Coasting’s Same Same But Different

The Brooklyn/New-Zealand girl-powered duo Coasting changes up today’s same-old music videos with this vintage inspired clip. With a sound reminiscent of the Beach Boys, the indie-pop group’s song Same Old Same Old, is anything like the old and tired music that we’ve seen in the charts as of late.

The song, taken from their debut 2011 LP ‘You’re Never Going Back’, features an infectiously styled tune, accompanied by the enchanting animated clip—directed by the talented Alice Cohen—compiled solely from collage-style old photos and postcards.

Cohen explores the 1950s era through these old photos, with Marilyn Monroe hairstyles and Gidget-inspired beach outfits. She illuminates the fashionable era before beaches were clad with skimpy bikinis, when women rocked a full piece and bathing cap, and then moves onto the Twiggy-wannabes of the 1960s, with outfits and styles we’ve grown to know and love through Mad Men. Finishing with hippies and the Sex Pistols-esque punk of the 1970s, Cohen and Coasting take us on a fashion time-travelling journey.

Through these vintage images with psychedelic colors—similar to their previous music videos—Coasting and Cohen prove that they are anything but the same old, same old.

Details

• Directed by

  Alice Cohen

• Release Date

  12 February 2012

• Band

  Coasting