Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa take us to wonderland with “Sweetest Pie”
The music video follows the pair as they lure men into their house of treats
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Last June, rapper Megan Thee Stallion gushed about Dua Lipa, calling her “fire” and saying she’d love to collab with the singer. Now, less than a year later, the two have dropped the single “Sweetest Pie,” and a sexy, surrealist music video filled with sass and ass.
The Dave Meyers-directed music video (who’s previously worked with Kendrick Lamar, Normani, Drake, Ariana Grande) features Megan and Dua Lipa as alluring, arachnid-like sirens, luring men into their home of sweet treats—Hansel and Gretel style. What starts as a fantasy turns into a nightmare for the men when they find themselves in a bubbling cauldron, surrounded by flashing images of an eight-legged Dua Lipa and smashed up cherry pie.
Things take a turn for Megan and Dua Lipa when a mob of men tie them to a burning stake, something that spurs the witchy masterminds to burn the whole arena down, leaving nothing but ash. The groovy track features Megan’s signature raunchy bars and Dua Lipa’s smooth as honey vocals.
In conjunction with the release of the track, Dua has also shared a new episode of her podcast At Your Service, in which she talks with Megan about their collaboration.
“Megan and I have been going back and forth for so long on ‘Sweetest Pie,’” Dua says. “First of all, we were just sending tracks to each other that we felt represented both of us. I remember I was in LA working on my third album and I get an email being like ‘Megan really likes this track what do you think?’ and I listened to it and immediately heard it and was like ‘Oh I’m ready to write to this one.’”
“I was so happy, I was like, ‘This sounds like me and Dua, I really hope she likes it,’” Megan corroborates. “I was asking my label all the time like ‘What’d she say? What’d she say? You think she likes it?’ I had wrote so many verses to this song, but finally when I had heard your voice on it I was like, ‘Nah I need to rewrite all of this, this is not good enough.’
“It all aligned perfectly,” Dua adds.
Dua and Megan are set to hit the stage together next week in Phoenix, Denver, and Tulsa as a part of Dua’s North American Tour. “Sweetest Pie” is teased as the first taste of Megan’s forthcoming album. The rapper is also slated to appear in the new A24 R-rated musical alongside Bowen Yang, Nathan Lane, and Megan Mullally.
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This is a masterpiece. The future belongs to women of color. Get out of their way (or don’t and get left behind).I do miss Missy Elliott’s style though.
Nice racist take bitch.
This just seems like “My Neck, My Back”
I do miss Missy Elliott’s style though. People today just don’t put their thing down, flip it and reverse it the way they use to.
Planned obsolescence. No need to flip it when you can just trash it and buy another one.
Isn’t Dua Lipa Albanian?
Real question here… If I jerk off to Megan am I being toxically sexist or am I supporting an empowered feminist?
Just saw Dua Lipa in Chicago a couple days ago and she’s fine, but would I pay $100 to see her again: no. It was a great show — very energetic, great dancing and great vocals, but for Dua’s voice/writing(?) doesn’t have a lot of range right now and it’s only her 2nd album, so I might go again for her 5th album if her career progresses nicely.
Megan the Stallion is really coming for ZZ Top’s crown for number of songs titled after sex acts/references.
She looks better doing it though.
But not by much.
That ash body throne looks comfy
Ben Shapiro is totally only gonna watch this 27 times so he can fully explain the degradation of Western society in it.
Very cool visuals!
I really like the cauldron room with walls made of clapping ass cheeks.
There is so damn much happening visually that it requires multiple viewings. Thankfully, the song slaps.
Not to go out on a limb or anything, but is there any possibility that “pie” here is some kind of metaphor for female genitalia?
I would let Dua Lipa ruin my entire existence