Brigitte, aka the disco-charged Parisien duo Sylvie Hoarau and Aurélie Saada, seek to tap into the era of Studio 54 to find a gaze that was not exclusively filtered through male eyes in the video for “J’sais Pas.” We caught up with Saada—who directed the video—as the band tour France before visiting the rest of Europe, China and the US, to talk sex, sensuality and roller-disco.

Sylvie and I wanted to show a feminine view about sex and women: something hypnotic, sensual, but not vulgar. To see this girl just riding in the street, filming her little shorts, her ass. This is the paradox of women: we like to see a sexy girl, also. 

We shot in Miami among the coconut trees and the pink flamingos. I wanted to film a roller-skating girl from the back, without showing her face because she is an everywoman. It was not easy to find a girl who rollerskates, most people rollerblade today. She is just a girl on the street. I didn’t want to have a model with skinny legs. I wanted to have a real woman. 

I’m 36, and when I was a little girl, disco was the music my mother was listening to. The most beautiful image of a woman that I had when I was a little girl was my mother. She was a lady who worked, a feminist, and also really sexy. She would go to nightclubs in amazing dresses, wearing red lipstick. For me, disco is about these kinds of women: The Helmut Newton women, the Guy Bourdin women.

When you say the name Brigitte in France, you think of glamorous names: Brigitte Barot, Brigitte Lahaye, a porn star in the 70s, and Brigitte Fontaine. But also, Brigitte is the name of the woman next door.