A Closer Look at Rose May Alaba’s “Dance” Beyond the Disco Lights

Too Little ‘Dance’ Intimacy in the Music Video

Watching every shot of the music video for Rose May Alaba’s latest release featuring Chocolate City Afro-Pop rising star TAR1Q, this writer noticed only one thing missing from otherwise perfect visuals: intimacy in the dance. The song, which suggests exactly that, was complemented by a music video and an ideal setting laden with disco lights and a prominent blue filter, but lacked the touch of intimacy as they danced in what is supposed to reflect a nightclub or her thoughts.

As a viewer sits through the visuals directed by Thompson Ekong of TSE Studio, they are compelled to ask, “Where are the hands?” However, even without blatant intimacy between a man and a woman in the music video, Rose May Alaba’s somewhat sensual choreography alongside the vixens is a sequence of beautifully shot frames that drives the idea of the song home.

As the blue and red disco lights brighten and dim, the featured artist, in his signature style of a singlet tank top and jorts, was captured in individual frames and also with Rose May, culminating in the ecstatic aesthetics of the music video.