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Little Simz 'Young' by Dave Meyers

Promonews - 30th May 2025

Little Simz reunites with Dave Meyers and it's in the most surprising way possible.

First of all here's Simz talking on Britpop, as the musical inspiration for Young appears to be Blur's Parklife, with the lyrics of an overheard diatribe from a tiresome 'youth' of indeterminate age. And then there's the maestro American director Meyers, putting his own spin on a few British video conventions.

But most importantly - obviously - is Simz's fairly mind-boggling transformation in the video, to dangerous lady of a certain vintage: she's a punk, a rebel and she's about eighty-five years old. She's still causing all kinds of trouble as she makes her way to the pub in her McLaren/Westwood-style punk outfit (designed by Verity Lane).

She's an amazing, ferocious comic creation and she ends up, appropriately, performing on stage with a punk band in the back of a pub (The Shacklewell Arms, in fact). An audacious, glorious triumph.

Promonews - 30th May 2025

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  • Comedy
  • Narrative
  • Pick of the Day
  • Performance
  • Old Lady
  • Punk

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Production/Creative

Director
Dave Meyers
Producer
Maggie Curwin
Creative Director
Jeremy Ngatho Cole
Production Company
freenjoy
Executive Producer
Nathan Scherrer
Executive Producer
Tara Sheree
1st AD
Rawden Defresnes

Camera

Director of Photography
Christopher Ripley
1st AC
Phil Heron
Steadicam
Matt Allsop

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Adam Bell

Art

Production designer
Sarah Asmail

Wardrobe

Stylist (Artist)
Luci Ellis
Hair (Artist)
Chantelle Fuller
Costume designer
Verity May Lane

Misc

Writer
Lizzy Walker
Writer
Anna Arnell
Prosthetics
Elizabeth Eva Hedley
Prosthetics
Thomas Foldberg
Prosthetics
Horacio Martinez
Hair & Make-up (Cast)
Lisa Farrall

Promonews - 30th May 2025

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