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Sophie Muller

Following the glamorous promo for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/03/01/jessie-ware-pearls-sophie-muller-theo-adams/80564">Pearls,&nbsp;</a>Sophie Muller and Theo Adams reunite with Jessie Ware, this time with Róisín Murphy along for the ride, for the Freak Me Now video - and it's a hoot.&nbsp;Featuring a feverish blend of disco aesthetics and hypnotic editing, the video sees the two artists in their element, bringing a sense of theatrical splendour to the performance vignettes.&nbsp;And by the sounds of it, as they talk about their collab below, Jessie and&nbsp;Róisín had lots of fun on the shoot.It's a vibrant mash-up of colour and patterns - bringing the vid for Deee-Lite's classic Groove Is In The Heart to mind - with an unabashed sense of fun and playfulness to boot.[imgtoken data:1]<blockquote>We had mad fun dressing up on the day of the video. It was fashion chaos!!</blockquote>“It is a huge honour to have the queen of disco, Róisín Murphy on Freak Me Now,"&nbsp;Jessie Ware has commented. "I messaged her hoping she may think about doing a collab with me and before I knew it, she’d gone straight into the studio and recorded all her vocals for the track and sent them over to us. I have admired her work for so many years and respect her so much. To have her on one of the most fun tracks on That! Feels Good! Is amazing."I still can’t quite believe we are on a track together and have done a bonkers video together. She is graceful, she is generous, she is pioneering, she is Róisín Murphy and she is on Freak Me Now!” And Róisín Murphy has added: “Jessie is just brilliant, a super talented songwriter and an amazing singer. She’s truly beautiful but she’s also very funny and never takes herself too seriously. We’ve been talking about working together for a while. When she sent me ‘Freak Me Now’ I just adored it and felt it was perfectly right for me to be on the song."We had mad fun dressing up on the day of the video. It was fashion chaos!! Like a high class jumble sale, behind the scenes. We laughed at our ridiculousness and we were very silly all day! Just love her and loved everything about working with her.“

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Lola Chatterton

Theo Adams

Chris Murdoch

Prettybird

Ailsa Robertson

Joe Sherno

Thomas English

Juliette Larthe

Josey Jacobs

Andy Hill

Aaron Champion

Ross Kwan

Eamonn Hughes

Francesca Thompson

Andrew Gallimore

Gwen Ghelid

Time Based Arts

Ross McDowell

EMI Records

Electric Theatre Collective

Lee Sharrock

Ruth Wardell

Disco

Jessie Ware ft Róisín Murphy 'Freak Me Now' by Sophie Muller & Theo Adams

Jessie Ware, Róisín Murphy - Freak Me Now (Official Music Video)

Kylie is back - and on top form -&nbsp;in this red-themed, and red-hot promo from Sophie Muller.&nbsp;One of 2023's biggest earworms arrives&nbsp;in the form of Padam Padam, and the brilliant video sees Kylie and a host of energetic dancers perform in a sun-kissed dreamscape.&nbsp;Blurring the line between high fashion and pure pop vibes, the visual has plenty of choreography, vibrant locations and just the right amount of sultry attitude, and proves that Kylie is still right at the top of her game.&nbsp;It's a mesmerising video - arguably Sophie Muller's very best&nbsp;in a fine run of promos for Kylie in the past year or so. And at under three minutes in length, it's easy to get stuck in a loop of repeating it over and over again.

Steven Chivers

Andrew Coffing

Alli Gooch

Koji Kojima

Hope Farley

Annie Sperling

Faye Purcell

Kylie Minogue 'Padam Padam' by Sophie Muller

Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam (Official Video)

Sophie Muller and Theo Adams give Jessie Ware a touch of Old Hollywood glamour and add a modern twist for Pearls - the first release from the singer's upcoming new album.With an unapologetic sense of fun and frothiness, Jessie finds herself in an all-white boudoir worthy of a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 30s musical. Meanwhile, her backing - and her destiny - comes in the form of a sassy girl group situated under a giant&nbsp;moon - the Pearlites.It is a joyous setting for a triumphant return with Pearls - a modern take on the disco classics of Chaka Khan, Gloria Gaynor and others. It's a blast.

