Music Videos

Madonna has released a stunning music video for her latest single Ghosttown. Jonas Akerlund, has once again, directed a Madonna masterpiece. The cinematic visual sees Madonna in a post-apocalyptic world surrounded by scenes of devastation and destruction. She eventually meets up with another survivor, Empire’s Terence Howard, better known as Lucius Lyon. They fall in love and although they don’t quite “wander off into the sunset”, it’s the post-apocalyptic equivalent.

Ghosttown is the second single from Madonna’s Rebel Heart album which was released last month and was stopped from hitting Nº1 on the Billboard album charts by, yep, you guessed it… the soundtrack to the first season of Empire!

We’re glad to see that despite her recent stage mishap Madonna is still wearing her beloved capes. We love her look in this video, very Stevie Nicks.

Last December hackers leaked unfinished songs from Rebel Heart – an act that Madonna called ‘artistic rape’ on Instagram. Due to this theft Madonna has taken a multi-platform approach to releasing this video and promoting her album. She used Snapchat, Instagram and Grindr for promotion and premiered the Ghosttown video on the broadcasting app Meerkat. A behind-the-scenes companion to the Ghosttown music video is available on Tidal.

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Tinashe shows off some serious high energy dance moves in the new video for her stellar track All Hands On Deck. Directed by Ben More the video was shot with a handful of backing dancers in a shipping yard. The photography is excellent, the setting very creative and the dancing sublime. It looks like Tinashe will continue her reign at the top of everyone’s R&B playlists.

The track is a Crunk&B song – a genre of hip hop music that originated in Memphis, Tennessee – with elements of West Coast hip hop, grime and late 1990s / early 2000s R&B. The thick bassline, club-friendly beat and pan-flute breakdown are complimented by Tinashe’s super-smooth vocals. She sings about a guy who broke her heart but now she’s glad to be free: “Kiss the old me goodbye, she’s dead and gone, dead and gone, dead and gone.”

In a recent interview with Billboard Magazine Tinashe talked about the filming of the video: “I feel like when you put yourself in a borderline dangerous situation, exciting things can happen. That shock value is always what you want to go for in a memorable video. We were over 100 feet in the air with no safety harnesses. Literally, we could have died. It was a thrill to make and I’m so excited for my fans to see this video. We really stepped it up, visually.”

All Hands on Deck is taken from Tinashe’s debut studio album Aquarius (2014).

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Rihanna debuted her latest single American Oxygen at the NCAA March Madness Music Festival (a free three-day outdoor music festival in celebration of the NCAA Men’s Final Four in downtown Indianapolis.). During her performance she protested the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. “Who’s feeling these new bullshit laws that they’re trying to pass over here? I say, ‘Fuck that shit,'” Rihanna told the crowd, “We’re just living our motherfucking lives.” After the festival performance she then dropped the official music video on the new streaming service TIDAL – which she co-owns along with a dozen or so music megastars.

The visual could be considered patriotic as Rihanna performs alone in front of the American flag, yet the visuals that flash in between Rihanna singing don’t make you feel good about America at all. The powerful images from America’s turbulent history include clips of Martin Luther King during his famous speech and his funeral procession, the 1969 Moon Landing, the Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics and 9/11. There are plenty of protest clips from Occupy Wall Street and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri to the UC Davis pepper-spraying incident and civil rights marches.

With American Oxygen Rihanna is showing a social and political consciousness that we haven’t really seen before from most of her past discography. The single is taken from her upcoming 8th studio album, following FourFiveSeconds and Bitch Better Have My Money.

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Morrissey’s new music video for Kiss Me A Lot takes a very different tack than the visuals we are used to seeing from him. Directed by fashion photographer Sam Esty Rayner the video was premiered via Morrissey’s True to You zine. It features the cantankerous singer performing with his live band interspersed with shots of scantily clad women with the song title written over their bodies in red lipstick. It’s funny but it seems like the video ends up treating women like meat – which is a bit ironic really, isn’t it Moz? Or maybe that’s the whole point.

Morrissey has had a bit of a bad run recently. Two of his previous North American tours were cancelled due to illness and last October he revealed that he has undergone a series of treatments for cancer. “They have scraped cancerous tissues four times already, but whatever,” he told Spanish-language newspaper El Mundo. “If I die, then I die. And if I don’t, then I don’t. Right now I feel good. I am aware that in some of my recent photos I look somewhat unhealthy, but that’s what illness can do. I’m not going to worry about that. I’ll rest when I’m dead.”

Kiss Me a Lot is the 5th cut from Morrissey’s 10th solo studio album, World Peace Is None of Your Business (2014). The album did really well on the charts peaking at Nº2 in the UK and Nº14 in the US when it was released last summer.

