"Baby Don't Lie" talks about insecurities in a relationshipIt and serves as Stefani's musical comeback as a solo artist, her last solo single, "Early Winter", was released in January 2008.
The video for Gwen's song “Baby don’t Lie” is inspired 1939 Film and story of Wizard of OZ it stars a wildly polygonal yellow brick road. ( The 1939 film, a red brick road can be seen starting at the same point as the Yellow Brick Road but going in a different direction, this was inspiration for set design behind Ricardo Tisci’s GIVENCHY MENSWEAR FALL/WINTER 2015-2016 Collection)
Back to Gwen, as Dorothy meets new friends on her journey, each with a need of his own so does Gwen. They are traveling down the road with an army of dancers and mountains of reoccurring Stefani patterns like bold black-and-white stripes, houndstooth and plenty of pink ,the video has Gwen tiptoeing down a morphing yellow road and showing off the first in her array of polka-dotted outfits, other dance troupe eventually arriving to jazz up the clip a little.
The end of the music video finds the Gwen back into the gray world of old hollywood glam , transitioning from black and white to full color.
“I’ve been most influenced by Old Hollywood glamour. I’ve always been fascinated with the style and fashion in classic films. Basically I love anything glamorous that came from the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s, ’60s and even ’70s movies.”
The music video for the song was directed by awesome Sophie Muller and Weirdcore. I worked with Sophie on other projects with Shakira, Sophie as well directed second single Lets Spark the fire witch was colab between Pharell and Gwen.
Here is short behind the scene of the video and atmosphere from the studio. Hope you like it.
