“Te Amo Corazón”
One of the things I love doing as soon as I come to NY is to watch VH1, especially at Christmas time. Sounds very commercial but, believe me, it gives a flair of what people desire or dream of in the air during this cold winter season. And I am one of them. And there he is! Prince with his warm videoclip “Te amo Corazón.”
Part of his forthcoming album 3121, to be released by June 2006, he launches it in an unprecedented multimedia worldwide music premiere through VH1 Classic, VHUNO, Tempo, VH1 Soul as well as VH1.com, VH1’s broadband channel Vspot (through VH1 Mobile, via its partnership with Verizon’s VCast). It is an incredibly beautiful and sensual Latin-inspired composition with heart filling lyrics, brilliant with a ”haunting flair” as a fan commented on I-tunes reviews; it’s true, I can’t stop being haunted by it…
I must know everything about it – that’s the way I am… I find myself watching an interview with Mexican Salma Hayek where she says in her very tanned look and white smile that after they became friends Prince asked her to direct this new video. She had never done such a thing before, but accepted the challenge and of course found and created the film set in a lush and magic Spanish style palace nowhere less than in the North African city of Marrakesh!
Prince knew the passion with which she’d describe music and her work, and without arguing even once, followed her expensive and unarguable firm directions. (Let’s face it, she’s Arabic and Latin and probably Prince needs some kind of exoticism in his life… who doesn’t after all?) Under her direction, he throws himself in a Matisse-like background freezing pool with his luxuriously embroidered princely kaftan on, to meet under the water with his beloved “Corazón” – the meticulously picked Argentinian actress Mia Maestro (co-star in Frida and the Motorcycle Diaries) with her angelic features, as he says.
In the clip, she prepares his meals, his bed, fixes his clothes and prepares Moroccan tea, while a secretly passionate Prince watches her silently and furtively through the voluptuous transparency of intriguing lace curtains. We see a bit of the Mexican artist Frida Khalo, the way this woman walks in the Moroccan wild garden yards in the shady and mysterious scenery of a Marrakesh afternoon light.
A nostalgic Prince sings while gently caresses his notorious trademark purple electronic guitar, but this time he’s far more sexy because he’s accompanied by two acrobatic dancers floating around a suspended thread in the middle of earthly looking walls, floor and candles giving hints of an Arabian desert or maybe of soul dryness. (While I write this text, the play count of the song on my iTunes is already up to 52.)
Marrakesh should be on my New Year wish-list after all…I hear there are new little palaces available for romantic souls in search of some mysterious exoticism.
I the decide to call my travel agent. “… Just make sure the bed sheets are grey satin, the candles smell sandalwood with the name Nour inscribed on, and the rose petals are of the magenta color… By the way… Prince must be on my room CD player. Thank you.”
This blog is dedicated to a new great friend of mine, Adriana Bittencourt, with whom I was able to share Marrakesh emotions.
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If you want to watch the video “Te Amo Corazón” on line go to
http://www.mp3.com/prince/artists/4453/videos.html
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Canfora
The only frustrating thing about this blog, is that it conveys such feelings of ecstasy that you want it all and now. Should I finish reading the blog or should I immediately search for the video clip? Why am I not in Marakesh yet? Joelle, you surely know how to get people going.