Mariah Carey has many diva demands – warm lighting, no pictures of the left side of her face, Nicki Minaj’s head on a stake – and we can add a green screen to that list. In her new video for “#Beautiful”, Carey rides on the back of Miguel’s rather fancy motorbike…or did she?
The clever Joseph Kahn whipped out the fancy backdrop and Carey’s trusty wind machine to create the illusion that the songbird was actually riding down a dusty road with Miguel on his bike. However, the shoot wasn’t conducted during the day as the final product indicated. Rather, the key scenes were all shot at night.
Now, there is a new scandal erupting. Did Carey use a body double for the daytime scenes of the bike cruising down the empty road? Cue the gossip blogs’ responses to the “#Beautiful” behind the scenes footage below: