.ChloeBailey on making her solo VMAs debut with HaveMercy: 'I'm really grateful... [to] finally show the world who I am completely'
As she tells MTV News ahead of the debut performance of"Have Mercy" at theon Sunday, September 12, executing her vision as she saw it was paramount to the song's rollout."Men can glorify ass in their videos. I want to do it with this in an artful, really fun, beautiful way," she tells MTV News correspondent Dometi Pongo. "I think it's so great how women can claim ownership of their bodies and not let the world do it. We get to do it in the way that we want to.
The visual found its origins in that color, which led to the idea of Greek life, and Chlöe herself suggested the darker twist of the"modern-day Medusa" tale, epitomized by a series of frightening and erratic choreography by Chlöe bathed in harsh nightmare lighting. "I wanted to make it all about ass, but in an artistic way," she says."I think it's so cool how women have this incredible power. They can leave men in a trance with their bodies and their spirits and the way they carry themselves."
She felt like a different person on set, and throughout her interview, the difference between the protagonist of"Have Mercy" and the gentler Chlöe we knew are palpable. That said, she's happy to keep the experience of embodying such a confident and sexual persona in her own personal reserves — she never knows when she might need to"tap back into" it.
"I think it's amazing how Karena gets it because she's a woman, she's a Black woman, and there's some things that I didn't even have to really explain because she knows it by living life," she says."You get to see the power that we hold within the music video. I felt sexy doing it, but it's also very empowering."
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