Music Videos

Nicole Scherzinger turns the heat up in her new Bang music video. Sultry one-on-one choreography – simple but very sexy. It’s not a cover of the Cher/Nancy Sinatra classic but a sexy R&B-esque song, smooth and intense, that belongs to Scherzinger. Co-produced by Tricky Stewart and The Dream, Bang serves as the follow-up to previous singles, Your Love, On The Rocks and Run, from her second solo album Big Fat Lie.

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As Nicole herself would say this video is “SHAMAZING!”. It might be a very low budget video but we do love the simplicity and the gorgeous lighting effects – not to mention the intimate dance routine and simulating having orgasms… The former Pussycat Doll shows off her dance skills and a few other assets in this burning hot clip. Directed by Anders Rostad the video premiered today (December 15) on Vevo and the single will be released on iTunes (UK) in late-January 2015.

In other Nicole Scherzinger news, she has received glowing reviews for her current role as Grizabella in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical Cats. Critics have especially lauded her performance of the legendary song Memory. Digital Spy commented, “Scherzinger lets the tear-jerking melody speak for itself, as she slinks around the stage with the perfect amount of faded grace.”

Happy Birthday to the gorgeous Taylor Swift who turns 25 today! You know you’re pretty lucky when the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, sings Happy Birthday to you! Ariana Grande was asked to sing as well but even though she tried to work herself in a couple of times, it was impossible, the Queen of Soul was on a roll!

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It was only recently that Franklin was asked for her opinion on Swift in a Wall Street Journal interview and she replied, “OK, great gowns, beautiful gowns.” Certainly a comment that gets at the utter soullessness of pop stars today and one supposed, at Swift herself. However, after this birthday performance, all is forgiven!

All this took place at Billboard Magazine’s Women In Music panel on Friday (December 12) which honoured the most influential women in music in 2014.

The host Matt Lauer moderated the panel and got the chance to share a pretty spectacular selfie with the women in the panel after the Q & A ended. The women included Ariana Grande, Aretha Franklin, Jessie J, Hayley Williams, Idina Menzel, Charli XCX and Taylor Swift (Iggy Azalea was also on the panel, but had to leave before the photo happened).

Billboard Magazine’s women in music for 2014 and one very lucky old bald guy! pic.twitter.com/QeIMMlKAzl

— Matt Lauer (@MLauer) December 12, 2014

Swift actually sang in her birthday whilst on stage at the iHeartRadio Jingle Bell Ball in Madison Square Garden with 18,000 fans to join her. “I think I’ve officially celebrated my birthday with you tonight. I’m 25-years-old New York City,” she told the crowd after performing her No. 1 hit Blank Space.

Sam Smith has just released a gorgeous new music video for his latest single Like I Can. Dressed like a true English gentlemen Sam and a group of friends enjoy some time out in the Big Apple – they stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge, dance in alleyways, makes wild romantic gestures and end up downing shots in a bar. We’re thinking stag do…and the one marrying is the one Sam wants to marry?

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The release of this video comes just after Smith scored six Grammy nominations including Album of the Year, Best New Artist and Song of the Year for Stay with Me. The UK is already in love with him and he is slowly becoming America’s latest music crush.

Smith’s track record is truly impressive – it’s only been six short months and the 22-year old from London has sold over 3 million copies worldwide of his debut album In the Lonely Hour. He is on track for becoming the biggest selling new artist of the year. The album recently became the second album to sell one million copies in the US, following Taylor Swift’s 1989.

Talking about the album in a recent interview Smith said: “I’ve never been in a relationship before and I really wanted to make an album that was about love. But in different forms of love – so unrequited love and loneliness. I’ve been brutally honest in the album.”

On January 9 Smith starts a North American tour including concerts in all the best venues, New York’s Madison Square Garden, Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, and L.A.’s Forum.

Smith recently released a cover of the Christmas classic Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, which premiered during A Very Grammy Christmas earlier this month.

