Gosh (song)

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"Gosh"
Single by Jamie xx
from the album In Colour
Released4 May 2015 (2015-05-04)
Studio Fortress Studios
(London, England)
Genre
Length4:51
Label Young Turks
Songwriter(s) Jamie Smith
Producer(s) Jamie xx
Jamie xx singles chronology
"Loud Places"
(2015)
"Gosh"
(2015)
"I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)"
(2015)
Music video
"Gosh" on YouTube

"Gosh" is a song by English electronic music producer Jamie xx, released as a single on 4 May 2015.

Contents

Release

On 25 March 2015, Jamie xx premiered "Gosh" and "Loud Places" on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show. [1]

Music videos

The official music video for "Gosh" was released on 27 April 2015 through YouTube. It was directed by Erik Wernquist. The music video depicts the terraforming and colonization of Mars over the course of time, ending on a fully terraformed planet.

Second music video

A second music video, directed by Romain Gavras, was released on 1 July 2016 on Apple Music. It was uploaded to YouTube on 4 October 2016. [2] The video was filmed around the Eiffel Tower replica of the Tianducheng housing estate in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in China, and it features the actor Hassan Koné and 400 pupils from the Xiaolong Martial Arts School. [3] [4] [5] The video was met with acclaim. [6] [7] [8] [9]

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryResult
2016 UK Music Video Awards Video of the YearWon
Best Alternative VideoWon
Best Color GradeWon
Best StylingNominated
Best CinematographyNominated
Camerimage Best Music VideoNominated
Rober Awards Music Poll [10] Best Promo VideoNominated
2017Berlin Music Video Awards [11] Best CinematographyWon
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity [12] Gold Lion for CinematographyWon
Silver Lion for Production Design / Art DirectionWon
Silver Lion for DirectionWon
D&AD Awards Best Music Video [13] Yellow Pencil
Best Direction [14] Graphite Pencil
Best Cinematography [15] Graphite Pencil
Grammy Awards Best Music Video Nominated

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormat
Various4 May 2015 Young Turks Digital download
28 August 2015 [16] 12"

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