Sébastien Tellier, "Cochon Ville" (2012)

Sébastien Tellier's "Cochon Ville" is essentially a disco-lit Bacchanal with some really specific (and terrifying) fetishes: feet, milk, disco-ball penises, and gun fellatio. Oh, and Tellier occasionally makes terrifying "I approve of all this" faces like this one. But, notice the contrast between this and Rihanna's video: one is all play-acting and smoke and mirrors that ends up being completely undistinguishable from every other bit of neon titillation out that year, and the other is a carefully-considered series of images that are by turns arousing and horrifying, but ultimately very memorable.

Rating: 6. It's really weird and kind of terrifying, but it's certainly got a unity of theme to it.

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