Lolo Zouaï - Summers in Vegas

What this video is

Released July 31, 2019, 'Summers in Vegas' arrived at a moment when alt-R&B and indie-pop artists were increasingly leveraging analog film aesthetics to authenticate autobiographical narratives in an era of digital oversaturation. The video's Super 8mm format and Las Vegas suburban on-location shooting directly visualize Zouaï's bicultural, bicoastal identity — a French-Algerian immigrant raised in San Francisco…

Why it matters

Represents a key document of late-2010s alt-R&B's DIY visual language, wherein artists used analog film formats (Super 8mm) to authenticate confessional songwriting. The video's self-directed, intimate production model — artist as director, stylist, and subject — is emblematic of how emerging acts…

The director

Lolo Zouaï (born Laureen Rebeha Zouaï, March 5, 1995) is a French-born, San Francisco-raised singer, songwriter, and producer signed to Keep It On The Lolo / RCA Records. She is a self-taught musician and Songwriters Hall of Fame Abe Olman Scholar, and…