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Capital Cities are back and get philosophical with a sorrow and joy collided new music video for their track "One Minute More," the first taken from the American indie alt-dance group's recently re-released deluxe edition of debut LP "In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery." The new song features some classic Capital Cities vocals and a piano sample worthy of RAC, himself. "I can't wait one minute more, the sun does shine" is the chant that echoes over sunny synths and tinkling keys. "One Minute More," is another stellar dance-pop tune with an effervescent chorus that rivals breakthrough smash "Safe And Sound."
In an interview thr band said about song: "'One Minute More' is a song that we had written a while back, it was going to end up on the album as well, it was one of the contenders, but we hadn't really completed it exactly to our standards, I guess, so we put out the album. As time passed we kept revisiting the song and we felt like it was a strong song and this felt like a good opportunity to finish it up and include it on a deluxe version of the album alongside some other cool tracks and remixes as well."
The video begins with the quote from Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran, "Joy and Sorrow are inseparable... Together they come and when one sits alone with you... Remember that the other is asleep upon your bed." Don't worry the song is quite the opposite of the visual message. If you've been following the video follies of Capital Cities and director Brewer then you know their collaboration can't possible just be a floating dock performance for the hottest Lake Havasu Spring Breakers ever. And it's not.
The video is something much more figurative. And the imagined party ends as quickly as a crying jag. As our favorite electro-pop duo explaied: "The video is really interesting and juxtaposes this very sad woman who is basically going through the process of a divorce. That sadness is contrasted by this group of twenty-somethings having a party on a lake with a bunch of watercraft. It is kind of a typical Capital Cities video where we try to show the dichotomy of a human existence: the good, the bad and the contract what defines the good and the bad."

Owl City is finally back and is ready to bring back the electro-smooth in our lives. As far as inescapable hits go, Owl City has a knack for writing especially uplifting ones. His Carly Rae Jepsen collab "Good Time" helped The Midsummer Station go double platinum, reaching the Top 10 in a handful of countries around the globe. Now, he's returning with a whimsical music video through Rolling Stone for his new single "Beautiful Times," the lead single taken from his new four-track EP, "Ultraviolet," which was just released yesterday, June 27 via Universal Music.
Not long after Owl City, the one-man synth-pop act known offstage as Adam Young's "Fireflies" breakout, he broke down the origin of his music's dreamy edge: "About two years ago I was working at a Coca-Cola warehouse all day. It allowed me to sort of dream up these projects. One wound up being Owl City. I thought through how I wanted it to sound, how I wanted the records to look, everything. Sometimes working in a monotonous environment can really free up your imagination."
According to Young, "Beautiful Times," features American violinist and composer Lindsey Stirling, "is a slow-and-steady stream of music that deeply subjective and personal, it has a dark beauty I find compelling and the essence of the track offers the idea that life is wonderful despite the burdens and afflictions that seek us out. It is an anthem for those who search for strength to rise above hardship. I was honored to work with yet another of my favorite artists, Lindsey Stirling, who was kind enough to grant me the honor of featuring her. I hope you enjoy this song as much as I enjoyed creating it."
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Young says about the optimism in the upbeat song and the magical video was mirrored on the set, "It was a blast shooting 'Beautiful Times' because the film crew was such a fun bunch of people to be around. I've been on a few sets where everyone is on edge and it throws the whole thing off. A positive atmosphere really makes all the difference in the world." Directed by Everdream, its whimsical music video depicts a young boy sleeping in his bedroom when his toys and room suddenly comes to life, thanks to a magical little star that comes and turns his bedroom upside down.

The queens of Country music stars Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood amp up the sex appeal and wowed us with their stunningly dark appearances in their newest rowdy video for their first-ever girl-power duet, "Somethin' Bad," the second single off Lambert's newly released fifth studio album, "Platinum," which dropped June 3rd. The duo sport a variety of steaming looks including brunette hair as they team up to rob a bank, play high stakes poker and ultimately, get arrested.
"I'd wanted to record a song with Carrie for awhile but I just couldn't find the right one. 'Somethin' Bad' was originally written as a guy-girl duet but when I heard it I knew it was the perfect song. It's a meshing of our style," Lambert told Us Weekly of the hit, which is heating things up online, much as the single has done on country radio - not surprising given the individual firepower of the two country stars.
Lambert has said she pitched the song to Underwood by email, even though she was incredibly nervous about asking her to sing on it. No need to worry, though. Underwood readily agreed. In press materials for "Platinum," Lambert stated, "I'm a huge fan of Carrie Underwood. She's such a badass singer... To me, this song meshes our styles, you know? It gives her time to be 'Before He Cheats' Carrie, and it gives me time to take off running and jump to hit some of those high notes." It's been 9 years since Lambert set fire to her cheating boyfriend's house in "Kerosene," and it's been 8 years since Underwood swung a baseball bat at her boyfriend's car in "Before He Cheats." The country queens teamed up for "Somethin' Bad," and they're still causing trouble!
Set in a prison, the Trey Fanjoy-directed video sees Lambert, 30, plays Belle Boyd, and Underwood, 31, plays Priscilla Parker, a couple of jewel-thieving, poker-playing, motorcycle-riding troublemakers, as they go on a Thelma and Louise-like bad-girl escapade involving a bank caper, a high-stakes card game and a side-by-side motorcycle ride out of town. Throughout the 2:53-long music video, the blonds stand side by side wearing slightly different smoky eye looks, and model a variety of disguises to pull off the jewel heist.

