WEBVTT - The Filming of "KARMA" 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:05.000 You're listening to jojos One Now with me, Jojo Ciua 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.959 and iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome back to Jojo Cewan. Now, Oh 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.240 my god, this this is going to be my favorite 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:17.480 podcast ever because I got to talk about my favorite 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.439 thing for the next however long I want, and and 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.840 it's your choice how long you listen for. But today 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.560 I am going to be talking all about the visual 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:32.240 behind my first song, Karma. Now I say first song. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.440 Of course, it's not my first song. I've had a 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.200 billion songs since I released Boomerang back in the day. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.080 But it is my first song. It's my first record, 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.199 it's my first it's my first adult world serious not 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.040 kids made. It is my first song, and I am 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.440 so proud of it. I'm so excited about it. I'm 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.920 so excited for it to be in the world's hands 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:59.080 after two years. If you if you didn't listen to 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.080 last week's podcast, go take a listen. I deep dive 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.120 into the making of a song and all of that. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.679 But today I'm going to be deep diving into the 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:12.839 music video. So let's freaking do it. Buckle up, put 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.680 your seatbelt song, because we are going into Carmel world 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.600 right now. And you definitely want a seatbelt for this one. Anyways, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.560 So let's start at the very end of twenty twenty two. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.040 I talked about this a bit in my last podcast, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.960 but I made this document that had a pitch for 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.119 my label. One hundred and sixty page document every song 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.600 date I wanted to come out, music video concept, what 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.319 comes after it, the merch designs for it, the wardrobe 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.720 for it. Like everything, right, everything from that doc has 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.880 stuck to the plan, except for the dates. I mean, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.400 I originally had a schedule to come out March twenty 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.280 twenty three, and it's now March twenty twenty four, and 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.680 it's all starting to come out. We're April twenty twenty four. 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.320 We get the DA a year later. I was just 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:02.040 a year early. I was a year excited anyways. But 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.400 I in that doc, the very first video that I 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.240 came up with, very first song that I wanted to 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.240 come out was Karma. I knew I wanted that to 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.600 be first. I knew the power that that song has 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.480 to come out first, to come out out of the 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.079 gate it is. It's a head turner. Is it our 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:26.600 best song musically? No? Is it the biggest head turner? Absolutely. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.520 And for me, I'm all about playing my card smart 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:35.200 and being very calculated and being very what what do 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.519 I want to get across? And for me, with Karma, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.000 it was about making a point. It wasn't about being 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.080 Selein Down. I know I'm never ever going to be 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.120 Selin Down. I don't I don't have the voice, you know, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.120 and I but I do have something that is a gift, 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.120 that is being able to create visuals. And for me, 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.959 I knew that with Karma as a song, I could 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.880 create a strong visual and so honestly, I closed my eyes, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.480 played the song and I thought to myself, what can 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.080 I do to this? And I knew I wanted some 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:11.880 sort of contradicting element. I wanted either fire and water 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:16.040 or I wanted dark and light. I wanted something that 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:21.600 was contradicting, and initially it was fire and water, and 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.040 up until the day of the video Shoe, it was 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.480 still fire and water. The day of the video Shoe 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.359 on set, I literally came up to the director and 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.320 I was like, Hey, so, I don't think we need 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.240 the fire anymore and he was like, we're literally filming 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.360 and I was like, yeah, but no fire, It's not 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.480 gonna it's gonna be too much, and he was like, okay, 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:44.280 I mean it's your's your thing, so yep, I'm on it. Anyways, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.840 I'll get into that though. So originally my concept started 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.760 as you know, I wanted to be on a yacht. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:52.880 I wanted to be at a party. We didn't necessarily 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:54.160 know if it was gonna be a yacht yet, so 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.680 I said I wanted to be at a party. I 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.960 wanted to be with my girl. And then I saw 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:03.000 my girl cheating on me, and I got really angry, 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.720 and so I started to to you know, develop these 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.480 fire powers, right, and I set the boat to fire. