Today's Pick

Carrie Underwood has premiered a brand-new video on E! News for her dark power ballad "Blown Away," and the 29-year-old former "American Idol" winner creates a dramatic storyline that takes her from being the studious child of an angry alcoholic to the gorgeous survivor emerging into the light of a bright new day. This chilling song is the second single and title track off Underwood's fourth album of same name. Underwood's vocals are majestic, and the somber clip could be one of the most intense clips Underwood has ever released.
"Blown Away," the dark hit song, which has chilling lyrics and a haunting melody, speaks of a female, it's not specified whether she is an adult or child, and her revenge towards her abusive father while using a tornado storm as a metaphor to her anger. This song is extremely bold in both its lyrical content, which deals with child abuse, and its amazingly creative sonic landscape which takes the listener on the child's ride through a storm in Oklahoma that might be able to sweep all her problems away.
Underwood discussed the song's storyline during an interview: "The song is a story about a girl and her father," she said. "The song describes him as a mean old mister. And you can kind of make that as bad, I guess, as you want it to be. You know, the daughter wishes that, you know, she can feel a storm coming, and she just wishes it would wash her past away, and in doing so, you know, take her father along. So it's a very, you know, just deep, dark story and so visual, this song is. You know, when you hear the words and you hear the music, you can just see it all happening in your head."
The Randee St. Nicholas-directed clip fits in perfectly with the song, and finds finds the country superstar playing two roles. She portrays her character as both a teenager and as an adult, and borrows a bit from the theme of 'The Wizard of Oz' when she running through a dark and windy field and is caught up in a tornado. She engages in what looks like a heated domestic dispute with a man, and bedeviled by whisky, twisters and history. But like a modern-day Dorothy, she isn't about to let an abusive relationship or a catastrophic weather event keep her down for long.

Alanis Morissette returns in fine form with her warbly, abnormal vocal as an angel in her just-released new video for bright guitar-pop jam, "Guardian," the lead single from 38-year-old Canadian superstar' upcoming album, "Havoc and Bright Lights," her first album in four years, which deals with themes of motherhood, politics, spirituality, philosophy, and due August 28. The clip is prove that she's growth as both a musician and a mother.
Commending its freshness and brightness, the pop rock song itself, aside from a riff-worthy chorus, is a bit more downtempo than fans of her earliest work have come to love. It's a bright guitar-pop jam that shines with instant Morissette familiarity while still managing to sound fresh, and sticks to the loud-quiet-loud alt-rock dynamic, keeping up that trend, and happily also feeling like old-school Morissette. Her warble still has the power to peel shingles off rooftops. Nonetheless, all it takes is one earful of her voice to remember what drew you onto Morissette's team way back when.
The clip was filmed in Berlin and continues the heavenly theme of her 'City of Angels' soundtrack contribution "Uninvited," featuring Morissette as guardian angel to the black-and-white city of Berlin, complete with big, feathery wings. "Guardian" carries on with the long-standing music video tradition of pop stars as emotive savior to the masses, though it's a bit unclear just how much of a "guardian" Morissette really is. According to Morissette, she sees the otherworldly spirit-role as linked to that of hers as a mother.
The clip introduces Morissette writing 'I'll be your keeper for life,' and then shows her as a guardian with wings overlooking the city, beneath her off a building. She begins singing the song, and we are provided with glimpses of the lives of the citizens in a city; a couple arguing with their teenage daughter caught in the middle; a young boy being bullied; and another couple situated with their child. During the chorus, Morissette is seen playing the guitar in a white-colored abstract room, along with her new band members, proclaiming she is 'your guardian.' The video concludes with all of the featured citizens looking above, realizing they have a 'guardian.'

Four years after the last album "Day & Age" saw them dip their toe into dancier waters, The Killers make their grand return with a artistic video for the Killersiest comeback single, "Runaways," the lead single from the Las Vegas rock band's upcoming fourth studio album, "Battle Born," which is their first in four years and due to be released on September 18.
Influenced by the best material from Bruce Springsteen, "Runaways," is an 80s-rock fever dream that's crazily big, even by their grandiose standards: a Vesuvian gusher of Springsteen mythos, Toto-Journey power hooks and lead singer Brandon Flowers' unmistakable commitment to unmistakable commitment." When you put a thunderbolt in your new album logo, we expect a first single as mighty as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. In the Killers' new song, the band comes pretty close, and reminds us how much we've missed them.
"Runaways" starts off gently with some bare-bones piano chords, an acoustic guitar and not a whole lot else, but it gains momentum faster than you can remember the lyrics to "Mr. Brightside." Flowers is an excellent voice in telling the story of a teenage love that led to a shotgun wedding and is threatening to fall apart years later. Four minutes later, you've got a galloping desert rocker good enough to roll with the best of the Vegas quartet's catalog. "Runaways" continues the Killers' fascination, and had that very powerful ability to open the record.
Dark and dreamy, the Warren Fu-directed video is a combo of the abstract and performance video which mostly shows Flowers and his bandmates hit the desert and perform in a pitch black room on top of red futuristic platforms. As Flowers said, the clip "definitely conjures up some spirits," that leave vapor trails of fist-pumping, tear-streaming rock sonically akin to Asia's "Heat of the Moment." The band opts for brilliant pops of color with a lot of black background as Flowers recounts his seemingly doomed romance. It also looks like the performance screen for "Rock Band," without the actual game. Everybody looks good, refreshed.

Cheryl Cole charms, shocks, and annoys people with her carefree demeanor in a fun and happy music video for her brand new single, "Under the Sun," the second cut follow up to her dance smash lead single "Call My Name," and taken from the British singer's latest third solo album, "A Million Lights." The UK diva has graduated from slinking around in Los Angeles' reservoirs in her "Call My Name" video to strutting her retro-leaning stuff around the streets of London in her visual for "Under The Sun."
The song offers a weird and hugely enjoyable cocktail of tinny synthesiser, vast Chemical Brothers-style breakbeat and football-terrace backing vocals. The 29-year-old Girls Aloud member sings about a complicated love affair, "I'm sure you'll tell me anything under the sun," in the bubbly chorus for the Alex Da Kid-produced beat, which Cheryl said, "It's a really fun song. It's about a guy telling you anything you want to hear to get his way, and you saying, 'actually, normally I wouldn't, but today I might."
The sun shines throughout the promo as Cheryl explores the town and dances with well-dressed men and spends most her time looking like a supermodel while making every dude around her crazed with "Cheryl Fever," in this retro-inspired clip, which sees the star opt for a more classic route this time around. Capitalizing on the 1960s trend that's going around as late, Cheryl traveled back in time for her "Under the Sun" video, which opens in an old school bar while playing songs on a jukebox.
The 'Parachutes' star parades down a busy town street, dressed in a long fitted red skirt and cream top with her hair up in a beehive style, as she greets neighbors and passers-by. Eventually, a bevvy of 50's-era-inspired men in suits dance their way on to the scene. Cheryl then launches into a dance routine on top of a classic car backed by several slickly dressed businessman and young greasers. This is all before she ends up back in the coffee shop, where Cheryl 'entertains' alongside a pack of military men with her curves. Looks like she really is up for anything under the sun.

