Every product on this page was chosen by a Harper's BAZAAR editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy.The singer-songwriter talks through her creative process and artistic intention for her Ira Levin–inspired visuals.A good music video is an art form in and of itself. Weaving sound, cinematography, choreography, and narrative into one brief package is no small feat.
“I love being able to play a character, even though my boyfriend said that he’s pretty sure I wasn’t acting throughout this whole music video and that’s why it came out so great,” Michaels says, laughing. Watch her full music video below and read on for more highlights of Michaels’s creative process throughout the production of her Ira Levin–inspired visuals.
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.Michaels says that she sought to incorporate the concept of a dinner party, but accredits director Blythe Thomas for specifically angling the idea around all the dead exes of the main character’s boyfriend. “I was like, ‘This is genius.
In tribute to “psycho-ness,” she says that she strove to base the video on the portrait of the “Stepford wife,” the submissively agreeable, societally accepted woman of the ’70s who is devoutly loyal to traditional duties and pure on all aesthetic accounts, but who has skeletons hidden in her closet and has suppressed a slow-burning jealous rage that threatens to surface. “I wanted to portray someone who had their life together ...
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