Demi Lovato take over Los Angeles' Gay Pride Parade, celebrating with the crowd and sending a clear message to all the haters with her powerful pop-anthem, "Really Don't Care," and brought it to life by sing with the crowd, party with her friends and brush off all those haters. The LGBTQ-friendly clip features a number of celebrity cameos, including the singer's boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama, Perez Hilton, Kat Graham, Shane Bitney Cone and British pop singer Cher Lloyd, who lends her vocals and spitting out her sassy verse to the track.
The uptempo dance-pop breakup song, the fourth single off her self titled fourth album "Demi," finds Lovato sending a message of defiance with her "angsty" and "overpowering pipes" vocals to a former lover that their split is for good and she won't change her mind. "For me it was just about a breakup a while ago," Lovato explained. "And now it's just an overall of thinking and not giving a s--t about what people say or what people think about you and your beliefs." The pair met when Lloyd, who was a finalist on the UK's 2010 X Factor performed on the American version of the show, where Lovato is a judge.
"When I originally wrote it, it was a breakup song," the pop performer told E! News. "But now I have sung it so many times that it kind of no longer has a significance in that sort of way. When I sing it, I always want to inspire and empower." After thinking more about the song she wanted it to have "a deeper message" since she stands for much more than that. "I thought what other people could relate to really not caring what people think. I thought of bullies and the LGBT community who are constantly scrutinized. What better place is there than L.A. Pride to celebrate who you are and not really caring what people think?"
Shot at L.A.'s gay pride festival, where Lovato served as the Grand Marshall and performed, the video opens with Lovato telling the crowd that a protester at the parade "has a burn in hell poster' and that "you don't have to hate because my Jesus loves all." The pop star, dressed in leather with rainbow hair, then opens with her song as she marches down the parade on a float as LGBT supporters surround her dancing, celebrating and proudly belting out the lyrics. "And it felt amazing to sing with other people in their faces and sing "I really don't care," Lovato told MTV News.

With the announcement of his Epic 3.0 show at Madison Square Garden later this year still reverberating around the tri-state area, Eric Prydz wastes no time in releasing another piece of media to satisfy his always hungry fans. His recent single "Liberate" now gets a summer-ready music video treatment, taking you under the ocean and into the depths of rolling waves. A summer anthem, that was handpicked by BBC radio 1's Zane Lowe as his "Hottest Record In The World," needs a video that suits the euphoric mood, and now the Swedish producer has delivered just that.
One of the kings of house music, the 37-year-old Swede has an enviable knack for writing anthems, and he might just have done it again with this one. Following the classic Prydz sound, "Liberate." has those punchy and clear drums, some encompassing vocals, and an awesome drop that house fans will love. His big room sound, yet distinctive and emotional to the ear, is something unique in the EDM world.
Whenever you lose faith in the progressive house scene, you need to just look towards Prydz for that new beauty. His latest single, "Liberate," has a brilliant sentiment to it: it's emotional, it has a throwback '80s flair to it, but it still works in today's scene. It's bigger than "big drops" or whatever you're looking for, but the emo ravers in the crowd who might shed a tear can get close to this one, trust. We figure you'll be rewinding this one for a bit... soak it all in.
The track comes to life through an underwater video, which spends much of its predominantly time submerged beneath the water as two friends frolic and swim underwater along Jervis Bay on Australia's east coast (where Prydz toured for the first time this year), and the track itself from Prydz has summer hit written all over it. It's guaranteed to make you yearn for a summer vacation. Fans who witnessed Prydz's set at Ultra Music Festival in March will remember the galvanizing effect of "Liberate," and it's been a feature of his sets ever since.

