A Love Letter to Ciara's "Body Party" Music Video

By now, Ciara's video for her newest single "Body Party" has been out for about 24 hours, and the Internet has formed a smallish cult around it, GIF-ing, detail obsessing-overing, and Appreciation Tumblr-ing about it as is the custom of the Internet To be fair, it's a pretty incredible video, made all the more DAWWW-inducing by the fact that "Body Party" cowriter/cooer Future also stars in the video, and he is Ciara's boyfriend. That, and like a minute of video is like a feather's stroke away from porn.

The main best part of the "Body Party" video is that it provides a FICTIONAL ORIGIN STORY for Future and Ciara's perfect and beautiful relationship that proves we live in a world where we are not guaranteed to die wrinkly and alone and that instead we will turn up to the heavens and life will be fulfilling and good. The fictional story is as follows:

There is a party, presumably in Atlanta, that Future and Ciara are both attending. It's a good party; Future is playing pool, Trinidad James is managing to not annoy anyone; even Ludacris decided to show up. Future and CiCi meet in the courtyard, just like a scene from Shakespeare, or maybe a Taylor Swift song. Future, who it turns out is an endearingly terrible actor, approaches her and says that phrase of love, that phrase which has launched a thousand romances and will surely launch a million romances more.

Future: Sup.
Ciara: Hi.
F: What y'all got goin' on round here?
C: Just havin' a good time.
F: *EYES BULGE* I see y'all super turnt up!
C: Oh, so you been watchin' me.
F: You're not hard to miss. *SEXY FUTURE FACE*
C: Neither are you.
F: By the way, I'm Future. *INITIATES HANDSHAKE*
C: I'm Ci.

And just like that, BOOM. STRIPTEASE.

Now, there are a couple perfect things about the Ciara/Future meeting scene. One is the idea that they do not already know who each other are. Ciara is a famous singer, and Future is a famous Human Robot Music Guy; their reputations precede each other. Two, Future's own song ("Karate Chop") is also playing in the background of this scene. The lapdance scene, I can only assume, is a joint fantasy that they immediately share once their hands touch for the first time.

Once Ciara and Future have successfully had a Fantasy Lapdance Scene we return to Future and Ciara, whose hands are still touching. Ciara is pretty obviously rattled by this interaction, maybe because Future holds her hand for like .0000534 seconds more than is socially acceptable.

C: What?
F: *FACE LIGHTS UP, THIS IS VERY OBVIOUSLY THE LINE HE'S BEEN WANTING TO SAY* You know you gone be mine, right?
C: Oh, is that right? How you know?
F: I saw it.
C: Really.
F: Yep. They don't call me The Future for no reeeeeeason.
C: Okay, well, we'll see about that Mister Future.
F: We will see. Imma see you inside.
C: I'll see you inside.
F: One thousand. *WALKS AWAY*

It is at this moment that Ciara says the now-immortal phrase, "He reads." I have on question, and that one question is this: What the fuck does "He reads" actually mean? READS WHAT, CIARA? READS WHAT?? Her body language? The invitation to her body party? Anyways, I guess it doesn't matter, because Future read, and now Ciara are dating and this means that true love is an achievable thing in this world.

Drew Millard reads. He's on Twitter - @drewmillard