Pioneering director Michel Gondry is responsible for some of the most memorable music video imagery of the past 20 years — the Lego dioramas in the White Stripes’ VMAs-sweeping “Fell in Love With a Girl,” the backwards adventures of Cibo Matto in “Sugar Water,” the surreal dream sequences of the Foo Fighters’ “Everlong,” the elaborate Busby Berkeley-in-space choreography of Daft Punk’s “Around the World,” and of course, multiple amazing clips for Bjork.
Now the French visionary has turned his eye to the world of album art, crafting a spectacular and ambitious promo for Pandora’s #SoundsLikeYou campaign. Reminiscent of Gondry’s one-take “Lucas With the Lid Off” video from his early career, the clip depicts a runner racing through wall-sized, 3D recreations of some of music’s most recognizable album covers, including the Doors’ Morrison Hotel, Metallica’s Master of Puppets, Devo’s Freedom of Choice, Nirvana’s Nevermind, Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, David Bowie’s Blackstar, Drake’s Nothing Was the Same, and the Weeknd’s Starboy.
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