MusicApril 15, 2012April 13, 2012

Feist – Bittersweet Melodies

by Iker Jauregi

[wide][/wide] In Feist’s latest video, “Bittersweet Melodies”, there are precious few moving images and Feist isn’t in it at all. The video director Hollie Singer ignored Leslie Feist entirely and builds the video out of a ‘montage’ of Argentian photographer Irina Werner‘s “Back To The Future” series, which juxtaposes old and new images, with the aged subjects posed the same way as their younger selves. Feist’s nostalgic lyrics fit perfectly with the lovely, vaguely sad pairing. The whole thing is weirdly sweet…

Video source: Feist, ittersweet Melodies

Written by: Iker Jauregi on April 15, 2012.