Anggun Juste Avant Toi
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Written for the Special Edition of her Luminescence album, “Juste Avant Toi” is a song written and performed by French singer Anggun.
Known in English as “I’ll Be Alright”, “Juste Avant Toi” is one of two new songs to be included on the album (the other being “Garde-Moi”). And for an Anggun song the music video starts off pretty normal. She’s at a concert, she leaves, she’s driven home, she sees a billboard of herself. Then she heads onto the street and starts singing.
Then the characteristic surrealism kicks in. While she’s on the street in one outfit she’s also suddenly in a forest, by a stream, in a completely different outfit. The scene flips back and forth between city and forest, and then suddenly the two Angguns meet and swap places. The forest Anggun looks rather overwhelmed by the city while the city Anggun looks perfectly happy in the forest. Needless to say they never swap back, and forest Anggun gets used to giving performances.
It’s different, that’s for sure. But worth a watch.