A brand new Megan Thee Stallion music video is at all times a trigger for celebration; not solely can we get a brand new tune so as to add to our playlists, however we’re additionally handled to a visible feast from begin to end. Prior to now, Megan’s movies have included intelligent nods to video games and vividly detailed, SFX-packed storylines about snakes shedding their skin. (Bear in mind when she walked out of a snake’s jaws?) For her newest single, “At any time when,” the rapper appeared 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 “Whenever” video begins in a ready room, with Megan taking part in the function of receptionist in vivid purple nails. The theme of time and ready is repeated all through the almost three minute-long video, with a number of pictures of clocks scattered all through. In a single black-and-white scene, Megan really 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 one of the best ways 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 arms out of gel as nicely. I believe these nails seize surrealism completely.” (The Persistence of Reminiscence is a 1931 portray by Dalí and is taken into account one of the essential items of surrealist artwork; its melting clock motif is considered a press release in regards to 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 a protracted, 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 model on her pinky. There are such a lot of gorgeous little particulars that you will wish to pore over each angle so you do not miss a factor—similar to a masterpiece hanging in a museum.
