Slow was written as a tender look at sex between two men in the early stages of falling in love; becoming aware of those moments where you’re really starting to feel “stuff” haha. Sonically, I was inspired by artists like Chris Isaak and Beach House for this song and wanted to create a musical landscape that felt sultry yet vulnerable. I liked the arrangement being mostly electric guitar loops and drum machines to create that dreamy and trance-like vibe.
As in the origin of the Universe, the making of this video was spontaneous and swift. Shot mostly over two hours in a small hotel room in London on a two camera set, we wanted to unleash something that was chaotic and intimate, multidimensional and primal.
Mesmerizing voices, metaphorical lyrics, shattering rap, Fang The Great, sails between smooth r'n'b and modern hip-hop, passing through sounds with celestial influences. A contemporary artist out of time.
John Legend gets up from a restless sleep to go through a dream portal that actually leads to a nightmarish reality in this music video call to action.
