Justin Timberlake may have just completed his halftime performance at the Super Bowl, but before that, he was busy roaming around the historic Bradbury Building in Los Angeles with his good friend and country star, Chris Stapleton. The duo have a song together on Timberlake's new album Man of the Woods, released over the weekend. Titled "Say Something," the music video for the pop-country duet features the two playing on acoustic guitars while they tour the historic structure; seventeen musicians and a sixty-person choir also showed up to lend their help.
Shot by the Paris-based collection of filmmakers known as La Blogothéque, the music video, including the audio, was recorded live, rather remarkably, in a single take. Though the team rehearsed a few times, they had only a 10-minute window in which the lighting through the windows was just right. Additionally, Arturo Perez Jr., who directed the video, told Esquire that the whole thing "was a reverb challenge. The building was all steel. To even do the wireless transmission was a mathematical feat. We had to record so many instruments in so many different places."
All this work results in a beautifully intimate performance by Timberlake, Stapleton, and their co-star, the notable interior of the Bradbury. Heavily featured in films like Blade Runner and 500 Days of Summer, the building is no stranger to the camera. Built in 1893 from the original design by Sumner Hunt, the structure's extraordinary skylit atrium of access walkways, stairs and elevators, and their ornate ironwork, sets the perfect stage for the two Southern singers to croon.
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