![]() ![]() Lemoine, an acclaimed director, whose music videography includes Lana Del Rey’s “ Born to Die” (2011), Drake and Rihanna’s “ Take Care” (2012), and Harry Styles’ “ Sign of the Times” (2017), personally undertook the direction of “Run Boy Run” (2013). “Run boy run! This world is not made for you / Run boy run! They’re trying to catch you / Run boy run! Running is a victory / Run boy run! Beauty lays behind the hills!” Woodkid chants in The Golden Age’s frantic and frenzied second track, “ Run Boy Run”, which has since become the musician’s highest-charting single, and has appeared everywhere from films, television shows, and trailers, to the 2016 Summer Olympics. Because I grew up as a gay kid, I wanted to find people like me. My memories of childhood are of trees, fields, and the river, not being in the city.” However, he continues, “I’ve always looked for something exotic, so living in the countryside, I wanted to go into the city. ![]() “I grew up part of my life in Poland with my mother,” he states in an interview with Interview Magazine’s Gerry Visco, “We moved to the countryside of France when the Wall of Berlin fell. As the stability of the song’s piano notes are gradually usurped by the distant sound of brass, the hammering of drums, and the swelling of violins, one cannot help but feel overcome by the same sense of wistful nostalgia that inspired Yoann Lemoine, a director and graphic designer, to begin creating music as Woodkid.īorn on March 16, 1983, in Lyon, France, Lemoine looks back on his childhood in the countryside with great fondness. “The golden age is over…” laments Woodkid in the first track of his debut album, The Golden Age. Woodkid’s The Golden Age - An Analysis of an Audiovisual Experience ![]()
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