Robin Thicke released a truly depressing video about his breakup with his estranged wife, actress Paula Patton, from whom he became separated in February. The R&B singer looks like he's in a lot of pain, battered, bloodied and bruised, inside and out, physically and emotionally, in the newly released video for his current love ballad, "Get Her Back," much of the reaction was to the imagery of the clip, which suggests a violent fight between the couple, over Thicke's plea for a reconciliation. The "Blurred Lines" singer met Patton when he was just 14 and they became high school sweethearts.
This heartfelt pleading ballad, "Get Her Back", the lead single from his upcoming seventh album, "Paula," due out next week, appears to be a plea and making his strongest appeal yet to reconcile with his estranged wife, as we find Thicke trying to convince Patton to forgive him for not showing more appreciation for her and his desire to get back with her. Lyrically, the protagonist expresses regret and sadness over his part in a failed relationship and and how he is willing to reconcile and make amends with his lover: "I should've kissed you longer/ I should've held you stronger/ All I wanna do is make it right/ I gotta get her, go get her back."
Thicke needs a hug. Interspersed throughout the highly personal clip, directed by three-time Grammy Award-winner Jonas Åkerlund, are graphics in the form and shows a series of uncomfortably personal text messages seemingly exchanged between the 37-year-old singer and his wife of eight years. "I kept trying to warn you you were pushing me too far..." the text messages read at the beginning of the video. Other texts shown include "You drink too much" and "You embarrassed me."
In the mostly black-and-white video, a shirtless and disheveled singer croons his love-lost plea directly and sensually into the camera, plaintively singing such lyrics as "I gotta treat her right, I gotta cherish her for life," while the clip often cuts away to a sultry brunette woman who resembles Patton, but barely shares any scenes with Thicke as he grasps his wedding ring while singing "I gotta get her back, get her back, get her back." Thicke appears with a black eye and bloody nose, which could be a metaphorical symbol of his broken heart. The video ends with a text message promising, "This is just the beginning."

Neither settling down nor bright tie-dye beachwear are things we would normally associate with The Pretty Reckless frontwoman Taylor Momsen, but after telling The Metro she wants a husband, the actress turned rock star has picked a perfect day at the beach and dropped a raunchy new video for the band's track "Messed Up World (F'd Up World)," the third single taken from the female-fronted act's latest sophomore album, "Going To Hell," which rages with the upbeat, beat-wise humor that hard rock has suppressed ever since grunge.
"One day, I'd love to have children and get married," the 20-year-old singer is speaking out about her hopes to settle down sometime in the future. "It would have to be the perfect person. I don't know who that will be. At the moment I'm married to my guitar and my notebook." Written by Momsen with Ben Phillips, "Messed Up World," was originally called "F'd Up World," shows off a grittier side of Momsen's voice. We find the former Gossip Girl star alternating between singing with her The Pretty Reckless band, and playing on the beach with a few of her girlfriends friends. Just in time for summer!
Directed by Momsen herself with Jon J, the provocative clip features a tie-dye clad Momsen rocking out with the New York band while hanging out and relaxing with a few female friends at a beach party. As Momsen sings the lyrics, her friends holding cue cards with the lyrics written out in magic marker, and changing them as the words are sung, but that's tame compared to the rest of the music video.
Making a statement, the video also features a pair of raunchy girl on girl action on the beach at night, courtesy of "retired adult film star" Jenna Haze and Momsen's personal assistant Alie Jo Kvitek, in body paint grinding upon each other along with a few near make out sessions. But ever the provocateurs, The Pretty Reckless put a spin on what is going on onscreen as the female pairing eventually turns the tables on the viewers by holding up a sign that reads, "Is This What You Want to See?"

Madison Beer just dropped her brand new video for the EDM-inflected pop anthem "Unbreakable," just as the new single went up on iTunes and she gave us all the deets. Beer may only be 15 years old, but she wants to promote an ultra positive message through her music and that's just what "Unbreakable" does. "It is about staying true to yourself. Everything gets better," she told HollywoodLife.com exclusively all about what inspired it, what her hopes are for the future, and of course what tips Justin Bieber has been giving her.
Beer, found by Bieber in 2012, has shown tremendous growth over the past two years, appearing on a mix of Cody Simpson's "Valentine," remaking John Legend's "All of Me," and releasing an original track and video for "Melodies" that includes a cameo from Bieber himself. The Jericho, Long Island, New York singer's latest song, "Unbreakable," is a message-oriented, summertime synth-pop record. It isn't geared for block parties like her debut single, "Melodies." Instead the midtempo pop number aims to uplift anyone who's ever felt insecure or broken down, with its faint electro flourishes and encouraging hook.
"It's a powerful, inspirational song, like [Katy Perry's] 'Firework,'" Beer told J-14.com. "If you listen to the words, it's telling you that you can't let what other people say bring you down." The Island Records artist, who is working on her debut solo album, has told Hollywood Life that she identifies with the song's lyrics. "I love the whole message, and it's definitely something that I live by, just because it's hard sometimes to stay true to yourself and not feel weird around other people. It's hard to stay strong sometimes, especially when you are going through some things that normal people wouldn't go through. It's really an important thing to me."
Beer shows depth about teenagers that are needing a positive 'push' in life in video, which tackles friendship, disabilities, fear and heartache. The clip begins with Beer and a crowd wanders aimlessly until they find a field, dance around as a happy Beer belts out the inspiring lyrics of the country-tinged tune's chorus "We're gonna ride through fire like we've never been burned/ We're gonna laugh out loud like we've never been heard/ We're gonna shout it out to the edge of the world/ We're unbreakable/ You're unbreakable," while walking across a smoking flare on a horse ranch with images of struggling low self-esteem teens literally carrying their emotions around on the countryside, scrawled across black balloons that describe how they feel about themselves.

