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Adela Jergova wears the RITUAL Lynx Lingerie Top for new music video
Adela Jergova is wearing the RITUAL Lynx Lingerie Top for her new music video, "Sex On The Beat," out now.
From VOGUE: "Adéla Was Born to Be a Pop Star" by Liam Hess
"If you’re in a public place and about to hit play on Adéla’s video for “Sex on the Beat,” consider turning down the volume first.
The visual begins with the 21-year-old Slovak pop star—her hair dyed pastel pink, her eyebrows bleached—appearing to simulate an orgasm in front of a shrine to pop music in her bedroom. (Written out in hot pink masking tape? “Sex = pop.”)
She then tunes into a YouTube masterclass led by Christina Aguilera—“Harness your sexuality and become pop royalty in eight weeks!” Aguilera croons—before launching into an eye-popping dance routine, choreographed by Doechii collaborator Robbie Blue, that sees her undertake the raunchiest aerobics routine you’ve ever seen, partly executed atop a man dressed as an office worker with an eyepatch.
Underpinning it all, though, is Adéla’s winking humor: a meta commentary on the “sex sells” mantra that has defined pop stardom over the decades, the video takes that idea and runs with it to its most brazen—and ultimately subversive—extreme. You can’t help but crack a smile.
It’s an audacious statement of intent that seems to mark the arrival of a fully formed pop star—and feels even more astonishing once you learn Adéla only launched her solo career less than a year ago.
“Sometimes you have to promote music that you’ve been sitting on for a while, but the final mix of the final song was done two weeks ago, so it’s really fresh,” she says, cheerily. “I’m excited to promote it and to see how everybody feels about it.”
You can be sure people will have feelings.
If Adéla looks (or indeed, sounds) a little familiar, that’s because her solo career isn’t her first shot at stardom. In 2022, she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of Bratislava to begin a grueling training program, with the chance to join the global K-pop group Katseye, a process that was documented in a pair of Netflix shows.
The first, Dream Academy, was a fan-voted competition in which Adéla was knocked out in the first round; the second, Pop Star Academy, was released after the fact, and documented the contestants’ years-long journey.
Across the latter, Adéla swiftly emerged as one of the strongest competitors, regularly earning effusive praise and ranking top of the leaderboard among the judges, as well as serving as something of a maternal figure (despite being a teenager herself) for the younger girls in the group.
The show quickly acquired a rabid fanbase, with the online opinions to match: thanks to her powerful talent and self-confidence, Adéla emerged as one of its most-talked-about contestants, outshining even some of those who made the final cut.
“For me, being a provocateur is just speaking your truth,” she says when I ask her about the EP’s title. “A lot of the time, people don’t really want to hear it. Even as a kid in Slovakia, I’ve always had a different point of view to everyone else, and I was very vocal and outspoken about it. And on the show, I was painted in this kind of super blunt, confrontational way, and there were so many different reactions [to me] that were completely polar opposites of each other."
"People either really love me or they really hate me—and now, I’ve come to enjoy that. I’d much rather be that than straight down the middle, inoffensive. If you don’t like what I’m doing, great. Why, I wonder? And if you do: again, why? I think that’s what I value in artists, is them being true to themselves.”
DIRECTOR: 91 Rules
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Chris Horan
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Aiden Magarian
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Alex Brinkman
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Object & Animal
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Typeface, Ted & Jane
PRODUCER: LE Seydel DP: Minka Farthing-Kohl
CHOREOGRAPHER: Robbie Blue
ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER: Lucas Debiasi
CHOREOGRAPHER ASST: Marie Spieldenner
DANCER: Jalen Rashad
DANCER Nico Lonetree
DANCER: Gavin Morales
DANCER: Kyndall Ash
DANCER: Madelyne Spang
IMMERSIVE MGMT: Adam Mersel
IMMERSIVE MGMT: Sam Jacobsen
IMMERSIVE MGMT: Priscilla Felten
HEAD OF CREATIVE (CAPITOL RECORDS): Joe Mortimer
HEAD OF CREATIVE (CAPITOL RECORDS): Sara Nix
CREATIVE (CAPITOL RECORDS): James Gersh
1ST AD: Jeff Cobb
1ST AC: Jasmine Chang
ON SET PM: Caroline Gluck
GAFFER: Francis Butler
KEY GRIP: Carlos Escobar
AD PA: Bailey Sims
PA: Raymond Harper
PA: Colton Randol
PA: Shalyn Delhaes
PA: Omar Sandoval
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Crystal Geller
LEADMAN: Kyle Yanagihara
SET DEC: Codee Hutchins
SET DEC: Raquel Smith
CHOREOGRAPHER ASST: Marie Spieldenner
DANCER: Jalen Rashad
DANCER Nico Lonetree
DANCER: Gavin Morales
DANCER: Kyndall Ash
DANCER: Madelyne Spang
ADDT EXTRAS CASTING DIRECTOR: Apecastings & Jared Benedict
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Angela Capri
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Julia Alkhimova
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Naz Red
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Robert Wood
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Jennifer P
AUDIENCE MEMBER: William S
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Jesse Garcia
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Marc Molina
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Ciara Smith
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Brandon Katerman
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Mikela and Jillian Goza
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Cyber
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Johnnes Kromminga
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Ky Tyson
WARDROBE STYLIST: Chris Horan
WARDROBE ASST: Sanam Celine
WARDROBE ASST: Jared Benedict
WARDROBE ASST: Leah Garcia
MAKEUP ARTIST: Gabi Alvarez
HAIR STYLIST: Joey Grajeda
BG MAKEUP: Ashley Ysabelle
EDIT HOUSE: Modern Post
EDITOR: Lauren Friedman
EDIT EP Andrew Illson
ASST EDITOR: Juliana Fagan
COLOR SERVICES BY COMPANY 3
COLORIST: @josephbicknell
COLOR PRODUCER: Casey Koster
SOUND STUDIO: Concrete Form
SOUND DESIGN & MIX: Kai Scheer
VISUAL FX: HIMIA
Adela Jergova is wearing the RITUAL Lynx Lingerie Top for her new music video, "Sex On The Beat," out now.
