{"id":483091,"date":"2019-03-06T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=804506"},"modified":"2019-03-06T20:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:06:03","slug":"kehlani-pays-homage-to-her-roots-in-new-butterfly-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/kehlani-pays-homage-to-her-roots-in-new-butterfly-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Kehlani Pays Homage to Her Roots in New \u2018Butterfly\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/KehlaniButterflyVideo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kehlani\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kehlani\" data-tag=\"kehlani\">Kehlani<\/a> emerges from a cocoon and transforms into a butterfly in her new video for \u201cButterfly.\u201d Mirroring the song\u2019s lyrics, which explore the need to open up and communicate in a relationship and likens it to the way a butterfly experiences a metamorphosis from its nascent form, the clip takes a literal approach to portraying the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope you take from this that it\u2019ll make you no less of a man\/To break your walls and simply grab my hand,\u201d she encouragingly intimates at the end of the song. \u201cLove shouldn\u2019t be contraband\/It shouldn\u2019t trample on your confidence\/Shouldn\u2019t be seen as less than compliments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continuing with the metamorphosis themes, Kehlani paid homage to her roots by tapping talent from her alma mater, Oakland School for the Arts in Oakland, California. She turned to her former dance and production design teachers to recruit talented students who then assisted in the set design and created the impressive choreography, which they completed in three days. The excellent featured young male dancers, Munir and Musa Omar, are also current students at the school. The set the students helped create adeptly emulates the themes in the song, as the pregnant, body-paint-adorned Kehlani is radiant as a transformed butterfly within the lush, vivid setting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cButterfly\u201d appears on the singer\u2019s <em>While We Wait<\/em> mixtape, which dropped last month, and follows her previously released video for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kehlani-nunya-video-796859\/\">Nunya<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kehlani-butterfly-video-watch-804506\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kehlani emerges from a cocoon and transforms into a butterfly in her new video for \u201cButterfly.\u201d Mirroring the song\u2019s lyrics, which explore the need to open up and communicate in a relationship and likens it to the way a butterfly experiences a metamorphosis from its nascent form, the clip takes a literal approach to portraying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 01:14:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}