Pink is back with a dreamy, cinematic black-and-white visuals for veteran pop star's new empowering breakup anthem, "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)," the lead single from her upcoming sixth studio album, "The Truth About Love," which is due out on September 18. Considering it to be a welcome return to form, the 32-year-old bustier-rocking beauty has had her heart broken and is seeking revenge by crashing her ex's wedding and making it rain pink paint all over the party!
Little had been heard from Pink since 2010, as she had taken time off to be a mother to her baby daughter Willow. Motherhood has evidently not tamed Pink. The feisty songstress tells her ex on this break-up tune, "You will pay for your sins, you'll be sorry my dear. All the lies, all the lies, will be crystal clear." Produced by Kelly Clarkson collaborator Greg Kurstin, the track is an uptempo pop rock and dance-pop song with mix of Clarkson girl-power sass-tastic with Pink's signature lyrical edge and I-can-do-just-fine-on-my-own attitude.
"The moment I heard it and it was finished, I thought, 'This is the song at 2 a.m., in New York, dancing, drunk, letting off steam'," Pink told MTV News about the driving pop tune. It feels like something that Clarkson could have featured on her own album, but it's got a rocked-out, in-your-face edge that is signature Pink, who is always at her best when she combines her powerful vocals with edgy, biting lyrics. She added: "It's a really fun song. I can picture everyone extremely drunk dancing late at night together. It's a very happy song, although it's angry."
Directed by longtime collaborator Dave Meyers, the vintage clip is a whimsical nod to classic French cinema, all overwrought emoting and smoky, dream-like scenery. It opens with Pink and her potential paramour enjoying a picnic in an idyllic meadow, where she is about to submit to his wily charms until he makes the fatal error of taking a phone call... And perhaps most tellingly, Pink returns to the role she knows best: She's always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Of course, what we love most about her is she's the kind of bridesmaid that gets revenge and delights in doing so. You could probably even say it makes her happy.

Just turned 43, and left 'American Idol,' Jennifer Lopez has once again delivered a brand-new video for her ultimate global dance single, "Goin' In" during "MTV First: Jennifer Lopez" on Wednesday night. Featuring American rapper Flo Rida, the pop jam appears on both Lopez's first greatest hits album, "Dance Again ... The Hits," which dropped this week, as well as the soundtrack to "Step Up Revolution," which hits theaters Friday.
"Goin' In" features an energetic and entrancing beat which speaks of the freedom found in dance, and is built into Rida's hyper-speed rhyme from Lopez's propulsive verse. After proclaiming "They're not stopping us tonight," Lopez switches between a shimmering crescendo to the song's stadium-size chorus. It's a vibrant and vivid banger of epic proportions, picking up where Lopez left on "Love," and catapulting everything into a whole new stratosphere altogether. "Goin' In" is the hardest club track we've heard from the multi-hyphenate superstar in recent years.
The video was filmed in June, and directed by Ace Norton. Rida said about the video: "They had me performing around this Lamborghini, it was really different 'cause there was one scene where I got on this treadmill and they had me running while performing my verse. I had a chance to look back at the video and it seemed like over the top." Lopez isn't the only star of the brightly colored clip. The footage from "Step Up Revolution" has also been incorporated, showing dancers on the streets.
The steamy clip opens with Lopez blowing a dandelion with her amethyst-covered lips, rocking a purple cloak and matching shades as she readies a high energy dance sequence alone in a room filled in front of a bank of neon lights while both a grenade and a pair of fire hydrants explode with paint. As the spores begin to take flight, they turn into glittery specs floating into space. It's the first of many moments that focus on what looks cool, instead of telling a cohesive story. The clip is a dazzling spectacle of grinding dance moves, eye-popping visuals and a whole lot of glitter.

If making a song that sounds like it's perfectly crafted for summer wasn't enough, Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl City just released a video for their collaboration, "Good Time" that looks tailor-made for the season. The summer pop jam serves as the lead single to Owl City's new LP, "The Midsummer Station," due out Aug. 21, and will also appear on Jepsen's much-anticipated sophomore album, out some time in September.
It only makes sense that Owl City's Adam Young is joined by Jepsen on a track that could become a radio staple for the rest of the summer. Sonically and thematically, "Good Time" goes down easier than a frozen margarita at a beachfront tiki bar. The summer anthem is a synthy and uplifting, out and out pop duet which will most definitely ensure that neither artist has to settle for a 'one hit wonder' tag. It would sound equally right blaring from a sandy iPod radio or out of monster speakers in a thumping dance club.
The video was shot in upstate New York earlier this month, and the shoot actually marked the first time Jepsen and Young had met in person. The "Call Me Maybe" songstress and "Fireflies" star recorded the track separately before it hit digital retailers on June 26, and netted each artist their second Top 20 hit on the Hot 100. The clip isn't exactly high concept, but for a tune as mindless and fun as "Good Time," it works. The 26-year-olds split slurpees and prove they can have a good time anywhere in this laid-back clip.
Taking place over the course of a sunny day and bonfire-lit night, the clip follows the twenty-somethings gather their good friends leave the haze of the city, and head out on the road for a camping adventure, hike through the forest with ambiance and smoke, replete with tents, and dance fireside. Night soon falls, but the fun doesn't stop when the sun goes down, as the song plays out in all its sing-along glory. The clip is as predictably squeaky clean as fans have come to expect.

