Music Video
The music video to "Moving Mountains" was released on May 21, 2008. Directed by Brothers Strause, it is a continuation of the video for "Love in This Club". The video was shot in front of a green screen.
The video begins with Usher exiting the club in which the "Love in This Club" video takes place, then shows a fiery transition into the next scene, showing the burnt-down club. As the song begins, Usher inspects the smoking ruins and imagines a woman in a shard of a broken mirror. He travels through a desert, and takes off his jacket to reveal a tight-fitting t-shirt, and again imagines the woman, this time in a desert pond. Upon reaching a mountain on which his love interest appears, Usher proceeds to climb the mountain, and rain starts to fall. When he reaches the top of the mountain, the rain clears to be replaced by snowfall. Usher finds that the woman is, yet again, merely an illusion. He opens a locket to reveal a portrait of himself and his partner, which freezes over and cracks. As the video ends, Usher kneels, and the mountains breaks around him, leaving a sole pillar for him to stand on.
Idolator noted similarities in some scenery between the music video and Madonna's "Frozen" video. NewNowNext criticized the video's "non-plot" and "ridiculously over-dramatic concept". It was placed at number eight on BET's Notarized: Top 100 Videos countdown.
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