Music Videos

Highly original, positive and poetic with a funky house beat – this video will make you smile! George the Poet is nominated for the BRITS Critics’ Choice 2015 and listed for BBC Music Sound of 2015. Sam Smith won it last year – we’re hoping for George this year!

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George Mpanga, aka George The Poet, is a 23 year-old spoken word performer and social commentator from North-West London. When he was just 15 he started performing rap and grime but this changed when he went to Cambridge University to study Politics, Psychology and Sociology and he made the move towards spoken word poetry.

In an interview with the Guardian last year we learnt that what concerns George includes the catastrophic effect of some rap music on young black men, the danger of blind cultural adherence to America and the belief that racial equality can only be met through an appreciation of difference. “Rappers have so much power to do good and they squander it,” he says. “I want to tell them, I wish you knew you were like my big brother. I wish you knew I could have been in the best mood, but I wanted to have a fight directly after listening to your song.” We need more people like George in this world! Read the article in the Guardian here.

BRITs Critics’ Choice Award: There are 3 nominees for this year’s BRITs Critics’ Choice Award – Spoken word artist George The Poet, singer-songwriter James Bay and electro-pop trio Years & Years. The winner will be announced on December 4.

BBC Music Sound Of 2015: The long list was announced today (December 1st) and reflects a diverse range of new music acts to highlight exciting new talent for the coming year: George The Poet, James Bay, Kwabs, Låpsley, Novelist, Rae Morris, Raury, Shamir, Shura, Slaves, SOAK, Stormzy, Sunset Sons, Wolf Alice, Years & Years.

This list is compiled after 139 music industry experts – including DJs, critics, broadcasters and bloggers – put forward their three favourite new acts from any genre. The top five acts will be announced daily from Monday, January 5 onwards on The Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

Jennifer Lawrence has an unexpected Top 20 hit on her hands with her haunting rendition of The Hanging Tree from the The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. She has already won an oscar, she is one of the most powerful celebrities in the world and now she can add just one more string to her bow. Is there anything she can’t do?

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The Hanging Tree, which appears on the movies official soundtrack, was arranged by John Newton and is currently sitting at Nº17 on the UK charts and at Nº8 on the UK’s midweek iTunes chart, despite the fact that it hasn’t even been released as a single yet! As we write this (November 29) it continues to climb the charts.

In this track her singing voice sounds like her speaking voice – its not a soaring vocal performance, but that’s exactly the point. “It shouldn’t sound like a professional,” said director Francis Lawrence. “It should sound like a real girl singing. So she did it. She did it all day. And she has a really cool sound to her voice. There’s kind of a raspy texture to it. So it was not terrible in the slightest.” Earlier this month, on the David Letterman Show, Jennifer had described her voice as a “tone deaf Amy Winehouse” and she was really anxious about having to perform the song, saying to the director that she would prefer Lorde to sing it.

“I knew she didn’t love the idea of singing, but I didn’t realize how nervous she was until when we started the first take, and she was in tears. Not totally broken down, but she was unhappy,” the director said in a recent interview. “She would have much rather we used somebody else’s voice. I think she said she wanted Lorde [who sings the movie’s theme song] to do it!”

One of the most highly-anticipated films of next year has caused quite a sensation over the last few days whilst fans have been chomping at the bit waiting to feast their eyes on the first official trailer. There have been live blogs charting every fake trailer, rating the fake trailers, refreshing the iTunes page where it was first uploaded – something close to hysteria really. Well, the trailer finally arrived today (November 28) at 15:15 GMT and it’s much, much better than you were are hoping for!

(To watch the trailer in Creation 5, just tap here.)

The 88-second trailer will be shown in selected cinemas across the US over this holiday weekend – and we’re sure there will be thousands of people going to the cinema and leaving 88 seconds later! Starwars.com has a full list of cinemas’s where the trailer is being screened.

Directed by J.J. Abrams, the film reunites original Star Wars actors Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher and introduces new ones including Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver along with newcomers Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.

In a worldwide release, Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits cinemas 18 December 2015.

Bastille have released an absolutely mental music video for their latest single Torn Apart. It’s fun but kind of creepy, inspired by Michael Jackson’s Black or White video. There are plenty of WTF moments, the worst probably being the scene where two aliens have sex. Weird moments aside the video is exceptionally well done and the message a worthy one – love can happen everywhere and anywhere to people from all different backgrounds and creeds.

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The video opens with a young couple performing a flawless dance routine in their home. Suddenly, they morph into other people and the changes keep happening all the way through the video until they end up as themselves again. The couple’s are hilarious – except the aliens which we didn’t like at all! The video was directed by Keith Schofield, known for pushing boundaries. You can always expect pretty strange videos from Bastille.

Torn Apart will be released on November 30 and is the first cut from their new mixtape VS. (Other People’s Heartache Pt. III) available December 8, following their previous two mixtapes of the same series.

Bastille are currently on a sold-out US tour, having sold over 3 million copies of their debut album Bad Blood.

Check out Michael Jackson’s Black and White (1991) – to view in Creation 5 tap here.

The long-awaited, first full trailer for Jurassic World has arrived! How do you protect the world from genetically modified dinosaurs? Send in a Star-Lord of course – well, Chris Pratt anyway. Released a couple of days early, the trailer for the fourth Jurassic Park film has notched up over 11 million views in just 24 hours!

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The movie might not win awards for his scientific accuracy – its already facing tons of criticism from palaeontologists – but this sci-fi blockbuster does look like a thrilling ride. The sequel takes place 22 years after the events of the the very first Jurassic Park film, released in 1993. A new dinosaur safari park, Jurassic World, has been built out of the ruins of the original park on Isla Nublar.

