Kehlani emerges from a cocoon and transforms into a butterfly in her new video for Butterfly. Mirroring the songs lyrics, which explore the need to open up and communicate in a relationship and likens it to the way a butterfly experiences a metamorphosis from its nascent form, the clip takes a literal approach to portraying the lyrics.
I hope you take from this that itll make you no less of a man/To break your walls and simply grab my hand, she encouragingly intimates at the end of the song. Love shouldnt be contraband/It shouldnt trample on your confidence/Shouldnt be seen as less than compliments.
Continuing with the metamorphosis themes, Kehlani paid homage to her roots by tapping talent from her alma mater, Oakland School for the Arts in Oakland, California. She turned to her former dance and production design teachers to recruit talented students who then assisted in the set design and created the impressive choreography, which they completed in three days. The excellent featured young male dancers, Munir and Musa Omar, are also current students at the school. The set the students helped create adeptly emulates the themes in the song, as the pregnant, body-paint-adorned Kehlani is radiant as a transformed butterfly within the lush, vivid setting.
Butterfly appears on the singers While We Wait mixtape, which dropped last month, and follows her previously released video for Nunya.