Sebastien Tellier - "La Ritournelle"

this is Sebastien Tellier's 2005 quick-cut narrative of party people growing old, or heteromance turned homogeneity. i don't know. it's kind of sad in a predictable way. fitting, because my special someone is en route to iceland while i'm sitting in an empty house in a dallas suburb.




"La Ritournelle (Mr. Dan's Magic Wand Edit)"
directed by Ace Norton

here's a clever and more recent excerpt from Tellier on politics and sex:

I try to explain to the world the latent concept of sex and that’s the goal of the record. I’m very happy to be in a sexual society. My previous record was called ‘Politics’ and of course it was about politics. At that time, I thought it was the most important rule in the world and now I think that sex is the most important rule, because seduction is at the centre of everything. So for me, sex is more important than politics. That’s why I talk about sex in my record. I always try to find the core subject matter to talk about.... You know it’s so sad when you go to a party, a discotheque or a club, and you have sex with a girl but the day after you feel a bit dirty. I hate that feeling. For me, real sex is when you have the feeling and then the sex, not the sex and then the feeling. After all that, I love nasty sex too but I want something more.

(and here's the original version of the song and the first video, directed by Mr. Oizo.)