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Chemical Brothers feat. Noel Gallagher - Let Forever Be

Music Video | 1999
ArtistChemical Brothers
ArtistChemical Brothers
ArtistNoel Gallagher (featuring)
SongLet Forever Be
DirectorMichel Gondry
Director of PhotographyLance Acord
ProducerCarole Burton-Fairbrother (at Virgin Records)
ProducerJulie Fong (at Partizan Midi Minuit)
Art DirectorPeter Andrus
GenreElectronica (Techno, Ambient, Jungle,...)
IntroNo
OutroNo
Production CompanyGeorges Bermann)
Production CompanyVirgin Records
Production CompanyPartizan Midi Minuit
ChoreographyKeith Young
Production time1 day
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown
VFX CompanyBuf Compagnie
Release date

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Synopsis

A young woman wakes for work, but her ordinary morning quickly fractures into a surreal nightmare. As she moves through her bedroom, bathroom, and workplace, her movements multiply into kaleidoscopic patterns, with identical dancers appearing, disappearing, and merging around her. Everyday routines become increasingly unstable until reality seems to fold in on itself. The video follows the song's hypnotic repetition by turning one woman's anxious morning into a disorienting, dreamlike performance that blurs the boundaries between waking life, memory, and fantasy.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The woman at the center of the video is played by actress and dancer Stephanie Landwehr.
  • The visual design depends heavily on duplication, split-screen compositions, morphing, and carefully synchronized choreography. The repeated bodies appear to be part of the same physical space rather than conventional digital copies, giving the effects a handmade, stage-magic quality.
  • The video draws on the kaleidoscopic dance imagery of Busby Berkeley, particularly the "I Only Have Eyes For You" number from the 1934 Warner Bros. musical *Dames*.
  • Its contrasting visual textures are part of the concept: the girl's everyday world has a more immediate video look, while the choreographed fantasy passages evoke older film and television imagery.
  • Noel Gallagher co-wrote the song and supplied its vocals, but does not appear in the video. The track was his second collaboration with the Chemical Brothers, following "Setting Sun."
  • The production company Partizan was behind the clip, which won Video of the Year, Best Art Direction, and Electronic Video of the Year at the 2000 MVPA Awards.
  • It also won Best International Video at the 1999 MuchMusic Video Awards and received a 2000 MTV Video Music Award nomination for Breakthrough Video.
  • Pitchfork later placed "Let Forever Be" at number seven on its list of the top 50 music videos of the 1990s.

Lyrics

And how does it feel like to wake up in the sun,
And how does it feel like to shine on everyone,
How does it feel like to let forever be,
And how does it feel like to spend a little lifetime
sitting in the gutter screaming symphony

How does it feel like to sail in on the breeze,
And how does it feel like to spend a little lifetime
sitting in the gutter screaming symphony

And how does it feel like to make it happening,
And how does it feel like to breath with everything,
And how does it feel like to let forever be,
...
© Chemical Brothers feat. Noel Gallagher - Let Forever Be. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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