Kevin Bronson on September 13th, 2016

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Many a music video has tried employing retro tropes, but few have as much fun with it as director M.F. Dynin’s two-motif romp for Shannon Hurley’s “Heartbeat on the Radio. It’s a silent-movie-goes-to-outer-space featuring the singer-songwriter, her husband Ben Eisen, Dennis Honda, Peter Tullio and a tickle bot — and it answers that ages-old question: Can a pop song be the basis for interplanetary peace? We favor the fourth wall-busting director’s cut of the video, especially the epic battle with the tickle bot, but there’s a shorter version here.

The song is from last year’s “Switch It On,” the fourth solo full-length from Hurley, who gained prominence 10 years ago when Rolling Stone tabbed her one of the “Best Artists on MySpace” and has since collaborated as a writer/singer on myriad dance tracks and had her songs appear on such shows as “Scorpion,” “Young & The Restless,” “90210,” “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance.” Hurley’s electro-pop collaboration with Eisen, Lovers & Poets, released their second album earlier this year, highlighted by the chill “You + Me in the Summer” and a cover of David Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes.”

||| Watch: “Heartbeat on the Radio”

||| Also: Stream “Lovers & Poets II”

||| Live: Lovers & Poets perform a free show at 2 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Village at Topanga in Woodland Hills as part of radio station KCSN’s free Sunday music series.