Below is a poster for the singer’s upcoming Madison Square Garden show with Blondie — part of a larger tour of the US that starts on June 11 in New Orleans.

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Nick Jonas is in chains yet again – this time for The Wynwood Walls Edition of his chart topping hit Chains. The video was released on March 31 – exactly eight months after the first version in July last year. Directed by Black Coffee and artist Peter Tunney the video was filmed at Miami’s famous Wynwood Walls.

There is no official word from Jonas as to why he decided to release two videos – perhaps he’s just giving his solo album’s lead single another shot. The first video was quite dark and gritty, this one is full of colour and is more like a street party than a serious, grown-up video. Nick cruises around in a light-up rickshaw, smokes cigars, parties with scantily clad girls and even crowd surfs. It’s a completely different vibe than the first video.

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Recently John Legend teamed up with the charity Omaze to raise money to build a new high school auditorium in his hometown of Springfield, Ohio – part of The “Show Me Campaign”. This music video is a promotion for this campaign, giving everyone a chance to win John Legend – not to keep him forever of course, but just for the day – to sing at your wedding or any special event.

We think Legend chose an adorably cute way to raise awareness for the campaign – he hosted and sung at a wedding for his two dogs, Putty and Pippa. He dressed the dogs up in full wedding regalia and serenaded them, even cutting some wedding cake for them. Then his wife Chrissy Teigen came in and ruined the whole thing! 🙂

To find out more about the campaign head on over to the Omaze website – or watch the video and click the link at the end to enter.

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The First Lady of Funk showed off her killer dance moves last week when she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon for the Evolution of Mom Dancing. As part of the 5th anniversary of Let’s Move! and the #GimmeFive challenge, Michelle Obama challenged Jimmy Fallon to share five new mom dances. Fallon donned his best pink cardigan, white sneakers and ‘mom’ wig to join Mrs Obama for a full 2 plus minutes of cardio.

The dance moves are hilarious – like the “Shush and Tush,” the “Getting a Bag From Your Collection of Plastic Bags Under the Sink,” and the “Oh, My God! I Didn’t Know You Were Coming Here!” It was only when Fallon did the ‘Barak Obama’, making fun of her husband’s dance moves, that Mrs Obama drew the line.

Five years ago Mrs Obama launched Lets Move! a nationwide campaign to set children on the right course for a healthy future – or as their tagline says “America’s Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids”. You can find out more about this campaign on the Let’s Move! website.

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Walk Off  The Earth are known for their creative approach – not only in their covers and original songs but also with their visuals. This new video for their latest single Rule The World is no exception. It’s an explosion of colour and energy! Directed by John Poliquin it incorporates intricate choreography, airborne musical instruments and cute chalk animations.

Rule The World is quite an inspirational anthem, it’s the first cut off the groups upcoming sophomore album, following their debut album R.E.V.O in 2013. “We want to give all the inspiration we received back to the rest of the world with this album,” singer Sarah Blackwood said in a statement.

This group are from Canada and are made up of multi-instrumentalists Gianni Luminati, Marshall, and Sarah Blackwood on vocals, Taylor on keyboards, and drummer Joel Cassady. They are starting a Spring tour on May 6 beginning in Toronto, tickets went on sale yesterday and are available from the bands website.

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The 3rd part of Sia’s innovative video trilogy with “Dance Moms” star Maddie Ziegler has landed and WOW. Big Girls Cry is raw, powerful and a tad uncomfortable to watch. Some have called it ‘eerie’ and others ’tear-jerking’ but whatever you think of it there is no doubt that it’s a very human and powerful piece of film. Music website Fuse said Big Girls Cry could be the 39-year-old Australian’s most personal music video to date.

Big Girls Cry is the latest cut from Sia’s chart topping album 1000 Forms of Fear. Directed by Daniel Askill (who also co-directed the first two parts of the trilogy – Chandelier and Elastic Heart) Ziegler performs an interpretive dance that seems way beyond her 12 years. You mostly only see her from the shoulders up, but she manages to create as much magic as she did with her whole body in Chandelier.

Over the past year Sia has managed to create one of the most innovative pop campaigns we have ever witnessed. In 2013 she opted out of the whole ‘fame’ game saying it was like “an abusive mother-in-law”. She removed her face from all publicity materials and if she performs live you only get to see her back. Ziegler has become Sia’s face.

One of our favourite comments on YouTube said: Don’t try to find a meaning… Relax… Enjoy… Open your heart…And if you like it it’s ok…And if you don’t like it it’s ok…

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