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Chromeo - Tenderoni

Music Video | Canada | 2007
ArtistChromeo
DirectorJérémie Rozan
Production CompanySurface To Air
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Synopsis

P-Thugg drives a brightly colored "Tenderoni Pizza" truck through sunny streets, delivering pies while Dave 1 appears as a moving, singing spray-paint image on its side. A woman painted on the opposite panel becomes Dave 1's object of affection, prompting him to dance across the vehicle in an attempt to reach her. Their reunion is repeatedly interrupted by the truck's opening doors, but they eventually dance together and celebrate with champagne. The final gag reveals that P-Thugg has delivered a pizza to the real woman, leaving Dave 1 alone on the van.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video was released in 2007 as part of the promotional campaign for Chromeo's second album, "Fancy Footwork."
  • Chromeo used a playful, retro visual style that echoed the duo's fascination with 1980s pop, funk, R&B, and music-video imagery.
  • The moving artwork on the pizza truck was conceived as a nod to a-ha's "Take On Me." Dave 1 later explained that Chromeo wanted younger viewers to discover older reference points through the band's videos.
  • The video's "Tenderoni Pizza" branding turns the song's title into a fictional fast-food identity, extending Chromeo's fondness for cheeky logos, stylized props, and exaggerated commercial imagery.
  • "Tenderoni" was not a word invented by Chromeo. The term had already appeared in 1980s and early 1990s urban music, including songs associated with Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, and O'Bryan.
  • The clip grew out of Chromeo's established visual relationship with the Surface to Air creative team, which had also worked on the group's album artwork.
  • The song began as a basic funk groove that Chromeo developed while looping the track and dancing around the studio. Its single-note, modal riff was intended to connect old-school funk with the electronic music Chromeo admired at the time.
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