'Butterfly', the lead single off Kehlani's recent mixtape While We Wait, is a supernaturally beautiful, hushed ode to the generative power of love, of the actual creation that its intimacy implies and portends. It's only fitting, then, that the song's accompanying music video, directed by Trey Lyons, unfolds in a cocoon-shaped world, where she is the love-beaming butterfly, the all-encompassing centrepiece.

In an instagram post, the Californian singer-songwriter revealed that she went back to her middle school, the Oakland School for the Arts, and worked with former teacher Mr. Revon on the construction on the cocoon-esque universe, costume design teacher Ms. Linda on the butterfly wings she wears, as well as with current students, including a pair of twins which were instrumental in the choreography.

Watch the video below.