Heartless Bastards have released the official music video for the song "Only For You" from the garage rock band's latest fourth full-length, "Arrow," which is firmly rooted in southern blues rock - gritty yet sentimental, out on Valentines Day this year on Brooklyn-based indie label Partisan Records.
Formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2003, and since then, the Bastards have experimented with classic foundations. The lead singer Erika Wennerstrom's vocal was talented and especially unique. As the only consistent member in the Austin-based indie rock band's ever-changing lineup, his masterful singing never fails to enrapture. And don't let the name of the band fool you - these bastards are in fact full of heart. Sharp, smart, indie rock that rocked as much as it moved you emotionally.
Garage, folk, country, blues - throughout the Heartless Bastards's career, all these genres have been incorporated with mixed results. Rather than evolving a sound, the Bastards seem to be searching for one. "Arrow" has the potential to become something better if the Bastards decide to tread the path they're on. Chock full of repetitive guitar riffs and rock 'n' roll attitude, the album gravitates towards something you might hear from the garages of budding rockers worldwide in a good way. But sometime between their debut and 2006's "All This Time," the quartet decided to trade in their raw garage sensibilities for a more sophisticated musicianship.
Heavily inspired by bluegrass, the banjos, fiddles, and peddle steels give the album a distinct country flavor. It left some Bastard fans, myself included, nonplussed and wistful for the old aesthetic. "Only For You," is exhilarating in terms of Wennerstrom's vocal range. Accompanied by only two guitars and some easygoing drumming, he fluidly travels up and down different registers. It is a song tangentially influenced by southern rock, artistically expanding on the blues element but (thankfully) ditching the Lynard Skynard guitar licks.

New Jerseys finest, The Gaslight Anthem, a.k.a. Bruce Springsteen's favorite new band, return this Summer with a powerful new video for the title track "Handwritten," from quartet's upcoming fourth full-length release and major-label debut, will be released tomorrow. The track is one of the best songs on the album, the guitar overlay in the interlude to the chorus is amazing, it's a perfect example of The Gaslight Anthem sound and such a beautiful use of a simple harmony.
The Jersey four-piece indie rockers have paved the way in their hometown's notorious rock 'n' roll flavor with a refreshing sense of honesty, and replete with manly yearning and stymied loves, there is something inevitable about how much former punks The Gaslight Anthem sound like Bruce Springsteen. "Handwritten," takes them further away from their independent "punk Springsteen" roots into Boss-sized would-be stadium rock with a nod to Celtic-influenced Brit rockers Big Country and the Alarm.
When a songwriter reflects the raw and brittle shade to his honesty, it becomes difficult to resist what he has to say and like so many composers before him, the lead vocals Brian Fallon's heart has its scars and band-aids and the way it bleeds is truly magnetic. "Handwritten" isn't as nostalgic as The Gaslight Anthem's earlier discog and that's because through a more immediate supply of fleshed out rock anthems, the New Jersey collective put a focus on tearing out emotions from memories and putting them to words, chords and rhythms.
Drummer Benny Horowitz came up with the concept of the cyclical tale of a record's life cycle and focuses on how it can mean the world to someone while being just a piece of junk to another. In the Kevin Slack-directed clip, a musician takes a song he came up with from the garage to the stage one evening where a young couple in the audience enthusiastically embraces the track. After getting such a strong reaction, the song is pressed into a record, which the girl later finds in the record store and buys for her boyfriend with a note sharing how much that moment in time meant to them.

Lana Del Rey showed us her penchant for tragedy when she and A$AP Rocky played the Kennedys in her last video for "National Anthem," and she continues down that road in the hazy new video for "Summertime Sadness," a cut off her major-label debut studio album, "Born to Die," which the 26-year-old raspy-voiced singer describes as "Hollywood Sadcore."
You know that feeling you get on cool nights in the dog days of summer? That tight feeling in your chest as you watch the sunset from your third floor walk-up? Well, most adults like to supplement that with cigarettes and beer, but Del Rey would rather jump off a bridge than deal with that type of twilight sadness. The scenario of "Summertime Sadness" is typical of her debut album, and tells the super true sad love story of two lesbian lovers ending their own lives.
Keeping the buzz alive while sticking with sepia-tones and a healthy dose of melodramatics, Del Rey probes a crumbling relationship in the new video, which was filmed in April in Santa Clarita, California with "Hart of Dixie" actress Jaime King playing her other half, and directed by King's husband, filmmaker Kyle Newman with the help of "Hesher" helmer Spencer Susser - looks like a visual ode to Instagram, which is similar to Del Rey's other videos.
The video is bittersweet with beautifully shot, sepia-soaked and melodramatic, and flickers through mock found footage of the viral singing sensation and her girlfriend enact a love story during their happy days that ends in suicide attempts with both the grief stricken lovers falling in slow motion off of a bridge, suicidal after realizing the irreparability of their relationship. "I just wanted you to know," Del Rey intones as she tumbles slowly into the abyss, "that baby you were the best."

Ne-Yo released his new upbeat single, "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)," earlier on this month. Now, in a rather sudden and surprising move, the 32-year-old R&B crooner put on his dancing shoes, has now followed it up with a visual to go along with the record. Self-love is pretty easy to do when Ne-Yo lends a helping hand. And he brought it all along with some fancy footwork in his steamy clip.
Ne-Yo's "Lazy Love" didn't make quite the impact that he was hoping to achieve on the charts so he has classed it as just a promotional release and opted to issue another new song, "Let Me Love You," as his lead single from his forthcoming new album, "R.E.D.," which is an acronym for "Realizing Every Dream," and will drops in stores September 18th. However, instead of being a complete ode to the dance floor, the track incorporates slight R&B undertones, thanks to Ne-Yo's vocal performance.
As with most of today's R&B, Ne-Yo takes "Let Me Love You" in the Euro-dance direction musically. As for the Christopher Sims-directed visual, Ne-Yo puts down his best Michael Jackson moves and picks up some serious choreography. Ne-Yo dances with his group of dancers as scenes of him and his lady friend frolicking around the bedroom. Unlike most dance-themed clips that focus on the club scenes, he was actually doing his own moves. Hopefully, "Let Me Love You" performs better on the charts than "Lazy Love."
Ne-Yo is well-versed in the book of love. He's read it front to back, memorized certain sections and scribbled in the margins. Unfortunately, his lady is relatively unschooled, and in his new clip, the R&B star tutors her the best way he knows how. His methods involve donning a fedora and blazer and dancing it up Michael Jackson-style, as he grooves to the track. It seems to work, as Ne-Yo does plenty of smooching with his hottie costar. He also busts plenty of killer moves, which is to be expected, given the track's radio-friendly four-to-the-floor club beat. Consider this a contender for song of the summer.

