Directed by Trouble Hands.The other night I was lucky enough to catch Aziz Ansari do a surprise slot at the Upright Citizens Brigade in LA. He was road testing new material which included an extended piece on girls having to deal with dudes being creepy. As part of this he did a straw poll with the audience asking how many women had been followed by a total random and guess what? Almost every female raised a hand. It's a strange phenomenon. As he rightfully pointed out, if a stranger is stalking a lady home, there's never going to be point when she turns the key in her lock, whips round to the creepy dude and says sexily: "Oh hey there. You followed me home? Well let's go!"Trailing a woman like a shadowy lunatic will never result in sexy-time. Just FYI.That being said, Waldemar Schwartz's video begins with a kid sitting on windowsill, he spots a beautiful, 20-something lady and decides to leave his apartment to follow her through the city streets. This scenario is not unsettling like Aziz's sketches because the kid is 12 years old and he has a cute little skip in his step as he tracks the object of his pre-teen affection through the East Village—only to look totally crushed when she meets up with an age-appropriate dude on the basketball courts.This is just a prelude to what morphs into a cinematic love letter to New York City in the sticky summer. As he swaggers through the streets to Swedish artist Schwartz's louchely chill beats and a funked up disco bassline, the sounds of the city—car horns tooting, the clatter of the subway, the chatter outside The Strand bookstore—bleed into the song. It's a vivid reminder to get out of your air conditioned four walls and explore the metropolis around you, because you never know what's lurking round the next corner. (Fingers crossed it's not some creepy dude.)Waldemar Schwartz's is a Swedish gent living in NYC and his double A-side "La Taza De Oro/“Krav Maga Girls" is out now via Golf Channel.Kim loves NYC but she's got no love for creepy dudes. She's on Twitter - @theKTB.---More stuff to do with creepy dudes?Watch Sylvan Esso's Amazing Rooftop Rendition of "Hey Mami" Is Actually about Being Cat-Called.
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