Today's Pick

Carly Rae Jepsen released the video for her insanely catchy new single "Call Me Maybe," which is her certified platinum debut US single, and the lead single taken from her first EP, "Curiosity." The 26-year-old Canadian singer first came to the public attention in the summer of 2007 when she came third in the fifth season of Canadian Idol, and her "Call Me Maybe" is a fluffy pop gem depicting what happens when love strikes at first sight. It's giddy, catchy, and instantly memorable with clever lyrics.
The upbeat pop track draws influences from dance-pop and disco. Lyrically, the track alludes to the inconvenience that a love at first sight brings to a girl who hopes for a call back from a crush. The song's narrator is obviously no shrinking violet and is confident enough to ask a cute boy out. "Call Me Maybe," is breezy and sweet, a eyelash-fluttering flirtation run hard through the Disney-pop model of digitized feelings and brusque, chipper arrangements, and the ubiquitous pop smash is shaping up to be the song of the summer.
MTV News asked Jepsen if she is anything like that girl on her song? She replied: "When you write a bunch of songs, it's like being asked to pick a favorite kid. You wonder what will be loved and which will just be my own little journal entry that I personally like. It was a surprise that it took off the way it did, but a welcome surprise. I think how it was written and how it is about trying to pick up a guy. It is simple and feels good, and I am a romantic at heart. I like the idea of being in the moment of meeting someone, feeling that buzz and that feeling of attraction that you act on. You have to be spontaneous and brave. I have never been brave enough to ask for his number, but that's how I would do it if I was."
The Ben Knechtel-directed clip portrays Jepsen rehearsing the track with her band, and her bandmates push her to go wash her car, where she trying to gain attention from her attractive neighbor, portrayed by Holden Nowell, while he's working on his lawn, and is revealed to be gay at the close of the story. "It felt like a really welcoming gesture," Jepsen says of the video. "We had just signed the documents not a day or two before and then they posted the video and I kind of realized how sincere they were about helping me."

John Mayer may not be able to perform his new material live, but that doesn't mean he can't pack up his stuff, drive across the Western frontier and lip-synch lyrics about being a "good man, with a good heart." And with that, the scenic "Shadow Days" music video was unveiled on Friday. The video is a road trip, with Mayer dressed up as a cowboy, making his way across the heartland of our great country to just chill out and let it all go. It's a completely uncomplicated premise.
"Shadow Days" is the lead single from Mayer's fifth studio album "Born and Raised," the first album since 2009’s "Battle Studies," which notched the No.1 spot on the Billboard 200 and earned him three Grammy nominations. The new CD is still on track for a May 22 release despite the 34-year-old's recent battle with a backlash following a controversial Playboy interview and throat surgery for a granuloma near his vocal chord. "My shadow days are over," he sings in this country-tinged song reflecting the hope that his bad times are over.
"I'm pretty emotionally burnt out at the moment, but please know how hard I tried to resolve this and how disappointed I am that I can't perform this record yet," Mayer told his fans in his blog. "I'm completely bummed, especially for all of you who started making plans to see a show. Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. I love this band you were going to hear, I love the guys and girls I work with, and the only thing that stops me from devolving into a puddle of tears is knowing that it's a long life, and the greatest gift in the world is being able to create music no matter what the circumstances. So these are the new circumstances, and I'll find a way to make it mean something. That's all you can ever do."
Mayer leads an unfussy life in the clip for "Shadow Days," a moody track wherein Mayer croons about being a good man who lost his way, the recovering media provocateur and hippie-cowboy heartbreaker Mayer is leaving behind the bright lights and hustle and bustle of the big city for something simpler, he drifts through his own private Idaho, Arizona, and other frontier states. As our wandering hero travels across this great land of ours in his mostly reliable Jeep Wrangler, he makes sure to visit key scenic landscapes in order to play guitar as approving eagles soar above him.

Flaunting her curvacious figure on the sandy Hawaiian beaches with Bikini-clad and sporting neon green hair, Nicki Minaj dances on the beach in her newly-released video for her craven cheeseball dance-rap single "Starships," the lead single from New York rapper's sophomore studio album, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded." Yes, starships were meant to fly, and rap's reigning queen was clearly meant to throw raving beach parties. If fans thought "Super Bass" was a colorful video, this one takes it above and beyond.
"Starships" is a multi-genre song, which heavily utilizes '90s-influenced Eurodance, Europop, and Euro house, while also incorporating other genres such as pop, dance, reggae, pop rock, and hip hop. The lighthearted, feel-good vibe of the song is perfect for casual Barbz to blast. It's hard not to see Britney Spears' influence on the rapper/singer when listening to the song, and given that the two toured together last year, Minaj may be trying to remind her pop fans that she has an ear for what they want.
Regarding this cut, the 29-year-old colorful Minaj explained that RedOne sent her a beat, which she was so taken with that she went to the studio and improvised the first verse, "mumbling and just saying the first thing that came into my head, and we recorded it, because I just felt like, let's go to the beach... let's go get away. It was just so good. It feels good!" The song not only is pure pop perfection, but RedOne's influence is evident, and it's the most polarizing single in Minaj's career to date.
The clip was directed by Anthony Mandler and was a 3-day shoot in Hawaii. It starts with a massive UFO-like craft - presumably a starship - hovering over the ocean and then Minaj materializes in the water. The hip-hop diva prances about in a skimpy bikini on the tropical shores of Hawaii with plumes of colored smoke floating through the air and hulking male dancers with tribal markings grooving on the beach. There are people getting splashed with neon paint, flame-twirlers, hula dancers, and, goodness, there is so much more going on in this clip.

