Calvin Harris has just released the raunchy music video for "Thinking About You," a dance-pop collaboration with Jordanian singer Ayah Marar, that serves as the eighth and final single from the Scottish producer and DJ's No.1 third studio album, "18 Months." The 29-year-old DJ producer extraordinaire teams up once again with up-and-coming vocalist Marar (from "Flashback") on "Thinking About You," which is a signature Harris retro-house track with a dizzying build up and light summer beats. Another week, another music video walking the fine line between blatant nudity and art.
Directed by Vincent Haycock in Los Angeles, the clip captures the smooth hidden house track's fun dance vibe perfectly as it whisks you away to an island full of adventure, exotic scenery, and a party that seem to exist only in dreams. Or kind of like the movie that agent 007 would be seen at. Instead of using the women front and center, Haycock punctuates the storyline of excesses gone amok in Harris' video with the odd topless girl walking through a mansion, a couple having sex on a private jet, punches being thrown by two troubled young men, some lesbian action, and poor Marar getting her yacht hijacked by a group of armed pirates.
Chock-full of Gatsby style extravagance and nudity, the explicit clip follows numerous seemingly unconnected story lines, taking viewers everywhere from a mile high club venture to a boat heist in the middle of the ocean. To advance the story lines, Haycock also throws in pirates, a fist fight, a private jet and a drug-fueled party set in a European castle. Opening in the kind of mansion you think of when picturing 90s hip hop videos, "Thinking About You" spends the better part of its initial minute following a scantily clad model through her luxurious abode. She eventually drops her top, revealing her breasts, and the scene then jumps to a separate scene involving two bikini-clad gals on a boat.
As the video goes on, the energetic music backs a tale of high seas hijacking, cocaine parties, and additional shots of mansion life that feels more dreamlike than anything else. It's far more entertaining than the vast majority of videos released as of late, but what's most surprising is how even in the midst of all the action mentioned above the song is what stands out as the true highlight. "Thinking About You" is a bonafide hit, and after this track reaches radio it will be inescapable.
Directed by Vincent Haycock in Los Angeles, the clip captures the smooth hidden house track's fun dance vibe perfectly as it whisks you away to an island full of adventure, exotic scenery, and a party that seem to exist only in dreams. Or kind of like the movie that agent 007 would be seen at. Instead of using the women front and center, Haycock punctuates the storyline of excesses gone amok in Harris' video with the odd topless girl walking through a mansion, a couple having sex on a private jet, punches being thrown by two troubled young men, some lesbian action, and poor Marar getting her yacht hijacked by a group of armed pirates.
Chock-full of Gatsby style extravagance and nudity, the explicit clip follows numerous seemingly unconnected story lines, taking viewers everywhere from a mile high club venture to a boat heist in the middle of the ocean. To advance the story lines, Haycock also throws in pirates, a fist fight, a private jet and a drug-fueled party set in a European castle. Opening in the kind of mansion you think of when picturing 90s hip hop videos, "Thinking About You" spends the better part of its initial minute following a scantily clad model through her luxurious abode. She eventually drops her top, revealing her breasts, and the scene then jumps to a separate scene involving two bikini-clad gals on a boat.
As the video goes on, the energetic music backs a tale of high seas hijacking, cocaine parties, and additional shots of mansion life that feels more dreamlike than anything else. It's far more entertaining than the vast majority of videos released as of late, but what's most surprising is how even in the midst of all the action mentioned above the song is what stands out as the true highlight. "Thinking About You" is a bonafide hit, and after this track reaches radio it will be inescapable.
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