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Feast your eyes on the insane new trailer for Warner Bros & George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. Jammed packed with explosions and burning rubber, this is all about the ride and the roar! Released 2 days ago (December 12) it already has close to 5 million views! This remaking of the brilliant 1979 cult favourite, Mad Max is bound to hit record-breaking box office figures.

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Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth instalment of George Miller‘s post-apocalyptic series co-written and directed by Miller. Starring Tom Hardy in Mel Gibson’s old role of Max Rockatansky, the trailer sees a molotov cocktail of screams and squeals and futuristic-looking warriors in ugly bondage outfits stomping across the sunbaked desert.

Trying to find a way to exist is the midst of the insanity Max finds a partner in Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa. “Out here, everything hurts,” Theron’s character says in the clip. “You want to get through this? Do as I say. Now pick up what you can and run.”

The movie also stars Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as ‘Splendid’, Zoe Kravitz as ‘Toast’, and Josh Helman as ‘Slit’.

Mad Max: Fury Road opens in cinemas on May 15, 2015.

Bad Bitch alert! Nicki Minaj has just dropped a dark and twisted music video for Only. The Queen of the rap shows off her killer curves as she plays an evil dominatrix, who tortures her male victims in an underground sex dungeon. Warning: Explicit, definitely NSFW.

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In the Hannah Lux-Davies directed clip Minaj’s Young Money brothers Drake and Lil Wayne spend their time looking at her ample assests, while her Love More collaborator Chris Brown makes a really creepy cameo, complete with coloured contact lenses and a grill.

Only has so far peaked at Nº27 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is taken from Minaj’s upcoming third studio album The Pinkprint which will be released on December 15. The album reportedly has collaborations with Ariana Grande, Jessie Ware, Beyoncé, Jeremiah and Meek Mill. It serves as the follow-up to 2012’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, which reached Nº1 in the UK and US.

Minaj is due to appear on the The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Real next week to promote the album.

YouTube Rewind: Turn Down for 2014 – the epic end-of-year tribute to all things internet. This is an unprecedented mashup, featuring over 120 YouTube creators and taking place on four continents. This Rewind represents the culmination of more than 6 months worth of inspiration, thousands of hours of work and collaborations with hundred’s of YouTubers.

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The video has plenty of cameos including the top-viewed trending videos, music videos and commercials of the year. The Ice bucket challenge is very prominent, as it was throughout the whole year, as was 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman, a video produced by anti-street-harassment group Hollaback. Mutant Giant Spider Dog topped off the list of viral videos (113 million views) and Katy Perry’s Dark Horse gained more than 716 million views.

The 6-minute video is jam-packed with YouTubers like Jenna Marbles, Tyler Oakley and Michelle Phan and the late night TV hosts also appear Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien and John Oliver.

The soundtrack to this jazzy mashup is a medley of the biggest tracks of 2014, everything from Frozen‘s Let It Go to Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX‘s Fancy to Meghan Trainor‘s All About That Bass to Pharrell‘s Happy.

This video is light years away from the very first Rewind in 2010 which was basically just a mashup of the years most popular music videos.

Read the short blog from the creators here: Portal A and YouTube Create The Most Ambitious, Epic Rewind To Date (Again)

Jessie J keeps it fierce and real in her perfect new music video for Masterpiece that just premiered online today (December 10). Masterpiece is the follow-up single to Jessie’s Grammy-nominated hit single Bang Bang and Burnin’ Up, taken from her third studio album Sweet Talker.

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The music video was shot in downtown Los Angeles last month and was directed by Tabitha Denholm. It joins Jessie in her hectic work schedule as she travels from one place to another, has a photo shoot and meets her fans. The internet has literally thousands of pictures of Jessie in a black fringed leather jacket over a black bra, leather pants and a pair of strappy heels.

With beautiful lyrics this song is perfectly honest and raw: I still fall on my face sometimes / And I can’t colour inside the lines /‘Cause I’m perfectly incomplete / I’m still working on my masterpiece

Masterpiece was written by Emily Warren, Josh Alexander and Britt Burton and was originally released as a promotional single before her Sweet Talker album arrived back in October. The album peaked at No. 10 on Billboard 200 and at No. 5 on the UK album charts.