Glory to the human spirit, Nelly Furtado's the scenic visuals to her hypnotizing new track "Spirit Indestructible" has arrived in a magical blaze! It is the second single and title track taken from her forthcoming fifth studio album, "The Spirit Indestructible," a follow-up to her 2009 Spanish language album "Mi Plan," and we cannot wait till her mystical, musical tale of soul-strengh album unleashes its power September!
Furtado explained that the Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins produced song, "is an ode to the spirit, which resides in all of us and triumphs over anything. It is inspired by people I have met, and special moments in history that I have read about. This song means a lot of things to me 'cause it does have a spirituality to it and a positivity," the 33-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter expressed. "It's meant to be empowering, it's mean to be a tribute to all of us. We all have indestructible spirits."
Furtado's spirit soars in the Aaron A-directed picturesque visual, which begins with all eyes on Furtado as she takes the center stage with a spotlight shining directly on her for an intimate performance in a theater with a little boy on a mini piano before the Portuguese-Canadian songstress is magically transported to the top of a beautiful snowy mountain in Vancouver, where the singer twirls around while conjuring up her own unbeatable inner strength and soaks up the stunning surroundings.
Furtado then switches into a sick gold leather jacket and leads a crew of shirtless drummer men to a beach for a spiritual drum circle session and a dance around a bonfire. Furtado ends up back atop the mountain, and the snow has melted away, and just as she stands victorious, she is turned into dust and carried by the wind. The song speaks to Furtado's perseverance, and the nature-set video caters perfectly to the song's overall message of unbreakable strength.

Jack White worked with perhaps his most curious collaborator to date for the just-released video to "Freedom At 21," the latest standout track from the 37-year-old's debut solo album, "Blunderbuss," which was released in April 23, and debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200. "Freedom at 21," a originally released via helium balloon as a part of a stunt for Record Store Day, was leaked onto the internet on April 14.
The former lead singer of The White Stripes is well-known for hooking up with out-of-the-box collaborators. He's recorded with everyone from Jimmy Page and Alicia Keys to Insane Clown Posse and comedian Stephen Colbert. The eclectic rocker tapped the veteran video director Hype Williams, the man behind some of the most influential hip-hop videos of all time, to helm the clip, and he infuses his dynamic signature style with elements of classic American Grindhouse, resulting in a "pulse pounding" video.
White has pulled the covers off his new blue-toned video for song "Freedom at 21," and it looks like a stylistic homage to grindhouse horror films by way of Jonas Akerlund. The video was shot with a blue hue throughout, matching White's latest wardrobe color of choice following years of red and white outfits in The White Stripes. The video also shows the singer wailing away on a Fender Telecaster as he sings about a woman who misuses her rights and takes advantage of the double standards of society that favor females.
The video begins with White getting into a neon-green car, speeding off and on the run from the law after racking up more than a few traffic violations. White is chased by a sexy female patrol officer and dragged into jail where he meets a seductive woman and after a very intimate moment between them, they break out of the small prison. The video ends with the couple facing a roadblock consisting of a wall of policemen and their cars. As per Williams's style, the camera ticks and editing are stylized and great, and the coloring is remarkable, and it more than fulfills that trifecta.

It's been a long time coming since 2001's "Rock Steady," but No Doubt, the multi-platinum band that harnessed the third-wave ska revolution of the 1990s, is back and prove that they're still good for an epic color-soaked, cross-cultural rager with their first visual in over a decade for their comeback reggae inspired track, "Settle Down," the lead single from the Orange County ska-punk racket's upcoming sixth studio album, "Push and Shove," due out on September 25.
The music brings the sound of the band by which California became known, a mixture of pop/rock with Latin and Caribbean rhythms, merging them with American pop and rock music, and accenting them with that No Doubt-ian accent. The upbeat ska pop track proves they have not only been able to keep their classic catchy style, but also reinvent their reggae-influenced beat to attract a new generation of musical rebels. "Settle Down" finds the band at their party-ready prime, shaking off the rust of a decade away and having a total blast.
The frontwoman Gwen Stefani said in an interview that it's "just about being overwhelmed by so much going on and how to balance all of it." The Sophie Muller-directed kaleidoscopic trucker-themed clip is a brightly colorful and visually as bombastic as the song is sonically, banging thing that sees the quartet re-imagined as truckers and each bandmate driving tricked-out trucks with grotesquely decorated semi until ultimately heading toward their reunion, which quickly turns into a jam session for a crowd of eager spectators.
The comeback clip shows they haven't lost a step in their decade away from the spotlight. "We tried to do something that resembled different parts of the world rather than a specific place," Stefani said. Although there's a joyous atmosphere throughout, Muller said she tried to portray the uncertainty in Stefani's lyrics, "Lyrically it's not really a party song. It's got a real emotional desire to get through something. You have a combination of this party feel with her struggle to be able to express herself."

Madonna's "MDNA" may have a track called "Girl Gone Wild," but the just-released new video for her third single, "Turn Up The Radio," is downright mild. It offers a fun road trip through Florence and, eventually, the Tuscan countryside, and features Madonna doing what the Queen of Pop does best to turn Italian streets into a dance floor. The sun-soaked pop jam that is more than ready for dance floors.
"Turn Up the Radio," is a summery pop number that's as effortless as it is simple. The anthemic dance-pop wonder with glittery synths and fun lyrics begins with a keyboard start before turning into and '80s-inspired dance-pop number. Lyrically, she pleads with the listener to stop for a moment, to get away from the world through music. It's the album's obvious big radio hit, its airwaves-optimism and carefree abandon writ all over it. It also talks about the need for one and all to chill out and have some fun.
It may sound trite but there's urgency in its simplicity. It transforms into the album's most pounding moment, reaching a climax that threatens to blow the speakers. Some might find it unusually generic, but she makes it her own and fans will be happy to have a dancefloor filler that will shake the clubs and would happily find a slot on the next series of Glee. Once again, the Peter Pan pop star refuses to act her age, only this time she has us more than a little envious of all the fun she's having, and showed us that her favorite time to turn up the radio.
Shot by fashion photographer Tom Munro on the crowded streets of Italy where life imitates art, the retro-feeling clip follows the overwhelmed Madonna makes her way out of her hotel and trying to escape the paparazzi, who instead gets swept up in a song on the radio while taking a joyride in her chauffeur driven convertible Cadillac, greet her devotees on the streets of the famed Italian city, and throws an impromptu party in the backseat. It's a super stylish short that's up there with Madonna's best.

