Tomas Barfod - "Happy (feat. Eddie Chacon)" (Official Video)

On Danish producer Tomas Barfod’s gorgeously glimmering house track “Happy,” Eddie Chacon, the still-living half of the early-’90s R&B duo Charles & Eddie, sings about how his friends keep dying and about learning to accept the loss. It is an emotional gutpunch of a song, and it makes me want to read a profundity into the video that maybe isn’t there. In director Jakob Marky’s clip, a severely mustachioed middle-aged man dances his way through a room of pulsing lamps. Maybe he’s expressing his inner pain and exhaustion, or maybe he’s just trying out his badass new lighting system.