A Deeper Look Into "We Just Be" Music Video
- thegiftedonline
- Aug 27, 2018
- 4 min read
Two years ago, Mickey Blue released his first (and only music video revealed on all platforms) to the world — and we absolutely love it! We Just Be tells the story of a guy who is deeply in love with a young woman, and wants to spend the rest of his life with her, but there are forces keeping the two apart. Check out the riveting video:
Shakirah: So I’ve been stalking you to come up with these questions . . .
Mickey: *interrupts* Oh perfect.
Shakirah: . . . And I saw your music video for We Just Be. I was shocked to not see you in the music video! Who is the creative director for the music video and why aren’t you in the video? Even though it’s still good though!
Mickey: I don’t have a fear of being in music videos, I just don’t want to have my name on something that doesn’t have a narrative to it. And I feel like I will be in videos in time but I want them to be [about] something. I don’t just want it to be me singing them. I want it to have a narrative, I want it to tell a story. So when those opportunities arise . . . We actually sent that off to a Boston company. I didn’t write a direct screenplay, but I wrote a bunch of bullet points for what I wanted and what I saw happening [in the video] and they did an incredible job. We sent back one revision and they got it right the next time. I was just so impressed with them. I was thinking about those guys recently and going back to them because they really listen to everything I said, and then they put their own spin on it. And the actors were great, I think they perfectly suited the song and it might have helped the song too.
Shakirah: So who are you singing about in We Just Be?
Mickey: The same girl I’m with today.
Shakirah: Aww, that’s sweet. So all of these love songs that you write, you kind of have your girlfriend in the back of your mind?
Mickey: Yeah.
Shakirah: But what about the heartbreak songs?
Mickey: I think that there’s a lot of heartbreak [and] there’s a lot of pain in long term relationships. I think if you have a fairytale idea of what love is actually like, and everybody’s relationship is different, don’t get me wrong but I think love is pain, plain and simple. You have to really commit to growing with a person because if you’re going to bring two people together and spend an extended period of time with them you have to imagine two completely separate personalities, even though you have a ton of similarities. It’s just when you spend an extended period of time with anybody, friend, coworker, significant other, you’re bound to but heads at some point. It’s just a matter of “is this person important enough to you to work this stuff out and to move forward or are you gonna let those things tear you apart?” So I believe, even in my relationship, we’ve had a lot of bumps and bruises, but what’s more significant? Do you want to grow with this person and work out those kinks or do you want to quit on them and start from ground zero, start from square one? It’s not always easy but it’s love man, it’s love. You have to make sure the good outweighs the bad and go from there.
"So I think a lot of the heartbreak songs are just what I’ve experienced."
Sure I’ll take other inspirations and little bits and pieces from other relationships that have happened in the past, but I think primary everything comes back to my current state. I like to write about what’s going in my life at the moment. I’ll write a song, and I might just be feeling like that for that day, but might not release it for a year or two until I feel like that way again.
Shakirah: Wow, that was a very eye-opening response. Thank you for sharing. So, when you were younger, what was your idea of love growing up and how did it change or stay the same?
Mickey: I just think it’s a matter of experience like most things in life. You think you know things when you are a kid. But then you actually go through them and it changes your perception entirely. And I was a smart ass kid. At 16 years old I probably knew more than everybody. I didn’t like to listen in class, I didn’t like to listen to my parents. But I mean the only real way to learn, people can tell you as much as they want to tell you. The only real way to learn is through experience and when I was a kid, I had no idea what love was. I thought love was infatuation, that’s all I thought it was. I thought you had to be permanently infatuated by this person 24 hours a day, seven days a week—not have to work at it, or agree on everything, right? Completely incorrect. You get in an argument sometimes about what you want to eat for dinner.
“Baby just make a decision . . .
I don’t want to make a decision . . .
You decide I chose last time. You want pizza?
I don’t want pizza, we just had bread for lunch."
So it’s work, it’s compromise, eventually you learn to think and choose your battles. That’s what’s important because you got to grow at some point. If you’re in a relationship and you keep making the same mistakes over and over and over and over and over again then what are you doing? And that’s for anything in life. Eventually you’re gonna have to make adjustments, you’re gonna have to make alterations, or else there’s a problem.
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