Becky G Breaks Down Her Most Iconic Music Videos

Allure Magazine

Becky G breaks down her most iconic music videos, from "Shower" to "Mayores." Watch as Becky gets into all the nitty gritty details of every music video shoot, explaining how it all came to life and why they chose certain outfits and makeup looks.   Becky G's first ever headlining tour, Mi Casa, Tu Casa kicks off September 14th.   Director: Isabella Roman Director of Photography: Francis Bernal   Editor: Lucy Nebeker Coordinating Producer: Nikola Jocic Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors Production Coordinator: Jamal Colvin Talent Booker: Paige Garbarini Camera Operator: Rebecca Van Der Meulen Sound Mixer: Philip Kim Production Assistant: Lyla Neely; Nicholas Sims Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter Supervising Editor: Erica Dillman Additional Editor: Alana McNair  Assistant Editor: Andy Morell Graphics Supervisor: Ross Rackin

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00:00 Yo, what's up everybody?

00:00 It's your girl Becky G, and I am here to break down

00:04 some of my most iconic music videos.

00:06 [upbeat music]

00:09 This song is called "La Nena."

00:18 It's featuring an amazing artist named Gavito.

00:20 It was 2023.

00:22 The director was Santi.

00:24 It was our first time working together, actually.

00:26 The overall visual concept for this music video

00:28 was to do something that felt like a bit film-like,

00:33 cinematic.

00:33 We actually, quite literally, shot it on film,

00:36 which I like for people to know

00:38 because it's not just an aesthetic.

00:40 It's an art form.

00:41 What you see is what you get

00:42 when you shoot music videos on film.

00:43 So that was super important for us.

00:45 The music video is sexy vibes,

00:48 very fly on the wall,

00:52 and that was kind of the essence

00:53 that we wanted to give for the music video.

00:55 One of my favorite things about shooting on film,

00:57 and if you go back to some of the most iconic movies,

01:02 there's this grainy finish on one's skin,

01:06 and it makes it look flawless.

01:07 You don't have to really ever do any beauty touch-ups

01:11 or anything like that.

01:12 I mean, today, yes, we're spoiled

01:13 with very high-quality cameras,

01:15 but there is a clarity to film

01:17 that also gives this, I don't know,

01:19 this fuzziness to it as well.

01:21 It just makes makeup look incredible.

01:23 It definitely inspires me to go off on my glam always.

01:28 I have a, I would say, a go-to Becky G makeup look.

01:33 It's always with a cat eye shape of some sort.

01:37 Sometimes it's a diffused eyeliner,

01:39 maybe done with a color liner or something,

01:42 but it's always in that cat eye shape,

01:43 and I went with that specific look in this music video

01:47 because I wanted to feel super, I don't know, just badass.

01:51 The black two-piece set was an absolute must for me

01:56 with the choker that says "La Nena," of course,

01:58 a little to the song, as well as,

02:02 there's also says "La Nena" on the back

02:03 of the little crop top jacket as well.

02:06 So I'm all about the details, as you can tell.

02:08 The pink cat suit, for me, it was an obvious one.

02:10 Once I put it on, I was like, wow, I love this.

02:13 I feel super empowered, really sexy,

02:16 but at the same time, it's like I'm still covered up,

02:19 so it was just like, it leads to the imagination,

02:21 which I also really liked.

02:22 ♪ Always seem to smile ♪

02:24 This is a music video to my song "Shower"

02:26 that was shot in 2014, and it was directed by Tim Nakashi,

02:31 I think is how you say his last name?

02:33 This day was so crazy for me.

02:35 Really exciting day, but also an overwhelming day

02:40 because there were so many things that we shot

02:42 in that one setup.

02:45 It was this one house, and I was like,

02:47 oh, it's gonna be really simple.

02:48 We're gonna be by the pool,

02:50 and then we're gonna sing in the shower,

02:51 and it's gonna be super just straight to the point.

02:53 But there's actually a lot of cool,

02:55 techie camera things that we did as well.

02:58 I think in every music video,

03:00 I feel like it's an opportunity to just play dress up.

03:04 Sometimes I feel super girly,

03:06 sometimes I feel just very, I like my street wear,

03:08 I like it for it to feel a little tomboy-esque.

03:10 I think for this music video,

03:12 it was a hot summer in LA vibes,

03:15 so cut-off shorts, crop tops.

03:17 So fun little insight to the time was,

03:20 I was a cover girl at the time.

03:21 I was the youngest cover girl,

03:23 so I was very, very excited,

03:25 and I also was starring, of course,

03:27 my true Becky G cat eye, winged liner moment

03:31 for this music video.

03:32 (upbeat music)

03:35 This is my song "Mayores,"

03:37 and we shot this music video in 2017,

03:40 and the director was a dear friend of mine

03:42 named Daniel Duran.

03:43 The whole concept of this music video

03:44 was super fun and very stressful,

03:47 just because there was so much writing on it.

03:49 I knew it was gonna be one of those songs

03:51 that was gonna take my career to the next level,

03:53 and it was.

03:54 It was a video that reached a billion views,

03:58 which is wild, and of course,

04:00 it wouldn't have been possible

04:01 without my fellow collaborator as well, Bad Bunny.

