Olly Alexander

Crave, the latest music video from Years & Years featuring Olly Alexander, channels the work of American filmmaker and photographer James Bidgood.

“…there’s a movie called Pink Narcissus (by James Bidgood) and it’s amazing. I was so heavily inspired by that video. And I wanted to do a crossover between that — I mean that itself, it combines a lot of mythological elements — but that combined with a fairytale story. And so I was going to be painted green, but then green looked weird with my hair. So it was like, “Okay, let’s be blue.” I’m like a blue nymph. But I just get turned on by that stuff in a, well, in a both sexual and nonsexual way, do you know what I mean?”