Foster the People show their fans how committed they are to their job in a music video for their single "Houdini," is the fourth single taken from the indie pop group's critically-acclaimed debut album "Torches." The band pulled the upbeat "Houdini" out of its hat way back on its first EP last year, but the track still works its synthesizer magic.
Foster the People's "Houdini" clip, directed by Daniels, is not for the faint of heart. Mark Foster, Cubbie Fink and Mark Pontius are due to perform at a big concert, but the trio dying in a horrible production accident and crushed in an on-stage mishap during a video shoot, sending everyone on the set into panic mode. Ouch. Don't worry, it's easy on the gore. But thanks to some Hollywood innovation and a mysterious video-rescue squad, they're quickly turned into reanimated People-puppets.
The 'Pumped Up Kicks' hitmakers have taken the stage with sore throats, broken feet and all manner of cuts, scrapes and bruises, both mental and physical. But after surviving a high-speed car chase in their "Don't Stop" clip, when the time came for Foster the People to suit up for the video for "Houdini," they decided to show just how dedicated they are to going on with the show.
The video comes one year after the release of "Torches" and a month before three-piece group prepare to launch their summer tour on May 29. The outing includes three sold-out nights in New York's Central Park, where they will play to more than 17,000 fans, as well as a first-ever trip to the Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival. After playing alongside the reunited Beach Boys at this year's Grammys, they will hook up with the legendary beach pop group on two of their summer dates.
A call to an expert is made to bring the three guys back to life in time to finish the video shoot, bust some choreographed moves and play a show as animatronic robots! Actually it's kind of hard to know what exactly is going on, but the fellas are somehow rebooted and able to pull off the sold-out show the next night, bringing tears to the eyes of their crew. They also have superpowers that allow them to hop way up in the air and dance like pros. But, by the end they are either so wiped out, or their batteries are so depleted, that they crash on the couch backstage as everyone celebrates their triumph around them.

Following the success of their first single "Glad You Came," the British boyband The Wanted have premiered their new vampire video for their second official U.S. single, "Chasing the Sun," off their debut self-titled U.S. EP. The group eventually find themselves at some kind of makeout party, and things are going swimmingly. "Chasing The Sun" takes on a whole new meaning once The Wanted's night is over.
This club banger was wrote by British rapper and singer Example, who admitted that he originally wrote it for Australian Dance-Pop singer Kylie Minogue, before deciding the tune would suit The Wanted more. "Our song 'Chasing the Sun' is basically about the party that keeps on going," Jay McGuiness said, with pal Max George giving a bit more insight into how that will manifest in the clip: "There's certain shots which we've just done now which are on a rooftop, and then we're filming all night until 6 in the morning, and then the last shot, I think, will be us just kind of walking away looking rather disheveled," George explained.
The Director X-shot video is full flirtatious scenes with leggy models and late-night rooftop scenes with the fellas. In the clip, the fivesome travel the streets of Los Angeles in the middle of the night, and turns out their '90s-looking sunburst tattoos grant them access to an exclusive sunburst party, where the guys meeting up with a mysterious group of the ladies from the club, who leave the chaps with curious tattoos in the shape of a sunburst clinging to each of the boys, who curiously share the same sun-inspired markings on their body.
These scenes are also intercut with shots of the band dudes on a rooftop at dawn singing the chorus of the track, it seems as if the group is literally chasing the sun, in an attempt to keep the late-night party going as long as possible before it rises! Things an unnecessary supernatural turn when we find out these girls are actually blood-sucking vampires. The boys get bitten, but no worries The Wanted fans, they head into the morning sunlight which means they're fine, right?

Melanie Fiona drops off a surprise in the form of a unusual and pretty outrageous visual for her latest track "Watch Me Work." The cut is a funky midtempo taken from Fiona' sophomore effort, "The MF Life," a soulful, very mature project that really establishes Fiona as one of the leading voices in soul music, and the video is even funkier.
The 28-year-old Canadian artist's "The MF Life" is fantastic and deserves to cross over much more than it has, and the uptempo "Watch Me Work" is styled in soul and downright exuberant. The song delivers a message that inspires women to celebrate who they are and the clip ends with Fiona's signature line "Live Your MF Life." That album is not getting nearly enough press as it should, which might explain why the "Watch Me Work" video is a well-baited Internet hook.
Captivating with stunning visuals of movie and television clips that depict women being badasses, the R&B songstress tries to convey women empowerment message to her female fan base with the sassy new single, and showcases some of Hollywood's most notorious heroines and brings new meaning to the term kickass female. It's fast-paced, eye-catching and a fantastic bit of curation, while the singer sings the song to the camera, clippings of movie clips featuring female stars kicking ass are flashed on the screen.
Uma Thurman' "Kill Bill" and Angelina Jolie' "Wanted" are among the movie characters honored by Fiona as icons who inspired her generation. There's also more explicitly political stuff–toward the middle comes a quote from The Black Power Mixtape, and the video leads with this Margaret Cho quote: "If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world."

Lana Del Rey is back with another visually arresting music video for her new single "Carmen," is taken from Del Rey's first major-label album "Born to Die," which debuted at No.2 on Billboard Hot 200. "The album is a tribute to living life on the wild side. I'm sort of kidding because I'm not that wild any more... I used to drink a lot. Too much," she once said. "I haven't had a drink for seven years now," the 25-year-old singer said.
"Carmen" is a dark tale of pretty-girl psychosis and it narrates the lifestyle of a 17-year-old Hollywood party girls like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and the 'Blue Jeans' singer tries to give hints at how she grew up in the Big Apple and returns to the found-footage motif with a mix of strippers, instructional drug videos and digitally aged clips with vintage, early-1960s appeal that "explains everything" in the newly-released clip. Among the images in the video are blooming roses, athletically gifted pole dancers, as well as clips from a scientific video that explores the chemical effects of crystal methamphetamine.
This cautionary tale of a doomed woman who sells her body on the streets is littered with Coney Island references. Del Rey told The Sun: "Carmen is a song I can't say too much about because it's so close to my heart. It's the song on the record I relate to most closely. It's set partly in Coney Island, a place that's been important to me throughout my New York City career." Coney Island is a peninsula in southernmost Brooklyn, and was America's original Sin City, decades before Las Vegas, and was rife with prostitution.
Spliced into the footage of the video are schematics of methamphetamine and audio blurbs that ask how meth can change your brain. With a siren-like voice, Del Rey is no stranger to the mash-up video style herself and she continues in this vein for "Carmen," and she designates the video as a "BIO PIC" in the video's YouTube description, but it's up to the viewer to decide how much or how little is an authentic glimpse into the life of the singer, who has been widely criticized for relying too heavily on artifice.

