I picked men who looked like the kind of men I would look at twice on the street, not models. We did real yoga Asana on camera and real meditation on camera. I don't know and so I put everything I had into these because I wanted them to, for once truly capture my energy. I don't know but I'm not in that conventional music business album cycle thing anymore. India : In the end the outcome is a vision a little bit different than what we had when we were on set and a little bit different than the director had, which is why I had to stick my hand in because I was like, this is not what I envisioned and you didn't ask me this, but I'm wondering if this could possibly be my last videos or something. I did Reverend Michael's spoken word, I did all of his. I had a heavy hand in editing the visuals. I chose a segment where he says at the end, "Welcome home and from here you shall not move." That's why I named the short film, Welcome Home and (Crazy/Sacred Space).
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I have the pleasure of editing his words in my Pro Tools. In the beginning we were making two music videos but I saw how they could be combined into a short film and Reverend Michael, we went back to him, he was on set of course, we went back to him to ask him to just speak. India : Also, we have Reverend Michael Beckwith. That's kind of what Sacred Space represents as well and there's a lot of symbolism and people are telling me things that they see because it's a little bit open, which I love. There are things that you never know about yourself until you discover them in a relationship of course. In fact, I think this is the point of relationships actually. Also, for me, in my own journey, I think I'm talking about like, I think this is very common. For me, Crazy and Sacred Spaces is the continuation of that story where it's like, even though you found some place where you want to be, what else is there? Sometimes questions come up.
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It has like a sheen over it, light beams coming off of the skin and fog and dreaminess and glowing white clothes and all this stuff. India : Sacred Space looks like you're in a dream. Crazy is very colorful and bright with a lot of light beams and you see the couple inside of spaces and being together and laying in the hammock and nature. But I think what I have learned about images is that, sometimes it's not about what you see on the screen but how you see it on the screen. For me, Sacred Space, the song is very ethereal. I was a little bit nervous about that because we were trying to find a way to put visuals to something that's really ethereal. I worked with a wonderful company called BMG and so they gave me a budget and a half if I could add Sacred Space.
It was like a special moment in every concert so I had to find a way to get what I felt my music deserves.
It's all of my friends who are musicians and spiritual people is their favorite one. India : Then Sacred Space, I added this song to the Crazy video because it's my favorite one on the album. Then we had Crazy, which if you listen to the lyrics of the song, it's really about how it really feels to be in a relationship like the every day, every day. It's not exactly linear because I had different leading men and stuff, but the arc. Then Steady Love, they move in together and you see them fight and makeup and work on their relationship and get engaged and stuff. In That Magic, they meet and that's when everything's all sparkly and fresh and sparks and everything. We had the idea of just telling the story of a relationship arc.
There was That Magic, Steady Love, Crazy and Sacred Space. India : I have a album that I've put out last February called, Worthy and the first single from that album was called, That Magic. What turns a simple object into a meangingful heirloom? How can we tap into the power of ritual to create transcendent art? Check out India.Arie's new music video, shot right here at Commune: India.Arie is a prolific singer-songwriter and the winner of 4 Grammy awards, but today on the show we talk about a different dimension of her life that has always been quietly present - her spirituality.
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