It's soccer time! T.I. sure doesn't waste any time to debuted the stylish music video for "No Mediocre," featuring Iggy Azalea, only one day after releasing the single itself as he also wanted the Brazilian-themed video to premiere in the midst of the World Cup. The rappers new collaboration is far from mediocre. The Atlanta rapper enlisted his Australian protégée for his DJ Mustard-produced single "No Mediocre," the second cut off of his upcoming ninth album "Paperwork: The Motion Picture," which is due out in September.
The banger has T.I. rapping about his disdain for "mediocre" women, and praising "bad bitches" who do their hair and have a "pretty face." Breakout star Azalea joins the single, rhyming, "Want a billboard bitch stop running in place/ Heels on me saying gimme six inches of space/ Courtside while designer frames cover my face/ Now everybody in the game wanna get 'em a taste." T.I. references Brazil in the lyrics to "No Mediocre," and decided to shoot the song's accompanying video in the country. The X-directed clip shows the "Live Your Life" performer surrounded by a bevy of exotic beauties bump and grind for his approval before Azalea enters the shot, rapping and twerking.
T.I. lets us know right away that he's interested in "bad bitches only," thank you very much. That's probably why Featured Bombshell is introduced in the first shots. The King begins his day in the Tavares Bastos favela and makes his way through the village, playing a quick game of soccer before heading to his casa, where some sexy mamacitas await him. As he dances down the back alleys of Rio de Janeiro in his black tee and cargo pants, he mingles with some more Brazilian beauties while rapping about his quest to find a woman who meets his high physical standards.
He meets up with his 24-year-old "Fancy" protégée, who first appears strutting around favelas like she owns the place, which she pretty much does in this Alejandra Huerta-styled outfit, and hypnotizes the fellas as she dances alongside T.I. at an outdoor party. Luckily, Azalea swoops in with her usual confident bad-assery, and adds at least one not wholly irredeemable verse to the song. While not exactly easing up on the impossible physical standards set by the media for women, Azalea at least tells T.I. to actually put a little work into achieving his wants and "stop running in place," if he's going to have such an intricate list of demands. Take it to Rio with Hustle Gang.

OK Go has done it again! The alternative rock band released another innovative video for their song "The Writing's On The Wall," with amazing optical illusions. Past OK Go videos have featured everything from dancing dogs to an extraordinarily complex Rube Goldberg machine, but their latest mind-blowing brilliant clip for "The Writing's on the Wall" is stripped down and it's one of their quirkiest videos yet! As you watch this trippy, art-filled video, you realize that nothing is what it seems, and OK Go proves once again they've mastered the Internet.
"The Writing's On The Wall," the first single off the group's fourth album "Hungry Ghosts," due out on October 14th, is about a troubled relationship in which the two parties see things in different ways. The writing is indeed on the wall for the pair. The track is an expression that suggests a portent of doom or misfortune. It originates from the Old Testament Book of Daniel Chapter 5, where during a banquet hosted by King Belshazzar, a mysterious hand appeared and wrote on the palace wall the words, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin." Daniel interpreted this message as the imminent end for the Babylonian kingdom. Belshazzar was slain that night and the Persians sacked the capital city.
Taking nearly three weeks to assemble the set, painting the images, choreographing the moves in a cavernous Brooklyn lot and 61 takes to get right, the video attempts to channel and add motion to the geometric paintings of artists like Felice Varini, Salvador Dalí and Dan Tobin-Smith while remaining true to the track that inspired it, a pre-break-up report from a relationship in which the couple keep seeing things in different ways. The connection with the song becomes explicit during the bridge, when a rolling camera deciphers a message that reads, "I think I understand you, but I don't."
The video features the band members romping through a series of 28 live optical illusions have been painted and prepared and is meant to challenge your perspective with images that only become clear when the camera hits an exact mark. In one shot, an arcing camera finds everything you see is actually a trick of the eye. "It was important to me that we didn't add a layer of meaning that's not already there," explained frontman and co-director Damian Kulash to Rolling Stone. "We wanted to be able to have messages in there, but I didn't want them going throughout the entire song in way that would make you feel like you were reading the whole time." It feels like the viewer is right there with the group members. Watch it below.

