Music Videos

Chris Brown and Ariana Grande look like Romeo and Juliet in their new fantasy video for Don’t Be Gone Too Long. Filmed in a medieval setting with Shakespearian storyline and costumes – this is definitely different! We love it!

(To watch this mini-movie in Creation 5, just tap here.)

Chris Brown’s long-awaited album X is finally due out today (September 16th) and at the weekend he delivered an early treat by sharing this new fairytale video for Don’t Be Gone Too Long, featuring Ariana Grande.

Shot in a dark palette this mini-movie stars Brown and Grande as medieval lovers. Heavies, that look like Royalty, appear on horseback to separate them, and Brown is taken away to prison in chains while Grande is taken as a prisoner and kept on a castle balcony – ala Romeo and Juliet. In between the narrative are shots of Brown dancing, acrobatic style, and a tutu-clad Grande showing off some awesome ballet – complimenting Brown’s dancing style rather perfectly.

The video was directed by Chris Brown himself and the three-and-a-half-minute mini-movie is an unexpected change from Brown’s other music videos. He posted a link to the video on his Twitter page, saying, “I directed this one also.. Wanted to do something different” — (@chrisbrown) September 13, 2014

The album X will feature collaborations with plenty of other artists as well – Lil Wayne, Tyga, Usher, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Kendrick Lamar.

Grab your bow and arrow quick, the new trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 is here and Jennifer Lawrence kicks ass!

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In this first full-length trailer Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) starts a revolution! We even get to see her shoot down planes! Fans get their first look at new characters played by Julianne Moore (President Snow’s rival) and Natalie Dormer (Cressida, another of the Capitol’s rebels).

Lorde was recently announced as the music curator for the “inspired by” soundtrack for the film. The only disappointment for us in this trailer is that it didn’t premiere any of this new music – still, it didn’t stop us wondering what kind of music Lorde will choose.

Jennifer Lawrence stars alongside other returning stars, Josh Hutcherson (Peeta Mellark), Liam Hemsworth (Gale Hawthorne), Woody Harrelson (Haymitch Abernathy) and Donald Sutherland – the evil President Snow. The late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is also seen reprising his unfinished role of Plutarch Heavensbee.

Directed by Francis Lawrence, ‘Mockingjay Part 1’ is the first part of the adaptation of the third book in Suzanne Collins’ hugely successful fiction trilogy. Part 1 comes out November 21, 2014. The previous two films grossed over 900 million dollars worldwide which puts Jennifer Lawrence in the Guiness Book of Records as the world’s most successful film heroine.

Swedish DJ/producer Alesso made pop history this weekend when his new music video for Tear The Roof Up became the first video to premiere on SnapChat.

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For those who don’t know, SnapChat is the hugely popular photo and video app whose content is viewed a half-billion times daily. The video premiered exclusively on SnapChat at 11:30am (ET) and was followed by the official worldwide release at noon on Vevo and is now available for purchase on Beatport.

The trippy video was directed by Drew Cox and it has a slightly creepy feel which does keeps you hooked. The whole thing is in striking black and white and uses slow-motion imagery of different characters who are ready, we suppose, to ‘tear the roof up’. “It’s very intense, it’s very energetic and it’s a lot of fun,” explains Alesso.

The Grammy-nominated chart-topper looks set to make the transition from budding producer to household name. He is only 23 years old and has amassed 2.5 million followers on Facebook, almost a million followers on Twitter and 506,000 followers on Instagram. His upcoming debut album is highly anticipated by his army of fans – something they have been yearning for since the start of his career.

Jack White is a sharply dressed bar hound in his new art deco-styled music video for Would You Fight for My Love?

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The clip was directed by Robert Hales and written by both Hales and White. According to the press release the whole video was “conceptualized, produced and shot within a 24-hour period,” and filmed in 6 hours at the historic Cruise Room at the Oxford Hotel in Denver.

With a slick new haircut and a classic blue suit, the dapper-looking singer sits alone at a bar fidgeting with a drink (“It’s not enough that I love you / There’s all these things I have to prove to you”). He sings about his frustrations of feeling like a ghost and wondering why he can’t be loved back. He tries to avoid eye contact with the mysterious female that appears throughout the clip. Only the jukebox and an old-school microphone provide some solace for the troubled rocker.

The song comes from White’s chart-topping album Lazaretto, released in June this year on his Third Man Records label through Columbia. The album shot straight to Nº1 on the Billboard 200, selling 138,000 copies its first week, of which 40,000 were vinyl – the biggest selling record since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking record sales in 1991.

Jack White is currently on tour in North America and is heading to Europe and the UK in November.

Calvin Harris and soul-singer John Newman have finally released the music video for their killer track Blame where they’re surrounded by lingerie-clad women…It’s tough at the top you know…

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Directed by Emil Nava the video opens with the boys at their respective mansions giving the cold shoulder to girls they have just spent the night with. The ending is completely bizarre – the girls dive into water – sinks, ice-buckets, hot tubs – and are all teleported to the same pool miles away. Anyway, without trying to understand it, the visual is beautifully put together and compliments the song perfectly. Although trying to blame it ‘on the night’, instead of the fact that they are such players is questionable… 🙂

Following the song’s worldwide premier last week, it is currently leading the race to the Nº1 spot on the UK charts. If nothing changes from now until Sunday it will be Calvin Harris’s 5th UK Nº1 – I’m Not Alone (2009), Sweet Nothing (2012), Under Control (2013) and Summer (2014).

The track already hit the Nº1 spot on Spotify’s Global Chart – within 3 days of being released, making it the fastest-ever climber to the top.

Blame is the second cut to be taken from Harris’s upcoming new album, following the previous chart topper Summer.

