October 13, 2017 

The story behind the sequel, “Kiss Me Already”…

 

The idea to create a sequel video did not come into fruition until after the video for “I Wanna Be More” was complete and ready to go live!! Crazy... I know!

 

I was creating a short teaser video for “I Wanna Be More”. After deciding that the teaser video would be made out of clips from the picnic scenes, I started to drag my favorite shots into my editing software. Once all my favorite shots were selected I realized I had 3 minutes and 30 seconds of amazing footage.

 

Light bulb!

 

I looked through my forthcoming album thinking there must be a song that suits the vibe of these shots… After listening to only 10 seconds of “Kiss Me Already”... it was perfect... I dragged it into the editing software and hit play… MAGIC!

 

I then called Karl, the video director, and talked a million miles a minute explaining my brilliant idea.

 

First he said... “What have you been drinking?”

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I said loudly... “TEA!!!!!”

 

Then luckily he thought it was a genius idea! We put our heads together and came up with a great concept! The song was perfect for the idea!

 

I. COULD. NOT. WAIT. 

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The ending of "I Wanna Be More" included more picnic scenes than what exists in the video at the moment. There was a kiss at the end of the video which was removed once we decided to chase this new concept! 

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This idea pushed the release date of "I Wanna Be More" back a few weeks, to give us time to sort it all out! Boy oh boy was it worth it!

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We added "To be continued..." at the end of "I Wanna Be More" BEFORE even shooting the sequel! BALLSY! I'm so thankful to be working with a video director who was willing to take a risk with me!

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And thank you guys for being just as excited as I was! GROUP HUG!

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Click here to watch the sequel video! ​

 

-Leanne

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