04:04 Yeah, good times, good times.

04:06 What's really funny about Benito is that this day,

04:09 I mean, I remember we had discussed the creative deck

04:12 of the concept of the music video and everything,

04:15 but he still had to go shopping on the day

04:17 of the music video to find outfits

04:20 for the master performance,

04:22 which was hilarious and very stressful,

04:25 especially for me, 'cause I was like,

04:26 "Wait, we only have X amount of hours to shoot."

04:29 But he got it done, thank God.

04:31 I remember that day being really, really special,

04:33 and the vibes were right.

04:35 It felt like my coming out as a woman.

04:38 I felt like it was the first really sexy music video

04:42 where I was really owning my sexuality,

04:44 and I had just cut my hair, so I felt very liberated,

04:48 and I was like, "Oh, this is gonna be

04:49 "a statement music video."

04:51 When I cut my hair, I felt like it was

04:56 the right thing for me at the time.

04:58 I felt like I was cutting ties with who I used to be

05:03 and kind of owning who I am now

05:07 and the new journey I was beginning as an artist

05:10 and as a young woman, and I think that so much

05:13 in my culture is like, "If you have long hair,

05:17 "that's what makes you pretty."

05:18 And I was just like, "No, I'm beautiful regardless.

05:21 "My hair has nothing to do with that."

05:22 And so, yeah, when I cut my hair, I was like,

05:24 "Oh, yeah, this feels pretty badass."

05:27 I am a false lash girly.

05:29 I mean, don't get me wrong, a good mascara

05:31 on a natural bidet is also very nice.

05:33 In this music video, what was really fun

05:35 about the styling and the hair and the makeup

05:39 was that it is kind of like a timepiece.

05:41 So we kind of go and created this world

05:45 where the architecture even of the sets

05:48 that we were recording in, the spaces, the locations,

05:51 it felt like you were time traveling in a sense

05:53 of this more Gatsby time underground,

05:56 but then there's also these Star Wars elements,

05:58 so you're like, "When and where is this taking place?"

06:00 And so I love that you're just immersed into this space

06:03 where it feels like LA and an alternate universe,

06:06 if that makes sense.

06:07 Everybody believed in this music video,

06:09 and there was not a person on that set

06:11 that wasn't smiling, I think, from ear to ear once we wrapped

06:15 because we did know we did that.

06:17 Like, this video is gonna be fire.

06:19 This is "Chanel."

06:21 This was shot this year, 2023,

06:23 and it was directed by also a dear friend of mine named

06:26 Ricky Alpers.

06:27 The concept for this video to me was just a vibe.

06:31 From top to bottom, it was probably one of the easiest sets

06:36 I've ever worked on.

06:38 Also shot 100% on film.

06:40 And because the vibes were right

06:43 and it was just so chill,

06:45 it was just a flawless shoot.

06:47 We were just flowing.

06:49 The vibes just kept going and going,

06:51 and by the time we knew it, we were on our last setup,

06:53 and we're like, "We did that."

06:54 We're watching the sunset together

06:56 from this really cool rooftop,

06:58 and I just wanted it to feel like also LA in the summer.

07:01 Basically, everybody who came together

07:04 on the "Chanel" project was basically 100% Latino,

07:07 and that was very, very special to me.

07:09 I felt like I saw myself not just in front of the camera,

07:12 but also behind the camera.

07:13 Seeing a director like Ricky,

07:14 who is also very proud to be Chicano, Mexican-American,

07:18 his intentions and the way he shot certain things

07:22 really just captured that essence.

07:23 And then the styling choices that we made,

07:26 I wanted to just be on my B-shit,

07:28 like when I'm just me,

07:29 when I'm hanging out with my family

07:31 and not trying to look like an artist.

07:34 You know what I mean?

07:36 Little moments even, like when we were on the horse

07:39 and stuff, that's one of my favorite setups

07:43 in this music video, 'cause it just exudes power,

07:46 and that essence of power, female power.

07:50 I mean, you just have a horse in the middle of the street,

07:52 you're like, "None of this makes sense,"

07:53 but it makes perfect sense,

07:54 and it looks right, and it feels right.

07:55 So there's a lot of interesting decisions

07:57 that we made for this music video

07:59 that made it to be what it is today.

08:01 - If you could describe the glam for this video

08:03 in three words, what would the words be?

08:05 - I would say for sure, chicana,

08:07 like very, very chicana, very LA,

08:10 to as far as where I grew up

08:13 and how I saw my mom dress and things like that.

08:16 There's just little simple choices

08:18 that I think naturally just inspire the way

08:19 that I exist today as a little fashionista.

08:22 So I'd say chicana.

08:24 I would say definitely empowered.

08:27 That's the vibe it gives.

08:29 I'm trying to think of words about what it looks like,

08:32 but I think what it felt like to me was authentic.

08:35 It felt very authentic.

08:36 That would be my third one.

08:37 ♪ Mando, sing ♪

08:38 - This song is "Arranca,"

08:41 and this music video was shot in 2023,

08:43 and the director was Carla.

08:45 Love this song.

