
Runtown made a meal of it in his video for “Mad Over You," the best iteration, in a music video, of said pride I've yet seen.Ĭhristopher Walken seemed to have made a fool of himself with his uninhibited dancing in Fatboy Slim's video for “Weapon of Choice". The only other time one sees bursts of bright colours is on the wax prints won by the models which tells a different though related story of its own-that of the resurgent pride in African prints and its inventive interpretation by designers. In the latter, the entire video is drenched in neon lighting as if to subsume all five minutes of “Hotline Bling" into one minute of “Come Closer." In the former, these were in white and gray colours which turn into rich blues, greens and oranges when Drake's verse comes on. One prominent strip is the strong aesthetic similarities to Drake's “Hotline Bling".īoth videos were clearly shot in a studio and against plain, single-coloured backgrounds. The video for “Come Closer" tells of a different lattice work. To start with, the beat has the same piano from “Controlla" and “Work" (and many other dancehall and “afro-bashment" songs surely, but they don't all have either artists on them). “Come Closer" is a clever aggregate of these songs for several reasons. This seems even truer if one considers the fact that save for “Passionfruit," there isn't, on More Life, another unabashed summer song like “One dance" or “Controlla" or “Work," which is closing in on one billion views on YouTube.
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Perhaps his parent label, Universal Music Group, didn't see the wisdom in their prized driver propelling another company's, Sony via RCA, driver to a pole position when both are in the same fast lane to the summer markets. Neither is it impossible that Drake was prevented by some contractual hiccup. It is less plausible that Wizkid didn't want Drake in the video. Siphoning some of that high octane into Wizkid's Starboy vehicle might make it even more efficient-or too efficient. Featuring in the video for “Come Closer" would seem like overcompensation to Wizkid especially when More Life is webbing the charts. More Life is causing all kinds of stirs and could reach one and a half, or even two billions streams on Spotify alone. Perhaps Drake figured contributing an intro and a verse to “Come Closer" is a favour well returned to Wizkid for co-writing and co-producing “One Dance." This rocketed to global status when “One Dance" became the first song to reach and surpass one billion streams on Spotify alone, the royalties from which are surely a considerate sum.
