Greatest Hits

“Greatest Hits” is a celebration of pop music’s history mentioning big icons like Madonna, France’s queen Marie Antoinette, Italian brand Dolce & Gabbana and evokes sexual freedom. The track was released as the fourth single off Jockstrap’s debut album, I Love You Jennifer B.

The piano takes elements from Fatboy Slim’s 1999 hit “Praise You” while Ellery’s voice captivates the listener with exquisite vocal arrangements throughout the track.

The music video portrays a ficticious trial between two pop stars, in which producer Jamie xx made a cameo.

Georgia Ellery: “Greatest Hits” was the longest one; that was a bit of a monster. There were so many things we needed to do to it – so many parts and ideas, and making it flow.

Taylor Skye: Because it was the most generic-sounding song, it was the hardest to get right. And that’s something that we’re generally trying to do: make something that feels right to us but that also feels as accessible as possible. It’s probably one of the most simple-sounding , but some of the best music is amazing because of how succinct and simple it is, and it can be quite hard to get right.

GE: People could slam it as a pastiche song and they haven’t. But we put the work in to make it interesting, so that wouldn’t happen. It’s not like it was a fear… was it?

TS: No, it’s just that I think people seem to be into the new sounds in our music, whereas with this it’s pretty obvious that there’s piano and funky drums and stuff like that. But I think when Georgia sent me the demo for it, the chords she came up with were really special and interesting so, for me, that carries it. It’s maybe just a different focus on that song to the others.

– Jockstrap, DIY Magazine

“I’ve been a massive fan of the band for a while – their music feels so refreshing. We’d met briefly in the past and Georgia had also worn a couple outfits made by my girlfriend Paolina Russo for her stage costumes. When they reached out, I was really excited to work on this with them.
The project was really collaborative from the jump – the band approached me with the idea of doing an absurd TV trial. Together we developed it and had massive help from Jean Lee who plays the judge in the video. She’s a real life barrister and helped us make sure that everything we were doing was (loosely) accurate in a real-world court setting.

Georgia had written an amazing storyline for the video which laid out a lot of the plan ahead of time. It’s loosely based on an imagined future where Georgia and Taylor from the band become nightmarish rock legends.
The thing that felt really interesting about the setting of a court trial is the idea of spectacle. From the high-profile legal battles that we’ve seen in media, these cases are less about the truth and justice and more about PR and popularity. For us, that became a really interesting idea to play on.

We were aiming for absurd characters within a realistic setting. There’s a lot of reference to Court TV and legal YouTube channels and paparazzi videos. This sense of ‘reality’ helped give a lot of context to what we were doing without us having to explain too much.
Also, as we’re used to seeing imagery like this in real life, it meant that we could push the edit quite far and make it feel pretty stylistic as the video progresses.

A lot of the casting came from friends and fans of the band. Julia and John were pretty much confirmed when Georgia wrote the initial storyline – it was always gonna be them. We’ve also got a lot of fun cameos throughout the video giving witness testimonies or legal advice.
As I mentioned, Jean the judge is a real barrister – and so was Nick who played Julia’s barrister. There’s a fair few music industry legends that some people might spot. These characters really added to the ‘reality’ of it all.

We shot the video in Bethnal Green Town Hall – an old town hall that’s been turned into a hotel, but they’ve kept a lot for he original fixtures and rooms from the before it was renovated.
We shot the video around mid-October 2022 and thankfully we managed to squeeze in some extra shooting time with John and Julia in order to film their nefarious ‘evidence’ which was to be used against them in court.“

– Aidan Zamiri, Promonews