‘The resulting shots of Mariah and Pharrell flirting are electric’
A Making Of The Video shoot for MTV with one A-list artist is usually enough to
excite and blow my mind. But two A-listers in the same shoot? It’s like a
gleeful high you can’t even express! You can’t imagine my exhilaration when I
was invited to a video shoot for Mariah's new single Say Something featuring not
just her highness but also the legends that are Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams
(PW).
Apparently Snoop’s schedule was so full he couldn't make it to Paris so we are
shooting his scenes in a Los Angeles studio this week (and to be honest Mariah
and Pharrell caused riots all over the city so Snoop would've just escalated it
to uncontrollable proportions).
MC said: “If you guys think I'm a diva and I have requirements, Snoop is like
next NEXT level - hip-hop king. His requirements to get to Paris are beyond
platinum editions, they're like beyond ultra platinum editions, they're like
diamond editions. So we love Snoop, but we wish he had been here as well.”
The shoot took place on two typically beautiful days in Paris where Mariah and
Pharrell play the part of a superstar couple spending a romantic day in the city
that love built. Driving around in their silver grey Maserati car, they recreate
the famous JFK and Marilyn Monroe moment, singing, frolicking and dancing
together in the rain on the Alexandria Bridge and walking along the Champs-Elysees.
They also shop till they drop in the biggest most glamourous Louis Vuitton
store, before returning to their hotel suite which was meant to be Pharrell's
bachelor pad but was really Mariah's hotel suite (sshhh – you didn't hear that
from me) for some half dressed steamy frolicking (Mariah in a black swimsuit,
Pharrell in just a wife beater vest).
The couple pulled out all their acting skills to flirt and play happy couples
and the resulting shots were electric. Even Director Paul Hunter who famously
never gives interviews was so pleased he spoke to MTV at length.
We all stayed at the Four Seasons George V Hotel (where I began my career on The
Word years ago when I interviewed Jean Claude Van Damme and did a ballet pas de
deux with him).
I was surprised that Pharrell gave me an amazingly happy animated interview, as
he is notorious with English journalists for being awkward and unforthcoming in
interviews. He seemed genuinely shocked when I told him that we usually dreaded
speaking to him. After a lengthy conversation it seems Pharrell was so hurt and
angered by the News Of The World sex story scandal about him and his friend Jade
Jagger a couple of years ago that he then hated all British press. I told him he
couldn't tar us all because of one bad apple and that MTV and tabloids were
different.
He replied that MTV were just as bad and a girl at TRL in London had asked him a
“disrespectful and f***ed up question which vexed him about girls with weaves”
so I apologised for us all but advised he should take tabloid interest as a gift
and a curse, after all how many black male celebrities are the nationals
interested in? Not many? The only reason Kanye got ’nuff press last month was
due to 70 naked golden girls!
Anyway I've strayed, I told Pharrell he'd been very professional on the shoot,
especially continuing to sing in the pouring rain, he admitted: “I was freezing
my nuts off today, but it was fun and this song is something that I'm super
passionate about, it took a minute, but it's finally coming out so when you
really love something it's like, the endurance just comes. So, for me, singing
in the rain and being cold… I mean at some point I'd be just like ‘okay, I can’t
do it anymore’, but yes we were out there for a long time”.
As we shot scene after scene the French fans gathered in their hundreds
screaming hysterically and police escorts were needed to keep everything safe.
At one point there were paparazzi chasing them in their cars driving through the
tunnels trying to photograph MC and PW! It reminded me of the Princess Diana
tragedy but I bit my lip not wanting to tarnish the vibe.
The shots looked sexy, beautiful and iconic and you know where you can see the
video first right? Look out for the Making of the Video for Mariah's Say
Something featuring Snoop and Pharrell at the beginning of April all over your
MTV! Holla!
Rest in peace to Flying Tiger Golden Child who passed away March 4 – Miami will
never be the same without your hustling skills. We loved you. We'll miss you. I
know you're sweet-talking the angels in heaven - God bless you.
And RIP Brian Daley – or DJ Swing, as the world knew you. You’re at peace now,
you were our corageous souljah. I know you’re in heaven entertaining the angels
with your sweet music and making them smile as you did us. All my love.
Source: The Voice
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