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.480 We do this cool dance and then I'm like, wait, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.240 I messed up. It's not that serious, it's not that 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.159 dramatic like everyone. I'm just gonna go. So then that's 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.919 when I jumped off the boat. And then I was like, wait, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.719 I messed up again. I got to get out of 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.039 this water. And then I like, I come out of 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.600 the water and then I'm on this beast island situation, 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.599 and then it's like shit, I messed up again. So 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.400 then I just set the island of fire and it's 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.800 like my Carra followed me and I just set the 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.960 island fire. And originally it ended with me on the 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.240 island on fire, and that was that was it. It 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.400 was like boat firepowers, set the boat to fire, jump off. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.680 Then it was like island firepowers, set the island fire, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.719 and then I'm stuck there because you can only escape 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.400 your karma so much. Essentially, So that was the original 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.800 music video idea. And then I got to let that 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.400 idea marinate for a very very long time. So all 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.400 of twenty twenty three, I actually had to not listen 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.800 to any of my new music because any time I 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.919 listened to it, I get too excited. I get ready 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.720 to fill a video and to do a performance and 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.400 to sing and to dance. I get I get so 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.880 excited and so pumped up. But then I when I 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.360 realized it wasn't gonna come out in twenty twenty three, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:18.560 I was like, Okay, I have to slow down. I 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.520 can't listen to this. I can't get excited. I can't 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.960 I can't be stoked just yet. But then I got 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.200 the official word that Karma was greenlit by my label 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.280 to come out first and to do the music video 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.200 and to make it massive and to go for it. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.360 And I said, Okay, here we go. So then I 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.960 had a call with a director who's great, who I've 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.919 worked with before, and it just it wasn't It wasn't 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:47.120 necessarily the right vibe. She wasn't necessarily finding exactly the 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.400 vision that I had in my head. It wasn't the 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.960 level that I wanted to do. And then I finally 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.760 asked her as a friend on like a sidebar. I 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.360 was like, what's what's going on? I was like why 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.960 because normally normally she does things massive And I was like, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.760 what's what's going on on? What's happening? Why? Why are 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.320 you holding back on me with this? Like I'm finally excited? 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.120 And she revealed me. She said, because there's not really 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.560 a budget. And I was like, well, what do you 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.520 mean there's not really a budget because at this point 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.560 I was out of the budget conversation. I didn't know that. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.000 And she said, there's not really a budget to make 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.080 this vision that you have come to life. She's like, 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.000 everyone loves this vision, but it's just not possible within 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:26.560 the budget that we were given from label. And I said, oh, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.360 I said, don't's threat about that. I was like, I've 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.000 been waiting for this one I was like, I will 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.880 cover this video whatever it is, like, don't like make 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.040 it like let's let's let's go. Like the best thing 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:38.760 you can do is invest in yourself. And I've been 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.599 waiting years to have this moment like I I will 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.440 handle whatever we need to handle. And then it's still 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.520 just still wasn't clicking. And so that's when I made 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.560 a phone call to my other director friend. His name 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.159 is Mark Klass, and Mark and I have done so 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.680 many videos together. He is the director behind Dearie Am, 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:02.680 Number One, You Bop Time to Celebrate World Party he did. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.760 I wanted him to do the J Team, but Nickelodeon 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.880 did wouldn't let him do the J Team because he 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.760 hadn't done a movie yet and they didn't want it 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.160 to be his first. And I was like why, like 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.720 he's freaking perfect for it, come on, and they just 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.720 they were a little hesitant. I was like, all right, fine. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.400 But then then once I literally woke up and I 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.800 was like what about Mark? I was like why didn't 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.000 I realize that right away? And so called Mark and 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.320 I was like, look, I don't know if you're interested, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.200 I don't know if you're available, and he was like look, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.800 I'm so busy right now, but I will make it happen. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.040 And I was like, let freaking go. So that I 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.040 called him, gave him my idea and I told him. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.400 I was like, look, I was like, no matter what 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.520 anyone tells you, I was like, I'm I am going 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.080 to fund this. I was like, I am going to 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.920 make it work. Go make your budget, whatever, whatever the 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:50.160 team can contribute, that is a phenomenal. I will handle 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.360 it other than that, you know. And so he went. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.520 He made my vision come to life, and he gave 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.000 us a treatment, and he gave us a budget breakdown, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.560 and I was like, Okay, here we go, here we go. