This song is actually about the Charlie's Angels character Kelly Garrett. Back in either 1999 or 2000 there was a Charlie's Angels night on Channel 4 (in the UK) and both Jean and Nicolas spoke about this song in a very short film about it called 'Airheads' and they said the song was inspired by their mutual love of the Kelly Garrett character. I still have a copy of the Airheads short film on VHS because I recorded it due to being a fan of Air and loving the Moon Safari album. In the video to the song both of them wear T-shirts with Kelly Garrett's face on them and they tried to get a girl who looked liked/reminded them of Kelly and chose a girl who was a young student to play the brunette. The names on the score cards are 'Kelly' (Kelly Garrett) and 'Smith' (Jaclyn Smith who played Kelly on Charlie's Angels).
Nice. Thank you for sharing the story. I knew there had to be some kind of connection. Jill was the best athlete, but Kelly was the most graceful and ethereal. I'm sure that Kelly would have been the duo's favorite Angel. I wonder if Jaclyn Smith has ever seen this video? If she hasn't she needs to. I think it makes for a lovely tribute. I even wonder if the "Kelly' in the song's title refers to Kelly Garrett? "Kelly Watch the Stars" and "Sexy Boy" are possibly my two favorite AIR songs, though there are so many that I really love.
Me, about 13-14 years old, spending my tuesday evening watching MTV until 11PM on my parents' TV set, watching this clip between Windowlicker by Aphex Twin as seen by Chris Cunningham and Hyperballad by Bjork through the scope of Michel Gondry. Life was good.
This video is a metaphor for life. We are all Kelly at some point, fighting against adversity, the passage of time, the obstacles that the path of existence presents. Sometimes a hard blow, but you never have to give up, you have to play the game until the end...
@@matthewdelaney5366 It must be exclusive to the music video or maybe the radio edit? It's different to the album version in that it doesn't feature the wonderful piano solo piece during the section where they resuscitate Kelly. I think it's inferior because of that.
Music videos were so fun and creative back then. I really enjoyed watching them, especially on MTV. Some of them were so cinematic, that they took you into another world.
@Simulation algorithm i try to avoid it personally. I'm also in my 40s. You can change your mindset also. To have a element of stoicism. It makes looking back much easier
A friend named Kelly was asking for songs about watching stars. It took some clearing of mental cobwebs and Google to remember this gem. Wow it's been 25 years !! Seems like yesterday. Now I'm awash in nostalgia for the 90s, when I was in my 20s. Time machine anyone ?? I'll help you survive without cellphones and computers... I was a Librarian in the 90s.
Was it that long ago!? I was guessing 2003, but now that you mention it, yeah this does have a sound of 'Fatboy Slim' song that was early '99 so makes sense this is '98. I was 24 at the time. Damn I miss the late nineties.
It was a great year for fashion, music, art and people were so mich better back than. there was a really happy feeling from 1996 till 1999... I miss those days so much
It really doesn't get any better than this. I used to watch this on Amp. High AF...getting chills when she died from the ping pong ball to the head, and then feeling a surge of adrenaline when the paramedics leaped over the wall as the music changed pace. Pure gold.
I was having a star watching party at my house when a new girl arrived, and was introduced to me. She was from France and ask me if I threw the party because of Air's new song. When she found out that Inever heard of them she raced home and back with the CD. I've loved them ever since!!!
I saw them play live at a small event in Northern Germany the ringlokschuppen in bielefeld. It was more than 10 years ago but they were very, very, very LOUD!!
All around the world we share the same memories of that Song / Video played in our Childhood / Youth. Isnt that Magic? I remember how i was waiting for that Track sitting in front of the Living Room TV just before school and right after it, recognizing it from the very first seconds. Glory days.
Sheesh, how many hours did it take for dial up to load the video? I remember old Netscape the first time I went online and had to wait several seconds for just a picture to load.
