Iggy Azalea & Rita Ora play sexy samurais in their new music video for Black Widow. This mini movie pays tribute to the Quentin Tarantino cult classic ‘Kill Bill’.
Directed by Iggy and Director X, the cinematic visual sees the talented babes taking on their enemies in perfect samurai style. Both of them wear skin tight jumpsuits as they go after Rita’s rude and aggressive boyfriend wielding katanas (the traditionally made Japanese swords). Rita’s boyfriend is played by Kill Bill star Michael Madsen. Also look out for the cameo by T.I.
Both girls underwent two days of training in martial arts before filming began. Rita Ora talked to Esteban Serrano of Fuse TV about the intense training they needed. “It was us learning how to hold a sword, and it was so difficult. It’s like a dance choreography—you’ve got to know when the guy’s about to hit you, so you don’t get knocked out. We put a lot of time into this video; we wanted it to be right, we didn’t want to be two badasses that weren’t really badasses.”
The song’s catchy hook is sung by Rita Ora and the lyrics dance around revenge and feminism in a failed relationship. The track was initially recorded by Katy Perry for her 4th studio album Prism (2013) but in the end was excluded from the track listing and handed to Iggy Azalea to finish. The final version was co-written by Azalea, Perry, Sarah Hudson, Benny Blanco, and its producers StarGate.
The song is already doing well – it’s at Nº19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is soaring up the Digital Charts 15-8, having moved 100,000 copies. The girls will be performing the song live at the VMA’s.
Black Widow is the 5th single to be lifted from Iggy’s debut studio album The New Classic (2014). It will be officially released on September 14 in the UK.
