| "All I Need" | ||||
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| Single by Air | ||||
| from the album Moon Safari | ||||
| Released | November 9, 1998 | |||
| Format | CD single, 12" | |||
| Recorded | April–June, 1997 in Paris | |||
| Genre | Downtempo, ambient | |||
| Label | EMI Int'l | |||
| Writer(s) | Nicolas Godin, Jean-Benoît Dunckel, Beth Hirsch | |||
| Producer | Air | |||
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"All I Need" is a song by French electronic band Air, released as the third single from their 1998 album Moon Safari. Vocals on the song are provided by Beth Hirsch, who co-wrote the song along with Air.
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The vocalist on "All I Need" is American singer Beth Hirsch. The song's bassline is a reprisal to that heard in another Air song, "Les Professionnels" from their debut EP Premiers Symptômes. Charlie Porter has described the song as "shockingly successful, with Hirsch bringing gravitas and sincerity, flagging the album with strong emotional pointers in the midst of their musical adventures. If you didn't know, you'd think her words were sampled from a lost jazz classic--that's how good this record sounds"[1].
The music video was directed by Mike Mills, and features a young skateboarding couple talking about their mutual affection and their relationship. The couple was a real couple from Ventura, California, but have broken up since[2].
Mills once stated:
That video definitely was a big turning point for me as I discovered something in myself. You know when you do something and the piece is far bigger than you are. Just by luck or unconscious something pops out and you're like "whoa, what was that?". And with that piece it was a willingness to be totally sincere and borderline maudlin but hopefully not. Emotional without being maudlin. I had always been sort of afraid of that and hidden before behind maybe a little irony or a just little distance. But that piece kinda showed me that I can get really emotional, I can get really sincere and actually I really loved the way the audience really reacted to it. I was like I want more of that! I want more people's interior lives and how complicated that is and how sort of endless that is.
— Mike Mills, Kultureflash.net Interview, 28.09.2005
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