See How the Floating Ponytails and Thigh-Highs Came to Life in Ariana Grande’s Behind-the-Scenes Cover Video

[Camera Man] Let me know mate, I m ready.

[Bardia] All right, camera s ready, so.

Vogue.

Okay, so let s roll camera.

Thank guys so, this is just....

Thanks guys, so...

here we are.

[Bardia] We like a quick shot.

Ariana, you did a great job.

All right, let s roll camera.

I love you.

[Bardia] Crikey, right mate.

Crikey, we shot a great video today over here

with Bardia.

I m Bardia, I m the director.

We re here shooting Ariana s Vogue cover video

for the August issue.

It s a little bit sci-fi.

It s a little bit Cubaric.

It s a little Y2K.

It kinda started out by just finding

what makes Ariana iconic.

It s the voice, it s the ponytail, it s the boots,

it s the silhouette, so we decided that we wanted

to create an iconic video isolating the Ariana iconography

and playing it up and having a good time with it.

We did.........

the ponytails

on her and her back up dancers

to just really send it home that, you know,

this is her signature, her iconic pony

that is just recognizable through and through.

Can you put oil all through the ends?

[Bardia] You wanna check your towels or your

done?

Hi.

[smooth r&b music]

Yeah, we just need to go over the dances.

They re smashing it with 10 pounds of hair.

Pony on that end, leather boots.

I got green everywhere.

Green babyhairs, I got green everywhere.

That s it. Ponies, boots, and a lot of charisma.

That s it.

And Ari s gonna smash it, obviously, so.

[smooth r&b music]

Want me to start over?

[Bardia] Yeah.

You hit something? I saw like a...

[Bardia] A couple of things happened...

Okay, sorry [mumbles].

[smooth r&b music]

[clapping]

Thank you, everyone!

[cheering and clapping]