Here’s 11 Awesome Things About Petite Meller’s Video for “IceBear” ft. Joe Fleisch

In general we don’t fuck with covers but Parisian pop princess Petite Meller’s rework of “IceBear” by 80s German band Grauzone—along with its accompanying video—is too much candy for the eyes and ears fo us to pass up.

Here she reteams with director A.T. Mann, who last created a world of pastel perfection and super cute 50s swimsuits for “Backpack” (see her singing while waterskiing here). Not an official single, “Icebear” is rather a companion to “Backpack” and places Petite in a weird winter wonderland inspired by the work of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman.

Here are 11 things we love about this video and song.

1. The glacial synth grooves.
   
   
   
2. Petite standing impervious to the chill, working a straw boater and nightgown combo.
   
3. The kinda crazed vocal steez of Yiddish pop singer Joe Fleisch.
   
   
   
4. Fleisch’s color blocking in a field.
   
   
   
5. This sweater. Where can we get one?
   
   
   
6. This dude being so tired he just had to have a lie down, immediately, irrespective of frostbite. We feel you.
   
   
   
   
   
7. In fact everyone in this video is attractive, stylish, and exhausted. They’re reclining all over everything.
   
   
   
8. All peach e’rything.
   
   
   
9. The imminent cosmic appocalypse. Hello Melancholia.
   
10. Petite lives in Bed-Stuy now, which seems an unimaginable setting for this flush-faced pixie to reside.
11. Also—people cry diamonds in this video. DIAMONDS. God if only that was a reality we would be decked out.

“Backpack” is out on Night Beach Records.

Kim is Noisey’s Style Editor. She’s into knitwear and weird wonderful visuals. Diamonds are a bonus. She’s on Twitter – @theKTB.