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Retirement Villages Are the Place to Be: Here's Penguin Prison's Video for "Never Gets Old"

Old folks know what's up.

When I was at college I made a pact with some friends that when we were old and in need of hip replacements we'd move down to Florida, en masse, and live in a retirement village. We'd play mahjong and drink endless gin and tonics and ride golf buggies far too fast. Still seems like a solid plan to me.

Which brings us to NYC electro-pop artist Penguin Prison, a.k.a Chris Glover. He dropped his second album, Lost In New York, this week and above is the premiere of his video for "Never Get Old." Musically it's sunshiney, synth-pop with more hooks than Kim Kardashian's waist-training corest. There's a lilt in the melody that's reminiscent of Chromeo—if Chromeo weren't P-Funk afficionados. As for the video PP mosies on down south to party with some old folks, but there's a little more to this video than Penguin Prison playing guitar in a bush and chilling with some rando retirees.

“I wanted to make a music video with my 90 year-old grandpa who lives in a retirement community in Florida since the song is called ‘Never Gets Old.’" explains PP. "He is a really cool guy—he was in World War II and received three purple hearts and now he plays bocce every day and rides around in a two person bicycle with his wife Alice. The concept is that I live at the retirement community in the house next to my grandpa and we do all kinds of crazy activities everyday. Later on we bust out in a convertible and drive to Miami and crash a pool party.

"Making this video was a good excuse for me to go visit my grandpa and do a bunch of crazy things with him and document it all on film. When we were driving around Miami in the Mustang, the top was down and then there was a torrential downpour out of nowhere. My grandpa got drenched but he thought it was funny to tell everyone about it later.”

Well if that isn't just the cutest concept. Call your grandparents today!

Penguin Prison's album Lost In New York is out now.