Imagine Dragons have been waiting three years for this day, they finally premiered their first video for "It's Time," the breakout single off of the fast-rising Las Vegas band's latest EP, "Continued Silence." The clip represents the first fruits of their new deal with Interscope Records, and, for a band that has taken its time to get to this point, well, they're definitely enjoying the moment.
Any time I hear music, I also see visuals in my mind," says Imagine Dragons' frontman Dan Reynolds of the video, which was shot on a dry lake bed in Barstow, CA. "'It's Time' is an emotional song that was written at a very transitional period of my life. I've always loved conceptual videos that leave room for the viewer room to interpret it in a way that is most personal to them. That is what we tried to do with this video. The director had a great vision for representing the song’s meaning in a subtle way. We wanted the video to be cinematic and true to the song."
If you were stuck in the middle of the desert after some kind of postapocalyptic shipwreck with your bandmates, what's the one thing you have left to do? Put yourself in infinitely more danger, of course! Imagine Dragons take their cheery, indie-pop tune "It's Time" in a decidedly darker direction in their new video for the track, which opens with the Las Vegas foursome headed out across an eerie desert landscape. Despite the impending thunderstorm, the band is on a quest to find resources. The video doesn't exactly fit the song but it really works.
The clip is basically an updated take on the old "Jack and the Beanstalk" tale, with the band starring as mystic travelers in a very dark world, carrying a very special parcel. Since forming in Vegas in 2009, Imagine Dragons have been on one long voyage, one that's certainly had its share of ups and downs along the way. So with their first proper video out in the world, and plans to begin work on their full-length debut already in the works, Imagine Dragons continue to march on. And in that regard, things are still the same as they've ever been.

With the release of her debut album coming this year, it is finally time for breakout artist Sabi to fully shine! The up and coming pop force Sabi just released the video for her brand new Wale-featuring banger, "Where They Do That At?" Sabi's vocals are sweet, the robotic bridge was cool, Wale's verse is brilliant, the whole lyrics/message is relatable. The dark, edgy club banger and its equally fierce video are sure to blast the door open for R&B newcomer Sabi.
It's been a little over a year since the 23-year-old rapper/singer made a major splash guesting via her memorable "steamin' like a pot full of vegetables" rap on the Britney Spears track "(Drop Dead) Beautiful" from her "Femme Fatale" record. The singer explains, "I grew up watching Britney's videos. It's crazy to want to be a part of the music industry my entire life and then get the opportunity to be featured on a record by one of my idols."
Following that and appearances with Brit on tour, the buzz-worthy artist then broke out in a big way last summer, and guested on Cobra Starship's top 10 hit single "You Make Me Feel...," while also releasing her dubstep-infused teaser single "Wild Heart." Sabi was inspired as a child by early MTV superstars Michael Jackson, Prince, and Sade. These days she counts Lauryn Hill, Lykke Li, Florence + the Machine, and Bats for Lashes among her musical influences.
The Tim Cruz-directed clip for the sassy track beneath the palm trees and in the reservoirs of Los Angeles, on the sidewalk, in a swag convertible ride, outside a church and even in the parking lot of the Forum, the famed concert venue in the California girl's stomping grounds of Inglewood, where the Warner Brother signee, strikes some poses and dances around to her tune about a guy she had a thing with until he up and disappeared. "Just don't say you love me and never come back," Sabi sings on the track.

Selena Gomez loves her song "Hit The Lights" so much that she decided to make a second video for it. The 19-year-old unleashed the original music video last November and now has a new 'nighttime' version of it to a group of lucky fans at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. It's a great way for Gomez to get the song back out there in time to become a fun summer anthem.
The single is taken from Gomez's third studio album "When the Sun Goes Down," with The Scene. Musically, "Hit the Lights" is an up-tempo dance song. Lyrically, the song speaks about living in the moment and taking risks. Gomez told Billboard magazine: "It was actually the first song I recorded and it was really fun and I feel like everyone can relate to that song. It's kind of one of those songs about living in the moment while keeping it a big huge summer dance track. That one was really fun and kind of dance poppy."
The new clip features Gomez leading a troupe of people and take on the night life, hitting the city and clubs for a street flashlight party, and that pile of pink balloons is in this version too because there weren't enough balloons on the first go around. She explained the meaning of both the song and the clip is having fun, and throwing caution to the wind. "The song is that missed opportunity. The dreams that you wish you would go for and basically the song is just encouraging people to [let] loose and have fun and be young and crazy. This video is more organic than anything I've done before. It's about being with people you love and enjoying the moment and embracing the moment you're in your life."
Ditching the scene in the previous clip which shows her prancing around a sun-drenched field, this new video focuses more on the flashlight party she has with her friends at night. "The song 'Hit The Lights' is that missed opportunity. The dreams that you wish you would go for and basically the song is just encouraging people to loose and have fun and be young and crazy," she once said. "This video is more organic than anything I've done before. It's about being with people you love and enjoying the moment, and embracing the moment you're in your life."

