![]() ![]() But she also felt that it needed a flip side, something that was more sort of macro. I don’t want to speak for her, but I think that she knew that “Bow Down,” the song that she had started previously, was a type of an energy that this record needed. Then she would pop up on set, six or seven the next morning, having not slept, and she’d tell us about some song she made the night before that was going to be amazing. She was on tour and we were traveling, and we would shoot during the day sometimes: 10, 12 hour days starting at five or six in the morning. Todd Tourso: I got on the team in the beginning of June, and we started almost immediately on the visual album process. What state was “Flawless” in when you got involved? The July/August issue of The Atlantic features a short, edited interview I did with Beyoncé’s creative director Todd Tourso, talking about “Flawless.” Here’s a much longer version of the conversation, with tidbits about the origins of the song, the Beyoncé album cover, and the artistic mentality that makes Queen Bey different from any other pop star. She got right into the spirit of the mosh pit.” “What I loved about her performance, having filmed her many times, was the choppy change-iness of it,” Nava said. The famously coiffed pop star thrashes her head, bares her teeth, and playfully wiggles her hands. It's Beyoncé herself who makes the video so memorable, though. “There was a utopian feeling about that posse, because they were making a big thing about the fact that they were not in any way with the racist connotations of original skinheads.” “That was cool, because we were creating a subculture video in the wrong city, and in their numbers were Indians and blacks and whites,” Nava told me. Shooting in Paris, director Jake Nava populated the scene with models, actual London Rudeboys, and members of something called the Parisian Anti-Racist Skinhead Alliance. The accompanying video dramatizes that spirit via a multicultural punk-rock mosh pit. ![]() But the meaning behind it, to say ‘I just woke up feeling good,’ is what it’s about.” “It’s not to be taken literally,” said musician The-Dream, who co-wrote the song along with Beyoncé, Chauncey Hollis, Rey Reel, and Rashad Muhammad. By then, “Bow Down” had been reengineered into “***Flawless,” with the song’s original back half replaced by a TEDx talk snippet from author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a rap from Beyoncé, and an instantly viral refrain about rising in the morning looking perfect. That track reemerged in December on the self-titled “video album” that she and her team created in secret and released sans forewarning-prompting an Internet freakout and enormous sales. And look in the mirror and say, 'Bow down, bitch' and I guarantee you feel gangsta.” Imagine a person that doesn't believe in you. "I went into the studio, I had a chant in my head, it was aggressive, it was angry, it wasn't the Beyoncé that wakes up every morning," she told iTunes Radio. That’s how she later explained the controversial six-minute sonic experiment called “Bow Down/I Been On” that she posted online in March of 2013. Before she woke up flawless, Beyoncé woke up mad. ![]()
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