08:46 And what was so sick about this video

08:49 is as far as on the production side, the directing side,

08:53 it was just all some badass women

08:56 putting together the concept of this music video,

08:58 and that, for me, was such a joy to be around.

09:01 Also very easygoing, very flowy

09:04 on set, so I love this music video.

09:07 Shooting "Arranca" was really special to me

09:09 because the song as a whole is very contagious.

09:11 It makes you wanna dance.

09:12 It makes you happy,

09:13 even if you don't know what I'm saying.

09:14 Down to the beat, it's got something

09:16 that is, like I said, contagious.

09:18 But when you think about the origins of the rhythm

09:21 of the music, I really wanted to give a visual

09:25 that represents that origin.

09:27 And so what was really special is that we went to DR,

09:30 and we shot it in Boca Chica,

09:32 and there's a lot of locals there,

09:35 and that's actually who we hired as our extras

09:38 for the music video.

09:39 And it was important to me that I was just the singer

09:42 of the soundtrack of the city

09:44 and us capturing the people of Boca Chica

09:48 and what would happen on a Friday night

09:51 and what would happen if a block party took over the streets.

09:55 And so every single setup was about capturing la naturaleza,

10:01 like all of the nature that is the beach

10:04 and how, I mean, the water was like, it was just so nice.

10:07 A part of me wants to say, I'm a Pisces, I love the water,

10:10 but the ocean is terrifying.

10:11 There's only, we only know what, like seven, 8%

10:14 of what's actually in the ocean.

10:15 For me, the inspo was kind of just giving

10:18 like la sirena vibes.

10:21 Like I wanted little mermaid vibes, you know?

10:23 I wanted long hair.

10:24 I wanted it to be wavy so you could see it either dry, wet.

10:30 It feel very natural also was really important to me.

10:33 The outfits were just like, you know, in the fitting,

10:35 I was just like, I wanna be kind of comfortable.

10:37 So like, I wasn't like wearing heels or anything.

10:39 I just wanted to be with the people

10:41 and dance with the people and just really enjoy the energy

10:44 that was taking around me.

10:45 So to me, the styling was like the cherry on top.

10:50 It wasn't like the star, the star was the people.

10:52 The star was Boca Chica.

10:53 This is "Baila Con Mi Ex."

10:56 We shot this music video in 2022

11:00 and this was shot by our dear friend.

11:02 I say our dear friend

11:03 because he really did become like a friend of mine.

11:05 His name's Pedro.

11:06 We love you, Pedro.

11:07 This song had such a journey.

11:12 It was inspired by a song that was written in English

11:15 originally for a male artist called "Dancing With My Ex."

11:17 There's something about this song.

11:19 There's a nostalgia to it and there's a vulnerability to it.

11:22 The confession that is the song and the feelings

11:26 and how complex that story is.

11:28 I was like, we have to have a video

11:31 that really does that justice.

11:33 And Pedro like nailed it, completely nailed it.

11:37 And also 100% shot on film.

11:39 And this was one of my first times

11:41 for one of my own music videos shooting on film.

11:44 And so when Pedro hit me, this is my first music video

11:47 for my project to film, you know, shoot on film 100%.

11:50 I was like, I'm just gonna trust it

11:52 'cause there's again that vulnerability, that essence.

11:54 And so literally this music video,

11:55 I remember watching it and being like,

11:56 these moments are so special.

11:57 There's something about every single setup.

12:00 I mean, my favorite setup in this is the bathtub scene

12:04 when we're just sitting down facing each other.

12:06 And it's just like this conversation between two,

12:08 you know, past lovers and just the love

12:11 and the friendship that still happens

12:13 in those like little interactions is, yeah.

12:16 It's very special.

12:17 What was really special about the styling

12:19 and just the overall beauty essence

12:23 that we wanted to capture on camera,

12:24 Pedro was very, very adamant that we go more stripped back.

12:29 He's like, I've seen the glam Becky G,

12:33 the on tour, on stage, so much glitter,

12:36 so much rhinestone for the people up in the nosebleeds

12:39 to be able to see you shine.

12:40 But we're gonna be really close and intimate

12:43 in this music video and I want to feel like I see you.

12:46 And I was like, ooh, I love that.

12:48 There's something really exciting about that.

12:49 And so I really ran with that.

12:51 And so much to the point where that natural like texture

12:54 in my hair is like my hair on a day

12:57 where I really give like my wavy hair like some love

12:59 and I give it mousse and I diffuse it,

13:01 like that's what my hair looks like.

13:03 And as far as makeup goes,

13:05 we went with like a tinted moisturizer

13:07 and like very, very like thin lashes

13:09 and like just something that like, again,

13:13 as Pedro said, you would see me in.

13:15 And so even with the outfits, you know,

13:18 there's a bit of nostalgia to that as well.

13:20 I was thinking like, oh, what would,

13:22 what would an actress back in the days wear

13:25 in like, I don't know, 16 Candles or like, you know,

13:29 Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

13:31 Like what does that look like on me today?

13:33 Thank you so much, Familia de Alor for hanging with me

13:38 and breaking down all of my favorite music videos.

13:40 (upbeat music)

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