Fiona Bamford Phillips

Chris Kelly

Robbie Ryan

Connor Hutton

Rory Power

Jay Jaramillo Gomez

Leo Olesker

Alison Dominitz

Nancy Brown

Chloe Grace Press

Phoebe Walters

Patrick Wilson

Masumi Saito

Meshach Henry

Joseph Bicknell

Company 3

Cassidy Conway

Jessie Ware 'Pearls' by Sophie Muller & Theo Adams

Jessie Ware - Pearls

Sophie Muller directs an effervescent and emotional video&nbsp;for Zella Day, introducing the Arizona-born singer to the wonders and weirdness of the&nbsp;English countryside with typical panache.&nbsp;Shot over two days at Puzzlewood in the Forest Of Dean and&nbsp;Pen Moel Estate, the video for Mushroom Punch weaves together several creative vignettes, featuring Day running through landscapes and clawing her way through a luxurious&nbsp;Victorian manor house.[imgtoken data:1]Muller teams up again with DoP Robbie Ryan for this characteristically stylish showcase for the artist, confidently introducing experimental ideas in the cinematography and editing.It captures the intimate vibes of the track whilst keeping viewers on their toes with perpetually shifting imagery - and above all giving scope for a committedly intense performance from the compelling Zella Day.&nbsp;

Tiffani Rae

Dilly Gent

Sam Page-Jones

Margherita Fabbro

Concord Records

Zella Day 'Mushroom Punch' by Sophie Muller

Zella-Day-'Mushroom-Punch'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Muller directs a mesmeric performance promo for Kylie Minogue. In fact, this is Kylie, pure and simple - no distractions at all.So for Miss A Thing, we just have the glamourous disco diva, dripping in diamante, luxuriating in her domain - a black studio space.&nbsp;Shot by Robbie Ryan - and filmed on the vintage ikegami 79D TV cameras that were&nbsp;also used for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/11/18/kylie-minogue-jessie-ware-kiss-life-sophie-muller/73851" target="_blank">the Kiss Of Life video</a> - Muller just trusts in the sheer iconic status of her subject to prove you can remove everything else, and&nbsp;make a great Kylie video. In fact, distilling everything to the essentials just makes it better. &nbsp;Footage is&nbsp;layered into a hypnotic montage, with&nbsp;simple mirror VFX enhancing the mood, with the vintage camera adding texture. It is a characteristially Muller-esque display of confidence in its own simplicity. She knows that every so often, less is more.&nbsp;

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Christian Vermaak

Kylie Minogue 'Miss A Thing' by Sophie Muller

Kylie-Minogue-'Miss-A-Thing'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Ellis-Bextor reunites with regular collaborator Sophie Muller&nbsp;for Hypnotized - and they are back on that dancefloor.Leading a group of dancers in a hypnotic haze, we see Ellis-Bextor perform under coruscating lights, with featured artist (and producer) Wuh Oh up on the decks. She leads the dancers&nbsp;- presumably in a reference to her very successful 'kitchen disco' lockdown videos - who grow mysteriously larger in number.[imgtoken data:1]It has all the trademarks of a Sophie Muller video - strong performance, bright spotlights, a naturalistic colour palette,&nbsp;and melodrama - with an added disco flair - and an edit that expertly builds the emotion around a strong, simple concept. Esteemed cinematographer Robbie Ryan brings his talents to this one too.&nbsp;The ending, as the dancers grow into an army behind Sophie E-B, is a spectacular display of understated choreography. Great.&nbsp;