Saw this video on tv when I was around 5 years old, always remember the game of ping pong and a ghost looking down. Tried Googling it and explaining it to my mum with no luck. 20 years on and I find the song on Spotify and wanted to see if it had a video, we made it.👏🏻👏🏻
Love the song and the silliness of the video. Slow motion hit to the head by a ping pong ball, awesome. Used to play a bat and ball video game like that in the 70's as well. Pre Atari I think
Great song and video. Features the 70s video game Pong. Which is 45 years old this year. And Moog and ARP synthesisers of similar vintage. Air were geniuses!
I came in late one night in the summer of '98. put the TV on and Joe Wiley stuck this video on and I was hooked. Bought Moon Safari the next day and still love it.
Geez, I had the SAME exact problem. I heard it once on the radio 24 years ago, while coming back from vacations. None of other records I tried to find gave me such troubles as this one. Until I heard it in TV commercial 2 days ago. What a relief.
Does anybody know where I can find this version? Have been looking on Spotify and can’t find it. Saw this video first time as a teenager on an alternative music show here in Ireland and loved it. Great band
So i just played some games of pong with my friend while playing this song on loop, it was a fun time, we had good ol laughs. Fter we done playing, i decided to watch the the music video (this video) and out of nowhere, i just started crying. I don't know why did i cry but i only know that those aren't tears of sadness or anything, those are tears of joy. This wasn't the first time AIR made me cry.
How can I say this? I like this so much that I can't separate it from my only child in my soul. Yeah, I like this. It means a lot to me. Thank you. Your music is better than my words.
![Fatboy Slim - Praise You [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ruAi4VBoBSM/mqdefault.jpg)
Happy 25th birthday, Kelly Watch The Stars, the single released 4th May 1998 in the UK.
This song is actually about the Charlie's Angels character Kelly Garrett. Back in either 1999 or 2000 there was a Charlie's Angels night on Channel 4 (in the UK) and both Jean and Nicolas spoke about this song in a very short film about it called 'Airheads' and they said the song was inspired by their mutual love of the Kelly Garrett character. I still have a copy of the Airheads short film on VHS because I recorded it due to being a fan of Air and loving the Moon Safari album. In the video to the song both of them wear T-shirts with Kelly Garrett's face on them and they tried to get a girl who looked liked/reminded them of Kelly and chose a girl who was a young student to play the brunette. The names on the score cards are 'Kelly' (Kelly Garrett) and 'Smith' (Jaclyn Smith who played Kelly on Charlie's Angels).
Nice. Thank you for sharing the story. I knew there had to be some kind of connection. Jill was the best athlete, but Kelly was the most graceful and ethereal. I'm sure that Kelly would have been the duo's favorite Angel. I wonder if Jaclyn Smith has ever seen this video? If she hasn't she needs to. I think it makes for a lovely tribute. I even wonder if the "Kelly' in the song's title refers to Kelly Garrett? "Kelly Watch the Stars" and "Sexy Boy" are possibly my two favorite AIR songs, though there are so many that I really love.
Thank you!
Kelly and Kevin were considered popular working class named in France and Germany in the 1990s
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Although in the video it looks like her surname is Kelly. Otherwise her opponent's name is Smith.
Me, about 13-14 years old, spending my tuesday evening watching MTV until 11PM on my parents' TV set, watching this clip between Windowlicker by Aphex Twin as seen by Chris Cunningham and Hyperballad by Bjork through the scope of Michel Gondry. Life was good.
MTV was good
heaven
Life was great .🎉🥳
Good times for music.
You forgot "Spin Spin Sugar" and "6 Underground" from the Sneaker Pimps!
Still there after all these years, a masterpiece
You know it i know it
I know it too
moon safari....
This video is a metaphor for life. We are all Kelly at some point, fighting against adversity, the passage of time, the obstacles that the path of existence presents. Sometimes a hard blow, but you never have to give up, you have to play the game until the end...
Gayyyyyy.
