The Ghanaian-American singer’s dazzling new video arrives as she’s about to begin her sold-out U.S. tour.
Around halfway through the recording process for her second album, Fountain Baby, Amaarae remembers being in a writing camp at a studio in Accra, when one of her co-producers began playing a clattering Brazilian funk beat. “One of the other producers that was there had been reading this book on Tibetan spiritual practices, and had been telling us about it,” Amaarae says. “I remember he was high as a kite—on weed, by the way!—and then he hopped on the mic.
Next, she’s in full Old Hollywood mode, admiring herself in a mirror while dripping in gold jewelry and wearing just a pair of white bikini bottoms under a floor-sweeping white vintage fur coat. “We wanted to keep it quite simple, just these two black and white looks,” Amaarae explains of the outfits she devised with stylist Janáe Roubleau. While the video came together in just two weeks, the grandiose setting had been on Amaarae’s mind from the minute she wrote the song.
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