Paul McCartney recently premiered his brand new self-directed video My Valentinefrom his album Kisses on the Bottom. The track is one of the only two original composition by the ex-Beatles musician and stars Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman. The video, which features the two stars, shows them ad libbing to the song.
My Valentinehas been descirbed as a very mellow old world track with the kind of charm missing in this time and age where programmed perfections and bass drops are prominent.
The videos were shot on 35mm and Paul worked with Academy Award winning cinematographer
Wally Pfister (
Inception, The Dark Knight), editor Paul Martinez and producer Susanne Preissler to create these elegant and powerful films based on an original idea by Stella McCartney.
My Valentineis the second Paul McCartney music video Natalie Portman has starred in, the first being the Michel Gondry-directed
Dance Tonightin 2007. For this new performance, she was exclusively dressed by Stella McCartney. Johhny Depp also plays guitar in his version and recorded the track's guitar solo live. His guitar take was then mixed and mastered into the final track. The original guitar solo on the studio version of the song was performed by
Eric Clapton.