Carly Rae Jepsen is back on Broadway in her new video for "Surrender My Heart" — one of Exclaim!'s 25 best songs of 2022, please keep up — and it may or may not also be a lost episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Yes, Jane Krakowski is here (albeit a little late, but blame her trainer!) to "direct" the visual accompaniment to the opening track of the pop star's latest album, The Loneliest Time. It's entirely shocking that Tituss Burgess doesn't show up among the dancers backing ballerina Isabella Boylston, honestly. Krakowski luxuriates in the multiple minutes of dramatic exposition before the song actually starts, her comedy completely complementing the incredibly earnest anthem about opening yourself up to love.
Jepsen told Rolling Stone that the idea for the video, made in partnership with Lenovo and Intel, came to her while she was performing the undeniably perfect "Cut to the Feeling" (which was fitting recorded for the soundtrack to the movie Ballerina) with her band at Radio City Music Hall.
"There was something that sparked in that moment for me of kind of crossing the idea of bringing a ballerina, maybe bringing some other kind of true-blue Broadway stars in line with this project and making it a crossing of worlds in the best possible way," she explained.
The singer-songwriter continued:
I kind of have this idea that we're all having these hard days sometimes, and on tour I can feel that, in Broadway days, even when I was doing Cinderella, there wasn't really time for you to have a hard day where things were going wrong and chaos was ensuing or, you know, you'd just been broken up with or somebody in your life was going through a thing. What I really want to capture in this music video … is that there is like a no-good, terrible, horrible bad day going down for a few different women within the production, maybe myself, maybe a ballerina, maybe somebody else involved, and through the support of each other and the behind-the-scenes kind of chaos, that we're able to pull off the mini miracle of what it is to be in a Broadway situation.
The show must go on!
Watch the Brantley Guiterrez-directed video below.
Jepsen recently contributed the theme song to the new Hello Kitty: Super Style! children's TV series.
Yes, Jane Krakowski is here (albeit a little late, but blame her trainer!) to "direct" the visual accompaniment to the opening track of the pop star's latest album, The Loneliest Time. It's entirely shocking that Tituss Burgess doesn't show up among the dancers backing ballerina Isabella Boylston, honestly. Krakowski luxuriates in the multiple minutes of dramatic exposition before the song actually starts, her comedy completely complementing the incredibly earnest anthem about opening yourself up to love.
Jepsen told Rolling Stone that the idea for the video, made in partnership with Lenovo and Intel, came to her while she was performing the undeniably perfect "Cut to the Feeling" (which was fitting recorded for the soundtrack to the movie Ballerina) with her band at Radio City Music Hall.
"There was something that sparked in that moment for me of kind of crossing the idea of bringing a ballerina, maybe bringing some other kind of true-blue Broadway stars in line with this project and making it a crossing of worlds in the best possible way," she explained.
The singer-songwriter continued:
I kind of have this idea that we're all having these hard days sometimes, and on tour I can feel that, in Broadway days, even when I was doing Cinderella, there wasn't really time for you to have a hard day where things were going wrong and chaos was ensuing or, you know, you'd just been broken up with or somebody in your life was going through a thing. What I really want to capture in this music video … is that there is like a no-good, terrible, horrible bad day going down for a few different women within the production, maybe myself, maybe a ballerina, maybe somebody else involved, and through the support of each other and the behind-the-scenes kind of chaos, that we're able to pull off the mini miracle of what it is to be in a Broadway situation.
The show must go on!
Watch the Brantley Guiterrez-directed video below.
Jepsen recently contributed the theme song to the new Hello Kitty: Super Style! children's TV series.
