Röyksopp ft. Karin Dreijer – This Must Be It
2009 · Directed by Andreas & Filip Nilsson
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1.“I've finally found it! Saw this video ages ago on TV and loved the song, but forgot the name... and googling 'naked guy driving on a drum set' didn't help.”
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- 2.“Is this how people in Norway live?”
- 3.“Ordinary Norwegians before they found oil.”
The story
Somewhere in the Scandinavian backwoods, after the end of the world, a tribe of wrinkly cave people in loincloths is waiting for a savior. He shows up on a drum-quad. His name is Runar, a humble thinker and gambler with the hands of a jazz drummer, and he rolls through the hinterlands spreading peace, love and rhythm. Arrows fly. Naysayers grumble. Meat gets barbecued. Eventually everybody dances.
Swedish directors Andreas and Filip Nilsson made it, and the band's own website called it a semi-biblical story set in an all-nude, utopian hippie world. One reviewer nailed it: a little bit hippie, a little bit barbarian, a little bit Mad Max. Andreas Nilsson liked his grunting cast so much he later cut a version with no music at all, just the sound effects, so it plays like a short film.
The song comes from Junior, Röyksopp's 2009 album that went to number one in Norway. The voice belongs to Karin Dreijer of The Knife and Fever Ray, who never appears on screen. Probably wise. Runar had it covered.
