Remy Bond leans fully into a vintage Japanese fantasy in her new video for “Skin Tight Jeans.” On Monday, the rising pop star released the visual for her Backstage at the Tropicana standout, filmed entirely while visiting Tokyo.
The Olivia Bond–directed video follows Bond as she wanders through the streets of Tokyo like Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation, she slurps ramen, dances around a hotel room, and visits Swan Lake.
In front of a painted Mount Fuji backdrop, Bond then performs choreography with four dancers, wearing a skintight latex pink mini-dress covered in bows. “I wanna wear you like skin-tight jeans / I’d never take you off,” Bond sings. “I like you dirty, no wash / Dress me like a baby doll.”
Later, Bond bursts out of a Fabergé egg and poses in front of a Russian doll in front of a saturated color backdrop. The video closes with a montage of Bond and her friends frolicking across Japan. In one Easter egg, Bond poses in a white mini-dress Brittany Murphy wore in Uptown Girls while holding her pet pig, Moo, who is named after the pig owned by Murphy’s character in the film.
The new video follows the release of her EP, Backstage at the Tropicana, which featured songs such as “Star Shaped Baby,” “Hawaiian Dream,” and “Sunset Claws.”
“I’ve always felt nostalgia was the strongest emotion,” she said upon releasing the project. “I had a magical childhood, and I think I glamorize that nostalgia in the same way I think of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Though the past slowly fades, I try to write each song like a reminder of those disappearing worlds.”
The musician, who Rolling Stone named as an Artist You Need to Know earlier this year, will go on a European tour to celebrate the record. While she was making the EP, she told Rolling Stone that she found much inspiration while on mushrooms with her go-to producer Jules Apolinaire.
“Every shroom trip, we got a new source of inspiration. We wrote ‘Movie Star’ on shrooms,” she said over the summer. “We were like, ‘Oh my gosh, if we take shrooms, we can write so many bangers.’ So we would just go into album mode every time we would do it.”
