Tennis's New Song and Video Premiere of — vogue.com

“Fiction is better than reality, but science fiction is better than fiction. At least it is if you’re Scott Bakula in Quantum Leap, a late-eighties TV series I hadn’t heard of until a month ago. When I complained to a friend that I had finished every episode of Star Trek Voyager, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files, Firefly, the feature-film conclusion to Firefly, and Caprica, and that I was dealing with a sense of emptiness and overall malaise, my thoughtful friend recommended Quantum Leap. Later that week, I began my first viewing but didn’t make it past the opening credits. Quantum Leap’s title sequence is of sufficient length and detail to constitute a summer blockbuster. In only two minutes it conveys every plot point of the entire series along with some pretty eye-popping special effects. I wouldn’t say I was hooked—I also wouldn’t call it an overnight sensation. But let’s just say this music video, directed by the bold and beautiful Scott Laidlaw, is the senseless continuation of that story.”

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