We talked and we were trying to vibe and feel each other out to see what I had going on. As far as recommending, I got the opportunity to do Whitney Houston, and I had to meet her somewhere in Ohio. Everybody started hiring me after the BBD videos. LCM: No, they knew me and they knew my work. Pitchfork: Did you get the feeling that Mike recommended you to them? With Mike, when it was one of the guys from the New Edition family, there was no conflict. Bobby is charismatic and I developed a good friendship and a good vibe with him. I worked with him on "Word to the Mother" before "Humpin’ Around". Bobby Brown is Bobby Brown, he just approached me. I don’t think there was any bad blood because I still did videos after that. Jodeci was not competition for Boyz II Men. LCM: Mike realized Jodeci was a totally different group. Then people like NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, the white boy bands, when they came along, they approached me because they liked what I did for the BBDs, the Jodecis, the TLCs. Then him and I were able to develop a bond and a friendship, which led to another direction. I remember when I went to Jodeci, they were liking the Boyz II Men stuff, and I was like, "No, I’m going to give you your own unique vibe, your own unique look." That created a relationship with Diddy, and Diddy was like the equivalent of Bivens to Boyz II Men. Lionel is our guy." The record company looked at me like, "What’s going on?" He was loyal to me, as far as giving me all the work, but as a director who wanted to be creative and wanted to do as much as possible to play with my craft, of course I did the Jodeci. I went to MCA and Mike was in another room in another meeting, He passed by and he said, "Lionel, what are you doing here?" And I said, "Oh, they want me to do this group called Jodeci." I remember he sort of went, "No, no, no. MCA asked me to do a lot of videos for them because the BBD stuff was so incredible. Bella DeNapoli performs Sia's 'Chandelier' against Katherine Ann Mohler singing Bell Biv DeVoe's 'Poison' during The Knockouts on The Voice. Working Bell Biv DeVoe became a sensation. Biz Markie’s "Just a Friend", that was a moment. When I did Public Enemy’s "Night of the Living Baseheads", that was a big thing. LCM: When you look at your career, there are moments. Pitchfork: After your run with Biv 10, did you start doing less hip-hop? This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. The first group he brought to them was Boyz II Men, and when it was time to start to do videos, he called me up. LCM: I vibed well with the whole group, as far as when we came up with concepts, but Michael seemed to be very creative and a visionary type of individual. Pitchfork: After doing all the Bell Biv DeVoe videos, how did you come to do all of the videos for Bivens’s other projects? They started to dress and give themselves some of the hip-hop vibe. The R&B artists started to come out of the suits. They felt all the R&B stuff would be a lot cooler if it had a little rap feel to it. LCM: At the time, it was New Jack Swing and Teddy Riley coming along. Pitchfork: When you started to do more R&B videos off of the success of "Poison", did they always want you to put that hip-hop edge in it? To get the combination of a pop/hip-hop video was good for me and it opened a lot of doors once I did that. Hip-hop videos at that time, they didn’t spend that much money. It was the biggest video at that stage in my career, budget-wise. When they told me their whole concept for their music, I wasn’t even sure what they were talking about, but it just seemed like something really different. I know it sounds a little arrogant, but being a hip-hop guy, if I didn’t like it, I would have said, "Nah." But it just had such a cool little vibe to it.
I knew it was a good song and I had never heard anything like that before. Post a song connected in some way to the previous one posted.Pitchfork: Did you anticipate the success the video went on to have? And again, please Sort by new before posting.it's OK to post something that was posted a week ago, but not something that was posted 10 minutes ago) Reposts are acceptable, unless it's very recent (i.e.Doesn't have to be a long comment, if one word is all you need, that's all you have to post Explain in a comment how your song connects to the previous one.Post a song related in some way to the one previously posted (the more obscure the connection the better, but song titles alone are permissible).There are a few basic principles you need to follow when participating here: This is a continuation of /r/musicthemetime's recent Connect-A-Song theme. Welcome to /r/connectasong, a subreddit for sharing music you like. Sort Via "New" for chain to make sense! How This Works
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