@@AstroJenkins A fan :) Calm down, we won't tell anyone that you were also Kelly
@@angelmagno4678 Fair enough, please don’t! I’m sorryyyyy!
The only winning move is to not play.
It's not that deep
Whoever made this song is a beauty.
Whoever made the video, is a genius.
Mike Miller. Check out 'Sometimes' by Les Rhythmes Digitales.
La french touch dans toute sa splendeur. Un album mythique et intemporel !
J avais 15 ans, c était des anées merveilleuses! ❤️
Malheureusement ce n'est pas la même version sur l'album
Never stopped loving this song from the first time I heard it. And this is the best version.
What version is it?
@@matthewdelaney5366 It must be exclusive to the music video or maybe the radio edit? It's different to the album version in that it doesn't feature the wonderful piano solo piece during the section where they resuscitate Kelly. I think it's inferior because of that.
I found it. Not on any streaming services as far as I’ve looked at. Bought the cd. It’s a single
@@danriggott5764yeah I prefer this version. I guess it’s the one I remember as a kid and just find it more pop sounding.
I would like to thank my mum for introducing me to Air!
Hi Natalie. Your mum has good taste in music!
haha same here
well, she had to let you out after 9 months anyway...
I'd like to thank your mum too.
cool mum you do have
Music videos were so fun and creative back then. I really enjoyed watching them, especially on MTV. Some of them were so cinematic, that they took you into another world.
That's what I've been thinking.
This one still does.
If the past was so great then how did anyone appreciate the now that we lived in then?
@Simulation algorithm i try to avoid it personally. I'm also in my 40s. You can change your mindset also. To have a element of stoicism. It makes looking back much easier
one of the most memorable: Unkle - "Rabbit in Your Headlights"
I love this version over the album version, the guitar riff gives it a nice edge
Back in the day when not only music videos, but music was still worth listening to.
I had forgotten how brilliant this band is! This song proves it, to this date Moon Safari is one of my favorite albums!
Air, The Chemical Brothers, Moby, Fatboy Slim - a few others - a great sound in the 90s/early 2000s.
That was *my* music at that time
Blank & Jones, Paul Van Dyk, Robert Miles, New Radicals, LEN (trying to expand the list)
The prodigy also :)
@@lyrimetacurl0 who are LEN?
15 years on this song is still FREAKING UNREAL!
23 years on.
Your comment was 8 years ago JESUS!
Still unreal in 2022!
Keep 'em comin' baby
Midnight City by m83 has quite a surreal video and a somewhat similar electronica aspect to it.
25 years old and it still sounds like the future. The French love a good vocoder but I think Air are possibly the masters of it.
I bought the BOSS vocoder off the back of this song... did a cover of it and never used it again! 😂
I had somehow missed it all those yeas now I can't stop playing it.
This song always puts a smile on my face. So beautifull, like all good art should be.
Totally agreed ... timeless
Megasmile !
I love this song, for the complex text filled with drama, with amazing plot twists and finds. Respect to the authors!
A friend named Kelly was asking for songs about watching stars. It took some clearing of mental cobwebs and Google to remember this gem. Wow it's been 25 years !! Seems like yesterday. Now I'm awash in nostalgia for the 90s, when I was in my 20s. Time machine anyone ?? I'll help you survive without cellphones and computers... I was a Librarian in the 90s.
Yeah, but if what determines a masterpiece is how good it makes you feel every goddamn time.....then I deem this stupid-ass song a masterpiece...
Thank god we can finally watch a HD cut of this video! So many of Air's videos online are so pixelated.
Instantly takes me back to 1998 - what a year!
jayrave4 agreed.
Was it that long ago!? I was guessing 2003, but now that you mention it, yeah this does have a sound of 'Fatboy Slim' song that was early '99 so makes sense this is '98. I was 24 at the time. Damn I miss the late nineties.
It was a great year for fashion, music, art and people were so mich better back than. there was a really happy feeling from 1996 till 1999... I miss those days so much
@@TheJunebox Yes. Wish that I was back in University drinking, smoking, generally cooking it up and roaring out Happy Days ad nauseum.
