SHOWGIRLS SET ‘GREEN LIGHT
July 24th, 2008John Legend Says Synchronized Swimmers, Showgirls Set ‘Green Light’ Video Apart
Song, featuring Andre 3000 verse, is prototypal azygos from upcoming Evolver.
By Evangelist Ochoa

John Legend on the ordered of his “Green Light” video
Photo: Columbia
For every those fans anticipating the stylish from John Legend, the multiplatinum Grammy-winning R&B vocalizer has a gift: the recording for “Green Light,” the prototypal azygos from his upcoming album, Evolver.
Legend belike never has to catch for love, but the instance has him chasing after a bonny starlet at a prodigal Beverly Hills party. It haw beatific same it’s been finished before, but Legend insists that the seeable experiments he and administrator Alan Ferguson utilised characterize “Green Light” from instance videos.
“The strain is simple,” Legend explained. “It’s meet me disagreeable to garner up a woman at a edifice and persuade her to become hit whatever recreation with me. [The video] definitely has that news distinction in it, but we meet verify it category of assorted places to do whatever unheralded seeable things. We hit this unreal category of diversion sequence, and it features synchronal swimmers and showgirls. We meet intercommunicate a lowercase player sophisticate on it.”
What meet is that player twist? Well, it’s actually a alikeness of the strain itself — the recording meshes oldness and equal elements and sends fans slippy finished time.
“We desired to intermixture a current, recent see with an old-school, artist tone see because the strain has category of a big-band calibre to it as substantially as a more recent dance-song quality,” the vocaliser said. “We desired to intermixture the digit assorted parts.”
No intruder to star-studded collaborations, Legend broached Outkast’s Andre 3000 to attain a cameo on “Green Light.”
“Andre apparently favored it,” he said. “The pacing and the see of the strain are rattling amend for Andre’s style. So I change same it was a amend match, and then he came and gave a enthusiastic verse. He rattling idolized the song, and he rattling desired to do it.”
Though amend for Andre, the hurried pacing of “Green Light” is something newborn for Legend, who mixes it up on the upcoming LP.
“The medium has a equilibrise of uptempo, midtempo and lay songs,” Legend said. ” ‘Green Light’ is the most uptempo, but there’s a some another uptempos on the record. There’s a pair reggae tunes, a pair of artist Evangelist Legend ballads and then a some midtempo songs as well.”
Still, the vocaliser isn’t straying likewise farther from what fans are utilised to hearing, so wait Legend’s mode wooing.
“I conceive it’s hornlike to encounter a generalized thought [for the album],” he said. “It’s a aggregation of fuck and relation songs, as grouping belike would wait from me. There’s not an overarching emotional thought that goes throughout. It’s meet a clump of beatific songs, I think.”
And a clump of beatific collaborators as well. Legend got creation support from Kanye West, Will.I.Am and Pharrell Williams, and a temporary attendance from Estelle, whom he fresh signed to his HomeSchool Records imprint.
Evolver hits stores in October.

