Mariah, Pharrell Hit Paris For Romantic Getaway
In New Clip
By Jennifer Vineyard, with additional reporting
by Jasmine Dotiwala
Superstar pair spend day shopping, cuddling
in City of Lights for 'Say Somethin' ' video.
Mariah Carey's got a new man on her arm — and
leg — in her latest music video, which she shot last week in Paris. For
"Say Somethin'," Pharrell Williams plays Carey's oh-so-patient boyfriend
who takes the singer sightseeing and shopping for a romantic day on the
town.
"You know what was so great about being in Paris?
Usually I'm inside a hotel room and I don't get to see anything. This time,
I finally got to drive around the city, walk around the city and hang out,"
Carey said. "I love Paris; I love the electricity this city has. And it
gave me a new perspective on this song, which is one of the first songs
I recorded for The Emancipation of Mimi. It's got a hot vibe to it, when
you're driving around in the car on a normal, rainy day in Paris, driving
around in circles in a Maserati — who doesn't do that every day?"
Well, just about everyone else — but then again,
Carey's not playing just anyone in her new clip. Carey and Williams are
a superstar couple, trying to find romantic interludes when they're not
being chased by the paparazzi in his Maserati — at least, that's what the
video's treatment called for. But on the first day of the shoot, director
Paul Hunter had to contend not just with his fake paparazzi, hired for
the scene, but real ones as well, who chased after the pair on scooters.
"That's just a regular day in the life for Mariah,
probably," Williams said. "I'm a low-key guy, so there's no paparazzi under
the studio console, or in my apartment, or jumping out of my pool. I'm
just not into it. So it's weird when you have these people running up,
especially in Paris — they're on Vespas, doing wheelies, and it's wild."
The chase being real, it made it that much easier
for Carey and Williams to get into character as a couple looking to get
away from it all. For one of their escapes, the two frolic on the Le Pont
de Paris bridge overlooking the river Seine.
The next destination point required clearing
out Louis Vuitton's flagship store on the Champs-Elysées, so they
could have some private shopping with Carey modeling her favorite outfits
while Williams watches and waits. She also tries on a massive amount of
shoes, while Williams plays piano on her legs to entertain himself.
"Obviously, being able to take your pick of anything
in the store and have the whole store shut down for you is every girl's
dream," Carey said. "You know, just a pretty standard day in the life of
anybody. No, just joking. There was a time in my life I only had one pair
of shoes, so that's my justification for having that little perk on the
job."
Because Vogue fashion guru Andre Leon Talley
popped by the store during those scenes, he ended up making a cameo as
a shop assistant. "We love him," Carey said. "He saw me walking around
in a bodysuit and he was like, 'Darling, you have to wear that!' So he
convinced me that's the outfit I should wear later on, so if anybody's
got a problem with it, call him up."
After the shopping spree, Williams takes Carey
home to his "bachelor pad" (really her hotel suite), where they kick back
with a few Dalmatian puppies. "I thought the puppies would add cuteness
to it," she said. "But Paul was like, 'Make it more hot, make it more hot!'
And someone else was going, 'Sit on his lap,' and I'm like, 'Ask me nicely!
Produce a diamond ring or something, for me to sit on a lap!' No, it was
fun. I don't have a problem sitting on anybody's lap. I just wanted a better
invitation, for the sentiment of the song."
If Carey needed a better invitation, so did Snoop,
who's featured on the song but not in the Paris scenes. His part in the
clip was shot separately on Sunday in Los Angeles.
"If you guys think I'm a diva and I have requirements,
Snoop is the next level," Carey said. "He's the hip-hop king! So his requirements
to get to Paris are, like, beyond platinum editions; they're, like, beyond
ultra-platinum editions; they're like diamond editions. So we love Snoop
and we wish he had been here, but I think shooting him in L.A. will be
good because we'll have more time, more control. He probably would have
gotten really mobbed in the streets here anyway."
While "Say Somethin' " will be Carey's next single
for top 40 radio, she's sending out "Fly Like a Bird" to urban radio at
the same time, with both hitting the dial the first week of April. A video
for the song will be shot in New York later this month.
Source: MTV
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Heroes
comment: No Andre, we will not blame you for the idea....
Petit
résumé: "Say Somethin'" est l'histoire d'un jeune
couple de stars qui veulent visiter la ville et faire du shopping, mais
sont pourchassés par des papparazzi. Mariah a apprécié
sa vue de Paris sous un autre angle car habituellement elle est beaucoup
confinée dans son hotel, ici elle a pu profiter de la ville. L'idée
de porter le maillot de bain vient d'Andre Leon Talley. La partie
de la vidéo avec Snoop a été tournée ce dimanche
à Los Angeles.
Posted on March the 21st. |
,
it's a question of respect. By the way, how did I know it??? This
lady's insult made its way on Belgian press and nobody was laughing.
.
Go
Mariah, gooooooooooooooooooooooo.......
