Love gets messy. Really messy. And that's clear in Mario's new video for his new collaboration track, "Somebody Else," the lead single from his upcoming fifth studio album, "Restoration," the years-in-the-making record will be released in September. The smooth R&B track, featuring vocals from rapper Nicki Minaj, has pop influences and finds Mario mourning the tragic end of a relationship, with his significant other leaving him for "somebody else."
For over a decade, Mario, the the 26-year-old Contemporary R&B singer-songwriter from Baltimore, has delivered blazing R&B-hip hop jams, but hasn't released an album since 2009's "D.N.A." Since then, Mario has dealt with personal drama, a shifting genre and a flat, non-starter of a single (2011's "The Walls"). Now, he's plotting a comeback, or more accurately, trying to find his place in the current-day R&B scene. He's taking a step forward with his latest single, "Somebody Else."
The why-did-you-leave-me track was produced by Polow Da Don and features a fittingly serious Minaj guest verse, as Mario sings of heartbreak when his girl leaves for another dude. But he needed a feisty female to help make the track "timeless, special and relatable," and he knew the perfect one: Minaj. If this comeback is for real, Mario seems to be recruiting the right players for the moment. Baltimore singer laments his flighty lady in new single. "I knew Nicki would the best for a female rebuttal," he says. "She's relatable, but very rebellious."
"How would you have learned if I ain't leave?" Mario and Minaj reflect on a love they once had in the Alexandre Moors-directed clip for "Somebody Else." As a couple who has an argument about their relationship, the two stars bring the line, "Looking at my new man, wish it was you but you dead now" to life as Mario lies lifeless and lying unconscious on top of a totaled car on the street, scorn and heartbroken on this rather infectious record, and it eventually becomes clear that he was pushed from the window of a skyscraper by his angry girlfriend Minaj.
For over a decade, Mario, the the 26-year-old Contemporary R&B singer-songwriter from Baltimore, has delivered blazing R&B-hip hop jams, but hasn't released an album since 2009's "D.N.A." Since then, Mario has dealt with personal drama, a shifting genre and a flat, non-starter of a single (2011's "The Walls"). Now, he's plotting a comeback, or more accurately, trying to find his place in the current-day R&B scene. He's taking a step forward with his latest single, "Somebody Else."
The why-did-you-leave-me track was produced by Polow Da Don and features a fittingly serious Minaj guest verse, as Mario sings of heartbreak when his girl leaves for another dude. But he needed a feisty female to help make the track "timeless, special and relatable," and he knew the perfect one: Minaj. If this comeback is for real, Mario seems to be recruiting the right players for the moment. Baltimore singer laments his flighty lady in new single. "I knew Nicki would the best for a female rebuttal," he says. "She's relatable, but very rebellious."
"How would you have learned if I ain't leave?" Mario and Minaj reflect on a love they once had in the Alexandre Moors-directed clip for "Somebody Else." As a couple who has an argument about their relationship, the two stars bring the line, "Looking at my new man, wish it was you but you dead now" to life as Mario lies lifeless and lying unconscious on top of a totaled car on the street, scorn and heartbroken on this rather infectious record, and it eventually becomes clear that he was pushed from the window of a skyscraper by his angry girlfriend Minaj.
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