Stardust was a one-time musical collaborative effort consisting of producers Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe, and vocalist Benjamin Diamond. They released their only single and anthem, "Music Sounds Better with You", on 20 July 1998.
The video for "Music Sounds Better with You" was directed by Michel Gondry. It features a boy who has just purchased a toy plane. Back at home, while he builds his plane, he switches channels on his TV to a program which features the top 5 chart songs. Some of the music videos shown have Stardust themselves singing their new song and others, which have a resemblance of 80s music videos including Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love".
In 2018, Braxe and Diamond revealed that they and Bangalter returned to the studio to work on a remastered version of "Music Sounds Better with You" for the song’s twentieth anniversary re-release. This version is now reissued since June 28th 2019.
It’s 1999: Your parents are arguing, you save your money to buy a model plane, and you put your heart 🥲 and soul into it to finish it. The greatest sense of accomplishment and validation didn’t come from a good first flight; it came from a random trio of shiny dudes in the clouds.. Good times! 😎
That video brings back childhood memories of the enthusiasm you feel as a boy for a little project like that. I built these kinds of models and reveled in the awe and wonder for them. I took them to bed as well. Later in life, you develop a fascination for other sorts of models and want to take these to bed. As you grow older, though, you long back for the time when you were a kid.
Allow me to set the scene, vinewood hills. You need to get somewhere quick, you spot a bravado banshee, perfect. You steal it, this is playing, and you drive all the way to sandy and back. Life is good, for four minutes, and twenty three seconds.
