In the five-minute video, the 'Call Me Maybe' hitmaker prefers to stand still and stare moodily at the synchronized dancers while mouthing her verse.
- Dec 17, 2016
AceShowbiz - Blood Orange a.k.a. Dev Hynes has shared a new video for "Better Than Me", on which Carly Rae Jepsen provides the faintest whisper of vocals. The moody indie-R&B song is taken from Hynes' third album "Freetown Sound", which was released on June 28.
The self-directed video sets off with a clip of Ashlee Haze reciting her viral poem, "For Colored Girls (The Missy Elliott Poem)", as Hynes and a group of suit-clad synchronized dancers appear. A few minutes into it, Jepsen, who dons a marigold color sweater with a grey trench coat, enters the frame around the corner. The "Call Me Maybe" songstress prefers to stand there and stare moodily at the dancers while delivering her whispery verse.
Jepsen sings, "Ninety-nine percent, I know you're not fine/ Now everyone could be mistakenly kind/ Say what you will, what you want/ Know it's not the time that you can," before Hynes joins Carly, singing, "How long before your journey will end in sweet stone?/ Walls inside of me that then tell me to breathe."
"Freetown Sound" is the follow-up to Hynes' 2013 LP "Cupid Deluxe". It takes its name from Freetown, Sierra Leone, where Hynes' father was born. The album features Jepsen, Zuri Marley, Debbie Harry, Nelly Furtado and others.