Coldplay walk down a busy city street and dressed up as some type of clownish busker in their new cheery video for the Avicii-assisted track "A Sky Full of Stars," the third single from British alternative rock band's latest chart-topping sixth studio album, "Ghost Stories." Though Coldplay already have an established presence in the EDM-world thanks to countless remixes of its hits, "A Sky Full Of Stars" is the band's attempt to get into the dance clubs on its own accord, while still maintaining the inherent chilled-outness that is its main bread and butter.
"A Sky Full of Stars" marks the band's first dance in a alternative rock track, being outlined as an EDM track with progressive house-influenced electronic music. Enlisting EDM heavyweight Avicii to serve as producer, the piano-centric track starts off as a heartfelt piano ballad that plays out in between verses before flourishes of pounding electronics take over the chorus seamlessly. While their previous singles such as "Magic" recalled their earlier catalog, this new track falls in line with the synth-heavy soundscapes of "Midnight," but with more danceable flavor.
In "A Sky Full of Stars," the frontman Chris Martin accents the track with his signature dreamlike vocals as he vows that he doesn't care if his love tears his heart apart because she is so full of love and light and the brightest star in the firmament. "You're such a gift," he sings. The big-tent uplifting EDM offering but not in such an overwhelming way is pretty satisfying in all of the ways that those things are and it's certainly the loudest, energetic, classically and most joyful dance-y cut we've heard from the album so far.
Coldplay took its show on the road and turned the Sydney streets into a wandering parade/music festival in the Mat Whitecross-directed video, which sees Martin singing about his lover being a "sky full of stars," while carrying the weirdest musical backpack ever with red tulips and a drum-kit, walking the streets of downtown Sydney to the starstruck of many. He eventually joins the rest of Coldplay bandmates, also carrying their backpacks with colorful umbrellas, balloons, bubbles and confetti for a big uplifting performance surrounded by tens of fans whooping and passers-by that wanted to record this unexpected historic moment with their mobile phones.

During the "Born To Die days," Lana Del Rey made model Bradley Soileau her video muse. As her sophomore full-length "Ultraviolence" finally makes its way out into the world Tuesday (June 17), a new man hits the scene - an older paramour featured in the video for "Shades Of Cool," the second single from Del Rey's sophomore full-length, which is about many things, but her music videos for the album have tended to be about something very specific: entering hopeless relationships with older gentlemen who happen to have slicked-back hair.

Del Rey wrote with the San Francisco-born songwriter Rick Nowels for this slow sweeping and slightly gloomy ballad marked by reverberated guitars, slight atmospherics that contrasts the more pop-savvy swaggering "West Coast," and the song also consists of a chiming guitar, slow-burn bass line, and swelling orchestra which surround Del Rey's vocals that alternate between a hushed whisper and ephemeral wailing. "Shades Of Cool" is the most Bond-sounding single off Del Rey's "Ultraviolence," but the video is more fairy tale than action movie.
It's steeped in the mirage-like American iconography that has colored Del Rey's music in since "Video Games," depicting a romantic fling with an older man. There are also some stylized images involving birds that could be described as "adult Disney." The man in question is Hollywood tattoo artist Mark Mahoney, and he was also featured in the video for "West Coast." In a sense, the videos for both songs kind of bleed into each other, telling the tale of love most certainly primed to go bad. If "West Coast" was all about Del Rey burning down L.A., "Shades Of Cool" is all about dousing it with water.
Directed by Jake Nava and blurring fantasy and reality, the clip opens with a close-up of Mahoney's face, bathed in blue, he drives off into the California sunset as Del Rey writhes in her heartbreak, and eventually very '70s-styled abode. Initially, our "Ultraviolence" heroine appears as a flickering hologram, swaying until she finally finds purchase in the physical world, frolicking with Mahoney through a landscape filled with pools, retro houses and strawberries, but the lines between fantasy and reality mesh further as the nearly 6-minute track haunts ever onward. It's very Gatsby-core.

