Calvin Harris & Sam Smith Just Dropped The Sparkling New Music Video For ‘Promises’

Everything Calvin Harris touches turns to bop-gold – and his recently released collaboration with Sam Smith ‘Promises’ is absolutely no exception.

A little more than two weeks after it came out (and hasn’t left our ears since) the track has received a sparkling music video that celebrates voguing culture. 

YOU CAN WATCH THE FANTASTIC, SPARKLING NEW MUSIC VIDEO RIGHT HERE - AND THEN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT IT BELOW:

Directed by Emil Nava, the video takes place in a downtown warehouse converted into a dancing paradise – starring the worlds best Voguers stemming from New York City.

The video celebrates an under-appreciated section of LGBTQ+ culture, opening with interviews with voguers who take part in the video, and comment on what it means to them:

“Growing up in the Bronx, you have to carry this tough skin. Finding vogue - it allowed me to express myself in a way I couldn’t express myself anywhere else.”

For those unaware, voguing is a stylized form of dance and expression, associated with the LGBTQ+ community, which evolved from the Harlem ballroom scene (and thus especially stemmed from African-American and Latino LGBTQ+ groups). It involves dancing with a lot of freezing and pose striking for a camera that isn’t actually there - and is named as such as the poses were derived from covers of Vogue magazine.

Voguing has been in the mass public eye before, both via the music video for Madonna’s ‘Vogue’ in 1990 and too in the successful documentary Paris Is Burning of the same year - and it's amazing to see the culture, and voguers themselves, being celebrated like this again! 

As an extra surprise, Canadian fashion model and Vitiligo spokesperson Winnie Harlow also features in the video! 

‘Promises' is on the trajectory to be another number one hit for the duo. On last Friday’s chart update it hit No. 2 and on yesterdays update it rose to No. 1! If it holds the position until Friday it'll be Calvin Harris' 10th, and Sam Smith's 7th, UK number one! 

There's more good news - Dua Lipa just announced 3 brand-new songs on a Super Deluxe Edition of her debut album!

Words by Alex Beach