Swedish pop singer Loreen Talhaoui premiered the music video via Twitter for her dance club music-lite hit "Euphoria," which garnered international attention when it won Europe's major Eurovision Song Contest this year in May with Loreen getting a majority of the vote for her emotional performance of "Euphoria." Loreen's big vocals give weight to the European dance track's massive message of experiencing celestial-like "Euphoria" with a lover.
The Eurovision-winning smash, "Euphoria" is undoubtedly a fairly typical slice of dancey Europop, but Loreen's performances elevate the song to a completely different level. She packs the kind of powerhouse vocals that are rarely heard in pop music today, and she's got an electric charisma that makes her more alluring than your usual Eurovision alumni. Softly spoken Loreen, a 28-year-old of Moroccan-Berber descent, thanked her fans for their support. "I wouldn't have been able to do this without you. Thank you so much," she said after her victory was announced.
"Euphoria" has Swedish elements sprinkled all over it. It is delicately done. The synths offer that aesthetic gloss that only makes the track go higher in terms of approval ratings. Upbeat would be a good way of describing "Euphoria." It can evoke feelings of great positivity onto its listener. Loreen shows tremendous composure in delivering those high notes. Hearing Loreen start slowly in terms of building that excitement in terms of her soon-to-be-sang high notes really got me pumped up.
Filmed in the Swedish countryside by light summer night, and directed by Marcus Söderlund, who builds a magical atmosphere when he lets Loreen's inherent powers to play against the forces of nature. The video itself is dark and mysterious in much the same vein as her memorable stage performances of the song. It features Loreen walking alone and wandering across a gloomy field, casting her 'wind' powers ala 'The Last Airbender' on the way. While dancing in the grassy areas, she conjures wind, rain, thunder, and even snowflakes fall from the sky, and Loreen is overwhelmed by them with her swift moves. The erratic weather comes to pass and the singer sits quietly in the forest.

After liberating the audio to great reception, Ellie Goulding has released a simple yet powerful visual on the singer's official YouTube channel for a free track on her Soundcloud, "Hanging On," which features rapper Tinie Tempah. The 25-year-old English singer does not have the spinning peppermint bra of Katy Perry or the tabloid-baiting love life of Rihanna. But she consistently puts out good music without any need for bells and whistles.
"Hanging On," is her first new track in over a year, and a cover of a song by Active Child, it was introduced by Goulding on her Twitter as "the beginning of my new journey. Enjoy and share responsibly. It is also a free download so please share and enjoy irresponsibly." It seems to suggest she's ditched the acoustic guitars in favor of something more compelling. What the song could have done without is Tempah, who destroys any sense of atmosphere with his monotone delivery. Seemingly inspired by a more lo-fi aesthetic.
Goulding's compelling new direction is spoiled somewhat by Tempah rapping about his problems with acid indigestion. We've not heard that much from Goulding since her performance at Prince William's wedding last year. While work on her sophomore album with Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia is underway, Goulding has started to tease her new direction. She stated, "It's started to sound very dark and very weird. This album is going to be even more emotional. I wanted to make it so there is hope. I want to make an effect whether it's happy or sad."
The blonde electronapop sweetheart zaps our emotional core in her new clip for sonically-stuccato song "Hanging On," which shows footage of Goulding having a late night wander while wearing a leather jacket and an orange beanie, and interspersed with shots of her staring intensely at the camera. Lights flash and flicker throughout the whole trippy video as scenes of the singer and other bystanders are shown. She appears significantly more bare as she sings "I just can't keep hanging on, to you and me," while plainly standing with her back against the white wall.

Kimbra, the female voice in "Somebody That I Used to Know" stands on her own and takes a giant leap toward stardom by premiering New Zealand songstress's first music video aimed at the American market, for shimmery track "Two Way Street." The jazzy pop record was released as the fifth single from her excellent debut studio album, "Vows," which she describes as "an eclectic mix of songs and explores the themes surrounding the making of promises and the breaking of them."
The just-released light and breezy track is proof that Kimbra is a pretty face with a killer instinct for style and sound. In fact, this song is actually pretty innovative. It combines all the catchy fun of the over-synthed tween-clubby music that dominates the radio with gentle lyricism and a distinctly lo-fi vibe. It's the kind of track that could be equally useful on a reflective Sunday afternoon and at a bumping, dimly lit house party.
Kimbra signed a management contract with a company in Melbourne when she was 17 and began working on her album then. The 22-year-old singer started receiving attention on a global scale after she was featured on Gotye's smash single, "Somebody That I Used to Know," making her the first New Zealander to hit No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1977. So does love really prove to be a two-way street for the the diminutive Kiwi singer and the object of her affection?
The magical dreamy clip was directed by Matthew Rolston, and it's an eye-popping dazzlefest. Vaguely reminiscent of Katy Perry's "Wide Awake," Kimbra finds herself alone in an enchanted forest. Naturally, she's decked in her signature corset and ball gown skirt, and as she stumbles alone through an empty forest until she finds herself in front of a magical red door. Along the way, she is being pursued by a man in a suit through movie theaters and forests, just as she jumps into her own reflection. Very Disney-esque, indeed.

