Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s “Tiny Dancer” has a new music video filmed around L.A (Los Angeles: bus)

[jm1982]

I saw this video the other day. Kind of cool that it shows different parts of L.A .

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Nearly 50 years after the song’s release, Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s eternal singalong jam “Tiny Dancer” has a new music video, and while the song is the leading lady, Los Angeles—from Hollywood Boulevard to Boyle Heights to the beach—is in a supporting role.

The video from filmmaker Max Weiland is a look at life from the points of view of a dozen people moving through Los Angeles, “all unfolding behind the wheel of their cars,” says the video’s YouTube description, though skateboards and a tour bus make cameos, too. (We forgive the general car-centricity this one time, because it’s for art.)
The song’s Los Angeles connection is real. LAist notes that songwriter Bernie Taupin told American Songwriter magazine that the song was especially inspired by the women that John and Taupin encountered along the Sunset Strip when they came to California in the 1970s. “They were these free spirits, sexy, all hip-huggers and lacy blouses, very ethereal,” Taupin said.

https://la.curbed.com/2017/5/24/1568...eo-los-angeles

[eureka1]

I absolutely cannot relate to that scene in "Almost Famous" where they're SINGING "Tiny Dancer". Not my peers, not ever.

[seain dublin]

Thank you jm 1982.

[matzoman]

Elton rules! What a voice!