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Sam Barber

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Remo Catani

Davey Logan

Frankie Mulholland

Kirstin Halliday

Lisa Laudat

LS Productions

Cooking Vinyl

Sophie Ellis-Bextor x Wuh Oh 'Hypnotized' by Sophie Muller

Sophie-Ellis-bextor-'Hypnotized'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Muller and Theo Adams co-direct an impassioned performance promo for US artist Benson Boone.&nbsp;We see Boone sat in a desolate, cold bedroom set, pensive and alone, whilst the camera floats around him. At the chorus, his body whips up into a zero-gravity atmosphere, before he escapes to a new location, breaking free of his metaphorical prison.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Extending their collaborations on the recent Kylie Minogue videos -&nbsp;including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/11/18/kylie-minogue-jessie-ware-kiss-life-sophie-muller/73851" target="_blank">Kiss Of Life</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;this sees Sophie Muller sharing directing credits with Theo Adams for the first time, and it is another beautifully&nbsp;executed project, superbly shot by Joel Honeywell.It's also a great showcase for the charismatic,&nbsp;athletic Benson&nbsp;Boone. He gives a terrific, emotional&nbsp;performance&nbsp; - including just the right amount of dancing in the rain.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Carla Thomas

Reuben Esser

Norman Wonderly

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Joel Honeywell

Muriel Narh

Daniel Castro Garcia

Jay Gomez

Matt Mccabe

Vis Sopjani

Angela Garcia

Deniz Yildiz

Louise Tse

Charli Avery

Okay Studio

Warner Records

Benson Boone 'Better Alone' by Sophie Muller & Theo Adams

Benson-Boone-'Better-Alone'-by-Sophie-Muller-&-Theo-Adams

Hold on to your horses as two disco divas unite on the dancefloor - via&nbsp;the magic of music video - as Kylie gets together with none other than Gloria Gaynor, of I Will Survive fame, in Sophie Muller's dazzling video for Can't Stop Writing Songs About You.&nbsp;On a glittering runway, it's vintage disco vibes as we see Kylie and her crew strut their stuff under scintillating lights, with a lo-fi aesthetic that looks ripped straight from the clubkid era.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Gaynor appears in a separate performance vignette, backdropped by the night sky and overlaid with hypnotising effects and soft pastel silhouettes - which feels reminiscent of another iconic Muller video, for <a href="https://youtu.be/kRpZJ9EgJho?t=120">No Doubt's Simple Kind Of Life.&nbsp;</a>And&nbsp;its&nbsp;art directed by her longtime collaborator, production designer Alison Dominitz.&nbsp;&nbsp;Once again Sophie has also teamed&nbsp;with Theo Adams, whose company of performers provides&nbsp;Kylie's world with that extra pinch of pizzazz, and the result is&nbsp;a powerhouse visual for an irresistable track, pairing&nbsp;very nicely with previous Muller-Minogue videos for her other collabs on the new version of her&nbsp;Disco album - with Olly of Years &amp; Years on <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/10/12/kylie-and-years-years-second-midnight%E2%80%99-sophie-muller/73271" target="_blank">A Second To Midnight</a>, and with Jessie Ware on <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2021/11/18/kylie-minogue-jessie-ware-kiss-life-sophie-muller/73851">the telenovela-style Kiss Of Life.</a>&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]

Ed Marler

Alex Cullen

Franklin Dow

Poppy Ashton

Andrea Gruioniu

Holly Smyth

Kylie Minogue & Gloria Gaynor 'Can't Stop Writing Songs About You' by Sophie Muller

Kylie-Minogue-X-Gloria-Gaynor-'Can't-Stop-Writing-Songs-About-You-'-by-Sophie-Muller