Aiden Grimshaw and his fit hair are back to brighten up your summer with a brand new video for his forthcoming single, "Curtain Call," the second track released off his upcoming debut studio album, "Misty Eye," which he said "is out in August so its just all about gearing up for that really. I'll be doing a collection of gigs around the UK within the same sort of time period, the live thing is really important to us and I really want fans to see the album live and at its best."
The 20-year-old British singer-songwriter shot to fame on The X Factor in 2010, the same series that saw Cher Lloyd, One Direction, Rebecca Ferguson and winner Matt Cardle compete in the final. The three runners-up have all gone on to have success in the UK and the US, whilst Cardle has parted ways with his label. The former X Factor contestant flexes his vocal muscles on the new proper tune, a stirring ballad about love and romance that swells to a joyful, whimsical crescendo.
Speaking about the album, Grimshaw recently revealed: "It's pretty freaky, especially because we delivered the album a couple of months ago, so I've had a lot of time to just sit with it. It's like my little baby. I'm happy with it though. When we were making it, I was constantly relating it back to my friends and stuff. They're all pretty outspoken fellas and they seemed to like it. I think I've made honest music, that I like, as well."
The accompanying new clip captures the tender emotion of the song, showing young lovers reveling in the sunshine and breaking into empty swimming pools for romantic swims. It follows a handful of couples and a group of friends seeking thrills by racing motorbikes, shooting fireworks, jumping into swimming pools and enjoying an adventurous summer evening with each other. The visual also sees Grimshaw performing the track while strolling down the bank of the River Thames and sitting on a bus. Grimshaw, on the other hand, wanders the streets alone looking sad and unloved.

Miranda Lambert's side project the Pistol Annies have made a mark on the country music scene. With their beautifully blended vocals Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley have just unleashed their second-ever music video for the fun-sounding song, "Takin' Pills," the follow up single from the Country trio's 2001 gold selling debut album, "Hell on Heels."
The fun single finds Pistol Annies celebrating everything the self-help books warn against, including cigarettes, pills, booze, truck-stop burgers and fries, as they sing about each other and life on the road. The group do a fun take on the perils of having vices and being a musician. While the song may be upbeat, the lyrics mask the darkness of what the song actually is. The song narrates what it is like to be touring musicians who are down on their luck.
Pistol Annies performed on the 2012 CMT awards with their new autobiographical single "Takin' Pills," which the Associated Press said: "illustrates how the Pistol Annies stomp their cowboy boots into territory no established country star has dared to tread, at least not since the heyday of Hank Williams Jr. and Waylon Jennings." If the band ever does release something to radio, I'm sure they'd be interested as it's unique, charming and just plain fun music!
The Annies are bringing their tongue-in-cheek "Takin' Pills" to life and acting out all their vices in the clip, Lonestar Annie (Lambert) is the one drinking while Hippie Annie (Monroe) takes pills, and Holler Annie (Presley) lights up her cigarettes. They are all smiles as they sing about their addictions. The trio shot the video riding around Nashville in a vintage VW van, and rehearsing for a gig with their instruments and various vices. "We had a blast filming this video," said Lambert. "We left the driving to me since I was just smoking," laughed Presley.

Aerosmith haven't put out a music video in eight years, and now the Bad Boys from Boston are back with a Wild, Wild West-inspired video for "Legendary Child," a story of struggle, a story of triumph, and, according to the booming voice over the gritty words that crackle across the screen, four decades of battling bad sushi, shark attacks, shady managers, and "everything in between." The freakishly-fun video delivers so many cracked-out, rockin' roller derby delights.
"Legendary Child" was originally written and recorded in 1991 during the initial sessions for the "Get a Grip" album, but was never released. The song has been re-worked and is now slated for inclusion as the lead single on rock icons' upcoming fifteenth studio album, "Music from Another Dimension!," that hits stores in November. The slap-your-thighs-raw track finds Aerosmith leaning more on their hard rock roots than the poppier side of their sound, is a brilliant single that could only be bettered if the frontman Steven Tyler's trademark falsetto was put to greater use.
"This is the story of America's greatest rock band," goes the narration that opens the Casey Patrick Tebo-directed new video. The narrator goes on to detail the band's exploits - good, bad, hilarious and some totally fictional - and promises the clip will tell the story of the group as played "by girls on roller skates." Indeed it does just that, though, in a Fincher-esque move, it looks like you're gonna have to stay tuned for the next chapter to see what's in the box.
Mixed with footage from the upcoming film, "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," the clip begins with an announcer detailing the four decades of the band's accomplishments, setbacks, and everything else they've dealt with during their career. From there, Aerosmith does it old school. They're pretending to jam in a warehouse while the beautiful young heroine (played by "Spy Kids" actress Alexa Vega) goes up on roller skates battles against the men in black, the men who represent the bad sushi, the shark attacks and the shady managers. The video closes with "to be continued," implying that much more is to come from the legendary group.

Jon McLaughlin has released a solo piano video for "Promising Promises," the title track from his most recent third full-length piano driven album, which was released on May 22. It's safe to say that McLaughlin has had a pretty accomplished career so far. The Hoosier piano-man has appeared in a Disney movie, toured with some high-end mainstream acts, and performed in front of 32 million at the Oscars. The 29-year-old Indiana-born singer/songwriter has been around since 2003, steadily releasing records throughout the years.
Opening with the title track, "Promising Promises," a piano tour-de-force, McLaughlin clearly emonstrates his ability to write a great pop tune as the tune builds to a triumphant chorus that will not leave your head. The "Promising Promises" is extremely catchy and also shows off his sheer and raw talent through instruments and vocals. With some added guitars and soaring vocals, it sets the stage for the rest of the album. The result is his most authentic album yet, and "Promising Promises," is exactly what the first word in the title says: Promising.
"Promising Promises" embodies McLaughlin's irresistible songwriting style along with his sweetly melancholic approach to storytelling. As he explains, "It feels really good to have a record that I'm working on that I can really deliver wholeheartedly knowing that the fans are getting a piece of me." He continues, "There isn't a note on the record that I didn't spend hours scrutinizing over, or at the very least sitting with and playing over and over again. I feel like it's a real connection to me."
Consistently, throughout this album, McLaughlin delivers great imagery in his lyrics and interesting, heartfelt, and complex piano parts, "Promising Promises," is an interesting test for a reviewer to tackle. If you're looking for a blatant God-centered message throughout the record, it's just not that obvious. But if you're looking for good, pure, and quality music from an up-and-coming musician, I highly suggest picking this up and giving it a listen. If you don't enjoy it the first time, give it another shot. This combined effort of guitar, piano, and pop will grow on you.

