“Brace yourself for something so fantastically fantastical that you’ll soil yourself from intergalactic excitement. Get ready to…Break Free!” So pronounces the Star Wars type scroll at the start of Ariana Grande’s new spacey video for her new single with DJ Zedd.
The 4-minute clip is an intergalactic adventure that pays tribute to Star Wars, Barbarella and the sci-fi B-movies of the ’70s and ’80s. Ariana kicks plenty of alien butt in this campy adventure – she has a laser gun and certainly knows how to use it! Oh yes, she also shoots rockets from her boobs and strips down in an anti gravity chamber…you have to watch this to believe what we’re saying! It’s weird, really weird, but a whole lot of retro fun! For sure, it will spawn a whole plethora of hysterically funny gifs across the internet.
Directed by Chris Marrs Piliero and produced by Zedd, who makes an appearance at the end of the clip, Ariana Grande is a complete Space Babe in this video. Although it’s nothing like her other productions there are a few details that we’ve come to expect – the white knee-high platform boots, her high ponytail, plenty of sultry looks into the camera and the lying-on-the-floor-with-her-hair -fanned out behind her. There’s also the statutory appearance by Beats music app and headphones. But hey, this video doesn’t take itself too seriously which is why we love it!
This is Ariana’s second music video from her new album ‘My Everything’ and sees Ariana break free from her usual pop-R&B genre into EDM and electropop. “I never thought I’d do an EDM song, but that was an eye-opening experience, and now all I want to do is dance,” explained Ariana.
In an interview in May this year Russian-German musician and producer Zedd talked about wanting to collaborate with Ariana after first hearing her voice at a Universal showcase: “I was backstage and I heard someone sing. And I didn’t know who it was, and I just said ‘I want to make a song with whoever is singing right now.’ I didn’t know who it was, and it turned out being her. And luckily, now there’s a song!”
Ariana Grande will be performing this song live at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 24,2014.
