Jordin Sparks and Avello release video for dance collaboration "We Own the Night"

Jordin Sparks released a video for "We Own the Night" on August 17, an EDM-leaning collaboration with Orlando-based DJ Avello that finds the American Idol winner working outside the pop and R&B lane her catalog has mostly stayed in. Directors Fadi Alkhouri and Dana Thomas built the clip around choreography set to Avello's production, with Sparks singing over the hook: "It's you and me / We're young and free / We own the night."

That Grape Juice's report described Sparks as "reporting to the dancefloor like never before," a framing that underlines how far the song sits from the pop-R&B line her music has walked since her 2007 American Idol win.

Sparks won that competition's sixth season and has spent the years since moving between pop and R&B releases, so a dance-pop team-up with a working club DJ marks a real shift in direction for a single rather than a small stylistic tweak.

Avello, for his part, is building a catalog of electronic dance productions out of the Orlando scene, and pairing with a vocalist of Sparks' profile gives the song a bigger platform than a typical DJ single would get on its own. The choreography-driven video treatment reinforces that crossover intent, giving "We Own the Night" a visual identity closer to a dance record's rollout than an R&B one.

The video's release comes without word on whether "We Own the Night" is a standalone single or the first piece of a larger project from either artist. That Grape Juice's report gave no further detail on what, if anything, follows it, leaving the collaboration's next step, like the song itself, tracked for now only on the release calendar as an open question.