Music Videos

One Direction finally released their hugely anticipated video for Steal My Girl yesterday, starring Hollywood legend Danny DeVito. The surreal video also stars sumo wrestlers, ballerinas, Maasai warriors, a marching band, a cute chimpanzee, a lion..it’s amazing and bizarre at the same time. The music video seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the song but its a spectacular visual anyway, just roll with it…

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One Direction have been teasing clips for the past week and when they finally released the video, it was incredible that servers didn’t crash from the assault of hundreds of thousands of fans going online to watch it. YouTube views are currently standing at almost 5 million after just 24 hours.

Danny DeVito plays the Director of the boys music video and in a rather amusing beginning lectures them on why they are assembled together in the desert: “Gentlemen! Why are we here? We’re here in the name of art! We’re here to commit ourselves to a higher form of expression…I’ve seen your work and today, we’re going to take it to a new level! We’ve come to the most barren place on earth, to create! Today, we bring life to the desert!” He then goes on to label each of the boys with a symbol – Love (Harry), Light (Niall), Power (Liam), Danger (Louis) and Mystery (Zayn).

The use of the animals, especially the chimpanzee, has caused a bit of a scandal with PETA up in arms about it. In an open letter addressed to Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, PETA told the pop stars that they are “concerned about reports that a chimpanzee, a lion and other wild and exotic animals were used in a new One Direction video. You may not know that animals used for entertainment productions, including music videos, endure horrific cruelty and suffer from extreme confinement and violent training methods.”

Controversy aside, One Direction are now gearing up for their 2015 tour to support their new album Four. General tickets go on sale November 1st – although fans have a chance to purchase pre-sale by visiting the One Direction Facebook page on October 29.

Ever tried clapping games as a kid? Well, Pentatonix’s new video for their awesome cover of Fleet Foxes White Winter Hymnal will show you a thing or two about clapping..Their tight-knit harmonies, energetic vocal arrangements and incredible clapping skills are front and centre in this video.

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If the clapping thing fascinates you – try watching the tutorial below, to see how they did it (tap here to watch in Creation 5):

The a cappella quintet released their holiday album That’s Christmas to Me on Tuesday via RCA Records and White Winter Hymnal is the first cut from the album. Highly recommended for your Christmas listening pleasure, the album opens with a modern take on Hark The Herald Angels Sing and finishes with a cover of Let It Go from Frozen. In between are lots of other classics like Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Silent Night.

Scott Hoying told The Hollywood Reporter, “I think this album’s more creative than our last one which was just typical Christmas songs with really pretty a cappella arrangements. But this one, I feel there’s more concepts and ideas.”

Its been a really busy period for the group as last month they also released their 3rd EP, PTX Vol. III, which shot straight to No. 5 on Billboard’s Top 200 Album Chart and No. 3 on the Digital Albums Chart. Selling more than 46,000 units in its first week, the EP is the group’s highest debut and chart position.

That’s Christmas To Me Track List

1. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
2. White Winter Hymnal
3. Sleigh Ride
4. Winter Wonderland / Don’t Worry Be Happy ft. Tori Kelly
5. That’s Christmas To Me
6. Mary, Did You Know?
7. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
8. It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year
9. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
10. Silent Night
11. Let It Go (Bonus)

London house production duo Waze & Odyssey might just be the new Nº1 on the UK charts this weekend with their remix of R Kelly’s 1995 Top 10 single – Bump & Grind. The track is trailing Meghan Trainor’s All About that Bass by a mere 3,000 copies and Friday/Saturday sales could easily see this underground house track claim the top spot.

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The track is basically a dance remix of R Kelly’s original tune and it has nailed every dance floor around the world. It certainly ruled the airwaves in Ibiza this summer. Every night, as the Ibiza clubs started to fill to capacity, Bump & Grind 2014 could be heard across the island.

Waze & Odyssey formed 3 years ago and they have been releasing music on the house music circuit since then. But their Bump and Grind remix has really taken off in an extraordinary way – the duo talked to the Official Charts Company about its success:

“We made it to play in a DJ set one night. We played it out and it went wild. Then a few DJs asked for a copy and they started playing it out and we were getting all these wild reports back. About a year ago someone approached us about releasing it and so we decided to put it out there for those who maybe hadn’t heard it. It’s been an underground favourite for a while now.”

