Chords for Lous and The Yakuza - The Making of Her Top Videos | Vevo Footnotes

Hi guys, [Eb] this is Lucy in Yakuza and today I'm gonna [Cm] break down some of my [Db] music video with Vivo.
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[Eb] So in my first music [F] video, Dilemme, directed by Wendy [Fm] Morgan, I [Db] wanted people to [Gm] know who I am
and the duality that lives [F] in me.
So basically, [Fm] there's a lot of people living in my head
but [Eb] there's two main characters and I want people to, you know, meet the two [Fm] main characters.
You know, that's the reason why this song is called Dilemme, it's because I'm always having
[Eb] a huge dilemma [Fm] _
in picking the right personality for the [Eb] day. _
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[Eb] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ Originally, [Bb] we were not going to have choreography.
That was not something I envisioned for [Fm] any of my visuals.
But then, [Bbm] Wendy [Gm] Morgan's director is such a fan of dance [Fm] and I dance all the damn time,
like I dance all [Eb] the time.
So she was like, [Bbm] why don't we include that in your visuals?
But I [Fm] was
not insecure [Gm] about the dancing but I was like, I'm not a [Bbm] professional dancer, like what's
what does [Ab] it kind of look like?
But then we [Db] find every single time the right partner,
the right [D] choreographer, the right dancer. _ _
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_ _ [D] _ _ [Db] In Tutte Gore, I wanted people to see blood [Abm] as something that is not a scary [Bm] thing.
As a woman, I see blood every month.
I'm [Db] forced by nature to see it every single [Gbm] month.
_ I remember [G] some of my family, they were [Db] like, oh my god, [Dbm] it's witchcraft.
And [A] I was like, no, it's not.
We bleed every month.
It's not a scary thing.
[G] It actually regulates our body, like [Db] blood is a
positive thing in my life as a woman, you know, because of my period.
So I [G] wanted that
to be very [Gbm] visible.
That's why my favorite scene of the video is when I'm sitting on the stairs
and there's like massive blood coming down the stairs [Db] and it's not shaking [Am] me.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [A] So [F] when I wrote Solo, I [Em] was _ [Am] so sad.
That's why I said,
must I scream to be heard in the [F] lyrics is because [Gm] sometimes I feel like I [Em] have to scream and [Am] speak
louder to be heard, _ which is [B] what I feel like [F] women feel so [E] often or black women feel [A] so often,
or, you know, any type of population that [G] is seen as a minority.
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[A] _ _ _ [D] _ [Bm] So I met Sfera and Shablo _ [E] differently because [A] basically I was, I went to perform as a guest
at X-Factor [E] Italy, my [Em] first ever single.
So I was very confused [Am] already.
I was like,
what am I doing here?
[A] Because it was like a stadium.
So I was like, [E] what?
So many people.
I [Em] was scared.
And I [Am] had like choreography and all that, like [D] massive gowns.
And after the show,
[Em] I didn't know, but [E] Sfera was one of the [B] judge, you know, [A] or something like that.
[D] And then he said,
your song is [Em] fire or something like this.
He texted me after and I was like, oh my God,
thank you.
[Am] And then at the same time, _ [D] _
Shablo is his manager, [G] but he's also a producer.
And I
didn't know that.
So Shablo was like, [A] yo, I have these beats for you and [D] everything.
So he kept
sending me beats.
[A] And that's, and one day I love the beat.
I did a song on it.
And a couple of
days after, Sfera texted me randomly, hey, let's make a hit.
And I'm like, what?
[C] Okay.
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Working with [D] Wendy is [Gm] crazy.
She, you will [Eb] know what the video is [Gm] maybe the day before you on set,
like [Gb] it's crazy.
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And she [G] was super careful about the lighting, [C] the everything, [Cm] the cast,
everything, because like, I was [G] so scared that as a black woman, [Gm] I would have the worst lighting
in the world or, you know, all the things that I [E] see so often, the worst makeup, the worst
everything, you know, and she was so specific, just like me, she put the exact same energy
and she was, and she made me [G] comfortable expressing my culture, my way, my upbringing,
like [Eb] all of that.
She was so [G] supportive in who I was as a human and as an artist.
[Gm] So [Ebm] when we,
[C] when I started this new album, [Bb] the visuals for this new album, I wanted her to be part of the
history [Cm] from the start again. _ _
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[C] _ So the whole [Fm] video is referenced to [F] many of his movies
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that he directed [F] or wrote, [G] like he did the scenario of some of his movies.
[Eb] And [Fm] what I love
about every single one of his movies [Gm] is the way he has such a beautiful way to [Fm] write about
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feelings, you know, [Eb] and my song personally is about all the [Fm] monsters you live with [Bb] peacefully.
[Gm] That's why the song started with not all monsters are bad.
The video is directed by [Cm] Tobox
Bronski.
[F] He's amazing.
He directed a [Eb] few of my live performance.
And because that video is a
one shot, I [Ab] wanted him to, [F] to direct it.
And [G] he did such a wonderful job.
[Gm] I was like a challenge
[Eb] to make all of this in one [F] shot, but I'm so happy we made it.
[C] And he was also so into [Eb] it.
I think
like giving [F] anime briefs to director is something exciting for them [G] because they're like, what the
fuck is this?
[Gm] And, you know, and there's so [Cm] many ways to interpret it.
There's so many ways to [F] make
it happen.
You know, _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
[Bb] thank _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
you [Fm] _ [Cm] so [C] much everyone for watching my [Cm] footnote live.
It was a pleasure to be here.
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