Stars‘ superlative “Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It” came in at #57 on Popservations’ Top 100 Tracks of 2012, but it’s only now  — some nine months since the release of its parent album, The North — that there’s a music video to accompany what is my very favorite track from the Canadian indie-poppers.

It was something of a drag that Stars went so long without a clip for the New Order-meets-Kate Bush “Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It,” and now drag of an entirely different sort is behind the concept, directed by Stars frontman Torquil Campbell and George Vale.

“I wanted to make a video that celebrated the following things: 1. being yourself 2. being someone else 3. being fucking fabulous 4. showing up, putting on your heels and staying alive,” says Campbell. “Drag queens know a couple of things the rest of us choose not to know: you are who you imagine yourself to be, and you can be a star even if — especially if — nobody ever knows who you really are. That’s the spirit of pop, and this is a video for a pop song that most people will never hear, so I thought it all went together like Sonny and Cher. Hope you all enjoy it!”

Campbell isn’t kidding with his Sonny and Cher comparison — the video comes complete with a “Half-Breed” homage.

Purchase Stars – “Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It” via iTunes, Amazon MP3. And don’t miss the great remix by Sem Thomasson.