If you’ve ever seen just about any Sofia Coppola movie, you know that the director’s style is largely based on a textural feel that separates it from the work of nearly any other filmmaker—within her family or without. It’s the floaty, dream-pop equivalent to her indie peers’ focus on either recreating vintage eras or crafting something entirely modern, with that timeless sensation largely abetted by the surreal overlap of period-piece settings and the sounds of contemporary pop music (not to mention a rogue Converse or two in the shot).
“Sofia Coppola,” then, makes sense as a namesake for the new single from Susannah Joffe, who channels the unspoken yearning of these films into the track. It sounds like Lana Del Rey without a sense of melancholy weighing things down, opening up as it does into a blissful, near-rapped bridge midway through the song before Joffe’s vocals reach a pitch so high and smoothed by reverb that you can’t make much out lyrically beyond mentions of the song’s namesake.
With the song out today, we thought it seemed only natural for Joffe to give us an overview of her favorite needle drops from the director’s 25-plus years of pitch-perfect music syncs. “This playlist is an esoteric film girl’s wet dream,” she shares of the final product. “I picked these songs because of the timeless, dreamy soundscape and romantic lull that not only ties them together, but exists in the same world as my single. If you’ve ever wanted to feel chic, whimsical, misunderstood, and hopelessly in love, this playlist may do just that.”
Check it out below, and sink into “Sofia Coppola” here.