Following up the memorable clip for "Shady Love," the electro-pop outfit Scissor Sisters come through with the sharp visual for their new single, "Only The Horses," from the New York band's upcoming fourth studio LP, "Magic Hour," which comes out on May 28. Formed in 2001, the New York glam rockers are an American band "spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York," who took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism.
"Only The Horses" is gorgeous, hypnotic and features heroic horses, full of bright colors, and a lot of paint. It shouldn't have come as a surprise that the video for Scissor Sisters' utterly amazing Calvin Harris-produced single "Only The Horses" mostly features horses! There's some other stuff, too, but it's mainly about the horses. Given that the song's lush, galloping synths have a decidedly equine quality, though, it's hard to imagine a better set of visuals than the ones that the band came up with.
"It's a sweet joyful mélange of beat-driven future-pop, and it style-hops all over the place unabashedly," says Jake Shears of the new record "Magic Hour," which is the result of a series of team-ups between glam quartet Scissor Sisters, and a whole host of stellar artists, writers and producers. The new video is definitely a metaphor for something. The slow motion sequences are a tad grating - especially the shots of the horses galloping through the desert.
Directed by Lorenzo Fonda, the clip is suitably exuberant, which opens with horses galloping through the desert with ropes attached to them, but these are no ordinary horses! They're horses on a mission to liberate the four members of Scissor Sisters, who are being held captive inside a pyramid, covered in brightly colored paint. As the horses continue running, the ropes pull the pyramid apart, sending the paint flying through the air in a dazzling tableau of color.

Mat Kearney has just released the music video for his rap-acoustic rock style tune "Ships In The Night," the third single appears on his latest fourth studio album "Young Love," following "Hey Mama" and "Down." The 33-year-old Oregon-born, now Nashville-based musician's high profile in the secular world is buoyed by the inclusion of his songs in more than a dozen hit television shows. The new shoot spanned 2,445 miles over 165 locations.
Kearney explained the meaning of this relationship-difficulty song: "I wrote that about those people that are closest to you but you still feel so far away from sometimes. It's my cry to want to connect with someone that's close to you but emotionally very far away. I'm writing out of my own experience with that." The phrase "like ships that pass in the night" is generally used for people who meet once or twice by chance for a short time but then do not see each other again.
Kearney is a crossover human. He's had one foot in pop music, and another in hip-hop. His most recent album, "Young Love," sees him incorporating more of a hip-hop/spoken word element than ever before. And so far, it's been his biggest critical hit. When talking about the album, Kearney said, "I approached 'Young Love' like a singer-songwriter would approach a hip-hop record. We would start with beats or grooves that your body already responds to. It was a fun and fulfilling experiment."
You know how it is when a good friend falls in love and suddenly it's all they can talk about, obsessing about the new relationship in a gooey way that makes you want to hurl? This isn't like that. It's true that since the release of 2009's "City of Black & White," Kearney fell in love and got married, but this album manages to be hopeful, upbeat and fun without the cavity-inducing sweetness. The album is heavy on handclaps and lo-fi touches that lend a charming quality.

Teen sensation Justin Bieber took the stage midway through the Tuesday's episode of NBC's "The Voice" to unveil the video for his new single "Boyfriend," the first single from his upcoming third studio album, "Believe," that should hit shelves on June 19th. The Canadian singer weighs in on how literal the video will get and when fans might get to hear more from "Believe."
When Bieber turned 18 on March 1, he devoted part his special day to appearing on The Ellen Degeneres Show, and announced this song as the lead single from his new album. "The song is basically, I'm talking to this girl and I'm like, 'If I was your boyfriend I'd never let you go,'" Bieber told Degeneres regarding the track's meaning. Musically, "Boyfriend" is a R&B and hip-hop includes elements of acoustic music, while still having club beats, and the lyrics features Bieber singing about being "everything you want." The instrumentation is kept in a lower sound to highlight Bieber's vocals.
Bieber wrote the song with American songwriter Mike Posner, who said: "I wrote and produced that with him. And wait 'til you hear the beat; you're going to flip. You're going to want to play this song. Yes, it's super hip-hop." Bieber explained to Ryan Seacrest on his radio show why he decided to lead his "Believe" album with this track: "It was a really hard choice. I mean, we had so many songs, so many uptempos we could release, [that] I thought, 'Let's slow it down,' " he said, adding that "I thought this was the perfect single," as this song "was me all the way; it is a representation of me."
Bieber revealed that the video doesn't have a "steady concept," adding that it mostly features artistic shots intercalated with dance scenes, "It's not like 'Justin follows this girl to this spot.' No, it's a bunch of amazing scenes: Like a fire scene, we have an ice scene." The Colin Tilley-directed clip sees the boyfriend of Selena Gomez channeling his inner ladies man by whispering the slick tune seductively in a girl's ear as shots of an icy realm flash. With a guitar in hand, the singer strikes a Michael Jackson-esque pose before a gleaming white sphere.

The Saturdays have premiered the music video on Chart Show TV for their brand new track, "30 Days," which is rumored to be released as fourth cut on an unconfirmed, upcoming re-release of their third studio album, "On Your Radar." The girl group are expected to debut the new track once band member Una Healy is ready to rejoin the group following the birth of her first child.
The dance-pop tune is the thirteenth single to be released by British-Irish pop girl-group, The Saturdays. The track was co-written and produced by English hitmaker Steve Mac, who previously worked with the five-piece on their songs "Ego," "Notorious" and "My Heart Takes Over." When asked to describe the song in just one word each, the popstars replied with "amazing," "crazy" and "very pop." Explaining the meaning behind the single, Frankie Sandford said: "'30 Days' is about being apart from the person you love and counting down the minutes until you're back together."
The accompanying music video for "30 Days" sees The Saturdays performing the single in a diner. It was shot in February at Starvin' Marvin's Restaurant in West London, and showing the glamorous ladies mainly from above the waist. The making of the video was documented for the MTV broadcast "On Set With The Saturdays," in which The Saturdays give a tour of the set and talk about the plot of the video, with a storyline sees the quintet at a Fifties style diner where they embark on a round of speed-dating.
The video starts off with the girls arriving at an American style diner. They enter the diner intending to have a meal together but then realize they have accidentally walked in on a speed dating night, with a sign on the wall that reads "find your soul mate in 30 dates or less." Vanessa White decides they should give it a go and the girls all sit down separately and are each greeted by several men. Healy showcases her baby bump and Rochelle Wiseman her engagement ring as ways to fend off some of the men they do not approve of. During the final chorus everyone in the diner dances together after the speed dating is over.

