Release Date: October 31, 2011
After listening to Make the Girl Dance on a steady repeat, the looped dance beats and nostalgic vocals became delightfully catchy. The trend of bedroom pop-turned-electronic is steadily growing, but the youthful, retro, female voice in Everything Is Going to Be OK in the End is much more mysterious than other groups with a similar sound.
Although Everything Is Going to Be OK in the End features mainly female vocals, Make the Girl Dance is French DJ duo Greg Kozo and Pierre Mathieu. Known for their overtly sexual videos, these Parisians seem to be obsessed with promiscuity, drugs and women.
The duo’s video for “Baby Baby Baby” led to a variety of spoofs that took over YouTube. The original features three naked women walking down the streets of France with black boxes flashing lyrics over their socially inappropriate areas. Each of the tall, skinny and beautiful women walked down the street as if it were a cat walk—and of course got many stares from the public.
“Kill Me” shows the duo acting as if they only had eight days left to live. The two travel to New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles to blow through $30,000 in savings on drugs, tattoos and strippers, and the video documents the whole trip in a money-tracking timeline. The song itself is an obvious ode to fellow French duo Daft Punk, but it lacks the same punch.
The oddest of them all is “Broken Toy Boy.” This video is a story of a girl ordering life-size dolls of Kozo and Mathieu only to trash them after she births a doll baby from the two. Doesn’t make sense? Watching the video doesn’t quite clear it up, but worth a watch.
“Breezy” features all spoken words taken directly from 1973 Clint Eastwood film Breezy, which is about a middle-aged man falling in love with a teenage girl who stumbled upon his home. This tune is looped with heavy breathing, simple synth beats and airy rhythms. The seemingly innocent melodies mask the obvious sexual references with a lustful glaze. But it’s this youthful track that brings up weary thoughts about this duo’s intention. The obvious fascination with sensuality is apparent in nearly every track, and honestly, it gets a little old after a while.
Among the low points, Make the Girl Dance do shine in hip-hop infused “Glocken” and retro surf-rock “Tchiki Tchiki Tchiki,” which is the only track featuring male vocals. Each has an individual flavor of body-swaying goodness, making their vintage-tinged sound charming at times.
Needless to say, these two have a knack for the shock factor and some catchy dance beats, but it unfortunately doesn’t translate to the album. The female vocals aren’t explained, and the repeated samples become a little overkill. Here’s to hoping the next effort from this duo will be a bit more polished.
Make the Girl Dance – Everything Is Going to Be OK in the End tracklist:
- “Hair Addiction”
- “Breezy”
- “The Sand”
- “South”
- “Interlude/Sleeping Daisy”
- “Broken Toy Boy”
- “Kill Me”
- “Better Under Water”
- “Baby Baby Baby”
- “Interlude Sparkling Clarence”
- “Glocken”
- “Rocker 33”
- “Wall of Death”
- “Tchiki Tchiki Tchiki”
