* Video link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC9i8w2cHwM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC9i8w2cHwM)
* Published: October 7, 2020
* Director: Emil Nava
* Producer: Kirsten Arongino
* Makeup Artist: Allan Avendano
* Full credits: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13294216/fullcredits/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13294216/fullcredits/)

On the MVM of our dear Sabrina's birthday, the lore is gonna run *deep*, as we look at her collaboration with Zara Larsson. Like Sabrina, Zara has been on the scene for over a decade, and has only recently been properly taking the world by storm, with her 2025 album *Midnight Sun* (and recent remix edition) as well as her appearance on the remix of PinkPantheress's "Stateside". (There's a lot more that can be said on Zara's recent surgence, but that's for another day.)

This story starts in April 2019, when Zara released her song "WOW." The song officially became a single in August 26, 2020, with a [music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5r_uCRY-V4) on October 22 of that year. "WOW" was the third single of Zara's third album *Poster Girl*, which came out in May 2021.

However, that's not all that was brewing!

On August 7, 2020—a few weeks before the song officially became a single—Netflix released the movie *Work It*, starring a former Disney starlet named Sabrina Carpenter, who plays a high school girl named Quinn who tries to start a dance team at school, despite not being all that great at it herself (this movie also gave us her single "Let Me Move You"). Quinn gets help from a talented dancer named Jake (played by Jordan Fisher), with whom—in a shock to absolutely nobody—she develops some *chemistry*. In a pivotal scene of the movie, Jake gives Quinn an impromptu lesson on how to follow and freestyle in dance, and he selects a rather romantic song for them to dance to: you guessed it, "WOW" by Zara Larsson. [You can watch the scene here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewVhC4OoZM)

A month or so later, Zara released a remix of the song, featuring a new verse by our very own Sabrina Carpenter! Sabrina had connected with Zara to work on it because she loved the song as a result of incorporating it into the movie (which Sabrina had executive produced as well). At one point, a performance with the two of them aired on the Kelly Clarkson show, but [very little survives](https://www.reddit.com/r/ZaraLarssonFans/comments/1rh2bne/clip_from_zara_sabrinas_lost_wow_performance/) from that clip. And finally in early October of 2020—still a couple weeks before the regular video released—[a music video for the Sabrina remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC9i8w2cHwM) came out! Like the song itself, this remix uses the original's video while interpolating new footage of Sabrina during her verse.

**Discussion questions**:

* If you watched both versions of the music video, how do you compare them? Does Sabrina's footage strengthen it or take away from the original?
* Which do you prefer: watching Sabrina dance but not sing in the *Work It* clip, or seeing her extra appearance in the remix video?
* If you've seen the whole movie, how do you feel about Sabrina's dancing in *Work It*? How'd you enjoy this particular scene?
* What are your favorite visual elements of these videos, and how do you feel the footage relates to the themes of the song?

(I keep calling the version without Sabrina "the original video," even though the remix came first and *technically* is the original in fact.)

*These questions are meant to be a jumping off point for potential discussion, but not a restriction. Feel free to share any thoughts you have, as responses to these questions or more organic reactions!*

Come back next week for more [Music Video Mania](https://reddit.com/r/SabrinaCarpenterFans/comments/1qb1sjr/and_now_for_our_next_trick_introducing_scfs_music/), and stay tuned for when we rank all of the music videos Guest/Feature videos at the end of this month. Polls are still open for all the cycles we've discussed already:

* [*Emails I Can't Send*](https://www.reddit.com/r/SabrinaCarpenterFans/comments/1rmnn3a/music_video_mania_cast_your_votes_and_rank_emails/)
* [*Eyes Wide Open*](https://reddit.com/r/SabrinaCarpenterFans/comments/1sbjkia/music_video_mania_rank_the_eyes_wide_open_videos/)
* [*Short n' Sweet*](https://reddit.com/r/SabrinaCarpenterFans/comments/1t0zt50/music_video_mania_rank_the_short_n_sweet_videos/)

Music Video Mania #15: "WOW (Remix)" by Zara Larsson [Guest/Features #2] PLUS a quick look at Sabrina's Netflix movie "Work It"!