Nervo have premiered the music video for their banger of a new synth-heavy dance record, "You're Gonna Love Again," the follow-up to Aussie twin's debut Astralwerks single "We're All No One." The feel-good/uplifting soon-to-be summer anthem co-written with Avicii, is a song about letting go of hurt and loving again. It is housetastic rife with poppy, big room-styled melodys, and you'll definitely want to turn this one up and thump it out so the bass shakes your soul.
Nervo, maybe they'd be better identified as Mim and Liv, those two ridiculously gorgeous blonde Australian twin duo, who went on the "Femme Fatale" tour with Britney Spears and released that sick single "We're All No One," featuring AfroJack and Steve Aoki. They've also already penned pop hits for Ke$ha, David Guetta, Jennifer Hudson, Nicole Scherzinger, Kylie Minogue, Kelly Rowland and the Pussycat Dolls.
The soulful sisters get a party started with sick beats, sexy style and endless energy with their electronic dance music. Like what you see? The video directed by Isaac Ravishankara has already been added to mtvU with rotation beginning today. The single which was the No.4 break out track this week on Billboard's Hot Dance Club play chart was released last month after premiering on Pete Tong's BBC radio show.
The video centers around an epic party, and follows a young couple falling in and out of love as well as featuring some impressive levitating in other scenes. It begins by introducing us to a couple who look like they're on the worst end of a breakup. They eventually find their way back to each other, and as a testament to their everlasting love, they decide to jump off a building together. Luckily, this is a magical dance party, and as the couple falls off the building, the partiers catch the falling couple and turn the whole situation into a ridiculously chic mosh pit.

Timbaland is back with a bang and team up with the R&B sensation Ne-Yo yet again, and premiered an incredibly high quality video for their fist-pumping dance/urban/pop collaboration, "Hands in the Air." The club festive party anthem isn't a single from Super-producer's new album. Rather, the record was featured on soundtrack of the upcoming never-ending dance movie, "Step Up Revolution."
"Step Up Revolution" is the fourth movie in the "Step Up" franchise. It follows 2010's "Step Up 3-D." The latest installment revolves around a group of dancers who use their dancing abilities in protesting and supporting their beliefs and principles. The movie will be in theaters July 27th. The 40-year-old Hip-Hop icon has been hard at work as he prepares for his long awaited comeback album and his new video shows exactly how far he has come from his obese past.
As a special treat, Kathryn McCormick, the actress and dancer who tackles the lead role of Emily in the upcoming film also appears in the video. The Marc Klassfeld-directed energetic video features a basic 'nightclub' theme, and is set inside a night club with a large crowd of people partying, full energy and moving their bodies and throwing their 'hands in the air' to the beat of the bass thumping track. The video also show us exclusive new footage from the actual "Step Up Revolution" film.
The clip opens with Timbaland by the bar flirting with McCormick who will try to further catch the attention of the hit-maker producer by breaking into a sexy number using a so-sexy, so-wow chair routine with a few of her girl-friends, while Ne-Yo is getting a private lap-dance show in the red-lighted room, and again proves he's one of the best R&B acts who can 'cross over' to the dance genre without a flaw. Splashed with a lot of colors literally, the clip ends with the dancers are doused in different colors of paint as they continue to dance along to the upbeat track.

The British atmospheric powerful rock trio Muse has been chosen to represent the UK at the upcoming London Summer Olympics with their latest track "Survival," the lead single from the English alternative rock band's sixth studio album, "The 2nd Law," is scheduled to be released on September 17th. With the games scheduled to kick off on July 27, audiences can now expect this thundering rock anthem to play throughout the Olympics.
"Survival" gradually emerges as another of Muse's chorus-less, build-to-a-cataclysmic-climax mood pieces. The lyrics match this competitive mentality, "Survival" certainly gives off an enormous vibe. It feels like a classic rock jam that Queen or ELO would've crafted, rife with strings, pianos, guitars and choir vocals. Appropriately, it's comprised entirely of various athletic feats from past Olympic games. The group says that the song is "about total conviction and pure determination to win."
That goes a long way toward explaining why Muse don't appear at all in the just-revealed video for "Survival," which instead features a thrilling montage of past Olympic glory and defeat. Because the Olympics area all about inclusion and global unity, the nearly four-minute clip makes sure to include all the sports that will be featured. "Survival" might be amongst the most ear-scorchingly, arse-burstingly, aneurysm-inducingly brilliant songs in Muse's canon, and it's clear that Muse have the spirit of the Olympics in mind.
The clip opens with a quick rewind through some of the Games' biggest moments back from 2012 to 1896, the birth of the modern games, which rolls out over triumphant moments from the past century-plus of competition. As frontman Matthew Bellamy begins his Queen-like call to athletic greatness we see a montage of sportsmen and women staring with intensity and raising their arms in victory. In the middle the Olympic credo, "Faster, Higher, Stronger" flashes across the screen as the song builds to a chorus-assisted crescendo. It's as insanely overblown as the Olympics themselves.

Kelly Rowland has been busy recording her upcoming fourth studio album but she has given her fans a special treat to calm their nerves. The R&B songstress knows how to enjoy the shiny sky and takes in the summer vibes with her new feel-good video for the hit song "Summer Dreaming," in honor of Bacardi Rum's 150th anniversary, the R&B diva has teamed up with the liquor brand company for a remake of Kate Yanai's '90s hit song, which was topped the German music charts over a decade ago.
Gave a modern twist with fresh dance beats, the remixed jam itself will be officially released on July 8th when Rowland performs it in Berlin. "The song and its history enthralled me right away," says the 31-year-old after she first heard the song at a Bacardi anniversary party in January. "My aim was to record a joyful, colorful, sexy song and give it a bit of soul quality. The collaboration with Bacardi was so much fun. We had an awesome time recording the song."
As a official soundtrack, "Summer Dreaming" to be used on the new Bacardi commercials in Europe this summer! Besides giving the song a modern twist with fresh nu' dance beats, "Summer Dreaming" wins so much with the hot vocals only the 'When Love Takes Over' songstress could offer. Speaking on the video, the former Destiny's Child star said, "The story is all about the celebration. It's almost like you're seeing my dream come to life before your eyes and I wake up and I'm like, 'I'm really dreaming!'"
Under the direction of Annick Wolfer, the pop star and crew shot the colorful fun party clip poolside in Barcelona in the Sant Andreu de Llavaneres area. In it, Rowland parties like the Spanish do, soaking up the sun, getting her groove on and rocking some summery fashions and getting behind the DJ booth to performing the track with the backdrop of a beautiful scenery on a pier overlooking the Mediterranean sea, while a bunch of youngsters hit the beach and getting tipsy with a few Bacardi mojitos.