A group of schoolchildren create their own ABBA homage in Sophie Muller's touching seasonal promo for Little Things.&nbsp;The track&nbsp;is a gentle reflection on the joy of Christmas morning and family time around this special time of year, and the proceeds from CD sales are going&nbsp;to Unicef&nbsp;to help&nbsp;support the&nbsp;Global Child Protection Fund.&nbsp;In the video, we see a dedicated and ambitious group of school-age children, many of whom in real life are close to (or even related to!) the creative team behind the groundbreaking Voyage concerts.[imgtoken data:1]This next generation of geniuses are inspired to create an ABBA Voyage ‘Christmas Special’, and embark with irrepressible enthusiasm on the enterprise of motion capture, choreography, costume design, stage lighting and band rehearsals, culminating with the arrival of parents and family members, to watch a convincing performance by the re-imagined ‘ABBA’, as the track draws to a close.&nbsp;Evoking a sense of traditional Christmas wonder, it's a charming concept and a perfect accompaniment to the group's iconic comeback.&nbsp;

Kharmel Cochrane

Jess Horne

Alex Hudson

Noah Furrer

Siobhan Dillon

Claire Moore

Joe Brooks

Tara Sadeghi

Juan Sanchez Minotta

Andreea Gruioniu

Sarah Frasson

Svana Gisla

Ludvig Andersson

ABBA 'Little Things' by Sophie Muller

ABBA - Little Things

Sparks fly and chaos reigns when Kylie comes to Jessie Ware's restaurant, in Sophie Muller's brilliant Telenovella-style video for Kiss Of Life.&nbsp;Kylie plays a mysterious dinner guest, secretly a critic out to deliver the verdict on the place&nbsp;run by the indominable Jessie, among an outrageously larger-than-life bunch of&nbsp;fellow diners. The mini-dramas of the women's rivalry plays out like an '80s Latin soap opera, with further nods to early Almodovar, and a bit of silent comedy for good measure - plus a cast from a Fellini movie&nbsp;-&nbsp;shot on authentic video camera equipment from the period, for that genuine oversaturated look. Phew.[imgtoken data:1]Muller's latest video for&nbsp;Kylie is also her second collaboration with creative director and performance director&nbsp;Theo Adams, after the Kylie and Years &amp; Years video for A Second To Midnight, and together they have a devised this delicious scenario in which both Kylie and Jessie play their parts - and perform the song - with suitable relish. In fact, could this&nbsp;be Kylie's first role in a soap since leaving Neighbours...?Adams says of collaborating on the music video with Muller: “It all happened quite organically between us both sitting at her kitchen table cackling away coming up with this fever dream of chaos!"Adams was responsible for recruiting the&nbsp;amazing cast of performers in the video, including&nbsp;nightlife royalty Princess Julia, among others. They are&nbsp;indeed the&nbsp;Theo Adams Company, and they play such a crucial role in bringing effervescent chaos to proceedings -&nbsp;shot in a real&nbsp;Italian restaurant in London's Covent Garden,&nbsp;the garishly maximalist Ave Mario's.[imgtoken data:2]As a result of the location choice, the whole video was shot overnight, when the restaurant was closed. And the&nbsp;shoot itself was undertaken rather like an episode of an 80s Telenovella, as Sophie Muller explains.&nbsp;“The video was all shot on an 80’s news camera - the ikegami 79D three-tube 1980’s colour portable - at a hair raising speed," she says. "And considering the hellishly late night/early morning hours of the shoot, everyone contributed their finest performances.”Apart from the necessary element of chaos - which was possibly quite easy to achieve - the whole&nbsp;kaboodle plays to the artists' strengths. The food connection works for Jessie Ware (cookery writer and podcaster as well as consummate soul singer) and the outrageously camp scenario obviously fits the&nbsp;Kylie iconography&nbsp;like a glove.&nbsp;But not only is this arguably the campiest video she's ever done, she looks utterly iconic in this. And she is funny.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:3]As has been <a href="https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/kylie-minogue-jessie-ware-kiss-of-life-fashion" target="_blank">pointed out elsewhere</a>, the video is also a haute couture spectacle - with the leading ladies decked out in Saint Laurent and Valentino&nbsp;- and this certainly involved a larger than normal&nbsp;glam squad. And it culminates with a rare music video monologue from Kylie, who reads out her five-star review of the restaurant as she types it up on an old typewriter. Well, she's tapping the keys anyway...It's so good. And after this, apparently there's a Kylie collab with disco queen Gloria Gaynor to look forward to...

