Bat For Lashes - "Kids In The Dark"

Lief London, United Kingdom

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Brand: Bat For Lashes
Country: United Kingdom

Advertiser: Bat For Lashes

Title	Kids In The Dark
Agency	Lief
Campaign	Lost Girls
Advertiser	Bat For Lashes
Brand	Bat For Lashes
Date of First Broadcast/Publication	2019 / 7
Business Sector	Records, CDs, DVDs & Videos
Philosophy	Bat For Lashes aka Natasha Khan reveals the video for ‘Kids In The Dark’ and her gang of Lost Girls as she directs and stars in this first visual for her hotly anticipated new album. The video is shot against the hills of LA, with the eerie light of dusk casting a shadow across proceedings, and introduces how Nikki Pink became a Lost Girl. In the last few weeks, tantalizing clues have been laid on social media in video and photograph form and the mysterious Lost Girls phone line was inundated with strange and intriguing #batphoners messages about Nikki’s whereabouts. Spanning 10 tracks, Lost Girls sees Khan dreaming up her own fully formed parallel universe, creating an off-kilter coming of age film in which gangs of marauding female bikers roam our streets and teenagers make out on car hoods. In this video we delve deeper into a nocturnal feminine world and touch on themes of love between characters from different universes. Directed and conceived by Natasha Khan, the universe is produced in collaboration with her production company Lief. The women of Lost Girls are parallel to one of Khan’s previous female protagonists, the street tough, darkness-driven Pearl, from her 2009 lauded album Two Suns. Within the women of Lost Girls and the character Nikki Pink, Khan unfolds elements of herself; within these songs, we do the same. Lost Girls is an album full of romance, a homage to Los Angeles, to being a kid in the 80’s, to films that touched and changed her life. It mixes sounds Khan has always loved -- heavy bass lines, synth arpeggios, Iranian pop beats, cascading choruses -- with some of her finest songwriting to date. The delicious first single “Kids in the Dark” sets the scene, with its opulent haze of 80’s synths and stuttering disco beats, but nothing in this topsy-turvy world is quite as it seems.
Media Type	Music Video
Length	213 seconds
Market	United States
Soundtrack	Bat For Lashes "Kids In The Dark"
Production Company	Lief
Director	Natasha Khan
Producer	Margo Mars
Artist	Natasha Khan
Talent/Actors	Samuel Watkins
Talent/Actors	Avery Wheless
Talent/Actors	Bella Gadsby
Talent/Actors	Eleanor Epstein
Talent/Actors	Isa Mercado
Talent/Actors	Anna Aguirre
Talent/Actors	Evangeline Neuhart
Talent/Actors	Dominique N Godinez
Director of Photography (DOP)	Gilles O'Kane
Line Producer	Roberto Rodriguez
Dir. Creative Asst & Casting	Avery Wheless
Editor	Noel Paul
Colorist	Bossi Baker
Title	Fraser Muggeridge Studio
Costume	Devin Winter
Hair and Makeup	Alexandra French
Hair and Makeup	Alex Perrone