!!! - One Girl⧸One Boy

What this video is

Released in May 2013 as a music video for the second single from !!!'s fifth studio album Thr!!!er (Warp Records, April 30, 2013), 'One Girl / One Boy' sits at the intersection of indie-dance maximalism and post-punk energy that defined the band's decade-long career. The track features guest vocalist Sonia Moore and gained cross-platform visibility through its placement on the fictional Radio Mirror Park station in…

Why it matters

Represents the mature phase of the 2000s post-punk dance revival, with !!! functioning as long-running standard-bearers of the DFA-adjacent funk-punk-electronic crossover. The video's hyper-edited, color-saturated aesthetic illustrates how indie acts of this era self-consciously cited early MTV…

The director

Alan Smithee is a well-documented pseudonym used by directors who wish to disown a project. Originally coined by the Directors Guild of America in 1968 for film, the credit has been extended to television, music videos, and other media. Its use in the !!!…