Harry Buck

Andrew Morrow

Francesca Brazzo

Anete Salinieka

Kylie Minogue & Jessie Ware 'Kiss Of Life' by Sophie Muller

Kylie Minogue & Jessie Ware - Kiss of Life (Official Video)

Sophie Muller directs the glistening&nbsp;performance video for Kylie’s A Second to Midnight,&nbsp;featuring Years &amp; Years - aka Olly Alexander - and some 'wait, what...?' moments of role-reversal between the two performers.Shot in London's historic Collins' Music Hall, the concept sees the leopard print-clad duo dance around under a spotlight, briefly switching roles - with the clever application of 'hair swap'&nbsp;technology&nbsp;- while the accompanying dancers also 'become' Kylie and Ollie with their use of face masks.&nbsp;&nbsp;Muller collaborated with Theo Adams, in the role of&nbsp;performance director&nbsp;on the song-and-dance routine executed by the pop stars. The results&nbsp;exudes that sense of pure joy that is the hallmark of any great Kylie video, and a complete&nbsp;delight to watch.PRETTYBIRD UK co-founder Juliette Larthe says:&nbsp;"The insanely wonderful pairing of the maverick alchemists of vision and movement, the geniuses&nbsp;of vespertine delights - Sophie Muller and Theo Adams - repeatedly inculcate the aureate of their crafts individually, and now together for the first time with Kylie and Olly. The result is epic-ness of the most MAJORNESS and we utterly love it."

Callum Toms

Naomi Hancock

Kylie And Years & Years 'A Second To Midnight’ by Sophie Muller

Kylie-And-Years-&-Years--''a-Second-To-Midnight’-'-by-Sophie-Muller

Maroon 5's Adam Levine takes a hallucinatory drive through a fantasy LA skyline, in Sophie Muller's promo for Beautiful Mistakes.&nbsp;Falling somewhere between an&nbsp;LSD trip and a lucid dream aesthetically, the hyper-saturated backdrops provide a dreamlike playground where anything can happen - be it flying unicorns, cereal rain or a fly-in visit from featured artist Megan Thee Stallion.&nbsp;Balancing Steve Chivers' glossy camerawork with increasingly surreal visual effects, Muller ensures the focus remains on the artists and their performance throughout.&nbsp;

United States

Grant Jue

Candice Dragonas

David Cho

Steve Chivers

Rudy Salas

Jeff Lynn

Louis Weissman

Matt Goldman

Ingenuity

Jared Shelton

Michelle An

Carla Aviles

Hip Hop

Maroon 5 ft Megan Thee Stallion 'Beautiful Mistakes' by Sophie Muller

Maroon-5-Ft.-Megan-Thee-Stallion-'Beautiful-Mistakes'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Muller directs a feelgood promo down at&nbsp;the high school gym for Gwen Stefani's Slow Clap.As one of&nbsp;the most iconic artist-director pairings in music video history - having worked together since the mid 90's&nbsp;- &nbsp;Stefani and Muller's&nbsp;latest collaboration is a throwback to the easygoing nostalgia of the era.&nbsp;Stefani returns to high school with featured artist Saweetie, getting caught in a whirlwind of&nbsp;choreography, basketball and jumping rope, bringing the same energy and charm we have all come to expect across her illustrious solo career.&nbsp;It's a glossy video with a bubblegum pop aesthetic, and an absolute delight to watch - made even more addictive by the track's memorable refrain.&nbsp;