Karmin are in a dramatized version of their true story in their new video for due's original tune "Brokenhearted," the second single off their upcoming debut album "Hello," set to be released on May 8. The song is, about a lover who begs her man not to "leave [her] broken hearted tonight," an energetic, uptempo blend of mainstream pop and hip hop that slots perfectly into contemporary pop radio playlists. Karmin are on the verge of a major breakthrough.
Karmin are a Pop-Rap duo made up of engaged couple Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan from Brookline, Massachusetts. Their name derives from the Latin word 'carmen,' meaning "song," with a slightly altered spelling to "hint at karma." The pair first gained recognition from their covers of popular Hip-Hop and Pop songs posted on YouTube. They included their unique renditions of Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now," Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" and LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem."
Following their first single "Crash Your Party," this cheery pop track finds Heidemann begging a guy not to "leave [me] broken hearted tonight." It was produced by dance-pop hitmaker Benny Blanco, whose resume includes Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl," Ke$ha's "TiK ToK" and Bruno Mars'"Grenade." Heidemann sung-rapped her vocals dressed in 1940's South Pacific-esque attire, and her vocal prowess and the productions energetic vibe comes through in clear, engaging fashion. It's probably the sunniest song to ever bear a title like 'Broken Hearted,' with a super-slick flow that Heidemann shows off.
The Marc Klasfeld-directed video is a foray into romantic frustration. The story shifts back and forth between the previous day and the present day. The clip is loosely based on how the pair met, and it takes place in Heidemann's apartment, with her thinking back to the night before when she met Noonan for the first time, and thinks she and Noonan have a romantic connection. The next morning, she furiously checks her cell phone to see if Noonan has called, but he hasn't. At the end of band rehearsals, it turns out that Noonan is already seeing someone else.

J. Cole has dropped a visual for the moody piano tune "Sideline Story," the title track from Cole's critically-acclaimed debut studio album, "Cole World: The Sideline Story," which has more bright spots than lowlights and serves as a solid debut. "I wish somebody made guidelines, On how to get up off the sidelines," the 27-year-old rapper said.
This dubstep-tinged electro-rap tune finds Cole spitting rhymes in which he justifies splashing out on an expensive chain and watches as time is fleeting. "They say time is money, but really it's not," the North Carolina rapper spits. "If we ever go broke, girl, then time is all we got." The song title was borrowed from his label boss Jay-Z's 1997 track "A Million and One Questions." During a listening-session for the album, Cole said he thought about using this song's title after reading it as a headline in a "rich person's magazine."Directed by Axel Laramee and Adam Roy, the clip documents Cole's international 2011 tour, capturing the song's straightforward production and lyrics, representing the journey Cole has taken with the release of his first album and setting the stage for his follow up sophomore effort. It encapsulates his persona well. He's a guy born in the struggle and determined to not be poor for the rest of his life.
Cole gives viewers an inside look at his touring lifestyle in his new video for "Sideline Story." The cameras follow Cole around the world: Amsterdam, Stockholm, Birmingham, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Oslo, Liverpool, London, Abu Dhabi and Dubai are all cities the North Carolina native hits, serving the masses with his lyrical punches in the video. Shots show him commanding the stage in front of packed stadiums and during down time he plays a game of cards, dabbles in some pool playing and gazes up at the Eiffel Tower.

Daughtry have just unleashed a music video for their latest single "Outta My Head," the third single off of the Multi-platinum rock band's critically acclaimed third album, "Break The Spell," and the follow-up to the album's previous chart-climbing hits "Crawling Back To You" and "Renegade." The single was debut on TV show during the March 15 episode of Fox's American Idol.
The band's frontman Chris Daughtry wrote the song with frequent Aerosmith collaborator Marti Frederiksen, who has worked with the band since the mid-1990s. "He started playing the riff for 'Outta My Head' and it kind of had a 'Rag Doll' riff," the former "Idol" recalled "Melodically, it's not my style to do what Steven Tyler does, it's more what David Coverdale would do, so the verses have this Whitesnake feel. Lyrically, I wanted to go someplace sexier than Daughtry has gone before."
Daughtry's latest album "Break The Spell," which was certified gold within four weeks of its release, builds on the band's reputation for melodic hooks and anthemic choruses while providing a powerful showcase for Chris's emotionally resonant voice. No good deed goes unpunished. That almost seems to be the moral of the video for Daughtry's new single "Outta My Head." The video's plot has almost as many twists and turns as the chase scene, which finds Chris pursuing a beautiful young woman all over town.
Directed by Shane C. Drake, the newly-unveiled clip opens with Chris making some intense 'eye contact' with a fine-looking lady while sitting at an outdoor terrace on a café in Los Angeles. Abruptly, the mysterious, yet sexy girl takes off, forcing Chris to go after her, chases her down the street, and goes to extremes to catch the girl he just can't seem to get out of his head. He dodging many obstacles and hops in a fan's fancy blue Mustang to continue his hunt for the elusive beauty. How it all ends? Watch below!

Ahead of the release of their upcoming sophomore electro-pop record "Electra Heart," the follow-up to the top five album "Family Jewels," on April 30th, Marina And The Diamonds has just premiered a naked astounding acoustic rendition of album track, "Lies," exclusively on Telegraph.co.uk. The 26-year-old talented Welsh songstress rose to fame after reaching number two on the BBC Sound of 2010 poll list, coming second to Ellie Goulding.
Although we haven't heard the original album version in full yet, which was co-produced by Dr. Luke, Cirkut and Diplo, the stripped down rendition of the song alone proves that this one's going to be a massive number. And, in the usual Marina fashion, the lyrics are simply devastating. "You're never going to love me, so what's the use?" Marina sadly croons in the opening moment. The singer recently opened up about the inspiration for her post-breakup album: "I wanted to create a cold, ruthless character who wasn’t vulnerable…On my new songs, I wanted to flick the situation around."
The heartbreaking album "Electra Heart" tells the story of identity, love, rejection, doomed romance, all tinged with humor and British eccentricity. Discussing the album, Marina said: "It's an Ode to dysfunctional love. I based the project around character types commonly found in love stories, film and theater, usually ones associated with power and control in love, as opposed to weakness or defeat. I guess it was a way of dealing with the embarrassment that, for the first time in my life, I got 'played.'. Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and "Electra Heart" is my response to that. It is a frank album."
Marina And The Diamonds lie to us so sweetly, and We can't even with this one. This breathtakingly beautiful version of "Lies," is everything a song about dysfunctional love should be, and words can't describe its emotional core, you will cry. Paralyzing, really, so just click, sit back and absorb the force that is Marina. "I just wanted to be perfect..."