Neon Jungle take it a beat slower in their brand new video for their another corker of an explosive new tune, "Louder," the fourth official single taken from the British four-piece girl group's upcoming debut studio album, "Welcome to the Jungle," due out on July 28th via Sony and RCA Records. Pop starlet troupe Neon Jungle - made up of members Shereen Cutkelvin, Amira McCarthy, Jess Plummer and Asami Zdrenka - may be relatively new to the scene, but their voices prove that they're here to stay.
"Louder," a epic electro-pop powerhouse ballad complete with crashing drums and a explosive chorus, is a departure from their usual electronic dance tunes, which the girls have said was done intentionally. In a joint statement to UK's heatworld, the group explained the meaning behind the song, noting that the track is a departure from their other tunes that have a more electronic sound. "I think people expected our fourth single to be another dance track but it was always in our plans to release a slower song and surprise people. It's still got the energy and power but in a more subtle way."
After club bangers "Trouble," "Braveheart" and "Welcome To The Jungle," it's definitely not what we expected for their next track, but that doesn't make it any less addictive! "Lyrically it's very relatable, it's about drowning out feelings and emotions," the feisty girl band recently expressed about the massive bangerballad of a tune. "It's about not being in control of the way you feel because of someone else and wanting to turn everything up louder to escape that."
The ladies of Neon Jungle have one goal in their new Colin Tilley-directed video: "Make everything 'Louder,'" and they certainly succeed, filling their video for "Louder" with booming drum beats, vibrant scenes and an intensity that permeates throughout the entire video. "Make everything louder, do it til my skin vibrates," the British quartet sing on the chorus, passionately belting out the lyrics. "Make everything louder, I wanna hear my eardrums break." The feisty foursome keep the performance intensity and go from big beats to an even bigger power ballad in the dramatic video.

Kiesa Rae Ellestad, ask 'Kiesza,' is the kind of artist that knows how to work through the pain. The 25-year-old Canadian spent her teens increasing her threshold as a trained ballerina and after that, she joined the Royal Canadian navy and competed in Miss Universe Canada. It's difficult to believe Kiesza isn't at least 40. Kiesza has packed so much into her life. It hardly seems credible that she is still in her mid-20s. "I guess I didn't stick with many things for too long," smiled the Calgary native.
Ironically, Kiesza has taken a roundabout route to achieving a goal she set for herself at just seven years of age. Youthful musical ambitions were hardly surprising. Kiesza says she was "force-fed" Michael Jackson songs by her mother. Kiesza has now relocated to London and the Michael Jackson influence is evident in her first single after signing to indie label Lokal Legend in 2013, classics-inspired "Hideaway," and the accompanying video. "I love the music scene in Britain. 'Hideaway' is a deep house song but it's regarded as mainstream. That kind of thing doesn't happen in America or back home in Canada."
Inspired by 1990s dance music which her mother would regularly listen to, "Hideaway" is an uptempo deep house song incorporates elements of pop, electropop, dance and old school music over a sparse, 1990s trance-indebted backing track. Production-wise, the song is a combination of a thick vintage Chicago house bassline, a cracking drum machine and an EDM synthesizer. "The song basically pays tribute to '90s dance music so Michael was obviously a megastar during those years. I can also see how Michael could have influenced the video though it wasn't deliberate on my part. I was just intrigued by the idea of filming an entire video in one take."
"Shooting the video seemed impossible," Kiesza tells Rolling Stone. "I had less than three days to learn five completely new dance styles. Almost everyone told me that we couldn't do it. Then to top things off, on the day of the shoot, I broke a rib. I did the video in two takes and couldn't move for an entire month afterward, but I pulled it off." The energetic video is an impressive one-take shot that follows Kiesza as she dances her way through the streets of Brooklyn, switching off dancing partners and styles, while the song's thick bass and cracking drum machine drives the beat forward. But most impressively, she masks her pain like a pro. Fall in love with Kiesza and rekindle the omance with New York and '90s glory days by clicking play below.

The Vamps unveiled the sun-drenched video to their newly vamped summer jam "Somebody To You," featuring Demi Lovato, the fourth single from the British pop rock band's debut album "Meet The Vamps," which hit no.2 on the U.K. chart back in April. If you need proof that The Vamps were ready for summer, look no further than their "Somebody to You" video! The UK quartet, as "acoustic-driven indie pop," revamped a new version of their single "Somebody to You" by adding former Disney starlet the mix, where Lovato adds vocals to the second verse and the chorus.
This powerful pop song, "Somebody To You," is upbeat, breezy and totally perfect for the warmer weather. As the boys sing about wanting to change their relationship status from contently single to crazy in love. "Look at me now, I'm falling / I can't even talk, still stuttering / This ground of mine keeps shaking," they reveal on the thumping track. Lovato nabs the second verse and sings, "I used to ride around / I didn't want to settle down." The two acts join forces on the final chorus, injecting the little love song that could with a lot more power and sweetness than before.
The English rockers head to California's sunny Malibu beach for the Emil Nava-directed summery clip and perform the sing-a-long pop-rock anthem on a makeshift stage in the sand. The guys soak up the sun, hanging around the beach when they spot a group of girls who catch their attention. The dreamy frontman Bradley Simpson totally falls for Laura Marano after spending time together by playing volleyball, kicking around the soccer ball, and flirting by the swimming pool before the song cuts to Lovato on the beach, as well.
As the sun goes down, the party heats up. The guys host an intimate ocean-front concert for an enthusiastic audience of dancing fans, leading them to clap their way through the chorus, which is where Lovato shows up to perform her guest vocals alongside of the guys. She clearly wasn't available on the same day, so her scenes are a little disjointed. The "Heart Attack" hitmaker just sits around and looks pretty before twirling in some fluttering curtains. Obviously, she steals the show. Lovato's incredible voice complements The Vamps' and together, the musicians sound amazing. Watch Lovato glams up The Vamps below.

