BLACK WIDOW introduces new HP tablet
Posted on 16th August 2014
Iggy Azalea’s BLACK WIDOW music video features an HP tablet, the Wickr app as well as two motorcycles:
Following the successes of FANCY, WORK and her Ariana Grande collaboration PROBLEMS, Iggy Azalea has released the music video for her latest single, BLACK WIDOW featuring Rita Ora.
The BLACK WIDOW video sees the two artists star in a Kill Bill homage adventure involving tight jumpsuits and swords as well a tablet, a proprietary instant messenger app and two motorcycles.
Rita Ora’s assassin persona is introduced to us at a shady poker game. Following a winning hand and some ass-kicking, she picks up an HP Slate 8 Plus. The tablet enjoys 8 seconds of screen time in which the HP logo is clearly visibly as well as its Android interface. Rita Ora uses the tablet to consult an app where she receives her “target”.
As well as being associated with the 24 year old British singer the HP tablet sees itself associated with poker, app use, the specific app we will see shortly and is portrayed as being cool to use.
HP is not a common Brand to find in music videos but it does have some precedents. Concave Brand Tracking has identified HP products in 10 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 music videos over the past decade. These included laptops, TVs and/or mobiles phones in:
– WHEN YOU’RE MAD (2006) by Ne-Yo
– BAD ROMANCE and TELEPHONE (2010) by Lady Gaga
– FOREVER (2009) by Drake
– BOOM BOOM POW (2009), I GOT A FEELING (2009), ROCK THAT BODY (2009) and IMMA BE (2009) by The Black Eyed Peas
– I NEED A DOCTOR (2011) by Dr. Dre
– WITHOUT YOU (2011) by David Guetta
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In terms of tablets specifically, these appeared in the music videos for I NEED A DOCTOR (2011) by Dr. Dre and WITHOUT YOU (2011) by David Guetta. In the former, an HP tablet was shown in a medical lab, used by doctors and associated with mobile phone syncing, technology, medicine and professional use. In WITHOUT YOU, an HP tablet is shown used casually by two women to watch live news.
BLACK WIDOW is also the first sighting of an HP product in any music video whose song charted in Billboard’s Weekly Hot 100 in 2014.
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Wickr
The aforementioned app used by Rita Ora on the HP tablet is the “Top-Secret Messenger” Wickr. Much like Snapchat, this app offers the possibility of sending messages that are only available to the recipient for a very short period of time. This functionality is demonstrated in Wickr’s 5 seconds of screen time, as Rita Ora receives a short-lived photo of her assassination target.
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