Moby 'We Are All Made of Stars' - Official video

What this video is

Released April 1, 2002 as the lead single from Moby's album 18, the video arrived during a culturally raw post-9/11 moment. The song was written in New York in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks as an expression of hopefulness and cosmic human interconnectedness. The video deliberately subverts this optimism by deploying a parade of faded or transgressive celebrities in seedy Hollywood settings,…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of early-2000s electronic crossover pop, the video synthesizes Joseph Kahn's high-concept Hollywood satire with Moby's post-Play anthemic electronica. It represents a peak moment of the prestige music video format — large-budget, auteur-directed, celebrity-populated — just…

The director

Born Ahn Jun-hee (October 12, 1972) in Busan, South Korea; raised partly in Livorno, Italy and Jersey Village, Texas. Attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts before dropping out. Built career directing hip-hop and pop music videos from the mid-1990s onward,…