Watch the Music Video for Victoria Justice’s “Down”
Victoria Justice has released the music video for her new single, “Down”. This is the fourth single to be released by Justice in 2024.
To celebrate the new video, Justice sat down with PAPER to discuss the video, how she is focused on her music, being a child star on Nickelodeon, what is to come for her, and so much more. Highlights can be found below.
On how this video/song came together: “As soon as I wrote the song, I knew I loved it. It just had this sexy, whimsical dancing vibe to it. And I’ve always loved dancing. I’ve been dancing ever since I was little, just for fun, so I knew I wanted to make a really sexy video with some choreo. I always pictured it on the beach. Obviously, the song is about this steamy connection between these two people, so I really wanted this video to bring that to life. I wanted to find the right choreographer. There were some stumbling blocks along the way, as there always is when you’re an independent artist and wholly self-funded, you know? But eventually I landed on the right director. I found the right lead guy. His name is Colby Testolin. He’s a model and actor, very good looking. So it was really fun to get to work with him and bring that chemistry to life on screen.
Then I found Luis de Peña, who’s our director, and it came together very last minute, which is where the stressful factor came from. The universe sometimes will place these challenges in your way, and you can feel so stressed out and want to just give up, but at the end of the day, it always finds its way of working out. This came together exactly the way that it’s supposed to be. We ended up filming two days, both in Malibu. We were just guerilla-style doing the stuff on the beach. Julia Myers is my choreographer, and she’s amazing. We really captured the vibe and sexy feeling of the song. I’m excited for people to see it. People haven’t seen me do choreography in a while, and I hope that people like it and that it inspires them to want to get on TikTok and try out the dance, or whatever, you know?”
On what is to come for her: “They’d be excited to know that I’ve been very focused on music. I’ve been in the studio working on new music that I’m also very excited about. So I’m working towards putting out an EP and eventually a cohesive album, is the dream. I don’t think I’m there quite yet, and I still have more writing and exploration to do there. But yeah, I’ve been really focused on doing music, and then on the acting side, I have a film that I did in Thailand last year. It’s called Depravity with Devon Ross and Taylor John Smith. It’s very dark and sexy and definitely something different for me. I got to really lean into the dramatic thriller side of things more, which was really cool. Then I did a guest spot on Suits: L.A. that should be coming out soon. I’ve been dabbling in the acting stuff here and there. But really, right now, I’ve just been focused on the music.”
You can read her full interview here. What does everyone think of the video?
Source: PAPER