The “Motivation” crooner and the 20-year-old “Panini” rapper stepped out for the event held on Thursday (October 31) in West Hollywood, Calif.
Normani transformed into the late singer Selena, while Lil Nas X recreated a famous image of rapper Cam’ron outside of a 2002 New York Fashion Week Baby Phat show – complete with his pink outfit and flip phone.
The singer shared on the Zach Sang Show that she actually filmed the video with no music, and she had to fly back and forth from tour for rehearsals and filming.
“We shot this video in like one day. I was on tour when we shot the music video,” Normani told host Zach Sang. “I had to take a jet, it was crazy… It was right after a show, and then I landed probably around one, I didn’t go to bed ’til four, I had to wake up and do glam at like eight. It was crazy because we didn’t want to waste the sunlight. We couldn’t waste time.”
“We [filmed] in one location, but it was different parts of this neighborhood,” she continued. “We knew what [choreography] we wanted to do at each spot. We choreographed specifically to, ‘Okay, first shot’s going to be in front of the house, basketball scene.’ We already had a plan. But I only had two days of rehearsal, in the middle of tour.”
“The day we recorded the video, we had no music because there were people outside, and we were like, ‘Oh shoot, this can’t get leaked,’” Normani added. “So we went based on counts. The choreographer was just screaming at us. It was wild.”
We’re trying to pick our jaws up off the floor because Normani just shut down the Diamond Ball red carpet and we can barely handle it!!!
The 23-year-old “Motivation” singer looked absolutely incredible while appearing at the fifth annual gala on Thursday night (September 12) at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
The event is thrown by Rihanna every year to support her organization, the Clara Lionel Foundation.
“wow this was legit one of the most memorable nights of my entire existence. thank you to the queen herself @badgalriri for allowing me to be a part of HISTORY!!!!! YOU SET THE BAR YOU HEAR ME ✨ I love you beyond. shit can’t nobody tell me nothing. Thank you GOD,” Normani wrote on Instagram after that event.
Rihanna wrote back, “Love you Queeeeeeennnn!!! Ate the whole show tbh!!!!”
FYI: Normani is wearing a J’Aton Couture dress.
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If you go through the gallery of pics, you can see that Vanessa‘s long velvet coat holds a sparkly secret – it’s lined with a bright silver layer inside!
Singer Normani is also pictured in the gallery, sitting front row at the Pyer Moss fashion show over the weekend.
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Ashley Benson steps out in style for the Target 20th Anniversary Collection party held at Park Avenue Armory on Thursday night (September 5) in New York City.
The experience captured Target’s 20-year history of Design for All, and included a pop-up shop, offering those in attendance the chance to be the first to shop the new collection prior to the September 14th collection launch date.
The pop-up experience at the Park Avenue Armory will be open to the public starting TOMORROW, Saturday, September 7th from 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
FYI: Normani is wearing Jared Lehr jewelry.
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With Normani‘s X Factor experience, and Kelly‘s American Idol experience, the two together have an ton of good advice to share with the lucky ones who make to their team.
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Normani brought down the house with her performance!
The 23-year-old singer performed her new song “Motivation” during the 2019 MTV VMAs on Monday (August 26) at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
