic animation instead of live action represent the peacefulness and simplicity of the song very well. Although a music video that centers around a stuffed monkey wearing a shirt that says “sexy boy” on it has an inherent humor about it, the video and music together have a strange kind of rare beauty.