The eagerly-anticipated trailer for I am Ali is here! The film promises to deliver a never-seen-before look at the iconic fighter, a personal and intimate look at the man behind the legend, told from the inside.

From the producers of the award-winning Searching for the Sugarman this documentary is a really personal and up-close look at Muhammad Ali. The story is told through exclusive access to Ali’s personal archive of ‘audio journals’ combined with intimate interviews from his inner circle of family and friends – his children, ex-wife, brother, plus legends form the boxing community like Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Gene Kilroy.

Executive producer John Battsek comments: “It’s a film built around phone conversations that Ali recorded for many years with his family. That’s the spine of the film. It’s a very personal perspective on Ali, from Ali – in a way – through a 20-year period of his life when he was still fighting,” he told Screen Daily.

Directed by Clare Lewins and produced by Clare Lewins, George Chignell and Greg Hobden this intimate portrait tells the story of Cassius Clay’s transformation into a living legend. It arrives in theatres and on demand on October 10, 2014.

Elusive house producer Mario Basanov aka Ten Walls climbs a massive 181 places to Nº 3 on the UK charts with Walking with Elephants. The new music video, released a week ago, is completely mesmerising and utterly magnificent.

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The track was originally released on an EP earlier this year and all summer long has been very successful in clubs across Europe. Now, with the release of the track and a new awesome music video the song just might make it to number one in the UK. #TenWallsForNumber1

The surreal music video, directed by Nez, best known for his work with Rudimental, Disclosure and M.I.A. was filmed in the UK in Dungeoness, Kent and the footage was captured on land and air. The whole visual is completely arresting right from the start. Then, about halfway through, it becomes even more amazing when costumed men start leaping like dolphins through the waves. This is the new sport of Flyboarding – but with all the gear required to make this happen – jetpacks attached to the flyboarders’ feet, the jet-skis and tube that pull them, all rendered invisible in the video.

The talent of Ten Walls seems to be in providing you with a truly new experience. So many DJs are using this song in their sets, it has a perfectly balanced build up and the timing of the break is perfection. There is plenty of hype around Ten Walls and tracks like this prove it is all justified.

Walking With Elephants was officially released on September 7 via Ten Walls’ own label, Boso.

Check out the new trailer for The Boy Next Door starring Jennifer Lopez as a high school teacher having an affair with one of her students. Big mistake. It reminds us of Michael Douglas’s 1987 film Fatal Attraction. It’s a bit creepy.

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Jennifer Lopez plays a high school teacher and mother of a young son who finds out that her husband is cheating on her. Noah, the boy who just moved in next door, played by Ryan Guzman, pays her one compliment and so starts a run of many flirtatious exchanges. Noah can’t get enough of her and soon they have a passionate affair. He becomes obsessed and slowly starts to ruin her life, from email hacking to manipulating her son.

Moral of the story? Be careful who you get into bed with.

The movie hits theatres January 23, 2015

La Roux channel the phone sex hotline in their new Kiss And Not Tell retro video.

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The video features an impressive display of vintage phones – enough to make you nostalgic about your landline! There is a lip phone, a hamburger phone and even one that doubles up as a mini keyboard. Plenty of anonymous heavy breathers steam up the line as Elly Jackson (La Roux) plays the operator.

A British telephone number flashes across the screen, inviting viewers to call +44-155-728-0014. The number is real and if you do call you’ll reach the La Roux Hotline where you have the option to listen to a recording of Kiss and Not Tell or leave your own ‘cheeky’ message with the warning, “be careful what you say, these recordings can and will be shared.”

The visual is impeccably styled – whoever had to source all those 80s phone must have had a ball. The whole concept of the clip is interesting, unbelievably the phone sex hotline has never really gone out of fashion after all these years – perhaps it’s the sound of the human voice that keeps it fashionable on the pay-for-pleasure circuit.

La Roux was formed in 2006 by singer Elly Jackson and record producer Ben Langmaid. Their debut album La Roux (2009) was a huge success, winning a Grammy Award for Best Electronic Dance Album and producing hit singles such as In for the Kill and Bulletproof. Langmaid left the group and Elly released a second album Trouble in Paradise on her own.

Kiss And Not Tell is the second single to be taken from La Roux’s chart-topping Trouble in Paradise album that was released last month on Polydor. The single will be released on October 6.

Oo la la – we’re blushing watching Lenny Kravitz’s music video for his new song The Chamber. Filmed at glamorous locations in Paris, including Lenny’s own luxurious pad, Lenny gets very naughty in this sizzling hot cinematic visual. Directed by Anthony Mandler (Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Eminem) and featuring supermodel Rianne Ten Haken, some of the filming was at the Church of Saint-Germain and Pont Neuf (the first time it’s ever been closed for a shoot).

(To view this video in Creation 5, just tap here.) WARNING: contains sexual references and nudity

The racy video poses the question – is it art or is it porn? Sure, there is no twerking or butt jiggling right in your face, this is an entirely elegant approach, but it does remind us of that certain book…it’s certainly 50 Shades of Grey-inspired.

The Chamber is the lead single from Lenny’s 10th album, Strut. Having sold nearly 40 million albums in his career, guitar legend and wild child, Lenny Kravitz continues his rock ’n’ roll reign. The entire album (12 songs) explores the concept of desire in all it’s forms. “This record brought me back to a place of what I love so much about music,” Kravitz says. “Back to the feelings I had when I was in high school. It’s a real rock and roll record – it’s raw, it’s got soul and it came together really quickly.”

Catch Lenny live at Wembley Arena on December 6. The Chamber is out now on iTunes and the album Strut is released on September 23 – the first release on Kravitz’s own Roxie Records.