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Azealia Releases "Vibes" Video
Azealia Banks released the music video for "Vibes" today on a big reveal on 106&Park. Along with the reveal of this 6 minute video, Azealia also performed the song "Vibes" as well as her other hits "Free" and "Dramatix". More to be discussed on the interview and performance on 106&Park in later article.
The music video for "Vibes" is set in all black and white. All costumes are designed by Valentino and Dolce & Gabbana in a collaboration of fashion. Makeup and hair is done by Sutan Amrull and the video is directed and produced by Dave LaChapelle. Azealia is the creative director for the video along with LaChapelle.
At the start of the music video, Azealia is seen sitting inside 1960 Mercedes Benz 220SE with the top down as rain falls on her. All that can be heard for the first 30 seconds of the video is the sound of the rain falling and the occasional thunder from a flash of lightning. The camera cinematic-ally zooms into Banks face to reveal a blasé expression. After these first thirty seconds, Azealia is seen cranking the car and driving to an old LA apartment where she is seen wiping her face in the mirror as gunshots can be heard in the background. A flash-forward to later that night and Banks can be seen getting inside her wet Benz and she drives to Inglewood where we can then see her walking into a club where her and some unknown woman start talking and then the woman offers Azealia a drink. The unknown woman's red lips are the only color throughout this entire video along with all major red highlights.
A montage is then seen of Azealia and the girl in various sexual acts, all very explicit. This all takes place at the club. The last thing that is seen is Banks going down on this unknown female whilst laying down on the club's bar. A moan is let out and then it all goes dark. Inside an all white abandoned LA studio, Banks is seen tied up like shown in the teaser. All she is wearing is a leather vest, pasties, and a matching leather thong. The woman from earlier in the night comes up to Azealia and whispers in her ear "You're going to be my bitch." Then with Azealia having her mouth duct taped shut and the woman leaving a kiss mark on the tape. With a crack of the whip, the music starts to play.
As the first verse plays and the synth bangs, the woman rips off her mask from her latex bodysuit, revealing herself to be FKA Twigs. Twigs then pours red paint, also in color, all over Azealia as 5 male dancers in bdsm attire come towards Azealia and start groping her as "Vibes" plays in the background. Twigs then starts cracking her whip over the orgy happening and lets out a maniacal laugh.
When the chorus comes on, a close up shot of Azealia facing the camera with her long extensions blowing godlike behind her is shown. Mouthing every word in a bored like fashion, the camera begins to zoom out and show Azealia sitting on a stool in front of a backdrop with large industrial fans blowing on her. During this part, Banks wears a bra made out of a dark gray and black fur and latex pants with heels. In the second verse, Azealia continues to be beaten and sexually abused by Twigs and her gang of 5 muscled male models.
All changes though at the start of the third verse. The music stops and Azealia is seen freeing herself from ropes and duct tape. Twigs then walks in on Banks trying to escape but that doesn't stop Azealia. Azealia then jumps on her back and grabs a knife and stabs her. The blood spewing from Twigs' chest is also in a bright red. With her eyes rolling back in her head, Twigs then dies and Azealia jumps out the studio's window, revealing the room to be set on the 3rd floor of a building. Running as fast as she can, the camera is seen in front of Azealia as she sings the 3rd verse of "Vibes". During this chorus, Azealia is seen running through the street, half naked. The video finally ends with Azealia looking over all of LA with her hair blowing in the wind as the synth whines in the background.
On Vevo, the video has received great attention, garnering 5 million views in the time it has been up. Critics have praised the video as the best video since Thriller. Some people aren't pleased with the video, however. As they say it is un-Christian and deserves to be banned everywhere. This hasn't stopped the views from growing rapidly though, nor has it stopped Azealia's strong iTunes hold. Even with the negative, the positive outweighs it 3-1. The promotion fo Azealia's video has been strong as it will be the advertisement on YouTube for 30 seconds, unskippable, for 24 hours.
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