The winner of the inaugural Australian season of "The Voice," Karise Eden has released her first music video for her debut single, "You Won't Let Me," as the lead single from her debut studio album, "My Journey," which was rush-released to capitalize on 'The Voice' grand finale, and debuted at No.1 after being available for just three days in what is believed to be an ARIA first.
Eden sings the blues in her first single, "You Won't Let Me," which was written by American singers and songwriters, Rachael Yamagata and Mike Viola. A first listen to the song would bring to mind the ideas of love, fear of betrayal and the need to move on from a dark past. It's just one of four songs the fully-fledged pop star performed on the show that made the Top 5 of the ARIA singles charts, and no-one's done that since The Beatles!
Known for her edgy vocals that match a strong go-getter personality, Eden's journey on 'The Voice' has been celebrated by Aussie fans since early on in show. "You Won't Let Me" carries a rather poignant message that somewhat relates to Eden's difficulties in life. Known for having to cope with life's bigger challenges at a young age, Eden seems to be nursing her own spirit with the song. She seems to be the character for whom the song is written.
Somewhere in the song is hope. Someone's not giving up and not leaving the other behind. Someone's being stubborn, but the other wants to be stronger than any fear. It is melancholic but inspiring. "You Won't Let Me" is expected to climb the music charts. The understated video for her winner's single "You Won't Let Me," is fittingly shot in moody black and white as the 19-year-old Eden belts it out in the recording studio.

Christina Perri has released the music video for "Distance," the third single of her debut studio album, "Lovestrong." As stated by Perri on a video on her Facebook, it featuring her good friend, Jason Mraz. The Elliott Sellers-directed clip sees Perri and Mraz singing the lyrics of the wistful ballad while wandering the same place, but without running into each other. It gives us an antique look inside Perri's heart. She and Mraz croon the melodies in the sweetest ways, making us happy and nostalgic both at the same time!
"'Distance' is a song about loving someone at the wrong time in your life," the 25-year-old tells Rolling Stone. "Maybe it's too soon, maybe it's too late, but nevertheless it's about being around that one whom your heart longs for without being about to show your true feelings, without being able to tell them. It's very hard to keep love a secret, and I wrote this song about the one time I had to." The bittersweet message and haunting duet vocals from both artists carry the clip with plenty of emotional vulnerability and engagement.
"Distance" is a quite beautiful on the ears, and it sounds like a much more restrained performance from the 'Jar Of Hearts' singer and the emotionally engaging combination of her and Mraz really does connect with some resonance. They'd create the type of song poignant enough to leave you blubbering and snot-crying into an empty pint of ice cream, because that's just what happens when you add one amazing singer-songwriter to another amazing singer-songwriter and then throw in a video with hazy sunlight and a white dress.
In the gorgeous clip, Perri and Mraz play lovers who are torn apart. There are a ton of sad faces and stolen glances, which work just as well. Symbolically, the pair are in the same house, yet they can't quite find each other. As Perri roams the property, she eventually stumbles upon a huge wall of photos and mementos that we're assuming remind her lover, as she dramatically rips the photos off the wall only to reveal a real live Mraz, calmly strumming his guitar and waiting patiently for Perri to find him. The clip leaves us in suspense.

Utilizing face mapping technology, David Guetta has dropped an expensive looking clip for his new electro-house song, "I Can Only Imagine," his dance/pop collaboration with Chris Brown and Lil' Wayne which serves as the sixth international single off his latest hugely successful LP, "Nothing but the Beat," which offers the same experience as one of Guetta's numerous remix sets, is in stores now.
After seeing a behind-the-scenes clip of the 44-year-old French producer's "I Can Only Imagine" video last week, the final product is here. The French disc jockey calls on Wayne and Brown for a lyrical assist for the club-ready track, and the two hip-hop and R&B staples show up for their respective verses. The threesome performed the club banger for the first time at the 54th Grammy Awards back to February.
Directed by Colin Tilley, the visually-engaging futuristic theme clip used six video sets and it shows Guetta in a control room of sorts with holograms and 3D screen to control a cyborg dancing in a hall. "David Guetta actually has this control room that's made out of all holograms," said Tilley. "It kinda feels like 'Minority Report.' It's just got a really crazy vibe and he's controlling everything that's happening in his world. He's controlling these dancers that are going crazy, he's controlling Chris Brown in this room with this mask on."
The clip shows a dance floor virtual reality based around Guetta and a futuristic DJ booth. While Wayne raps in front of a skateboarding backdrop, Guetta navigates Brown through a nearly zero-gravity dance routine that ends when Guetta finally removes his hands from the control pad on his turntable. There are light-up suits, face-mapping, skateboard ramps, and laser-beam eyes. Guetta described the video as having "crazy, super strong images, and futuristic images." Overall, pretty slick effort!

Train have recently premiered the music video for their next single, the humorous song "50 Ways To Say Goodbye," the second single off San Francisco-based pop-rockers' sixth studio album, "California 37." The catchy song is pretty clever track about a dude who gets dumped by his girl, and decides that if anyone asks, he'll just lie and say something terrible happened to her and that's why she's not around anymore.
Train's frontman Pat Monahan penned this song with Espionage, the Norwegian production duo that helped pen "Hey Soul Sister." Espionage is made up of Espen Lind and Amund Bjørklund and amongst their other credits are Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" and Chris Brown's "With You." The song follows a similar theme to Paul Simon's "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover," though in this instance it's the narrator's pride that has been hurt as he looks for excuses to tell his friends why she's disappeared from his life.
The pop rock band explained on their official website: "We wanted to make a fun web video for our new single '50 Ways To Say Goodbye.' Things got a little lost in translation, but eventually we managed to get a mariachi band to show up at a random cafe and perform a cover of '50 Ways To Say Goodbye.' Watch the hilarity that ensued below or on YouTube." Though the song's title claims there are 50 ways to say goodbye, I can only find 11 lies about his farewell the protagonist tells, all involving his former beau's demise.
The Marc Klasfeld-directed clip features the former Baywatch star consoling Monahan after his heart is broken by actress Taryn Manning. The video begins Monahan doing his usual shopping rounds at the supermarket and Hasselhoff appears as a grocery shopper while he explains to his hi-bye acquaintances why his girlfriend isn't with him anymore and that's the fun part of the song. The clip also features a mariachi band and scenes of young, attractive women meeting untimely deaths. It's a fun video for a fun song, so definitely check the mildly amusing new video now out.