00:00 Hey guys, I'm Dove Cameron and today I will be breaking down some of my most iconic music video looks.
00:06 "Boyfriend" 2022 directed by Lauren Sick off of my debut album, Alchemical Vol. 1.
00:19 This one also came together really fast because this song blew up completely unexpectedly.
00:23 And so Columbia was like, "You should make a video."
00:27 Yesterday.
00:28 I basically sent like a mood board to a couple different directors and I was like, "I want
00:33 snakes.
00:35 I want a tunnel, like a car in a tunnel.
00:37 I want a woman who is going to be my energetic equal."
00:41 It was really, really, really important to me that we got someone who was like star energy
00:46 in their own right and that like you would write this song about.
00:50 And Char was just like walked in and she literally, like I think she literally sat down.
00:55 She's like, "I'm a f*ck star."
00:56 And I was like, "Yeah, you are."
01:00 I was like, "Sheesh, let me buy you coffee."
01:04 And my makeup artist that day was like, "It's so f*cking dark in there.
01:07 Like we need to bring some kind of shine."
01:09 So it does look, it ended up looking super euphoria.
01:12 That was her idea.
01:13 And so we were just finding this balance between like grungy, not grungy.
01:15 And then like the wet hair was for specifically for like the greased skin and a snake.
01:20 And so we just wanted to go with this very like steamy, like I think they even put like
01:23 a grease film across the front of the lens.
01:25 And so we just wanted it to feel very like, like animal steamy, like something very sensual
01:31 and touchable about that.
01:32 This was Lauren's idea.
01:33 This was not my idea.
01:34 I wanted a club setting, but she was like, "I want to cover the men's faces in masks
01:38 and have them like moshing."
01:39 And at first I was like, "It's not gonna look okay."
01:42 And you can see what started happening was because they couldn't see, they were hitting
01:47 my body over and over and over again.
01:48 And she kept being like, "Cut, stop, like you're hitting her."
01:51 And I was like, "No, no, no, no, I think we keep it."
01:53 How it translated was that they didn't give a fuck about my personal space and like there
01:57 was no awareness.
01:58 Well, me and Char see each other, lock eyes, and we have this like kind of cat-like, snake-like
02:02 weaving where it's like, "I see you.
02:05 I'm on my way."
02:07 And like this lithe thing, like cats.
02:12 Ended up translating really well.
02:13 [Music]
02:14 "Breakfast 2022" directed by Lauren Dunn off of my debut album, "Alchemical Vol. 1."
02:21 I had shot a music video for "Breakfast" already that was a very different music video.
02:26 And it was very pop girl.
02:28 And I was in like a red latex suit.
02:32 It was at the same time that Roe v. Wade was being overturned.
02:35 I was just so like debilitatingly affected.
02:37 Trying to do everything I could to be involved with helping educate people on what was going
02:43 on with Roe v. Wade and how they could vote.
02:45 It was like all I could think about.
02:46 And then it was like watching myself in a fucking pop video where I was like, "I ain't
02:49 boy like."
02:50 I just wanted to, I was like, "There's no."
02:51 I was like, "What is this?"
02:52 And so my label was like, "Okay, well, if this isn't a video you want to make, what
02:56 video do you want to make?"
02:57 We came up with this treatment where we wanted to sort of reverse the roles.
03:01 Bring in as many women, as much diversity.
03:04 Brought in this incredible trans actor to play the doctor.
03:07 It's my favorite music video I've ever, ever, ever, ever done.
03:10 It took a village.
03:12 All of the wardrobe was rented from a studio and we didn't try them on beforehand.
03:16 We just like got there and it was all of these men's suits.
03:18 I was just like, "I want to be in men's suits and then I want to be in the exact opposite."
03:22 I wanted it to feel as much like a movie as possible and not like a pop video.
03:27 You see the person's face.
03:28 And then also I wanted it to be different than the 1950s look, which was the red lip
03:31 and the starker cat eye.
03:33 And then lastly, she's in a position of power as the male character or as women would be
03:38 if the roles were reversed.
03:40 She doesn't need to dress up for anybody.
03:41 I still hear people tell me how much this video resonated with them and that's like,
03:46 what's better than that?
