As music video directing debuts go, this one for Tanika's Bad 4 U takes some beating. For a start the concept, for a new artist's big launch pop song, is just a bit outrageous. It's a very sexy courtship dance between Tanika - very much flesh and blood - and a massive 18-wheeler truck.The director is Justin Anderson, already highly regarded in the fashion film world with his work with Richard Nicoll, Agent Provocateur, Armani, and George Jensen. As Justin explains below, his inspiration was the work of legendary art director Jean-Paul Goude with Grace Jones. But the execution is all his own work and its superb - a precision instrument.
David Knight - 22nd Oct 2013