In the video directed by Michael Jurkovac, the singer/rapper/producer and Nicole Scherzinger who makes guest appearance on the track turn into famous works of art inside Louvre museum.
- April 13, 2016
AceShowbiz -
will.i.am's "Mona Lisa Smile", which is his collaboration with Nicole Scherzinger, came out three years ago. But it's not until recently that the singer/rapper/producer gave the song a proper music video treatment.
Released on Tuesday, April 11, the visuals lives up to its title. It sees will.i.am's head superimposes into famous works of art inside Paris' Louvre museum while Scherzinger's face replaces that of the lady in Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa".
"Mona Lisa Smile" appears on will.i.am's 2013 album, "#willpower". He recorded part of the song in front of the famed "Mona Lisa" painting. "They let me go to the Louvre at 2 am to record the guitars for that song, I wanted to capture the ambiance of the Louvre, that Mona Lisa lives in. That was exciting, to walk through the Louvre at 2 am with the manager," he once explained in an interview with Pursuitist.
will.i.am's new video came just days after he announced that he'd reunite with his Black Eyed Peas bandmates. "There will be a Black Eyed Peas reunion," he said on Capital's "Evening Show". "It just, it breaks my heart that I even have to say that because really we should just... we should just always have been doing Black Eyed Peas actually. We shouldn't have ever... [stopped]."