“It started maybe 2 years ago with Skream dropping it in one room of the Warehouse Project in Manchester, while in the other room Horse Meat Disco were playing it. From then everyone from DJ Ez to Duke Dumont to Rudimental have all been playing it. It’s been very much an underground thing and loads of people will get in touch with us, even now saying that they’d be searching for the track for months before knowing what it was. With it now getting radio airplay, it’s just gone mad!”

Get your first look at Ultron trying to tear apart Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the rest of the world in the first official trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. Get ready for an epic and action-packed thrill ride!

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Avengers: Age of Ultron is Marvel Studio’s epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. Written and directed by Joss Whedon and produced by Kevin Feige the film is based on the hugely popular Marvel comic book series The Avengers which was first published over 50 years ago in 1963.

The film stars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk). Scarlett Johansson plays the Black Widow, Jeremy Renner is Hawkeye and Samuel L. Jackson plays Nick Fury. The A team must defeat Ultron, played by James Spader who is a slimy, sickening villain determined to bring about human extinction. Amidst the action the team meet two newcomers Wanda Maximoff, played by Elizabeth Olsen, and Pietro Maximoff, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. They also meet an old friend in a new form when Paul Bettany becomes Vision.

The only bad thing we see about it, is that we have to wait till May 1, 2015.

Union J have released a music video for their new single You Got It All and it’s pretty perfect! The track was written by Magic! frontman Nasri and the moody black and white visuals were directed by Frank Borin.

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Union J are: JJ Hamblett, Jaymi Hensley, Josh Cuthbert and George Shelley, “It’s the ultimate big ballad and it takes us back to our vocal roots. As the weather turns colder it the perfect song for us to lead through to the winter,” they commented when sharing the track.

You Got It All is the group’s latest single and follows on from their top 10 hit Tonight (We Live Forever). It will appear on their forthcoming album which is coming soon – no release date yet – and promises to be exciting as they have been working with songwriters Jamie Scott (One Direction, The Vamps, 5SOS), Red Triangle (Little Mix, One Direction) and Eric Frederic (Jason Derulo, Cee Lo Green). The single will be officially released on November 30, although you can pre-order it now.

The boys are definitely doing something right – their tour with The Vamps next year sold out the O2 in London in an incredible 44 minutes!

Gwen Stefani has just released her solo comeback single Baby Don’t Lie and the music video is a kaleidoscopic mix of funky shapes and loud colors, very trippy! The single was previewed on last night’s episode of The Voice before the music video was released. Directed by Sophie Miller and Weirdcore (Aphex Twin visuals), it’s best just to sit back, relax and surf on the neon pink and yellow waves with Gwen’s soothing lyrics to complete the dreamscape.

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It might have been a boring video to make – think green screen – but it’s certainly not boring to watch! You see Stefani strutting down a morphing yellow road where a dance troupe join her and jazz things up a little more. The checkered angular mountains, the neon washes of pink and yellow and the strange dancing partners tell us that Stefani is definitely not on planet earth! The glitchy visuals are right on trend as well, glitch art is very fashionable these days (the aestheticization of digital or analog errors).

Stefani’s manager, Irving Azoff, said that the singer has been in Miami “recording new tracks” with Voice co-star Pharrell Williams. Interscope chairman John Janick commented to Billboard that Stefani is aiming for a December release date on her new solo album, the first since 2006’s The Sweet Escape.

Baby Don’t Lie was released through Mad Love/Interscope and features Benny Blanco, Ryan Tedder and Noel Zancanella as producers.

Watch legendary album covers come to life in this brilliant & hypnotic music video, Mayokero, by Israeli comic artist Roy Kafri. Watch Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Prince, David Bowie, Madonna and more start singing on the sleeves! This is the best slice of entertainment you’ll watch today!

