Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody
- Apr 15
- 1 min read
Shot in the late 90s, the video’s setting at Highpoint in Highgate quietly recasts the song as a North London story: Ama leans against white-rendered balconies, wanders communal walkways and looks out over the city from one of its highest residential vantage points. The camera treats the building less as a location and more as an emotional register; its long horizontal lines and deep shadows echo the track’s unhurried groove, giving the impression of a day spent thinking about someone who may or may not call.
In the context of Ama’s video, that architectural pedigree becomes unexpectedly democratic: a building once feted in architectural journals doubles as a backdrop for British R&B’s mainstream breakthrough, folding working‑ and middle‑class housing ideals into the visual language of late‑20th‑century pop.
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