“Would you take Billie Holiday to the Holiday Inn? Listen, you could’ve done better…”
The lovely Chrisette Michele delivers her most overt homage to the inspiration of her upcoming mixtape with this Audrey Hepburn-inspired clip for “Can the Cool Be Loved.” Michele’s lyrics detail her quirky and “cool” (ie. cool in its classic jazz meaning) ways and wonder about if those attributes can find her love. Michele describes the “still picture prison” theme below:
A fun lil Audiovisual Presentation Konee Rok and I drummed up. The concept is “Prisoner of a Still Picture” Dunson and I are stuck in the iconic photography of Audrey and the great Sir Davis. We pose in these lyrics, the question, “Can The Cool Be Loved?” From our Art to Yours… Enjoy.
Michele’s Audrey Hepburn mixtape drops on December 8.
Beats, Boxing and Mayhem 