Philip apparently shot the most important scenes and there's only a few ones (where the camera is never on his face and he's like in the back) in which he will be added through CGI. Hope it doesn't look a mess.
Well, there's a reason she's near the tail end - though I did like it quite a bit, it was less impressive than other efforts by the other artists and harder to get into.
You as well as anyone else on this board should know that a song doesn't have to be a hit to spark a trend. Just have to have influence. And there were plenty of songs heading in this very direction since about 2001 onwards.