Here’s a little bit about the music video for my single “I’m Not Sorry” and my inspiration behind it.
The single “I’m Not Sorry” was released Dec. 4th, and the accompanying music video was released Wednesday March 3rd, 2021 just in time to celebrate Women’s International Day and Women’s History Month.
For the music video I envisioned a dance choreography. The song makes me want to get up and dance, and I hope that it inspires others to dance to it as well. I’m a dancer at heart. I love to dance and enjoy going out to dance clubs frequently. Unfortunately, it’s been a while since I’ve done that due to the pandemic.
Growing up I always performed some sort of dance routine in school talent shows elementary through high school. In college I was a member of the Dance Club, and took dance classes for credit. Although I never competed professionally, dancing comes naturally to me and I like to move for fun, it just makes me happy!
Even in my home video content as a child, like 5 years old, I would be dancing on a stage my mom created for me. My sister and I would take turns being each other’s back-up dancers and my brother would be in charge of production and lights.
In retrospect it’s not surprising that I wanted to create a dance routine given that I was deprived of my dancing fix in society due to social distancing for safety measures. In general it had been a while since I performed any sort of choreographed routine, but I was up for the challenge.
Choreography
I worked with choreographer Alysa Hope the founder of “Hope To It”, a popular dance series. I had two professional back-up dancers for my music video. We rehearsed several times in a dance studio in Manhattan, and also practised remotely. During rehearsal we’d wear our masks. Dancing with a mask on sometimes was challenging because you run out of breath more easily.
Styling Choices
I styled the music video myself and was inspired by a “school-girl” theme. People often see “school-girls” as innocent, naive or shy and the message is bold- about women taking conscious action to not say sorry when they don’t have to so I thought it was fitting.
I had the help of Art and Autonomy Salon’s Co-founder Jeffrey Jagling style my hair, with extensions from Hairdo, and professional Make-up artist Analise Traficante do a bold neon pink eye look.
Neon pink was a big theme in my music video, you’ll see that with the set choice, complementing the eye make-up and overall bold theme of the song. We shot at a minority-owned set design studio in Harlem and they worked with us to keep a safe environment. I even bought a custom neon sign that reads “I’m Not Sorry” to hang in my at-home recording studio. Looking at it enough I think it will eventually help me reduce the amount of times I needlessly say sorry, along with listening to my song of course!
The dance routine is super fun and catchy and I hope that others will be able to learn it and dance it on their own to my song. Dance is an amazing form of self-expressions and adds another way to enjoy my song! I hope you enjoy my music video! Don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube to stay updated on all my music videos coming soon!
To read more about the single “I’m Not Sorry” you can check out features in CelebMix and Naluda Magazine. The song is an upbeat, dance pop song producer by Harper James. Check out the official music video below!
Official Music Video
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Photography by: Elite Fashion Photography
Make-up Artist for photos: Eszter Tary
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