- 2018-05-27
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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ Azealia Banks Premieres New Music Video for “Anna Wintour”
American singer and rapper Azealia Banks has dropped a new music video for “Anna Wintour” directed by Matt Sukkar.
The video focuses on Azealia's dancing abilities. She will rap and dance non-stop throughout the entire music video in indoors and outdoors locations.
The track was released on April 6th from her upcoming sophomore album "Fantasea II: The Second Wave". It was written by SHUG, Kevin James, Dorian Strickland, Junior Sanchez and Azealia Banks.
The album is set to be released in July 2018 for the first time in four years.
Azealia Banks told Billboard about the song;
"Well, back when I was signed to Interscope, Interscope commissioned Junior Sanchez to do a remix of my song “Ice Princess,” from Expensive Taste, and the working title of the track he sent over was “Anna Wintour.” And there was this big, thumping sample in it that was like, [rapping] ‘Anna Wintour/ Let me finish.’ And, for a while, I would just play it around my house while I cleaned, did chores and stuff. Then, I asked him to send me the beat bare."- She continued;
"When I was writing the song, my choreographer Matthew Pasterisa was at home with me, and I kinda was using him as a soundboard. I was like, ‘Matt, what do you think about this?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, yeah. That sounds cool. That sounds kinda like Scary Spice.’ Then he goes, ‘You should just get Scary Spice on the song.’ And I’m like, ‘Whoa, that’s an insane idea.’ So I hit up Mel B, and she was originally down, but she has got kids. I have four dogs and two cats, so I know how busy life gets. (…) By the time I needed to turn in ‘Anna Wintour,’ we couldn’t wait for her to get to the studio. But we remained, or we corresponded with each other a bunch. It just didn’t happen. The Nicki Minaj thing was just totally an idea I threw out there, and I was kinda trying to see if I could bait it. She was on such hideout, such lockdown. To be honest, I never really sent her the track, because I was afraid she’d say no [Laughs]. So it was just an idea." - source : Pitchfork