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.000 We're gonna be fine. We're gonna be great. It's gonna 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.720 be worth it. And he made this treatment based off 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.720 of that video idea, and uh it was. It was 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:21.880 essentially perfect. Now I want to cut to you so 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.160 we know we know this video is happening. We have 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.040 our idea, the label approves it. I approve it, like 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.400 we are all so stoked, all so happy. Then it 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.640 comes time to audition dancers, and we auditioned dancers and 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.800 we have great boys to be in the thing. And 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.200 then we have great girls to be in the thing. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.800 Great girls come to the audition. I knew that Malia, 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.640 who ends up being my girlfriend in the in the 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.480 music video, I knew she was gonna be in it 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.080 as the girlfriend. I was ready for that. I was 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.439 comfortable with that. But then the other girl, the one 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.280 in the red I we had the audition and no 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.080 one else felt right at all. And so then we 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.600 were having a meeting. We were having a meeting with 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.280 the war team, the hair makeup team, my mom, the director, 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.160 the choreographer, Richie, we were all having a meeting together 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.160 and I was like, none of those girls felt right. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:09.599 I was like, I just don't know, Like, let me 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.240 sleep on it. My mom actually said, what about Alexis. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.880 You always said you wanted her in a music video, 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.280 and I had met Alexis, she was the Season seventeen 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.280 winner of So You Think You Can Dance? And literally 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.360 I told her, I said, I have songs coming out. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:25.920 I know I want you to be in the music video. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.840 Like I have this vision for a song that we 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.200 had done and I was like, I have a vision 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:31.920 for a video and it wasn't Karma, it was a 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:33.240 different one. And I was like, but I want you 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:34.600 to be in it, like I see it, I can 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.440 picture it, I'm ready for it. And she said, okay, 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.280 I would love that. And so then I, uh, when 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.880 this that night happened and she didn't come to the audition, 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:45.400 and so I thought, you know, maybe she maybe she 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.040 changed her mind. Maybe she's not it's just not available, 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.640 like maybe it just didn't know we had that meeting. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.480 And then I got in my car and I had 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.160 a text from Alexis and she was like, oh my god, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.280 I had no idea that you had an audition, Like 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.720 I didn't get it because of the height requirement. We 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.080 put girls five six and taller because I'm five seven, 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.320 five eight, five nine, I don't really know, and so 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:06.959 we put five six and taller so that way that 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.120 wasn't a massive heighth difference. And Alexis is like a 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.880 really cute five two. I think she's really little, itty 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:17.360 bitty baby. She in a little pollypocket and yeah, so 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:18.520 she was like, she was like, I didn't get the 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.240 audition because of the heighth requirement, Like there's ever a world 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.400 like where you do like another audition, Like I would 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.640 love to come, even if like it is fight, Like 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:26.960 I still just love to be there and be in 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.880 the room like please let me know. And I was like, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.520 oh my god. We literally just had a meeting. We 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.120 were talking about you, like we want you to do it, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.240 and I was like, can you come to the studio 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.400 tomorrow and we can just dance. We can just kind 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.240 of feel it, see if it works, if we have chemistry, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.480 because we had never danced together, but we knew each other. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.360 And she came to the studio the next day and 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:47.080 it was just, I mean, it was magic. I just 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:48.960 I knew. I knew that she was the right one 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.800 for it. And then ended up when I was like, 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.560 if you're available, you got the job, and she was like, 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:57.080 I will be there. So then cut to music video rehearsals. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.560 We have this idea, we have this costumes. I knew 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.000 that I want to be some sort of beasty sea creature, 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.199 and then we have the beast cousin sea creatures coming 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.280 out of the water. We're in the yacht, all of 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.160 everything is still stuck to the plant. Right then we're 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.800 in rehearsals, and God, I wish I could remember the 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.800 exact moment that this happened. But somewhere along the line 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.880 of the first day of rehearsals, I was like, wait, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.760 I'm saying I was a bad girl. I did some 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.920 bad things, but I'm seeing somebody else cheat. I was like, no, 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.720 I am the bad guy. I have to do the 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.440 bad thing. And so then it was like, okay, well, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.200 how are we gonna do this bad thing right? And 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.600 