🤩💯
I never get tired of this video or this version of the song. I love this version more than the album one.
Same
@@VictorAtomic Seriously? that's really cool... I LOVE Beck too!!
@@VictorAtomicI never knew Beck had anything to do with this version. Can you tell us more please.
Where is this version available
Where is this version available?
Been dancing to this since it dropped. Brilliant song. 🤩💥🤘👏
One of my favs to dance to in the clubs when it came out 💘
Best version of a great song ❤
never get tired of this version
J'adore cette chanson depuis les 90s!
Merci toujours, Air!
I would like to watch the stars with Kelly...
I mean I'd be down.
Me three
why not play table tennis with her ?
@@radrich4873 Becouse I suck in table tenis, but I know a lot about the stars :D
@@Pawel.Tejchman good answer! however I'm sure Kelly won't mind 🙂
Que Belleza AIR, remasterizando sus videos icónicos de un álbum icónico.
yo quisiera que suban cherry blossom girl en hd y surfing on a rocket
@@deivithuaman7746 sería una Belleza
The mix of acoustic and synth sounds is just incredible.🙏
This song is so awesome, the wide stereo image actually reminds of Beatles mixing (hard panned drums and lots of elements in the mix).
One of my favourite videos.
🤩 Everyday MTV in the morning 1998 when i go Happy to my work
One of my favorite albums from the 1990's.
Inoubliable...25 ans déjà😭
Just went on a bad date, but he liked Air, and that reminded me that this song exists :)
Also the perfect BPM to walk home alone to!!
Air is love
love is in Air.
When I dated my ex-girlfriend and we went to dinner one night, this same video was playing in the background
It really doesn't get any better than this. I used to watch this on Amp. High AF...getting chills when she died from the ping pong ball to the head, and then feeling a surge of adrenaline when the paramedics leaped over the wall as the music changed pace. Pure gold.
Strazman ah, when MTV was about videos and not mindless millennials and their politics
Thanks for putting this into words - I feel the exact same while watching this music video.
I was having a star watching party at my house when a new girl arrived, and was introduced to me. She was from France and ask me if I threw the party because of Air's new song. When she found out that Inever heard of them she raced home and back with the CD. I've loved them ever since!!!
Lucky you!!!
Air is the band version of Darren Hayes in terms of hotness and sexiness
I was hoping there was going to be more to this story.
26 years ago...but still cause goose bumps..#Kellywatchthestars💫
Love how the score changes all the time :) Great song.
I think they just didnt notice.
Air - je vous adore toujours!👍
La France - c'est vraiment l'épicentre du Cool!😉
Merci pour votre musique.🙏
From 🇦🇹
Super Clip auch.📺
I was born in 98, and it's nice that I enjoy this song and the whole album that was released in 98
I saw them play live at a small event in Northern Germany the
ringlokschuppen in bielefeld. It was more than 10 years ago but they
were very, very, very LOUD!!
I absolute love it.
All around the world we share the same memories of that Song / Video played in our Childhood / Youth. Isnt that Magic? I remember how i was waiting for that Track sitting in front of the Living Room TV just before school and right after it, recognizing it from the very first seconds. Glory days.
Man! My favorite Eno song is "Here come the warm Jet's". If I was 25 yrs. juniour, I probably would have picked this.
One of my favorite songs of all time 😍
Few people know how sublimely genius AIR are.
The bass line in this piece is its greatest asset. Typically analog sound not faked by software.
This still bangs even as old as it is.
Just bought the single CD for this. Such perfection.
Air. French Brand.
Used to love this song... glad to have found it again
LUMINES brought me here. AND I LOVE IT!! Love the 70s vibe!
I remember watching this on aol dialup in college, buying the cd, and realizing the album version was different!
Sheesh, how many hours did it take for dial up to load the video?
