Grammy-winning superstar Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has established herself as something of an enigmatic figure with sporadic releases of new music and even rarer music videos over the years since becoming one of Afrobeats’ leading envoys. The Nigerian songbird has released new visuals for her amapiano-touched song “Get It Right” alongside her Grammy-nominated compatriot Asake.
The drop of the music video marks the first since “Turn Me Up” was unchained three weeks ago, and the visual presentation is the fifth from the “Free Mind” hitmaker’s debut album Born in the Wild.
Asake and Tems (from left to right) | SUPPLIED
Asake on “Get It Right” | SUPPLIED
Helmed by director Laura Marciano, the creative vision behind the visuals of “Get It Right” are of minimalistic inspiration and abstract art. Playing on the contrast of pitch-black spaces as well as virgin white rooms and fashion, the beginning snapshots introduce Asake and Tems, with the former gracing the screen with noble-black sunglasses and an elaborate chain, whilst the latter serves as a negative presence in the snowy room she camouflages with courtesy of her clothing.
Building up the tension as the beat heats up, the pair share their initial seconds of “Get It Right” with metaphorical references such as a shower of milk and plants edited to blend with the colour scheme of the visuals.
Tems on “Get It Right” | SUPPLIED
The music video’s stylistic flair is also explored in another lens by frames of Tems being broadcast by old-school computers and glitchy CCTV-like monitors rippling with interference.
The contrast is amplified a step further by zoomed frames of Tems in flowing hoary hair and her matching mink-like gown and quick-fire transitions between her arrayed in white and scenes of her donning a glossy black bodycon dress and thick-sole high heels. The final scene depicts the “Me & U” singer – still in the same clothes black dress code – owning the tomato-and-egg colour mixing, strutting her stuff with a fluffy yellow garment in a blood-red room with a sheeny chair and an unorthodox table lamp both in harmony with the wall.
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