Audrey Nuna - Top Again feat. Saba [Video]
New Jersey rising-star Audrey Nuna unveils surreal new visuals for ‘Top Again’ feat. Saba, a hit taken from her newly released ‘A Liquid Breakfast’.
Directed by Trey Lyons, the music video for ‘Top Again’ has a pretty straightforward start, with rapper and singer Audrey Nuna being her coy and trendy self wrapped in metallic and performing her new song for the camera. After dancing around and munching on rainbow cereal (likely a reference to the name of her latest record), the film takes a turn into another concept entirely. The music cuts and the fourth wall is broken as we turn to see the studio and crew shooting the music video, frozen in place. Following Nuna out the studio as she texts and walks, suddenly she’s hit by a motorcycle and wakes up in hospital. The music restarts as a disorientated Nuna gets up from her bed and soon Chicago rapper and producer Saba emerges from an ambulance to deliver a set of sparky verses. It all ends on a mysterious and slightly disturbing note, where Nuna enters a hospital room only to discover a dead body that looks an awful lot like her…
With super-cool style and vibes delivered at the start, Nuna really didn’t have to bring the video to the next level - but it would be strange of her not to at this point. Original concepts and intriguing narratives have become part and parcel of what makes Nuna such an impressive one to watch.
Audrey explains the creation of the song itself, “’Top Again’ is a song about the end of the world. This was last March or April, when it truly did feel like just that. I wrote it on my mom’s balcony patio on a rainy day. I imagined what it might be like if there was a huge backyard party on the last day of the world – everyone would be dancing in the rain and refusing to go back inside. I recorded the demo vocals on Garageband because I spilled my sister’s coffee on my laptop that morning. The whole song was done remotely (outside of the background vocals) and that process was foreign and strange to me.”
On working with Saba, Audrey adds, “I’ve been a Saba fan since college. CARE FOR ME is fucking amazing. I actually fainted next to him at a Smino concert at Irving Plaza once, right behind J Cole. So this was a full circle moment for me.”
Watch ‘Top Again’ below:
CREDITS
Directed by Trey Lyons