My name is Robin, and I am a typomaniac, a typophile, a veritable typography nerd. I get giddy about music videos that use letterforms. My heart races over animated alphabets.
Sylvie Vartan and her video for “Cette lettre-là” from 1965 might be one of my favorites. Ever. The French translation is a narrative about sending a love letter and worrying that it will be rejected.

Today, Vartan has traded in her sweet go-go boots for cowboy boots, performing her own mix of dixieland swing tunes. And whoa, FYI: She is currently over the age of 60.

Watch Sylvie Vartan dance with assorted characters in her younger days…

Buy a few decades worth of Sylvie Vartan albums at Amazon.