Fleur East sings Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk on the semi final of the UK X Factor 2014. If you haven’t watched this stunning performance of Uptown Funk on the X Factor yet – you need to see it! East has yet to secure a record deal – but she’s already nabbed a Nº1 single! For the few minutes that she performed on Saturday (December 6) the X Factor achieved something it hasn’t done in years – it wasn’t terrible! Her performance galvanised the show!

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The 26-year-old’s version of Uptown Funk shot to the top of UK iTunes chart on Monday morning. In the wake of the performance, the UK release date for Mark Ronson’s single has been brought forward by 5 weeks. Now, the original version has leapfrogged East’s version and the song occupies the Nº1 and Nº2 spot on the iTunes chart!

Simon Cowell said that Easts version of the track was “one of the top three performances” in X Factor history. East has earned herself a place in this weekend’s final where she will compete against Ben Haenow and Andrea Faustini for this year’s title.

Sir Paul McCartney stars as a hologram in the 28th century universe of the video game Destiny for his latest music video for Hope For The Future – a brand new song for Destiny’s soundtrack. Recorded at Abbey Road with a 120 piece orchestra, it’s a cinematic, sweeping piece of music, which matches perfectly the awesome landscapes.

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In the video above you’ll see Sir Paul serenading various Guardians via projection from a Ghost AI assistant. “Hope for the future, it’s coming soon enough,” Sir Paul sings in the chorus, “How much can we achieve? / Hope for the future, it will belong to us / If we believe; if we believe.”

Sir Paul wrote Hope For The Future exclusively for Destiny, working with producer Mark “Spike” Stent. Along with composers Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, he also composed an additional 50 minutes of music for the soundtrack. Interestingly, he wasn’t paid for the project, taking part solely for “the creativity.” A representative from the game’s developers Bungie commented, “There was no check involved, big or otherwise, he’s in it for the creativity. He got a wonderful opportunity to reach an audience that wouldn’t typically be immersed in Paul McCartney. They might hear the name — of course he’s everywhere, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics, obviously he’s touring and recording nonstop — but he sees it as a way to reach a new audience that might not otherwise hear his music.”

This week, McCartney released the track in standalone form, paired with four remixes.

It seems that McCartney is definitely into the virtual world and becoming more than just tech savvy. He recently teamed up with Jaunt for an innovative app that allows fans to view a performance of Live and Let Die from every imaginable angle. The footage was filmed using stereoscopic 3-D cameras during the last-ever concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, where McCartney played in August – nearly 48 years after the Beatles played their final official gig at the venue.

Onika Tanya Maraj better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj turns 32 today! Not only is she the most influential female rapper of all time, she’s quite funny too – check out her hilarious impersonations on Saturday Night Live this weekend.

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Nicki Minaj as Beyoncé on SNL

Weekend Update: Kim Kardashian – Saturday Night Live

For the musical part of the evening Nicki and Skylar Grey performed their collaboration Bed of Lies. Wearing tight red spandex crop top and leggings she certainly stood out against the cool blues of the SNL stage set.

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Then for her closing song of the night she sang a medley of Only and All Things Go – the later is the most recent single from her upcoming album The Pinkprint and deals with a former engagement, death of a cousin and pregnancy scare. As always she brought her famous attitude with her – calling out to the audience a few times saying “Where’s my bad girls at?”

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Minaj was the first female artist included on MTV’s Annual Hottest MC List, and it was The New York Times that said she is “the most influential female rapper of all time”. Her rapping is distinctive for its fast flow and the use of alter egos and accents, primarily British cockney. In April last year, she became the most-charted female rapper in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, with over 44 appearances. Minaj has endorsed Adidas, MAC Cosmetics and Pepsi. She has won four American Music Awards, eight BET Awards, two MTV Music Awards, an MTV Europe Music Award, five Billboard Music Awards and Billboard’​s 2011 Rising Star award.