People online went crazy for Rih doing the South African 'gwara gwara' dance. And the idea was to put moves that you would never expect Rihanna to do and never expect to go with the song and kind of mash it all together and create a whole new style of dance. I had Fred Astaire, all these African school kids that have been going viral, Paris Crazy Horse videos, Bob Fosse was a huge inspiration, I even had some videos of random people on Youtube dancing. What was the inspiration? This concept came from this edit of different dance videos from Youtube and old archive videos that I had put together. There was such a wide range of dance styles and influences in the performance. We had ten days with our dancers, and one day with Bryson Tiller and DJ Khaled. Our early rehearsals were definitely a mess and it took us a long time to figure out how to create this wild dance scene, but at the same time have it feel really clean and graphic. What's the main challenge of staging something as complex as that? It was a huge challenge. I worked with Tanisha Scott and Parris Goebel, and I'm all about creative collaboration, so it created this awesome energy. I'm all about enjoying the process as much as the final product. She loved the concept off the bat and then we had rehearsals for ten days and she was there almost everyday. She said it's very rare that she lets people just ride, and she said, "I just let you ride." It was amazing. We're so on the same page creatively, which is always amazing. Is she very involved or more hands off? Definitely a bit of both. I've worked on a lot of concepts and treatments with her, and then this came to fruition. I first worked with her exactly two years ago. What was it like to work with Rihanna on this? This is easily the best use of a sample I have heard in ages and DJ Khaled, Rihanna and Bryson Tiller are going to dominate the charts with this throughout the summer.At the Grammys on Sunday, one performance stood out in particular for its staging, energy and most of all, choreography: Rihanna, DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller's rendition of their inescapable summer mega hit "Wild Thoughts." We spoke with creative director and frequent Rihanna collaborator Philippa Price about what it takes to put a performance like that together. The ‘wu wu wu’ from ‘Work’ is followed up by her ‘Wa wa wa wild thoughts’, but this time around it is not nearly as annoying. Rihanna makes the melody completely her own with attitude and a sensual vocal performance. ‘Wild Thoughts’, which does not only feature vocals by Rihanna, but also has a spot on verse by Bryson Tiller, micht sound quite familiar, as it samples the beats and guitar riffs of Santana’s iconic hit ‘Maria Maria’ from 1999. Well, we can conclude we got our summer hit for 2017 sorted with this one. After that he unleashed ‘To The Max’ featuring Drake and if that all wasn’t enough yet, he pushes the new single ‘Wild Thoughts’ featuring the one and only Rihanna forward just one week before the full album will see the light of day. After Beyoncé and Jay Z featured on lead single ‘The Shining’ he had another massive hit with ‘I’m The One’ featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo and Chance The Rapper. DJ Khaled and Rihanna team up with a Santana sampleĭJ Khaled sure isn’t playing around with the release of his upcoming album Grateful.
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