As if "The Fault in Our Stars" didn't make fans weep enough in theaters, or if you still have any tears left after seeing the film, Birdy is out with an intimate music video for the super emotional ballad "Not For Angels," her contribution to the film's soundtrack. Featured at the end of the movie when Hazel leaves Gus' funeral and thankfully the new clip avoids footage from the movie - the sweet, sad song stands on its own. Though Birdy is still only 18-year-old, hearing her voice quiver through her own words is at once powerful and soothing.
Birdy contributed three three songs to soundtrack of blockbuster movie, but "Not About Angels" has connected with moviegoers the most with almost haunting mix of simple piano and vocals. The warm reception could have something to do with the fact that Birdy wrote it from the perspective of the characters in the film. In a recent interview, she revealed that this track was completely inspired by the film's storyline. "For the lyrics I was inspired by the way they speak to each other," Birdy says. "I was in tears when they read the book, and was so inspired by how the characters communicate."
The music supervisor Season Kent told The Huffington Post that the British singer was "so obsessed with the movie and the book." The song works because, as Kent said, "There's this whole back and forth that Gus and Hazel have about believing in God and believing in angels, and that's what her song is about: it's not about angels, it's about us." If you fancy a good cry, here's a couple of the lyrics for you: "We know full well there's just time, so is it wrong to toss this line? If your heart was full of love, could you give it up? 'Cause what about angels, they will come, they will go, make us special. Don't give me up..."
Given that "Not About Angels" is shaping up to be Birdy's much-deserved breakthrough hit in America, it was only a matter of time before it got a suitably moving video. Take in the beautiful simplicity of this video, which featuring Birdy belting the song at a baby grand piano with her reflection and a dazzling view of the Los Angeles cityscape behind her. Birdy's handwriting and floating notebook drawings bring the characters' tragic love in the film to life. That's really all you need for a song this subtle and beautiful.

Linkin Park has released a highly-stylized artsy video for their latest single, "Until It's Gone," which is chock full of symbolism relating to how the band feels about the music industry and the current state of rock. The melodic track is the second single from American rock band's upcoming sixth studio album, "The Hunting Party," due out next Tuesday (June 17), and will feature a heavier rock sound than normal direction compared to their recent ventures as a response to what band describes as the "passive" nature of new bands.
"Until It's Gone" kicks off with the sort of warbling synth effect that was the group's calling card on their 2000 breakthrough debut, "Hybrid Theory," but builds into a brooding, textured gloom rocker that reminds listeners, via lead singer Chester Bennington, that "[you] don't know what you've got until it's gone." The song is a more mid-tempo track with softer lyrics provided by Bennington, who really shows his vocal versatility. The dreamy and atmospheric sounds are enough to whisk you away but Bennington brings you back down to earth as he belts out their take on a familiar chorus. "As for the video, I think the monochromatic beauty and eeriness compliments the song well in one sense, it allows the music to fill in the color," bandmate Mike Shinoda said.
For the first video from "The Hunting Party" album, directed by the band's own DJ/programmer Joe Hahn, Linkin Park chose to get a little deep with the rock six-piece at an interesting crossroads. The clip finds the band members frequently performing the song silhouetted with images projected onto their faces. Often the images are smoke filled or featuring dilapidated structures, with the occasional shots of people in despair. Add that in with the post-apocalyptic, haunting keyboard sounds laid down by Hahn in the song, and the video has a very ominous feel to it.
"The Hunting Party" marks Linkin Park's attempt to inject some edge back into rock, a manifesto exemplified by the "Until It's Gone" video, according to Hahn in an interview: "The visuals have an aggressive edge to it that is the representation of the band as 'The Hunting Party.' We are the same guys you always knew but, a little older, weathered and experienced. The video has an undertone of the world going to shit. There is a black ooze that crystallizes the world. It is an infection. This black ooze is representing other music out there. We are merely here to fill in that sliver with the music that we bring. I guess you can say that we are filling a void."

