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King So So's Video for "Disco In the Sky" Is Kinda Bananas

Is it a man or a woman? Is the hair all over the face/ears a stylistic choice or an unfortunate freak of the follicles? Who knows!

First up wouldn't it be rad if there was a disco in the sky? For people with a fear of heights maybe that would be a bit weird, but I'd be down to party in a place with such sick views and some clouds to recline in when things got a little perspirational. Well if this video is to be believed maybe this will be the reality in the year 20145 (!?). This video is part karaoke sing-along, part MS-DOS, part hyper-contrast-y stock footage, and features a dude in a school blazer with a hair-and-straw-all-over troll-wolf head, skinny jeans, and bare feet playing the synth. And sometimes a girl in cut-off denim shorts hops on his keyboard and gets down. Yeah none of this makes sense but that's exactly the point.

Musically this is a hypnotic disco-funk-meets-deep house cut that'll send the listener spiralling into a selection of repetitive dance moves that feel brilliant to do over and over and over again.

As far as the man behind King So So, there seems to be some dispute about where he was even born. Was it on earth or in the sky? Some biographies claim that King So So grew up with wolves in the deep forests of Siberia, but later in his life studied taxidermy at the University of the Sky. It's not even clear if King So So is actually a man. Some claim he is actually a woman.

The myth goes even further: NASA has reputedly made contact with King So So when they orbited the Earth on an international satellite maintenance mission and it is rumored that one of the astronauts asked King So So what it’s like to be King of the Sky. He allegedly answered in a slow, deep, melancholic voice: “It’s So So."

Obviously this is all entirely ludicrous but, this record is on sale via Germany's Kompakt and released via Hippie Dance, so we're guessing that King So So is a man/woman of some musical sway. Until his/her face is actually revealed, enjoy the silliness herein.