Queens Cast, Eve, Naturi Naughton, Nadine Velazquez, Brandy - 2021 Nasty Girl Performance

What this video is

"Nasty Girl" was released October 1, 2021, as the lead promotional single for ABC's Queens, a musical drama series starring Eve, Naturi Naughton, Nadine Velazquez, and Brandy as fictional '90s hip-hop legends reuniting in their 40s. The video functions as both a standalone music video and an in-universe artifact of the show's fictional group the 'Nasty Bitches.' Produced under executive music direction from Swizz…

Why it matters

A deliberate and self-aware recreation of the late-'90s hip-hop girl-group video format, 'Nasty Girl' sits at the intersection of prestige TV soundtrack marketing and hip-hop revival aesthetics. It demonstrates how streaming/broadcast television in the early 2020s leveraged legacy Black female…

The director

Tim Story is a veteran American music video and film director whose video credits span the late 1990s and 2000s, including work for 'NSync, India Arie, Monica, K-Ci & JoJo, The Lox, and Tyrese. He also served as an executive producer on the ABC series Queens…