There are two songs by James Murphy’s project LCD Soundsystem with the title “Someone Great”. One appeared in 2007 on the album Sound of Silver, is around six and a half minutes long and is about how Murphy learned of the death of his therapist and his experience of grieving. The other is just under four minutes long and is the single edit of the track that was shortened for airplay on the radio or on music TV.
The accompanying video by Doug Aitken plays with a double meaning: The therapist becomes a blackened silhouette of a woman walking through New York in the summer heat. She goes into a record store, meets people at a rooftop party, and first embraces someone before she appears to leave the party and the camera zooms in on the blackness of her outline. Fin.
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