{"id":807696,"date":"2020-05-21T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1003968"},"modified":"2020-05-21T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:20:08","slug":"megan-thee-stallion-is-a-one-woman-army-in-the-animated-video-for-savage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-is-a-one-woman-army-in-the-animated-video-for-savage\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Thee Stallion Is a One-Woman Army in the Animated Video for \u2018Savage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Megan-Thee-Stallion6-SugaC.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/megan-thee-stallion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_megan-thee-stallion\" data-tag=\"megan-thee-stallion\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a> infiltrates an evil organization in the new animated video for \u201cSavage,\u201d off of her recent EP, <em>Suga<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Directed by Jude MC, the \u201cSavage\u201d video boasts a style that sits somewhere between anime and the retro aesthetic of older 3D video games. In the video, an animated Megan busts into a highly guarded facility producing what seems to be an army of evil robot dancers, and proceeds to take down the vast army of security officials guarding the place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The video for \u201cSavage\u201d arrives on the heels of the track\u2019s high-profile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/megan-thee-stallion-beyonce-savage-remix-houston-991921\/\">remix with Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>, which dropped at the end of April and helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rs-charts-top-100-beyonce-megan-thee-stallion-997633\/\">propel the song to Number One<\/a> on <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Top 100 Songs chart. Along with the Beyonc\u00e9 remix, Major Lazer shared another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YrnFMdl-hso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">reworking of \u201cSavage\u201d<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Megan Thee Stallion released <em>Suga<\/em> back in March, marking her first release since her breakout 2019 mixtape, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/20-best-hip-hop-albums-of-2019-931888\/megan-thee-stallion-fever-3-931912\/\"><em>Fever<\/em><\/a>. The rapper is set to appear as a celebrity judge on HBO Max\u2019s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-news\/legendary-voguing-ballroom-competition-trailer-hbo-max-1001605\/\">ballroom and voguing competition show, <em>Legendary<\/em><\/a>, which will premiere May 27th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-suga-music-video-1003968\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Thee Stallion infiltrates an evil organization in the new animated video for \u201cSavage,\u201d off of her recent EP, Suga. Directed by Jude MC, the \u201cSavage\u201d video boasts a style that sits somewhere between anime and the retro aesthetic of older 3D video games. In the video, an animated Megan busts into a highly guarded [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 12:08:58","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}