A brand new Megan Thee Stallion music video is at all times a trigger for celebration; not solely can we get a brand new track so as to add to our playlists, however we’re additionally handled to a visible feast from begin to end. Up to now, Megan’s movies have included intelligent nods to video video games and vividly detailed, SFX-packed storylines about snakes shedding their pores and skin. (Bear in mind when she walked out of a snake’s jaws?) For her newest single, “Each time,” the rapper regarded to the surrealist artwork motion and wore an homage to Salvador Dalí on her nails, full with 3D clocks which might be a complete murals.
The “Each time” video begins in a ready room, with Megan enjoying the position of receptionist in shiny purple nails. The theme of time and ready is repeated all through the almost three minute-long video, with a couple of photographs of clocks scattered all through. In a single black-and-white scene, Megan truly performs a clock, standing within the middle because the arms tick round her, and wears a clock-themed manicure to match.
The clock nails have been handcrafted by Tahvya Krok, Megan’s go-to nail artist, and impressed by the work of Salvador Dalí. “I discovered the easiest way to convey the imaginative and prescient to life was to sculpt an irregular form out of molding gel, and place it to hold off of the nail, similar to how the clock is depicted in Dalí’s The Persistence of Reminiscence,” Krok tells Attract. “I meticulously hand-painted every quantity on all of the clocks, and made little 3D fingers out of gel as properly. I feel these nails seize surrealism completely.” (The Persistence of Reminiscence is a 1931 portray by Dalí and is taken into account some of the necessary items of surrealist artwork; its melting clock motif is regarded as an announcement concerning the passage of time. It at the moment hangs within the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York Metropolis.)
The melting clock shapes have been utilized to 2 of Megan’s fingers, positioned atop an extended, square-shaped, shiny black base. Krok painted clocks on virtually each different nail, together with a round Roman numeral design on Megan’s ring finger and a stopwatch type on her pinky. There are such a lot of beautiful little particulars that you’re going to need to pore over each angle so you do not miss a factor—similar to a masterpiece hanging in a museum.
