With The Weeknd as the creative director and performer we are addressing young and digital target groups to a greater extent-a perfect combination for this unique Mercedes moment on the road to an electric future. ooh Am Im blinded by the lights C No, I cant sleep until G I feel your touch Dm I said.
While that piece of work was simply a fan putting two things together, Mercedes vice president of marketing Bettina Fetzer said in a statement that working with The Weeknd on the official video was "inspiring and gave us lots of new and creative impetus. Cifra para ukulele da msica Blinding Lights de The Weeknd. The connection between the car company and the singer is so strong that a remix of the video that combines visuals from the EQC commercial has almost a million views on YouTube. Blinding Lights is a song by Canadian singer the Weeknd, released on November 29, 2019, through XO and Republic Records, as the second single from his. The Benz is new, of course, so you won't be confused about what era the video actually takes place in.
He says that since The Weeknd's previous videos had a dark and gritty vibe, he used generators powering banks of LED lights and a Sony Venice full-frame digital motion picture camera system to try to re-create the look, ending up with the video's vintage, 1980s style. In the first episode of Lockdown DoP Portraits, director of photography Oliver Millar gets into his work on the "Blinding Lights" video, saying that he loves the music video format and talks about how intense it is to try and create iconic images during high-pressure shoots that don't last very long.
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So they started a new behind-the-scenes series on YouTube where those involved in shooting a video or film talk about what it took to get the images.
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We know these things because, like so many of us, the people at Sony Professional have been stuck at home and yet still wanted to do something. There's the star of the video, of course (the car, not the singer), a specially equipped towing vehicle that allowed The Weeknd to act and lip-sync inside the moving convertible without needing to drive, and a Mercedes-Benz chase SUV with a crane camera strapped to the top.
Hopefully, someone comes to get him out of the street before he hurts himself.The shoot, which took place in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, required at least three vehicles driving through the nighttime streets. Everything seems to have happened in his head. In the midst of everything happening, The Weeknd eventually loses sight of what's going on and ends up dancing by the side of the road. After flashing her a devilish grin, she waves her hand his way and he literally floats towards her. Tripping (frog) balls, the singer ends up at a club where he gets kicked out of it, but not before he finds himself locked into a romantic gaze with a woman who's singing onstage. It also makes you never want to lick an amphibian. It's a wild scene that radiates electric energy. He zooms through the streets in an expensive car, and when his lights aren't bleeding red, he's dancing in the middle of the street like there's clown paint on his face. By the time that "Blinding Lights" has rolled around, The Weeknd's trip has gone farther into unexplored territory. In that video, he lost touch with the world and found himself in increasingly strange events.
"Blinding Lights" continues the story from the visual for " Heartless," which involved The Weeknd being on a psychedelic prowl after licking a frog.