Up-and-coming pop star KWAYE has made it obvious that with regards to making music, aesthetics are essential to him. Through the movies of his previous songs like “Sweetest Life” and “Little Ones,” the Zimbabwe-born artist has proven a definite expertise for crafting visible storytelling.
That pattern continues in KWAYE’s most up-to-date music video for “What Have You Done.” The tune focuses on a journey towards self-discovery and exterior validation, with lyrics like “Secrets from the ones that came before me/ Still within the books I’ve never read” giving the tune a way of historic want.
The tune’s subsequent video doubles down on KWAYE’s message, with every outfit and dance transfer bringing in several parts of African cultures from around the globe. In an interview with Complex, KWAYE defined that he needed the video for “What Have You Done” to function a method of analyzing his tradition. “Through the movement and styling, we wanted to create a visual world where various parts of the African Diaspora melded together,” he stated. “Each of the three appears to be like is a reference to a few totally different factors in western black historical past that I by no means found in my western faculty books.”
Even the colours of the outfits he and his fellow dancers put on play considerably on the identical themes — he defined that the “nude” colours worn on the video’s begin, for instance, symbolize the colour of clothes sometimes worn on plantations throughout slavery. “African-inspired contemporary movement is the common denominator of all the different shots in the video, just as Africa is the root of black histories,” he stated.
Check out the dance-filled video for KWAYE’s “What Have You Done” under:
