accompanying music video<\/a> for \u201cCasual Lady,\u201d she tackled a variety of roles from director to producer and stylist.<\/p>\n\u201c\u200aI live in a very specific, colorful world and a very specific aesthetic realm, so it all has to be down to me,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s this one lyric that Doechii sang, and I was just like, \u2018Yeah, real.\u2019 And it was, \u2018End of the day, everything is on me,\u2019 and honestly, when you are the artist, at the end of the day, whatever\u2019s going on behind the scenes always gets pointed back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her brother Wilfred is a producer and kickstarted her career when he encouraged her to sing over a beat he created years ago. He continues to be her creative partner, and she entrusted him with shooting, editing and grading the music video.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aI don\u2019t feel like anyone, but my brother, understands my vision at all,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Ciss\u00e9 didn\u2019t have time to waste and filmed the video on a family vacation in Greece. While the final shots look delightfully sunny, she says it was a miserably cold day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not enjoy filming it,\u201d she confesses.<\/p>\n
Near a resort pool and on a narrow balcony, she prances around in a variety of adorable outfits including a pair of custom bedazzled hot pink heel roller skates. Ciss\u00e9 continuously searches for ways to reconnect with her inner child.<\/p>\n
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\u201c\u200aI love the concept of high heels on roller skates. I think that\u2019s so fire,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m always trying to find ways in fashion to do something that I haven\u2019t seen before or something that I really would\u2019ve loved as a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s no surprise that with such an innovative spirit, Ciss\u00e9 isn\u2019t slowing down. Her forthcoming single \u201cAmerican Wedding\u201d drops Friday. The track is a nod to Frank Ocean\u2019s commercially unreleased track of the same name.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aHe truly makes timeless art, and \u2018American Wedding\u2019 is a song I felt like always should have dropped,\u201d she says. \u201cI have never once in my life had a dream of being in America and being married in America. I\u2019m very much so in love with my African culture and I love London, but I just love the concept of that song, and I feel like it was a banging title, so I wrote a whole story about that from the title.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with making fun, relatable music, Ciss\u00e9 deals with the huge undertaking of building a successful pop identity as a Black girl in a white-girl-dominated realm.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of white pop girls,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot easier for them to get to the main stage and to become VIP because it\u2019s more digestible, and it\u2019s something we have seen before and something we have all grown up on that it\u2019s easier to consume.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ciss\u00e9 adds that she is a big fan of the pop girls currently in the spotlight, but she hopes for a cultural shift where artists of color don\u2019t face as many challenges in rising to the top.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aMy space in adding to pop is that there isn\u2019t anyone who looks like me and sounds like me,\u201d she says, \u201cAnd that\u2019s something I would\u2019ve loved to have seen growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ciss\u00e9 is honored to be that pop star for other young Black girls.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aWe want to feel seen and understood and represented. That\u2019s why we have a favorite artist and that\u2019s why we have a favorite actress and a favorite TV show because it made you feel something and it made you feel accepted,\u201d she explains. \u201cSo that\u2019s what the whole \u2018saving pop\u2019 concept is, and I\u2019m really glad that the fans came up with that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEverybody says [redacted] is saving pop. No, Joyce is saving pop,\u201d a fan declares on a voice note…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,285647,285649,54664,155340,134,285650,285644,136,285648,285645,11255,16217,6984,285646,79610,52746,4209],"class_list":{"0":"post-583251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-black-artist","11":"tag-casual-lady","12":"tag-concept","13":"tag-disco-music","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-flowerovlove","16":"tag-joyce-cisse","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-new-friend","19":"tag-other-track","20":"tag-pop","21":"tag-real-life","22":"tag-song","23":"tag-south-london","24":"tag-text-message","25":"tag-variety","26":"tag-way"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}