Mae Stephens struggled to clean out the paint after capturing the music video for her tune ‘Woah Man!’.
Mae Stephens was soaked in paint for the Woah Man! music video
The 22-year-old singer was coated in paint for the video to her newest single however admits that she wasn’t ready for the exhausting work concerned in eradicating it as soon as the shoot was full.
Mae advised The Solar newspaper’s Weird column: “It was fingers down probably the most pleasing shoot I’ve ever had. It includes me getting coated in a variety of paint.
“After, I am like, ‘OK how are we going to get this off?’ And none of us had thought that far forward.
“We had no shampoo, no conditioner, so I had hand cleaning soap and a bathe.
“I needed to stroll again via London with flecks of paint in my hair and carrying a double-wrapped bin bag of my soaked garments.”
Mae – who had a success with ‘If We Ever Broke Up’ in 2023 after the observe went viral on the social media platform TikTok – defined that her latest tune celebrates feminine empowerment.
She mentioned: “‘Woah Man!’ is a funk/pop-orientated observe highlighting the ups and downs of being a lady and the facility and wonder that comes with that, diving into controversial subjects like hiding tampons to calling out the inequality of gender hierarchy.
“Woah Man!’ was created to be an anthem of empowerment for females and a message to the following technology to be proud to be a lady.”
The singer launched the observe ‘ADHD’ final 12 months after being identified with the situation and defined that it was the rationale that she was advised she would by no means quantity to something whereas she was in school.
Mae, who labored in a grocery store earlier than discovering fame, advised the BBC: “I’ll at all times stand for these children which can be advised they’re by no means going to be something, I’ll stand there and say that they’ll.”
Recalling her college days, she continued: “I used to be majorly hyper-fixated on (the) artistic relatively than educational which is why I did not do my homework.
“I spent so a few years being advised I wasn’t going to do something or make a lot of myself – I used to be just a few loud woman behind the category.
“I’ve recognized for some time that one thing on my mind wasn’t the identical as everyone else.
“Going via the diagnose course of as an grownup you be taught a lot about your self.”
