John Legend and Faouzia dropped a stunning music video for their heartbreaking duet Minefields on Thursday, which featured them singing as explosions went off all around them.
As the pair portrayed star-crossed lovers in the dramatic footage, the 42-year-old Grammy winner and his duet partner, 20, were separated by a great distance as they performed separately in an empty field at dusk.
The performance began with Legend playing a black grand piano, before his costar appears in an ethereal white dress and her dark hair in a waist-long ponytail.
Star-crossed lovers: John Legend and Faouzia dropped a stunning music video for their heartbreaking duet Minefields on Thursday, which featured them singing as explosions went off all around them
‘Now this might be a mistake/ That I’m calling you this late/ But these dreams I have of you ain’t real enough,’ she began, before he jumps in to croon about ‘bringing up the past’ and ‘the things you love don’t last.’
They both go on to harmonize in the chorus: ‘Ooh-ooh, maybe I’m just a fool I still belong with you Anywhere you, anywhere you are.’
Showing off her powerhouse vocals, the Moroccan-Canadian singer passionately belted in various locations among nature and rocked a second outfit change.
Stunning: As the pair portrayed star-crossed lovers in the dramatic footage, the 42-year-old Grammy winner and his duet partner, 20, were separated by a great distance as they performed separately in an empty field at dusk
Wow: Showing off her powerhouse vocals, the Moroccan-Canadian singer passionately belts in various locations among nature and plays the piano in a second outfit
Unlike her other flowing gown, she could be seen rocking a black lacey look, while sitting on a piano bench with her hands on the keys in the middle of a river.
As clips of her running in a forest with white snow-like flakes dropping around her, the video panned to Legend sitting at the same piano in a dress shirt and jacket as the sun rises.
‘These minefields keeping me from you, what I risk to be close to you,’ the duo sing together, until they unite and minefields explode around them.
On the keys: The performance began with Legend playing a black grand piano, before his costar appears in an ethereal white dress and her dark hair in a waist-long ponytail
‘Now this might be a mistake/ That I’m calling you this late/ But these dreams I have of you ain’t real enough,’ she began, before he jumps in to croon about ‘bringing up the past’ and ‘the things you love don’t last’
Though a star on the rise in comparison to legend, the magnitude of Faouzia’s star quality was abundantly clear based on her tone of voice.
The emotional love ballad also features Charlie Puth on piano, but he was not present in the music video.
Earlier this week, the pair dropped a 20-second teaser of the video, which earned a lot of praise from excited fans and friends.
Emotional: As clips of her running in a forest with white snow-like flakes dropping around her, the video panned to Legend sitting at the same piano in a dress shirt and jacket as the sun rises
One to watch: Though a star on the rise in comparison to legend, the magnitude of Faouzia’s star quality was abundantly clear based on her tone of voice
Supportive wife Chrissy Teigen gushed, ‘My bear. What is it like to be such a bear,’ as she referred to him as her endearing pet name.
A source of inspiration for virtually all of his songs, like All Of Me, the loved-up pair most recently appeared in the music video for his song Wild over the summer.
Both Legend and Faouzia have been overjoyed with the song’s reception and it already boasts over 10M streams on Spotify and 176,947 views on YouTube, in just nine hours.
Fan-approved: Both Legend and Faouzia have been overjoyed with the song’s reception and it already boasts over 10M streams on Spotify and 176,947 views on YouTube, in just nine hours
A notable track for Faouzia after acting as both songwriter and vocalist, she spoke to Fashion Magazine in December and spoke about the collaboration, sharing it was originally a solo piece.
‘We had intended for it to be a solo song but then we started to think, “what if there was a big, beautiful male vocal on it?” We started to name names and John Legend’s name came up, so we reached out to him. We didn’t expect him to come back so soon and to love the song. He sent his vocals in and we all fell in love with it, it was so beautiful.’
She continued to describe working with Legend as a ‘pleasure,’ while adding that the whole thing was done virtually.
Virtual collaboration: The first time collaborators recorded the song virtually as she told Fashion Magazine in a December interview that he ‘made it sound very much like a proper duet,’ despite recording his vocals on top of hers
‘John recorded on top of my vocals, and what I really loved about what he did was he made it sound very much like a proper duet.’
‘It’s a beautiful mixture of our voices where we both are in harmony. I feel so honored that he’s on the song.’
In an interview with Billboard, she also said ‘despite the long (and cold) days’ she ‘had such an amazing time’ on set and was grateful ‘for the countless talented people working behind the scenes to bring this beautiful visual to life.’