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You might not have heard of him but Roy Kafri is a comedic singer and beat-boxer from Israel and this track, Mayokero, is the first single to be taken from Kafri’s album, Acowpella Beatbox.

The amazing music video is the work of Vania Heymann, a second year student in Bezalel School of Art and Design, who actually got a whole crew of actors involved to help him put the classic album covers into live singing action.

Among the albums featured are: Michael Jackson’s Thriller, The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder, Simon & Garfunkel’s Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, Prince’s eponymous second album, Jeff Buckley’s Grace, and Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisted.

You’ll also see: Françoise Hardy, Lionel Richie, Aretha Franklin, ABBA, Madonna, Lou Reed, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Ahmad Jamal, Big Star, Serge Gainsborugh and Jane Birkin, and The Beatles.

Out favourite bit of animation is the bringing to life of the iconic Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd to blazing life – and the banana on the cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico turning bad! The video also has a story about a man with great taste in music who chucks out his old vinyls and gets into consumer electronics…

Take a trip with FKA Twigs in a hallucinatory new concept film for Google Glass, entitled #throughglass. Watch her, and her doppelgängers, perform an amazing and bizarre dance. This is FKA Twigs directorial debut and it’s completely mesmerising. The stunning, highly-regarded choreography, combined with the use of lightening fast technology makes Google Glass look cooler than it ever has before.

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FKA Twigs uses the glasses to search everything from moving footage of Benjamin Milan and British krumper Dominant to manga-inspired eye makeup. The score for the short film is a kaleidoscopic reworking of her debut single, Video Girl, along with parts of Glass & Patron, a track she has never released. The featureless white expanse of the background, plus the über cool first-person mirror shots and the incredible dancing makes for a truly bizarre, but quite beautiful video.

The Mercury Prize-nominated artist is about to go on tour throughout North America, with one show in Canada and a few shows in Europe.

Google Glass went on sale in the US on April 25, 2013 and in the UK on June 24 2014, with the high-tech wearable purchasable to anyone over the age of 18.

French DJ and Producer Watermät has a brand new entry in the UK charts this week at Nº15 with Bullit. Crowned as an Essential Track by Pete Tong earlier this year and one of the most streamed songs of the summer in Ibiza, this gorgeous groove defines a #feelgood vibe.

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Tiesto, in an interview with Billboard Magazine in August, when asked ‘What’s next for EDM genre, which trend will we be talking about 6 months from now?’ said “This track ‘Bullit’ by French DJ-Producer Watermät is going to be huge”.

Watermät has been composing tracks for many artists in the past, before deciding in late 2013 that it was his time to take the stage and share his love for dance music with the world. His first self released EP Sparks including the tracks Sparks and Something About U was released in December 2013. After that, the buzz around Watermät started rolling and Spinnin’ Records took their chance to sign him for his next track Bullit on their Deep imprint in February 2014. Bullit was released on Spinnin’ Records in May 2014.

During the massive double-weekend event of the Tomorrowland festival in Begium, Bullit was the 2nd most streamed track – it was also the 2nd most streamed track in Ibiza this summer – quote an accolade. Watermät was also the most played artist in July this year on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 Dance Music.

Shift K3Y have just done an awesome remix:

The Ting Tings fabulous retro music video for their new single Do It Again is, without a doubt, the best video you’ll watch all week! Step back into the 1970’s and enjoy the technical brilliance of this psychedelic visual for this instantly infectious disco-tinged track. Brilliantly directed by Andrew Daffy, you see Katie White and her gorgeous hair walking a treadmill surrounded by über cool TRON-like lighting effects with Jules De Martino rocking the drums and providing back up.

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The quirky British duo unveiled the music video for their brand new single a few days ago on VEVO. The track, which will officially be released on November 3, is taken from their upcoming album Super Critical which will be released on October 27.

After taking some time off from the music industry, The Ting Tings are back with a bang and have abandoned their indie-pop-rock sound and embraced vintage disco music. We think it suits them perfectly and that Super Critical will be a must-have album.

Jules De Martino said that the song is about “not being lazy” and Katie added that “it’s about the need to lighten up, stop the paralysis of criticism and do anything that makes you feel good.’”