Alex Feder's Video for "Whatever Forever" Will Encourage You to Get Freaky

What can I say: dancing gives me a ladyboner. Ridiculous interpretive freestyling, uber elegant ballet, the dude who swings poles and shouts "SHOWTIME" on the subways, breakdancers busting a nut, Haim killing it in "If I Could Change Your Mind," Napoleon Dynamite bending like Gumby to Jamiroquai, these teenage ballet girls twirling and grooving round NYC. 

 

I. Love. All. Of. It. 

 

It's a marvel what the body can do with a beat, but also there's such emotion in dancing—and so much of what's communicated is joy. Additionally I'm really into 70s short-shorts with go faster stripes down the hip, so as you might imagine this new Alex Feder's video for "Whatever Forever" hits me in the sweetest of spots. 

There are several things that are utterly mesmeric about this Nate Horowitz-directed spot:

- Dancer David Page’s thighs.

- The conviction in his moves.

- The fact that towards the end Page looks like he’s fist fighting a swarm of invisible bees.

- Whatever is jiggling around in his shorts. Sorry to be so crass but you can’t not look.

Musically Feder—who used to release as Leonard Friend and was also part of XYZ Affair—has created a song that sounds like Christmas. It’s an uplifting kind of power-pop, full of jangly guitars, excitable handclaps, and Casio beats.

It’s also worth checking out his tune “Alcohol” which is kind of like “Losing My Edge” mixed with “Be Safe”—The Cribs' collaboration with Sonic Youth’s Lee Renaldo. Both are lifted from his lately released EP +1, which is out now. 

But your first plan of action should be to grab a boombox, find a suburban front lawn, and get freaky.