![]() 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. Recently I thought it would never happen ’cause I felt like if she was going to ask me, she would have asked.Before she woke up flawless, Beyoncé woke up mad. I figured that eventually we would do something together. I have a dope remix that my fans have always been in love with, to one of her songs, ‘Sweet Dreams,’ me and Wayne did. “When I was putting out mixtapes and stuff, I would always remix her stuff. Minaj revealed that while she has remixed Beyonce’s material in the past, such as her remix of “Sweet Dreams” featuring Lil Wayne, she almost thought a collaboration between the two wouldn’t happen. Carter’s Top Performances, From ‘Crazy in Love’ to ‘Drunk in Love’ We’ve been going back and forth about the mixes and the single art.” I wrote the verse before she even went on tour. ![]() She said she was going to drop it in the middle of the tour. “We’ve just been waiting for her to drop it. The single cover features a collage of selfies of both, individually. Since they met up at the NYC studio, Minaj has been sending Bey photos of herself for the single artwork. I recorded the verse in New York, and she stopped by the studio. I want you to be you and do you.’ I was actually in New York writing the verse. I don’t want you to hold back.’ I said, ‘You sure?’ She said, ‘Yeah. Minaj called into Hot 97 on Monday morning to share how the remix came to be: “A month or two ago, Gee called me when I was on my way to Vegas and said, ‘Beyonce wants you to remix to ‘Flawless.’ After I got proper medical help and started breathing again, I was like, ‘What?’ ” PHOTOS Jay Z and Beyonce On the Run Tour Bows in Miami ![]() While some outlets ( HipHopWired, Miss Info) sensed a collaboration between the two superstars was coming, it was mostly kept under wraps until the week of. Late Saturday, Beyonce dropped a remix to the Beyonce song without notice. 3, she surprised when appearing on the remix to Beyonce‘s “Flawless.” Before releasing her second single, “Anaconda,” on Sunday, Aug. ![]()
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