Gwen Stefani ft Saweetie 'Slow Clap' by Sophie Muller

Gwen-Stefani-Ft-Saweetie-'Slow-Clap'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Muller directs a haunting promo in reverse for regular collaborator Birdy.&nbsp;Following the stripped-back seaside vision for Surrender back in January, the video for Loneliness encompasses the same vulnerability and wistful performance style, with a more conceptual and experimental aesthetic.&nbsp;With cinematography by Robbie Ryan and art direction from Alison Dominitz, Muller&nbsp;mixes contemporary, dilapidated locations with vintage patterns and materials, giving the project a universal and timeless feel. The desaturated colour palettes elevate the melancholic atmosphere, and are reminiscent of their previous collaborations, and one of the director's most iconic visuals, Nelly Furtado's Try.&nbsp;The use of reverse footage adds another layer of surreality to the promo, representing the themes of loss and loneliness, and the feeling that things aren't quite what they seem.&nbsp;

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Kitt Sullivan

Aldene Johnson

Georgina Hamed

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Birdy 'Loneliness' by Sophie Muller

Birdy--'Loneliness'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Muller reunites with Birdy, and creates a poignant promo for returning single Surrender with her singular DIY approach.&nbsp;Whether it's overlooking windswept seas from the beach, a sunset through a condensation-covered window, or travelling on an shadowy&nbsp;train, the director harnesses Birdy's distinctive vulnerability&nbsp;as she delivers her trademark performance style, within a timesless, visceral English landscape.And having established a strong relationship with Birdy over numerous previous videos - usually made as true collaborations, with great resourcefulness - Muller has just gone a step further here. She&nbsp;has employed a&nbsp;similar method to the video for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/interviews/sophie-muller-shooting-iphone-and-her-homemade-video-james-righton/64100">James Righton's Start, </a>released last year, and&nbsp;shot this on her iPhone, near her adopted home on the East Sussex coast, then edited and graded herself.A wonderful video,&nbsp;made possible by the level of trust between artist and director - and the combination of remarkable new technology with the skill and experience of Sophie Muller.

Birdy 'Surrender' by Sophie Muller

Birdy-'Surrender'-by-Sophie-Muller

Kylie and Sophie Müller head down to Fabric and make some more music video magic in their latest collaboration.It's a classic Kylie confection, shot by Rina Yang, for the supremely catchy Magic - a disco banger that gets the unapologetic dance floor fantasy it thoroughly deserves.&nbsp;

Rina Yang

Thom Nicholson

Jonny Lewis

Elliot Beach

Matthew Josephs

Faith Holmes

Josh Brooks

Kylie Minogue 'Magic' by Sophie Muller

Kylie-Minogue-'Magic'-by-Sophie-Muller

Mae Muller laments her 'issues' with a jerk of a boyfriend in this marvellous video for So Annoying, directed by Sophie Muller...&nbsp;no relation!Flipping between vignettes of Mae in performance-based setups at several locations across town with a flashback&nbsp;of her breaking down over her ex at a club, the breezy video is charming and funny, and a killer match to the lilting track.&nbsp;And even if there is no prior&nbsp;family connection between Mae and Sophie, the chemistry between the artist and the director is palpable. Under Sophie's direction, Mae comes of age on-camera, and it's a joy to behold.

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Mae Muller 'So Annoying' by Sophie Muller

Mae-Muller-'So-Annoying'-by-Sophie-Muller

Sophie Muller directs a zesty, effervescent promo for Kylie's return to her disco comfort zone.&nbsp;Taking place in the outer reaches of the disco galaxy, the video cycles between glittering performance shots - atop an opulent horse statue, no less - and snippets of choreography, all overlaid with shooting stars and galactic visual effects.&nbsp;The maximalist video&nbsp;pays homage to some of Sophie Muller's strongest work - most comparably&nbsp;the dream sequence in No Doubt's Simple Kind Of Life -&nbsp;but with a fresh and contemporary twist.Kylie's performance is as animated, dynamic and Kylie-esque as ever, encapsulating the fun and unabashed energy of the track whilst reminding her contemporaries why the world first fell in love with her some three decades ago.&nbsp;This is Muller and Minogue's fourth video collaboration together - but the first for a while. Of course it's a match made in Heaven...

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