Christina Perri has premiered the full-length exclusive clip from The Hollywood Reporter for "Distance," Wednesday night before its official debut during ABC's show "Revenge" recap episode, "From the Beginning," and then it goes live at the ABC Music Lounge online. The 25-year-old singer/songwriter, is originally from Philadelphia, got her big break when her song "Jar of Hearts," after it was featured on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance." The track was an unexpected success across the United States.
You may have seen and heard Perri's "Distance," the third single off her debut album, "Lovestrong," in commercials for "Revenge." Featuring her good friend Jason Mraz, it is a wonderfully soft and elegant song, full of trailing notes over a quiet and tranquil guitar strummed ever so lightly. Perri, herself, said she kept the record a secret, as she was so excited to be working with Mraz, who can be heard harmonizing with the female vocalist over the pre-chorus and chorus.
On her official website's blog, Perri revealed more about the message behind the album title. She stated that since the release of "Jar of Hearts" she has been overwhelmed with the emotion from fans who have related to the song. Perri revealed that fans helped her understand the ups and downs of love, which led her to create "Lovestrong." Selecting songs from her "arsenal," Perri picked her favorite songs that she felt fans needed to hear, the songs she needed to give away and the songs she needed to get through. Listening to every intention, story, battle wound, melody and word, Perri revealed that she discovered the main theme of the album: love and strength.
"Distance," is a fantastic arrangement and well composed. The lyrics expose the natural sensitivity of every relationship, which I'm certain that those who have actually been in love have felt and understood. Perri always seems like she is in a surreal world. The world is realizing how much amazing talent she has and she provides us with the most amazing red carpet dresses and amazing performances! The new video for "Distance," features Nick Wechsler as the unlucky in love Jack Porter and plenty of memorable scenes from the series. And at the end, you'll see if Jack finally gets the girl. Poor thing.

Duet partners Drake and Rihanna teamed up again and finally unveiled his long-in-the-works video for "Take Care," the first single and title track from 25-year-old Canadian rapper's sophomore album, which has a far more complicated history than the usual pop hit. Drake explained how his childhood favorite Winnie the Pooh was a key inspiration while conceptualizing "Take Care."
Over the past three years, Drake has risen from mixtape maestro to genuine superstar; the kind of enigmatic talent who can proudly embrace his "emotional" side one minute, then release the "Practice" video the next. And in doing so, he has carved out a rather unique niche in the world of hip-hop and R&B, and we're not just talking about his sweaters. Often duplicated, but never replicated, there truly is no one making music quite like him. And yet, despite all that, Drake has never made a truly great music video, or at least one that fits neatly into his maudlin, monochromatic world. Until now this one.
Rather than being a warning to be particularly careful, "take care" is more of a declaration of goodwill meaning "look after yourself." The phrase became current around 1970. Samples Jamie xx's remix of Gil Scott-Heron's version of "I'll Take Care of You," the track finds him linking up with Rihanna who sings the original words of the song while Drake raps, and the cross-genre couple promising to "take care" of each other after being wounded by their lovers. Rihanna's lifts the depressive mood which is present on the majority of Drake's songs.
Filled with animal imagery, natural landscapes and achingly tense slow-motion effects, the the Yoann Lemoine-directed clip is as beautifully elegant as the song, especially with regard to the chemistry between its two stars. The black and white with occasional color washes video has a very intimate, humbling and delicate vibe with minimal visuals which allows us to focus on them. It comes off as an artistic therapy session where Drake reveals his inner feelings all while Rihanna listens and reacts to his subtle emotions. Simplicity at its best.

Jessie J is back with a flurry of high notes in the video for her latest little escapade, "LaserLight," serves as the seventh overall single from the re-release of her debut LP, "Who You Are." The repackaged album will also include her international single "Domino" and brand new track "My Shadow." The David Guetta-produced, and 'Titanitum'-inspired cut, boast boisterous lyrics about a missing love, will be available for purchase on May 14th.
As you can imagine, the Guetta tune is an upbeat, shimmering dance-pop jam that has Jessie declaring, "You make me feel good, you make me feel safe, you make me feel like I could live another day." It sees the 24-year-old UK Pop powerhouse' collaborating with Guetta for a rather subdued and random track. The song may be 'generic' for Guetta's catalogue of songs, but for Jessie, it is exploring a new 'genre' in this new mellow/yet dance tune. Yet, it is clearly time for Jessie to progress to a new era of her career.
The French DJ has the ability to create that emotion down-to-a-tee with his derivative/reductive music production. So it's no surprise that it's just what Jessie is serving up on new for track "LaserLight." What struck me most about "LaserLight," is how concise the vocal is. No runs, no over the top belts, just a clean and solid delivery of a melody that finally allows a listener to appreciate her voice's tone and timbre without the audio/mental overload usually provided by the tricks and trills she so loves.
In the new video, the British pop diva steps out of the dark, and walking the city, in a movie theater, surrounded by many laser lights, and in the club. For the verses, she is seated in a dark movie theater and in the backseat of a car, with her hair slicked back off her forehead and giant hoop earrings. She's ever-fashionable, especially in that leather jacket with pointed, protruding spikes on the shoulders. Those are fierce, not to mention dangerous. When she rockets into the upbeat, bouncy chorus, she comes alive and springs to her feet, dancing, singing and surrounded by laserlights. Jessie is incredibly animated, using her hands, her face, her mouth and her eyes to express herself.

