GENER8ION - Love & Tears featuring Yannis Phillipakis and starring Charlize Theron (Review)

As his follow-up to his collaboration with Yung Lean on Storm, French musician and producer Benoit Heitz (as GENER8ION) brings us something completely different. Love & Tears, the title track from GENER8ION’s new album features Yannis Phillipakis (Greek-born English singer, songwriter and guitarist and lead singer of the band Foals). It stars very famous movie actor Charlize Theron in her first music video since “Crossfire” by Brandon Flowers back in 2010 when she played a dramatic action-role character who rescues him in a stylised, film-like sequence). That’s certainly not what she’s doing here… I was lucky enough to be free to watch the premiere on YouTube (a great animated countdown!) where the song and video garnered a multitude of instant reactions. One commenter said: “a song with Foals legend Yannis – I couldn’t be happier”, while another simply stated “love” in praise of the video. Another early reviewer said: "One of the most captivating videos. We have the Artist's face as…