Today's Pick

Following up the success of her smash single "Impossible," Barbadian singer Shontelle is ready to wake up from her "Perfect Nightmare." The Rodney 'Darkchild' Jerkins-produced up-tempo track, the follow-up single off her sophomore effort "No Gravity." Opening with a haunting piano melody where the chanteuse finds herself trapped in a damaged relationship where she can't help but love the man who treats her wrong. Soon, the drums kick in and turns into to poppy, club-driven anthem, as Shontelle struggles to break free from her "Perfect Nightmare," a damaging relationship. Hit the jump and wake yourself up with this dark new single.
Despite the dismal sales of her sophomore effort "No Gravity," Shontelle is proving quite the trooper, releasing the video for the Rodney Jerkins-produced hit song "Perfect Nightmare." The premise seems to never change as the artist is in love with a boxer and they are going through the usual relationship problems and the boxing ring symbolizes the battle. The only difference with Shontellee's video is that she distracts the boxer with her beauty causing him to lose his match, making Shontelle the true definition of a 'Knockout.'
Shontelle tries to leave, but something keeps pulling her back in the Colin Tilley-directed video for "Perfect Nightmare." The murky dance sequences and dramatic boxing ring plot don't really do the song any favors, but the singer is charismatic enough to pull the whole thing together. The Barbadian beauty shows us the power and confusion that takes over people's lives when they're in love. The setting of the video is a boxing ring, as the story surrounds a boxer who is apparently the ex-lover of Shontelle and is now dating another woman. It's a "nightmare" because he's not with her but it's perfect because they still love each other - get it "Perfect Nightmare."
'Shontelligence' merely defines the knowledge that I have acquired throughout my life, the knowledge yet to be absorbed and ultimately the product of all my experiences which I then translate into my music. Singer, songwriter, rising star and aspiring lawyer? Not the combination that one would normally expect. But then again there is nothing ordinary about Shontelle, the 24 year-old Bajan singer-songwriter who's set to take the world by storm after signing with music mogul Steve Rifkind's SRC records. Shontelle may have put the law degree on the back burner for now, but she certainly has no regrets.