The official music video was released on March 25, 2014. Filmed in the salt flats of California, Doja Cat described it as somewhat a "high-budget" project for an artist as small as herself. In the video, she is dressed as a Hindu goddess and primarily stays seated on a lotus-styled throne while doing flowy arm movements. She revealed in an interview that her child experience of practising Hinduism influenced the aesthetics used in the video, stating: "The world of the video for 'So High' comes from my personal life, my past, it is not something that came out of nowhere." Doja Cat would later become a subject of cancel culture as she began gaining popularity, with some people accusing the music video for "So High" of "sexualizing and appropriating Hindu culture". In response to this, she stated in December 2021 that "If I knew not to do that, I probably wouldn’t have done it [...] When something is so sacred to many people, I think it’s good to be more sensitive about it and just kind of back away."
