Photo: Gerri Miller
The Disneynature documentary "African Cats," which hits theaters April 22, is all about conserving wildlife and rescue the savannah inhabited by the lions and cheetahs the film follows, so it's fitting that the music video for the vocal featured in it replicates the savannah milieu.
Debuting on VEVO April 7, Jordin Sparks' "The World I Knew" looks like it's set in Africa, but in reality was shooting on a soundstage in Burbank, Calif. Thanks to blue screen effects, "It will feel like I'm walking through the savannah at dark and standing on a stone at morning like in 'The Lion King,'" Sparks said during a shooting break.
Sparks teamed up with Ryan Tedder, with whom she collaborated on the song "Battlefield." "I loved what it was saying: 'I don't live where this route is passing to take me but I live with you it's going to be OK.' It's very inspirational. I love singing songs that are really encouraging and general that everyone can refer to," she said.
Sparks has been to Africa herself, visiting Ghana in 2008 to distribute bed nets with Malaria No More and was planning to go to Rwanda with the Starkey Hearing Foundation "to have hearing aids to as my kids as possible."
The "American Idol" winner is running on cloth for a new album with Tedder and John Legend. "I alone take a couple songs right now and they're all very different. I'm trying to figure out if I desire to run more this way or that way, more dance or more what I was doing before. I definitely need to develop some more so I'm taking my time. I wish it to be cohesive," she explained. She won't go until its release, but might preview a dog or two, or perhaps sing "The World I Knew" if "Idol" asks her to look this season.
Meanwhile, she's making an attempt to be "more conscious of what I do like recycling and things I can reuse, and not going the water on when I brush my teeth and turn my lights off," said Sparks. "It makes a big difference."
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