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Dom Dolla’s New Music Video Was Created “To Defy the Public Condition of Acceptable Love”
“When I read the script for the video clip, I knew [director] Emilie Badenhorst was onto something really special,” Dom Dolla said of his new music video. This “special” project, the audiovisual for his 2021 single, “Strangers” (with Mansionair), is now live. And Dolla wasn’t lying. Shot in Cape Town, South Africa, “Strangers” tells a free-spirited love story marked by golden hour meadows, stolen kisses and intimate moments in club bathrooms. Bookending the adventure are crashing waves and chirping seagulls as our two protagonists come together and find each other on the coast. It’s fleeting, profound and—yes—horny, playing into a nostalgic recollection of youth and adolescence. Meanwhile, the thumping four-on-the-floor ...
