Music video description
"California" is a song recorded by French artist Mylene Farmer in 1995. The single was included on the singer's fourth studio album "Anamophosee" and was the result of a collaboration with American screenwriter Abel Farrar, who was also responsible for directing the expensive music video. The song picked up relative success in France and Belgium, but at the same time became the only one of her hits that was hugely popular in Russia.
The hit "California" was the second song in Mylene Farmer's artistic output to have an English title. Critics consider it to have a teasing rhythm and an Anglo-Saxon sound, and according to psychologist Hugues Royer, it is a kind of symbol of the rebirth that takes place in exile. The song is a tribute to California and has an unusually elegant vocabulary that alternates verses in English and French.
The director of the video for the song is the aforementioned screenwriter Abel Farrera. The artist was very keen to have him create the video for her song. Together they wrote the script. The video cost a substantial sum of 600,000 euros, making it the most expensive video of the year. It was shot in front of three days and nights in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard and eventually became actually a short film.