Hey everyone, it's Clay, Director of video at STEEZY.steezy
Today we have, Jackson Wang 'MAGICMAN'
Jackson Wang 'MAGICMAN'. We're gonna react to his music video, "blow".
Thank you. Let's check it out. By the way, congrats to your marriage.
Thank you, appreciate that Jack. We out here, marriage and stuff, but this is Jackson's ring.
Dark... All I see is us in the reflection.
Where was this filmed? L.A., yeah, in a small studio.
The video tone and everything is pretty dark. And you can't really see it.
Do you want to adjust it? Can you see it?
I can see it. You remember your video?
Hey come on, this is my son. This is your son, yeah, I got it, I can see it.
There it is.
Oh, this is like
We filmed it and then we reversed it.
Yeah, that makes sense, unless y'all... Look circling in the whole time, so, that's the smoke.
Unless y'all are doing that. Then i can only imagine.
Well, that's you. I know that guy.
Vibes...
You were rolling over a lot of people.
Yes, it was really tough. Because you know how like all the outfits that we were wearing.
I think the girls were wearing outfits with strings in them.
Like were they people getting caught?
Like metal strings Like chain type of things
Then like imagine everyone's leaning against each other.
And we have to dance. Were you getting caught or was it like?
We were getting caught. The hair and you know and it was hot.
So, there's a lot of work.
We're all like waiting for that moment.
You know, when everything was you know almost perfect.
okay I'll admit one thing that lip sync right there
It was screwed up. You didn't know?
I didn't catch it.
I wanna see you messed up.
But it wasn't, right. I screwed up.
It's ok. No ones going to notice.
The dancing covers it, you know.
I'm so glad that nobody knows.
Question, because I know it's about to get crazy.
How many rehearsals you have to do?
Because you have to do the camera with the dancing, right? There's so much motion that's matching.
We did two to three rehearsals. Only two to three rehearsals?
Is that normal for your videos?
I mean, first of all, it's because it's Cloud. And then Madi.
And then Gerald. They're all like masters, you know?
So, the timetable was like super tight. Maybe every scene we have two takes and we have to kill it.
And that to take or else you know, we can't. We're going to go over.
That means the dancers, that Gerald has to be perfect too with filming, that's crazy!
The dancers, the smoke, the explosions, lighting, everything has to that in two takes.
That's surprising, I can't believe you guys pulled it off with that tight timeline.
What do you say about this?
They had like limited powder for that explosion.
So, it was like only two takes.
Either we kill it or then we don't do it.
Oh, the powder shot right there, too.
It's a really tight hallway. This one's crazy right here.
Did you guys get practice on location?
I don't know. I think this specific scene is like we came up with it on set.
We came up with this idea on set. Because this is a staircase right?
I'm always thinking about like sometimes When things are super tight and they're specific
I'm like wait did y'all practice that like in some random staircase elsewhere or onset?
So this one you just made on the spot.
This is the thing like after working with Cloud And like Cloud and Madi go way back
I have a song called "100 ways" Yes, I know the song.
Since then, you know, I got so inspired by him.
And I started to actually dig deep into like modern art things.
This coming up album, 'MAGICMAN' it's all that style.
That song where the visuals are like more musical.
Interesting, I mean you've always had dance as highly integrated part of your music videos.
But with modern dance What do you think Is like shifting in terms of your perspective?
For modern art I feel like It's more about dance or not dancing
It's like a movement. Because when I learn dance
It's like, "oh the line" you know The cleanliness...
The common moves.
Modern allows you or at least just like Thinking of movement separate from the dance itself
It really allows you to explore so much more And not feel so limited so like I need to be clean.
Right, right, like back in the days I used to like practice myself And I'll say oh, this is not straight enough.
Whereas now I think of it like There's no such thing as clean
And not clean and the not clean is maybe could be clean and more than ours?
It's true!
Interpretation is a lot more fluid there That's exciting, I'm excited to see the other stuff.
You only have so many of those.
I'm working on 'Cruel', the treatment and everything with Vinh. Yeah, Vinh Nguyen.
They're the same universe, as it's like the same channel with this.
I'm putting it out as more musical.
Like a musical number?
I hope you're excited to watch your own video too.
So I'm not excited Not excited at all.
But I admit, I screwed up with that lip sync.
It's always cringy to look at yourself and be like But no one else knows.
Usually for my video
In the post-production I can cheat a lot of stuff
I can fix it.
Are you active with post-production?
Yeah, editing and everything. Oh, I didn't know that.
But that cut right there that take right there I couldn't, like there's nothing I could do.
And then I screwed up. I'll admit it.
It's ok.
Do you think like in the comments Do you think they realized it?
It's like a movie!
It's a musical, People calling it a masterpiece, a masterpiece, a masterpiece.
Thank you.
I don't know that is. Cantonese - of I see.
3C1S :)
3C1S? This is not even 3C1S!
It's not 3C1S? This is Dancer's React.
Oh, I'm sorry. It's ok, Jackson.
It's okay. Two Eight, Two Asians could be good, right?
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We'll see the next one Thanks all bye!