A collaboration between Dan Nakamura and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The two originally got together during filming Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, a 2010 movie that featured Winstead as titular character's femme fatale called Ramona Flowers, while Nakamura provided several songs to the movie's soundtrack. Later on Winstead contributed vocals to two songs on Deltron 3030's 2013 album Event II. Simultaneously, she started hanging in Nakamura's studio, where the two started recording songs that would be eventually released under moniker Got A Girl. Building heavily on the pair's mutual love of 60' french pop music, music of Got A Girl marries chanson, lounge music and trip-hop into unique blend crowned with Winstead's sultry vocals. Lyrically their songs deal with romance but with a post-modern twist to that, as professed in Hope Larson-directed video to the song Did We Live To Fast. The song premiered on June 3, 2014, end of July saw the release of Got A Girl's debut album I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now.
2 Reviews
Not really convincing
Horst_In_Translation17 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
The title is a giveaway here. These 3.5 minutes are the music video for the song "Did We Live Too Fast" from the duo "Got a Girl" that consists of actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Dan Nakamura. I do not know anything about the latter, but I really like the former, both in terms of her talented acting as well as her marvelous looks. But sadly, I cannot say I am convinced by the music here or by her voice. It is a black-and-white music video that sounds fairly generic in my opinion and the music visual side it obvious that ambition was there, but most of the scenes seem more try-hard and pseudo-meaningful than really deep or effective. One example would be the eye on the forehead and the sexual references do not exactly elevate the material either as they see despite the beautiful MEW rather cheap and just included for the sake of it. Disappointing really. I do not recommend the watch here, and even less the listen to this song from 2 years ago. Thumbs down.
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