Installment #48 in Monolisticle's Ongoing Campaign Against the "Internet of Endless Listicles."
Sometimes we’re just wafting through our everyday, mostly mundane lives and we stumble across something that, well,...we didn’t even know we were looking for.
It’s so beautifully eccentric. Or jolting. Or rearranges the parts in ways we’ve never seen the parts arranged before. That rare thing that miraculously made it past the forces that can’t help but corral everything into the same stylistic ring.
That’s what happened to me while watching The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. I was just about to push the fast-forward button, and then…she appears.
And she’s wearing a striking red dress. And she’s singing a song with a voice that reminds me in the best way of Billie Holiday and Amy Winehouse. Except it’s not Billie Holiday or Amy Winehouse. It’s Celeste.
And as Celeste sings, she remains in one spot. But oscillates toward the camera. As her hands move slightly, and purposefully. And her eyes move slightly, and purposefully.
As I fixate on her performance, the camera pulls back ever-so-slowly to reveal on the wall behind her the silhouetted shadows of the unseen-but-heard musicians in her orchestra. Their heads are shaped like hearts (because why not?). And as weird as it all may seem, it’s actually weirdly perfect.
As a creative director, I can’t help but acknowledge it when I see a performance come together so perfectly and in so many perfectly different ways. Well done to everyone involved.
View a clip of the performance on Celeste's Instagram: @celeste
@celeste
@beatrixblaise
@fallontonight
@jasper_brown
@spam_jam
Creative direction:
Celeste
Beatrix Blaise
Sammy King
Director:
Jasper Brown
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