Raptress Nicki Minaj flaunts her body by wearing skin-tight catsuits and a skimpy bikini in her newly released music video for her song "Beez in the Trap," was released as the lead urban single, and third single overall, from the 29-year-old entertainer's sophomore album, "Pink Friday: Roman Unloaded," which just hit stores on last Tuesday. Minaj isn't just creative in the studio, she puts it down on the video set as well. As always, the superstar rapper's fashions are as much a talking point as her rhymes. It makes you wonder what she has in store visually for her sophomore CD.
This '80s-inspired track finds the Harajuku Barbie taking aim at other female rappers in a similar fashion to other joints like "Stupid Hoe" and "Roman's Revenge." "Bitches ain't s--- and they ain't sayin' nothin'," she spits on the hook. The explicit song is a timely antidote to the wholesome-ish Minaj we've been treated to lately, and it features a 16-bar verse from Def Jam rapper 2 Chainz, who was formerly known as Tity Boi. He spits rhymes in which he brags about his Lexus LS 450, and how if he wasn't rapping, he'd be pimping.
"Trap" is a slang term for a crackhouse, and by saying that she "beez" (is in) the drug den, Minaj means to say that her music is so addicted that it's like crack cocaine to those who listen to it. Serious stuff! Minaj's provocative dancing in that video set the hip hop blog world ablaze, as many were surprised that as high profile an artist as Minaj would take the role normally relegated to models in hip hop videos. Minaj's at her most verbose again with a hot racy video and shows off her unique energy and distinct personality.
Bikinis, barbed wire and hundred dollar bills all feature prominently in the Benny Boom-directed club-party video, which is not complicated: Chainz and Minaj dance and stand around rapping their verses while scenes from a club are spliced in to add some visual texture to the song. Though the lyrics of the track contain plenty of boasting on Minaj's part, she seems to be moving more and more away from the tough girl vibe she cultivated on tracks like Kanye West's "Monster" and instead playing up her curvy sex appeal to great effect.

After hitting us with a brief preview a few days ago, Rita Ora unleashed the full video for her brand-new club-ready track "R.I.P.," which serves as her debut solo U.K. single. The 21-year-old singer, one of Jay-Z's Roc Nation artists, conquered the British charts with her DJ Fresh collaboration "Hot Right Now," but she's only getting started. With "R.I.P." stays true to her UK roots as well as embracing her new US family.
Penned by Drake and produced by Chase & Status, "R.I.P." basically boils down to her telling a dude that she's going to have him, so he'd better get ready. The seductive dub-inspired beat kicks off with a verse from fellow British rapper Tinie Tempah before the blonde bombshell unleashes her freaky side. The London-bred singer combines the sultriness of Rihanna with the rocker chick swagger of Gwen Stefani, one of her biggest influences. Vocally, her delivery was faultless, and the result is a sexy ode to homewrecking shot in a vacant parking lot with Tempah.
"I wonder if you'll be able to handle me," the blonde pop and R&B riser teases toward the end of the cut. "Mental pictures - no cameras, please." It's a classic show of rebellion from an artist who's clearly itching to set off some alarms. It's not unusual to see up-and-coming pop artists try and channel bigger stars when trying to gain an audience. But this is ridiculous. In the video for her single "R.I.P.," the British singer comes off like a second-hand Rihanna, from her wardrobe to the Talk That Talk-cribbing song itself.
Ora is working hard to dead in the new clip, video director Emil Nava and the styling team got her rough and tough, dressing her in wife beaters, beanies and leather jackets. She even dons a pair of sneakers in the video, which is rare for a pop chick these days. Ora runs and jumps around a warehouse and dances on top of cars all while flirting next to Tempah. It seems the only car parked in the garage has melted into the floor, and if that's the case, it's because Ora has exuded enough heat to actually liquify concrete.

It was an incredible evening for fans of Jennifer Lopez as the judge premiered the full-length music video for her newest catchy number "Dance Again" during Thursday's American Idol. The track was produced by Moroccan-born mega producer RedOne and Cuban rapper Pitbull, and J.Lo has stated that she doesn't know if "Dance Again" would be the lead single from her upcoming greatest hits album or her eighth studio album.
"Dance Again" is an uptempo dance-pop song, which kicks off the electro beat with Pitbull's brief rap introduction. The beat then shifts from upbeat pings and claps to a bass backdrop as Lopez takes over the vocals. The quick pace electro beat returns, revving up energy, and Lopez sings the bridge with heartbreaking emotion. Lopez once again sings over a buttery disco groove and the chorus is as pure a piece of effervescent pop as Lopez has ever been a part of, and while it probably isn't the sort of thing meant to be listened to on headphones in a cubicle, it should play pretty well in places where grinding is encouraged.
During an interview with Ryan Seacrest, speaking on the concept behind the song, the 42-year-old said "I love being able to collaborate with the producer RedOne again, and working with Pitbull again. We had a great chemistry the last time, and it was like 'We're going to have to do something again.' And this was the perfect song. I love the message of the song. That when something bad happens, your life is not over. You have to get up. You're gonna live. You're gonna to be okay. You're gonna dance again."
The accompanying promo was directed by long-time collaborator Paul Hunter and it opens with a message card: "Always remember: You will live, you will love, you will dance again." With a cameo from a tuxedo-clad Pitbull, and appearances from lots of other attractive dancers, this video focuses on the real-life scantily clad couple: the tricky effects and glittery body painted Lopez and her 24-year-old real-life dancer beau Casper Smart, dancing and grinding synchronized side by side along with the sort of moves you would expect to accompany these lyrics. So prepare a cold shower and watch the steamy action now.

