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A Killer Music Video Set in China's Desolate, Fake Paris
“Gosh” spotlights the strangely empty streets of Tianducheng, a town that mimics France’s capital.
You don’t have to dig dreamy, synth-laden pop music to enjoy this new music video from the U.K.’s Jamie xx. The sprawling choreography inside a Chinese knockoff of Paris makes it surreal enough to consume on a purely visual level.
This latest glimpse into China’s obsession with “duplitecture” takes place in Tianducheng, which has transported the celebrated architecture of France into a barely inhabited town in the middle of nowhere. According to Billboard: