Dua Lipa Brings That ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ Energy In Pop Smoke’s ‘Demeanor’ Video
Dua Lipa is the contemporary feminine alpha within the palace within the contemporary song video of “Demeanor,” a collaboration with the dull hip-hop rapper Pop Smoke which premiered Thursday (July 29).
The video begins with Girl Dua on the dressing desk, making expend of makeup as her lady-in-waiting whispers to her. The photography then exhibits a keen castle overlooking a red sundown and pans in direction of the window of the sizable hall, displaying a lavish feast. The song enters with Smoke’s vocals as guests donned in extravagant Rococo and Baroque outfits and wigs are having a real, frail time. The video pays tribute to the dull rapper in a ghostly cloud seated on the pinnacle desk and in a wall-motion portrait immortalizing him as a Roman emperor.
“I am feelin’ on your baba treesha / Shorty acknowledged she love my demeanor / And she undercover agent love a eater / I’m off the Perky geekin’,” the Brooklyn rapper sings on the refrain.
Dua harmonizes with Smoke on the lyric “My demeanor is meaner than yours” and makes a large entrance to the celebration in her metallic gold ruffled costume at some stage within the second verse. She, her females, and her butlers form a astonishing court dance to the camera.
“Feminine alpha and I follow what I preach, I delight in / Expose me, can you preserve the warmth?,” she sings. “You’re going to additionally contact along with your eyes only / I do know you want what you peep / That je ne sais quoi energy / Child, gather on your knees.”
The “Levitating” singer struts all the diagram in which via the room as she sings the enduring line “You’re going to additionally’t bid Pop without Smoke” and performs several dances with assorted partners on the bottom. Against the pause, she raises her glass with the guests to give a toast. Clap for the encore.
On Instagram, Dua Lipa showed appreciation for Smoke’s household. “Thank you to the crew and Pop’s household for having me on this song. Thank you to my guests for making this video with me,” she acknowledged in her latest post, honoring the rapper who became slain in a dwelling invasion in Los Angeles in February 2020.
“Demeanor” is the lead single and 16th computer screen on Pop Smoke’s posthumous second studio album Religion, which became released earlier this month on July 16, four days sooner than what would were the rapper’s 22nd birthday. The album follows his assorted posthumous 2020 album Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon. Religion peaked No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts and is composed going.