Taika Waititi has said it was a “dream” for him to direct the music video for Rita Ora’s latest song, “All Natural.”
The singer returned on Wednesday (September 24) with this seductive song, which she described as a story about “learning to love every side of yourself – the strong and the fragile, the light and the shadows,” she writes. The Independent.
“This project is about growth, healing and self-discovery,” Rita said. “My hope is that when people listen to it, they connect with their own personal journey and feel represented in it.”
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Directed by Waititi, whom Rita married in 2022, the video features the singer dancing under large industrial lights, in a space reminiscent of an abandoned club.
In an interview forThe Independent, the Oscar winner described working with Rita as “the easiest job in the world.”
“I’m not sure I can call it work,” he said with humor. “It’s just pointing the camera at my best friend, who happens to be incredibly beautiful and naturally talented. I didn’t even use the camera myself – I just told the cameraman where to point it. And the whole time we were listening to this brilliant song. It was truly a dream.”
Taika Waititi (Photo: Rita Ora/Instagram)
The song was produced by Joel Little, a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand producer, musician and songwriter (known for his collaborations with Taylor Swift, Lorde and Gracie Abrams).
In parallel, Ora has made a mini-documentary with British director Stella Scott, where she reflects on her Kosovar origins and childhood life in west London. The first two episodes were published last week on her Instagram.
The artist’s latest album, You & I, was released in 2023 and debuted in the top 10 of the British Albums Chart.
Photo: Rita Ora/Instagram
According to the press release, “All Natural” opens a “new chapter” in her career: “One that feels sharper, more powerful, and more honest than ever before.”
In addition to music, Ora and Waititi are also working on a new musical project based on the infamous festival. Fyre festivalIn an interview for The Hollywood Reporter, the director described the project as “exciting, strange and potentially disastrous.”
The festival, scheduled to be held on a Caribbean island in 2017, turned into a flop due to poor organization by the co-founders. Attendees who had paid tens of thousands of dollars for tickets and accommodation ended up abandoned, sleeping on wet mattresses in relief tents, while the food provided was cheese sandwiches served in Styrofoam boxes.
“I can’t wait to get started and get some of that sweet American theater money,” Waititi joked. /Telegraph/
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