page_title: Talk About Our Love
section_title: Music video
hierarchical_section_title: Talk About Our Love / Music video
caption_attribution_description: Kanye West in 2007.
context_page_description: "Talk About Our Love" is a song by American recording artist Brandy, taken from her fourth studio album, Afrodisiac. It was written by Kanye West, who also appears as a featured artist on it, and Harold Lilly, while production was handled by the former. Due to the song's use of a sample of Mandrill's 1978 song "Gilly Hines", penned by band members Claude Cave II, and Carlos, Louis and Ricardo Wilson, they are also credited as writers. Lyrically, "Talk About Our Love" is about a relationship that lacks support by family and friends; the music consists of an arrangement using a bass, keyboards, drums, and string instruments, the latter of which were provided by Israeli violinist Miri Ben-Ari.
  Recorded late into the production of the album, the track was an eleventh hour addition to the album's track listing, alongside "Where You Wanna Be". It was eventually selected as the album's lead single in a last-minute decision and thus replaced the Timbaland-crafted song "Black Pepper", resulting in his dissociation of the Afrodisiac project.
context_section_description: The music video for "Talk About Our Love" was filmed in Los Angeles between March 6–7, 2004 and produced by Rick Revel for Radical Media Inc. It was the third Brandy clip to be directed by Dave Meyers, who had previously worked with her on the videos for "Another Day in Paradise" (2001) and "What About Us?" (2002). Apart from producer Kanye West, who came up with the concept for the video, Norwood's younger brother Ray J also makes a cameo appearance in the clip, also actress Maia Campbell also makes a cameo appearance in the beginning of the video. The music video set is also known as the first place Kanye met and attained affection for his current wife Kim Kardashian, who was Brandy's assistant at the time.
  The concept of the video was influenced by Norwood's personal experiences at that period, picking up the idea of nosy friends and neighbours, who keep on popping in and out of her house to find out about her affairs. Opening with an additional musical intro, the first scene in the video begins with Norwood confronting West, who's standing behind the kitchen's table, when other people switch constantly in and out the room and watch what's happening. The camera follows West's fleeing steps through the floor, incessantly backspacing on Norwood, who runs after him. The scene shifts into the living-room, where it changes into a sequence with two male dancers, before Norwood leaves the room to take stairs into the bedroom. West follows and sings to her next on the bed, when once again pop strangers in the room and Norwood and Kanye decide to escape out of the house. The video ends with both singers sitting in an oldtimer and driving down the street.
  The video premiered on May 2, 2004 at the end of its Making the Video episode on MTV and entered general rotation on MTV the following day. It debuted on the network's Total Request Live on May 10 and on Canada's MuchMusic in the week ending May 16. It reached number three on the TRL top ten video countdown on May 21, its seventh day on the countdown; and was retired from the show after spending thirteen days on the countdown. Temporarily, the "Talk About Our Love" video was the most-played clip on BET, reaching number two on the network's video countdown 106 & Park. PopMatters ranked the video among the best music videos of 2004. At the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards, Norwood and West were nominated in the category of Best R&B Video for "Talk About Our Love".
caption: The plot of the video was based on a treatment by West.
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