I remember old Netscape the first time I went online and had to wait several seconds for just a picture to load.
Moon Safari est un album incroyable!!!!🎹🎧🚀
I always come back to this. Thank you! :)
Me too :) year after year x
Saw this video on tv when I was around 5 years old, always remember the game of ping pong and a ghost looking down. Tried Googling it and explaining it to my mum with no luck. 20 years on and I find the song on Spotify and wanted to see if it had a video, we made it.👏🏻👏🏻
I love when that happens!
still love this tune
Still fuming 23 years later that this version wasn't on the album.
Yeah! What’s up with that? I own the other version, but I have to keep replaying the video to watch this one.
exactly! It was a massive letdown when I issued the album!
Get the cd single and you will have this mix. Record too.
Haven’t you heard of RUclips-dl? You can download it.
Both are great but I prefer the album version. More ethereal.
Just heard this song for the first time today and I am blown away! 🤯🤯🤯
Oh my god this song is awesome.
Lato 1999 ,super czasy ,chciałoby się wrócić
So beautiful track
Thank you so much..
Excellent electronic@......!
good tune ace vid today its all crap
Brilliant tune love this track
Beautiful classic.
Love the song and the silliness of the video. Slow motion hit to the head by a ping pong ball, awesome. Used to play a bat and ball video game like that in the 70's as well. Pre Atari I think
I love Air.
mtv i love this times for ever
Reminds me of Northville High School Girls, Those were the days the 70s :-)
the bass is sooo funky, just cant help but bounce my head!
J'adore
Ich liebe diesen Retro Look dieses Videos. Und der Song ist auch geil!
Ancora bellissimo questo brano, risale al 1998 :-)!
Great song and video. Features the 70s video game Pong. Which is 45 years old this year. And Moog and ARP synthesisers of similar vintage. Air were geniuses!
Giving me goosebumps
Cool track. Reminds me of my youth in 1998.
Now we just need to get that damn club mix released digitally!
Bellissimo video, montaggio perfetto, ottima la scelta degli attori. Da vedere ancora tante volte!!
Super piosenka przypomina mi moją młodość .tyle już lat minęło.
I came in late one night in the summer of '98. put the TV on and Joe Wiley stuck this video on and I was hooked. Bought Moon Safari the next day and still love it.
this song is fantastic.. im a big punk and psychobilly fan but this is in my all time top 5
Please share your other to four
I remember being on holiday this banger came on my parents speaker at midnight when I was chilling on the couch w my family
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In 98 it took me to 86. It was so ahead of its time. I think this was the first attempt to get back the 80s schick to Pop culture.
This feels just as good as it did, when I was just a kid.
...we think its one of the anthem of the french touch culture
great band for lyrics
after 24 years, no joke, i was looking for this song and now days i cant believe i could find it!
Geez, I had the SAME exact problem. I heard it once on the radio 24 years ago, while coming back from vacations. None of other records I tried to find gave me such troubles as this one. Until I heard it in TV commercial 2 days ago. What a relief.
Great tune... Need more like this
Brano superbo. Bravissimi Air!
Does anybody know where I can find this version? Have been looking on Spotify and can’t find it. Saw this video first time as a teenager on an alternative music show here in Ireland and loved it. Great band
the music moves well with video..great directing..great music...great actors
So i just played some games of pong with my friend while playing this song on loop, it was a fun time, we had good ol laughs. Fter we done playing, i decided to watch the the music video (this video) and out of nowhere, i just started crying. I don't know why did i cry but i only know that those aren't tears of sadness or anything, those are tears of joy.
This wasn't the first time AIR made me cry.
I had goosebumps when saw this on mtv in those times...
French touch !
Générique de très fameuse émission 'Invitation au voyage" sur la chaine ARTE
How can I say this? I like this so much that I can't separate it from my only child in my soul. Yeah, I like this. It means a lot to me. Thank you. Your music is better than my words.
I have always found this video very moving. love this track.
brilliant video.
What a wonderful memories