Shape Shifting. George as Jorge.

If you’re thinking, “that dude looks like he’s from the eighties,” it’s because the man you are watching perform is — but the song he is singing is not. Caroline Polachek, the lead singer of Chairlift, edited and re-shot the newest music video by fellow Brooklyn band Violens using purely vintage footage of George Michael. Beyond the obvious humor of watching an eighties pop star grip a pole and lipsink to a ballad written two decades later, there is another peculiar irony: Phonetically, George Michael shares the same name as Violens frontman Jorge Elbrecht. And they also share a certain love of gold cross earrings. Seriously. If you happen to be in England next week, you can catch a glimpse of the band performing “Already Over,” and maybe even a glimmer of gold beneath Jorge’s ear.

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