then my choreographer, Richie actually came up with doing it 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.800 in the choreography and kind of getting with another girl 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.080 while my girl was literally in my hands, and that's 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.680 when we came up with that iconic that shah Na lie, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:55.280 that shaw Na cheet, that dance moment. And then you know, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.000 after that is when we went into the dance of 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.360 the chorus and we decided we were like, it's it's 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.160 all happening too fast, like we need a moment for 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.560 it to breathe and to see what happened. And so 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.040 then my videographer his name is Camer and he was 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.200 there and I was like, well, give me a second, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.079 I can like freeze the song and like just like 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.520 chuck it together quick on my phone and then we 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.959 can have the producer like redo it. So then I 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.280 did that and I played it and then Cameron, who's 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.160 a videographer. He was he's also an incredible music producer, 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.000 and he was like, do you want me to just 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.760 like chuck that together fast, but like better than your 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.400 awkward freeze frame pause, And I was like, oh my god, please. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.360 I was like I want a heartbeat, I want a breath, 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.160 and then I wanted to fill back into the music, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.120 and he was like, literally, give me ten minutes. I 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.120 got this, and I was like okay. So Cameron took 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.360 the music, he gave us that extra ten seconds and 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.440 we were like, oh my god, it's perfect. So then 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.160 that night the director comes into rehearsals and we were like, 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.760 all right, we have a full new pitch for you. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.960 It is me. That's the bad guy. It's me doing 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.760 the cheating. We're still doing the firepowers, but now it 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.920 actually made more sense because it was like, I'm setting 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.440 this fire because I messed up, and I kind of 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.280 just want to burn the evidence. And then and it's 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.840 like it kind of follows me to the island and 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.280 so I want to burn the evidence again. And then 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.640 we have the next day of rehearsals, all going good, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.520 all going well. I'm trying to think if there was 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.960 anything like that didn't go smoothly. But honestly, everything did. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.200 I mean, at this point, I did a crash course 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.120 two weeks of like making sure my my body was 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.480 in check, making sure I was eating properly, making sure 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.440 that I was stretching so I wasn't gonna get tight, 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.040 Like I did so much pre work for this video. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.000 But everything in the week like went so smooth, It 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.640 was so put together, it was so great. And then 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.360 we were on set day one, day one, and so 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.840 day one we shot all of the stuff on the yacht, 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.640 so all of the white. And then day two, so 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.400 we shot all of the beast stuff, all the black, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.559 and then we did the nude stuff, the pool stuff. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.720 We did all of that also on day one. We 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.320 did it that night. So day one was like a 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.160 seventeen hour day, and then day two was like a 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.920 fifteen hour day. So we're on set and we're doing 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.640 the first dance, and I told my director after that, 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.439 that's when I had the conversation with him, like I 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.160 don't think we need the fire anymore. I was like, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.000 because the dance happened, we don't need me to set 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.640 this to fire. To jump off, I can just like 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.760 dip out, like see everybody, and then it made sense 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.080 to have my karma follow me and be with me 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.000 in the pool scene, and then it made sense for 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.520 her to follow me to the island. It kind of 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.960 ended up being that I was the bad guy, and 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.920 then the girl in Red, who is played by Alexis 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.400 read she is, She is my karma, she is what's 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.400 following me. She is the bad thing that I did. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.800 Then we're on set and I was like, you know 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.880 what would beked up as if I at the end 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.720 still made the wrong choice and I still went with 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.760 the wrong girl. So then I was like, wait a second, 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.800 this is all happening on set. I was like, here's 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.240 the new vision. Everybody. I was like, I know, we're 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:54.760 literally on set, but hear me and I think this 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.880 is the winner. They're like what is? I was like, 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.720 the whole thing becomes a flashback. The whole thing becomes 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.600 a forward, and so you know, you see me with 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.160 the girls, I make the wrong choice and then I'm 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.400 like deuces. But then you know, after we get to 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.560 the island, Red follows me, and then it's like we 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.840 go back in time and then we're back on the 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.880 boat and we have this moment again where We're doing 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.920 that same style of dance but to a different part 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.280 of music, and it's like we are back now in 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.600 real time of like what choice is she gonna make? 