(Ask anyone who’s single, and you’ll likely find a dating app - or five - on their cell phone.) “We were fascinated by the idea of using a smartphone to film a big budget music video, a video that brings the smartphone dating experience to life,” Legend said in an interview with Google. The song, about meeting your soulmate on your first date, was shot with Google’s Pixel 2. The 11-time Grammy winner certainly chose an on-the-nose gadget to use for the filming of his “A Good Night” video in 2018. The stunning black-and-white visuals were shot by director Sophie Muller, who also filmed Gomez’s “Good for You.”

23 with the Rare single “Lose You to Love Me” five years after Revival’s arrival, she, like Gaga, chose to film the music video with an iPhone 11 Pro. When the songstress teased her musical return on Oct. Here are five other musicians who opted to pass on the elaborate camera setups and go for the tiny phones when filming. “It creates a lot of new possibilities and freedoms for us to explore.”Īs futuristic as it (and her new video) seems, Gaga’s not the only artist who has used a smartphone to film an entire music video.

“Obviously shooting on iPhone is new territory, and as a filmmaker, it’s kind of an unexpected thing to do because there’s a pretty standardized way to make music videos, television commercials and films, on bigger, much more expensive cameras,” Daniel Askill, the video’s director, said in a statement shared with Billboard.

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