03:47 We Go Down Together, 2023, me and Khalid, directed by Audrey Alice Fox.
03:52 We just wanted something really beautiful and something that felt very like sort of
03:57 industrial and cold but then also romantic and dark and just sort of following the energy
04:02 of the song.
04:03 Because you know it's a beautiful song but it's very pared back.
04:06 We created this beautiful platform and like all of these rocks but then we introduced
04:09 like this silhouetted shot here.
04:11 Like it's very industrial.
04:12 Like it's just like straight out of a photo shoot, you know?
04:14 So I thought it was really cool.
04:15 It's just straight out of a photo shoot, you know?
04:16 So I thought it was a really interesting kind of creative and just left room for the vocals,
04:21 left room for the emotion of the song and the performance of that and like this kind
04:26 of like strange movement that the camera's doing as well as what we are doing and this
04:30 very languid thing.
04:31 Like no real concept, just like emotional, beautiful, intimate.
04:36 This dress was something that I gravitated towards because it felt distressed and it
04:42 felt like it had lived a life and I loved the raw edges but it was still romantic and
04:46 also cold.
04:47 I wanted the makeup and the dress to match this kind of melancholic thing especially
04:53 because the set was so muted.
04:55 But we needed to bring some color.
04:56 It was also really challenging for a while having that red hair and finding any makeup
05:00 that went with it.
05:01 Like I don't know how these girls are doing it.
05:02 They must just like always be, it must just always be black makeup because I had such
05:07 a hard time matching any colors with that hair.
05:10 But we wanted to bring out the color in the dress.
05:12 We wanted something that felt a little experimental.
05:14 I was like I want flecks of gold.
05:15 I was impulsive and then we diffused it like below the eye which I thought was really fun.
05:21 Honestly I never plan anything which is probably pretty bad but like I always rock up on set
05:26 and I'm like what if it's this?
05:27 Then I have to figure out a way to make it happen.
05:33 This is Sans off of my album Alchemical Part 1 directed by Anastasia Delmark.
05:38 In my like original idea for the music video treatment I wanted to see like two shadowy
05:42 figures in like a wide shot in the desert like doing this couple stance.
05:47 My team told me we couldn't literally bring a piano to the desert.
05:52 We ended up going with something a bit more intimate.
05:54 I wanted to kind of create this like sort of post apocalyptic aftermath after the storm
06:00 of the ending of this relationship kind of vibe.
06:03 But I wanted it to be you know cinematic and like nice to look at.
06:08 All of my music videos it's really important to me that they feel like tiny films.
06:13 This dress came out of nowhere.
06:14 It was like this very sort of like last minute Venus in the Clamshell super femmy more of
06:19 who I used to be which is like what the time that the song is set in anyway.
06:23 And I just wanted it to feel very vulnerable, very skin like, very almost nude and yeah
06:27 hyper femme because that's kind of who I was when I was with the person that the song is
06:32 about.
06:33 My makeup was done by my incredible makeup artist and like truly one of my best friends.
06:37 His name is Cale Teeter.
06:38 We wanted it to feel like it was sort of lived in and we wanted to still see the skin, see
06:44 the lips, see the cheeks but as well bring that kind of element of like there had to
06:50 be some kind of like grit to it because the environment was so gritty.
06:54 Same thing with the hair like we wanted to leave the hair really wild and we had this
06:56 crazy wind machine where the first time it turned on Josh and I had to stop the dance
07:01 because we were like streaming tears like eyelashes flying off.
07:06 It was so, so wild.
07:08 And so we just wanted the hair to feel very windswept and all of that.
07:13 I'm really happy with how it ended up looking.
07:15 I'm truly not a dancer.
07:16 I like can dance but I'm not, it's not my like number one.
07:19 I've had to learn but having a really good partner like Josh like he was doing so much
07:24 of that work.
07:25 Like everybody's like whoa nice back bend and I'm like he's holding me like he was really
07:31 doing he was doing most of the work and he's so, so lovely.
07:34 I was really happy with it.
07:35 It's very yeah lyrical and romantic.
07:38 Thank you Allure.
07:39 I hope you enjoyed me breaking down my favorite music video looks and I hope to see you again
07:43 soon.
07:44 Bye.
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