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.240 And I still make the wrong choice. That happened on 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.800 set and that's where the story came together and everyone 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.360 was like sold, we love it. It's psycho, but we 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.480 love it. And I was like me too, I love 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.200 it too. So I was like, all right, we gotta 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:34.840 get Red in the pool with us. We got we 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.160 gotta make this all happen, and we're like, okay, great, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.080 nailed it. So we had our first day on set. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.360 It was a great day, went smoothly. We went to 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.080 the pool after we shout it at the director's pool. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.280 It was freezing outside and my outpha that I was 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.840 wearing is basically nothing. I mean, I'm essentially nothing. It's 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.920 all sheer and so it's so cold. But luckily the 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:57.920 pool was heated to like eighty five degrees, so we 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:03.080 were chilling in that department. And then for the pool scene, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.960 that actually took a lot of preparation. So the same 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.120 way that we had rehearsals for the dance part of things, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.400 I had rehearsals by myself. For the pool part of things, 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.080 I practiced how to backflop into the pool. I brought 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.480 a GoPro out I filmed with a camera just at 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.280 my pool figuring it out. And I really tried to 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.880 figure out, like what the best way to jump backwards 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.440 into the pool was. And I realized that the best 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:27.960 way to do it and the best shot to get 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.560 was just by backflopping. And I was like, Okay, here 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.080 we go. We're just gonna backflop, like you'll be fine eventually, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.320 and here I am. I'm fine. Then I was like, okay, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.800 I want to get a shot where I'm singing underwater. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.640 So then I practiced singing underwater and I realized after 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:45.840 I did it and I filmed it, and then I 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.760 watched it back just at my house a couple days 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.840 before the video shoot, I was like, oh, your bubbles, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.720 like you can't see anything. You can't see anything that 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.280 you're singing. So then I had to figure out how 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.600 to move my mouth underwater while making it look like 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:05.439 I'm singing well not getting that like massive bubble overflow. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.320 So then what I figured is I had to empty 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.199 my lungs go all the way to the bottom of 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.560 the pool, sing the words come back up, and then 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.040 also while doing that, also holding the beat of the song, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.160 so I would listen to the song above the pool, 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.040 catch the beat, go under, sing for a bit, come 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.439 back up, make sure I was still on beat. So 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.600 then when we got to the set of the pool, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.320 did all that, but we could only do it in 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:33.600 like forward increments because of the emptying my lungs getting 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.000 down to the pool. By the time I was down 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:36.800 there and they gave me the green light to start, 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:38.240 and then I had to figure out where I was 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.360 at in the song. We had to do that bit 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.520 coming up and down and up and down and up 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.159 and down, and it was It's not easy, but it 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:46.680 was so worth it. And that is one of the 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.560 parts of the video that everyone talks about, like the 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.480 singing underwater, the singing underwater where you actually underwater, and 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.399 I was like, no, we literally were underwater. Got it 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.000 turned out so cool. I'm so happy with how that 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.840 turned out. Then after that, we we came home, we 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:02.439 fell asleep, and we woke up and we did it 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.720 all again the next day. The next day. Day two. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.080 Day two started off awfully. I'm not gonna lie. My 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.680 biggest fat peeve is hair and makeup. I hate sitting 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.120 in the hair and makeup chair. Hair and makeup took 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:18.720 five hours on day two. By hour three, I was done. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.359 I was over it. I was like, give me, like, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.360 let's go, Like I was just not having it anymore. 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.680 So to be in that chair for five hours was 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.840 very tortuous. And it was just like one thing after 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.800 another after another, just look out to happening. And then 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.119 the girl Alexis, who was red, this is kind of 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.840 a fun story. She was supposed to she was supposed 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.040 to leave set. She's supposed to wrap at about four o'clock. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.479 But that was so with the order of the day. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.240 Was going to be all the dancing on the sand 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.480 and then all the dancing in the water and then 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.480 the actual water tank of me coming out of the 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.680 water and all that was good to go. But then 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.639