Here is the official music video for John Legend’s single “Everybody Knows.”  See the music video, photos and a behind the scenes video here.  It’s the second single from his third studio album, Evolver, in stores now. The track was written by John Stephens, Kawan Prather, James Ho, and Terrence Smith.

The music video was directed by Anthony Mandler and shot on location in Brooklyn, New York. The Grammy winning R&B artist appears in the cinematic video which encapsulates the ballad’s lyrics, he is walking down the street, passing by two couples interacting; one couple arguing publicly and latter making up and another couple sitting together in the park.

John Legend’s album Evolver features appearances from Kanye West, Brandy Norwood, Estelle and Andre 3000. In a recent interview, he discussed the album.

When I went in, it wasn’t like, “Man, I want to write a club record.” We did Green Light, and that was a good song, and then we did It’s Over (with West) and a couple more like that, and it worked.

I go to clubs a lot, but I don’t get played in clubs a lot. So it’s kind of cool to go to clubs and know that they’re playing you not just because you showed up, but they would have played you anyway. [...]

In some ways, Evolver is a return to the production style of Get Lifted, updated. You could use the Rhodes (electric piano) or a more electronic, synthesized sound … And the sound of hip-hop right now is more electronic, so when I collaborated with hip-hop producers like Pharrell or will.i.am, it just made sense to go with those sounds, because that was the milieu we were working in.

Source: John Legend covers new ground with Evolver Photo source: John-Legend.net

John Legend recently took part in the We Are One Inaugural Celebration at Lincoln Memorial, in a performance with John James Taylor and Jennifer Nettles. He is currently on tour with Estelle.



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