All people one, two step… all the way in which again to 2010.
In her new music video for “Dance With Me” that includes Tyga, Ciara is resurrecting one of many wildest sneakers of her profession: a pair of Converse sneakers affixed with sky-high, Pleasers-style lucite heels.
The frankenshoe is a throwback to a mode she wore in her “Gimme Dat” video 15 years in the past, besides at the moment’s model is bubblegum pink as an alternative of black — all the higher to match her pink classic Cadillac.
Within the new video — launched in tandem together with her eighth studio album, “CiCi” — Ciara pairs the stiletto heels with head-to-toe pink: silk bandana, baseball cap, utility shirt and saggy pants.
Followers of the 39-year-old’s boundary-pushing choreography will bear in mind her stomping and winding by means of an empty lot within the authentic pair, turning the sneaker-turned-heels right into a vogue artifact.
Quick-forward to 2025, and the “Physique Get together” singer is giving the shoe its second act.
Ciara has spoken earlier than about her willingness to disregard the critics and embrace polarizing vogue types.
“I’ve come a good distance with regards to being affected by what individuals need to say,” she advised Web page Six final 12 months. “Opinions don’t matter; they actually don’t. In the event you be ok with what you selected to put on, that’s all that issues.”
The footwear in “Dance With Me” isn’t the one callback to her earlier video: Tyga wears a bedazzled Atlanta Braves hat that’s practically equivalent to the one Ciara places on in “Gimme Dat” on the line “I’m gonna placed on my crown.”
“CiCi” is the pop star’s first album in six years — she’s been busy as a mother of 4 with husband and New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson — and her second on her personal label, Magnificence Marks Leisure.
The shoe revival could also be a reclamation of kinds, given the sophisticated historical past of “Gimme Dat” because it was initially featured on 2010’s “Primary Intuition.”
Shortly after its launch, the singer wrote a Fb publish to her followers explaining that her label had left her hanging with the album launch and single promotion, and that she was asking to be launched from her contract.
At this time, she’s strutting away in victory — in eight-inch lucite heels.
