Video: The Gossip: "Keeping You Alive"
Life's gone from riches to rag-dolls for Pacific Northwest band the Gossip. After a 2007 of charity and nudity (not to mention major-label-ity), Beth Ditto & co. have selected a winner in their contest to design the video for "Keeping You Alive", from 2006's Standing in the Way of Control, and the victorious entry turns the band into puppets. The winners-- France's Laure Saupique, Valérie Zaccomer and Eric Chantelauze, who use the Qoob video service under the handle Beautiful Fools-- will take home 2,000 euros, which amounts to, ohh, a heck of a lot more than $2,000.
The clip opens with the miniature Gossip playing on top of a miniature city building, the puppet Ditto detailed down to the lips tattooed to her bottom. The plot here involves a skinny, imprisoned rag-doll girl with frizzy hair, who contemplates jumping from a building to escape her creepy human captor. "There are people who love you," Ditto assures her, sounding a bit like the "life is worth living" signs you sometimes see posted en route to major bridges. Later, when the frizzy-haired doll gets trapped at sea, the video's Ditto makes a giant ladder and comes to her rescue. Then doll Ditto nurses the girl from her gigantic puppet bosom. Let's see Eddie Argos try that.
Video:> The Gossip: "Keeping You Alive"
[from Standing in the Way of Control; out now on Kill Rock Stars]