Alt-jazz songstress Norah Jones has released a video for "Happy Pills," the chugging first single off her forthcoming fifth Danger Mouse-produced breakup LP, "...Little Broken Hearts," is due for a May 1st release. Featuring Jones singing in various '50s-themed outfits and surroundings, the video tracks the middle and seemingly infidelity-induced end of a relationship. It's the perfect backdrop for Jones's retro, pleading croon, "Will you please just let me go now?"
"Happy Pills" depicts a relationship gone wrong, and it shows off what might be an unexpected side of the soft-spoken singer-songwriter. The '50s-influenced breakup track features Jones doing what she does best—musing with a sensual vocal performance, and deals conclusively with a philandering boyfriend. The song hints at the breadth of new sounds that Jones and producer Mouse (real name: Brian Burton) conjured for "...Little Broken Hearts," with the pair handling the majority of the instrumentals.
The 33-year-old Grammy-winning singer teamed up with the producer after she contributed vocals to his Rome project with Daniele Luppi. The song surprised Jones and Burton from the moment they wrote it. "We both were like 'Oh my God, this is awesome' at first and then went away and listened over the weekend, explained Jones. "We didn't know if it fit on the record. But I couldn't stop singing it, and neither could Brian. Eventually we decided it was too much fun, it had to be there." Jones looks absolutely luminescent throughout the video. She's downright dewy as her younger self and aging does nothing to dim her radiant beauty.
Jones isn't kidding when she says she wants you out of her life in the video for "Happy Pills." The Isaiah Seret-directed clip starts in the past - the late '50s or early '60s, and goes forward and back in time as she lives out a revenge fantasy against her cheating beau. She has it out for both the boyfriend and his girlfriend in the Hitchcockian tale, although, the video is a little hard to follow at times as various scenarios play out and time moves ahead. However, the ending is crystal clear as a cold, blue lake as an older Jones rides her horse through the woods back to the scene of the crime that she has kept secret for decades or not.

Kris Allen is finally back and makes his contribution to the anti-bullying movement with the video for his self-empowerment single, "The Vision of Love," the official first single from American Idol season 8 winner's upcoming sophomore studio effort, "Thank You Camellia," the follow-up to his self-titled 2009 debut, arriving on May 22.
Even the smallest steps make a difference, the track is a self-empowerment anthem about standing up for those less fortunate, even when fear takes over. Allen wrote the song with The Messengers production team, Nasri and Adam Messinger, who have also worked with Chris Brown and Justin Bieber. Speaking with Katie Krause of Clevver News before its release, Allen said the single is an, "uplifting song... a world song that's about people being good to each other."
The the 26-year-old former American Idol winner plays narrator in the Lenny Bass-directed new clip, which was filmed last month in Los Angeles. The the storyline involves two teens, one insecure and lonely, the other tormented by bullying, and ultimately shows how acts of kindness helps those suffering find inner strength and confidence. The scenarios play out intercut with footage of Allen playing the song in an empty loft, and is also seen being occupied with creative process of writing the empowerment song.
The video documents the song's lyrics pretty literally by suggesting optimistically, that "standing up" doesn't need be a dramatic, difficult action - one student puts a hand up and stops his friends from harassing another, while our lonely introverted girl learns how to overcome her self-doubt simply by taking off her headphones and introducing herself. The texture of the video is sleek and raw, packing a punch. The clip is meant to appeal to Allen's younger base and it sends a nice, yet oversimplified message.

David Archuleta has released the accompanying music video to support his latest single called "Forevermore." the title track from the American Idol alum's latest fourth studio, just premiered last weekend exclusively in the Philippines. This is also Archuleta's first Original Pilipino Music (OPM) album.
Touted as what could be Archuleta's last album before his intended two-year break from the music business to embark on an important spiritual mission serve as a Mormon missionary in Chile, "Forevermore," is a collection of all original Filipino classic love songs written in English and composed by some of the Philippine's renowned songwriters. The songs will definitely invoke feelings of love and hope in every listener.
This album is a fitting tribute not only to Original Pilipino Music, but to his devoted fans who have remained loyal through the years. He wants his fans to know that he loves and appreciates them, wherever he may go... forevermore. Archuleta said at the press conference for the album: "I wouldn't say that I sound better than the original singers because the singers here are so amazing. But I would hope that I could pay tribute to them with this album."
The title track for album is a lovely ballad that lets Archuleta make great use of the top end of his range. The 21-year-old musician keeps the clip simple by filling it with footage of him singing the ballad song to the camera in various places of a homie setting. Archuleta thanks his fans for everything they've done for him since he first appeared on American Idol four years ago. "It's like you guys have brought me on this journey, and I appreciate being able to share everything that I've learned and experienced with you guys because of you guys if that makes sense."

OK Go presents a sultry new clever dancing video for their song "Skyscrapers," taken from their third studio album "The Blue Colour Of The Sky," which came out two years ago. As usual the Chicago-based alternative rock band finds unique ways of visually translating their songs into interesting pieces of art, all while keeping it rather simple.
"Skyscrapers" has lent its playful elegance, and is also heavily influenced by Prince both musically and in the fact that it references his classic cuts like "1999" and "Purple Rain." Reflecting the emotionally-driven tune, the video is driven by a chromatic tango between the video director Trish Sie and dancer Moti Buchboot. Although there are no choreographed treadmill numbers to note, the less involved video still presents a good representation of OK Go as a band who is not afraid to break the mold when it comes to their accompanying visuals.
We've always loved OK Go before the treadmill video and they have always delivered both musically and visually. Their new video, for the song "Skyscrapers," isn't as visually impressive as one of their Rube Goldberg machines, or driving a car into stuff and having the noise of the collisions compose a song, but it is mellow and very pretty. The latest video features a sultry montage of dance moves through a series of colorful urban backdrops that Grammy Award-winning American choreographer and director along with Buchboot do a beautiful Tango dance that carries the action through the video.
It focuses on a couple who dance a tango in a quintessentially dreamy and romantic street scene through a gritty, yet vibrant, urban rainbow. The band actually gets a break this time. They're not even in the clip. Tangoing in front of vibrant-colored walls and their outfits mimic each scene to give the video a chameleon-like feel. The colors and wardrobe changes continue throughout the video. It's deceptively complex, with the dancers moving in and out of the frames to make it appear like one continuous shot.