As the trailer shows, visitors to the park can ‘enjoy’ all sorts of activities, like kayaking down a river with giant herbivores grazing on the banks, watch a Mosasaurus – an enormous prehistoric crocodile – eat dead sharks in a typical SeaWorld kind of show and ride around in ‘Gyroshperes’ allowing you to get real close to the dinosaurs.

Then it all starts to go terribly wrong when a genetically modified hybrid arrives. This lab-made creature is highly intelligent, can climb 40 foot walls and will kill anything that moves…As Chris Pratt’s character Owen says “You just went and made a new dinosaur? Probably not a good idea.”

Written and directed by Colin Trevorrow the film also stars The Help actress Bryce Dallas Howard. Steven Spielberg, who directed the first two films and was executive producer on the third, will executive produce this four-quel as well.

The Park is open June 12.

We’ve just been hit by a Sledgehammer and it felt pretty good! After weeks of waiting the American girl group, Fifth Harmony, have finally released a music video for their latest single. The girls enthusiasm is very infectious – and the song has to be one of the most joyful pop singles of the year.

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The video is not quite as energetic as their Bo$$ music video but the girls – Ally Brooke, Normani Kordei, Lauren Jauregui, Camila Cabello and Dinah Jane – are obviously having a blast. Joining the 1990’s revival that has been in full swing for a while now, this video reminds us of the Spice Girls in their glory days. “It’s cool because we’ve never released a single that’s about love —a happy, cute love song,” Cabello told Billboard in a recent interview.

The 5 girls were brought together and mentored by Simon Cowell on the 2nd season of The X Factor USA in 2012, where they finished third. Following their time on the Fox talent show, Fifth Harmony signed a joint record deal with Cowell’s Syco label and LA Reid’s Epic.

The single is the second to be taken from their upcoming debut album Reflection, slated for a January 27, 2015 release.

Eminem has just released a cinematic new music video for his empowering anthem Guts Over Fear which tells the story of a boxer on the path from poverty to redemption. Released yesterday it already has over 1.5 million views!

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This past August Eminem released this triumphant single Guts Over Fear and now, with the release of this video, the track has the perfect visual counterpart. The Syndrome-directed clip chronicles the tale of a down-on-his-luck Michigan man who overcomes personal hurdles to become a professional boxer.

Model Winnie Harlow (born Chantelle Brown-Young) lip-synchs Sia’s vocals — a very touching move given that the former America’s Next Top Model contestant suffers from the rare disorder called vitiligo, which causes the skin to lose its pigment. She wears the blonde “Sia” bob as she shows how she relates to Marshall Mather’s tale of rising above all the odds that might come against you. It’s very inspirational.

Guts over Fear is currently at Nº22 on the Billboard Hot 100. The track is included on the just-released Shady XV and the 2 disc, 28-song compilation album celebrates the 15th anniversary of Shady Records. Included are some of the labels greatest hits plus new songs from Eminem, Slaughterhouse, Bad Meets Evil, D-12 and Yelawolf. Eminem also supplemented the release with the free, career-spanning mixtape Shady Classics, a 66-track collection curated by DJ Whoo Kid.

New in at Nº2 on the UK charts is Clean Bandit FT Jess Glynne with their disco-infused, up-tempo ode to the only thing that really matters in this life – Real Love.

Real Love is the second collaboration between Glynne and Clean Bandit, following their million-selling, worldwide chart-topper Rather Be. The songs are not unlike each other, with Real Love expanding on the theme of Rather Be by celebrating love and romance.

If you’ve been lucky enough to catch Clean Bandit on their US tour this year you will have heard this track. However, it doesn’t appear on their debut LP New Eyes, although the track is supposed to be included on an upcoming reissue of the album.

Jess Glynne has also had a terrific year with her chart topping hit My Love with Route 94 and her Top 10 Gorgon City-produced hit Right Here.

UNICEF, in collaboration with David Guetta and Yoko Ono, are bringing the world together to create the largest sing-along ever, to cover John Lennon’s beloved Imagine in order to raise awareness and funds for children’s rights globally. They are calling it the Imagine Project.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child this #IMAGINE Project has brought global stars together to add their voice. In this video you can see Katy Perry, Will.i.am, MAGIC!, Nicole Scherzinger, Adam Lambert, Cody Simpson, Idris Elba, Lance Bass and others, as well as actors, athletes and dignitaries.

The fun part of it is that anyone can add their voice. All you have to do is download the TouchCast app and sing your own version of Imagine. You voice will then be a part of a new David Guetta ‘world version’ of Imagine for UNICEF, which will be released just in time for New Year’s Eve 2014. It will certainly be a unique moment in music history that will also highlight the tremendous challenges children face the world over.

Every child counts. #EVERYVOICECOUNTS. Find out more on the UNICEF #IMAGINE website: imagine.unicef.org/en

We think Beyoncé just dropped her best video ever! Isn’t this what all girls do when they are alone? Looks like it was shot on a GoPro, in a messy hotel room, no make up, spectacular dancing. Totally Works!

As the biggest pop star on the planet Beyoncé has every resource possibly available to make any kind of music video she likes. For her to choose this kind of style, without the professional production quality of most videos, is impossibly cool. Paying homage to the low-fi viral video, at one point she even holds the camera herself in the typical selfie style. You can see that she is having so much fun – just like anyone would who made this kind of video.

Beyoncé dropped the video last night (Friday November 21), without any prior warning, and her fans went wild – the video has already notched up over 2.3million views in less than 24 hours! Let’s face it, only Queen Bey could pull this off. In this incredibly fun, fast-moving video she has connected with her fans and audience like she has never done before – it makes you want to be there and dance with her – she’s human after all!

7/11 is from the platinum edition of her self-titled album which will drop next week. So far the album has sold 5 million copies worldwide.