She's finally coming back after finishing last season as a judge on The X Factor UK, Nicole Scherzinger has been stepping up and is finalizing the details of this new full length project, if everything goes as planned, it will be released this fall after having signed a $5 million record deal with Sony Music Entertainment, which would result in the end of her 10-year relationship with Interscope Records. "For the first time in my career I feel like this album is me, it's real," she said. "It's a very personal album for me. It is a reflection of the woman I am, the woman I am not, and the woman I want to be."
The 35-year-old singer has released her newest single "Your Love," the first from her sophomore album. The memorable dance track, is a pop and dance song with elements of house. Built on a 1990s-inspired bright piano-led beat with synths calls while keeping it on this side of contemporary. Throughout the song Scherzinger adopts sultry vocals and uses filtered near-whispers and moans. Lyrically Scherzinger tries to express how her man's love makes her feel. The song is a definite song of the summer contender with its warm '90s house vibe and inescapable vocal hooks, which is also very different from what she had done before. Scherzinger try darling.
She's known for her raunchy dance moves and charisma as the former Pussycat Dolls chanteuse heats things up and parades up and down the beach, shows off her banging body in the Dawn Shadforth-directed clip. It begins with the sunkissed singer frolicking on the beautiful Malibu coastline in a black croptop and shorts. After starting off with the line, "Boy you don't know how much I like it," Scherzinger is joined by a pop lockin' dancer and an Alvin Ailey-esque performer who both boogie and sway to the uptempo track with enthusiastic and rhythmic flair before she playfully runs in the sea.
Scherzinger makes a sexy wardrobe change to a black wraparound swimsuit while singing about an alluring romance and letting her love interest know that he's one lucky SOB with the line, "Yeah baby, you got me, Yeah my body's like Bugatti/ You know everybody wants mine/ You got every thing they don't, uh." When the sun sets, the visuals take a more artistic turn, with Scherzinger dancing in front of a blue-and-red-lit tree and flanked by fire-breathing entertainers and plumes of pyrotechnics to the tribal rhythm. Watch the bikini-clad bombshell positively sizzle in the sand below.

Cheryl Cole is back and whetted fans' appetites with a preview performance of her new single, "Crazy Stupid Love" during the final of Britain's Got Talent last weekend. She managed to turn up the heat when she performed her new single, but it seems Cole's stage show was just a warm up for her scorching video which she unveiled on Tuesday morning. The 30-year-old former Girls Aloud star is sexier than ever as she gyrates, twerks and generally dances up a storm while wearing a daring crop top in the raunchy dance-fuelled video.
"Crazy Stupid Love," described as 'a blast of feel-good pop,' sees Cole collaborate with Brit rapper Tinie Tempah, as well as songwriter Wayne Wilkins, who wrote her million-selling debut "Fight For This Love." Served as the first single from Cole's upcoming (as yet untitled) fourth album release in the autumn, "Crazy Stupid Love" also marks her return to music after a two-year break with her new single due for release via Polydor Records on July 20 - shortly before she makes her television comeback on the panel of The X Factor.
Shot in May over a course of 20 hours in Hackney's underground club, the Colin Tilley-directed clip is certainly full of energy and sex appeal as she looks sensational wearing a just a low-cut tiny bralet top and harem pants and writhes around, and gives Miley a run for her money while surrounded by a hoarde of dancers. The X Factor judge opts for the tired "werkin' it in the club" concept and really lets loose in the shoot, doesn't hold back while displaying some high-energy dance routines. At one point in the video she can be seen twerking while lying down - demonstrating some pretty impressive bottom muscles, a glimpse of her cleavage as well as her massive back tattoo.
Her hair, which has an ombre effect, is full of plenty of volume, flying all over the place with the help of strategically placed wind machines. The video has a very upbeat feeling to due to Cole's happy demeanor. Speaking last week about her racy video, she admits it's more 'grimy' than her usual videos as she revealed: "The video isn't what I've done before and in terms of lighting and stuff, it's a bit more grimy! 'Cos the songs quite up, and pop, it's got that feel, so I wanted it to have the urban twist. It's a bit more of that urban vibe."

After a series of toned-down red carpet appearances, it seems Nicki Minaj has officially left behind the days of neon colors, giant blonde afros, and outlandish costumes for the release of her new elegant, subdued "Pills N Potions" clip. The piano rap ballad, is the lead single to be lifted from her upcoming third studio album "The Pink Print," finds Minaj maintaining a positive attitude amongst all the doubters, detractors and people who have wronged her. Compared to Minaj's typically over-the-top music videos, "Pills N Potions" is the rapper's most down-to-earth, simple video to date.

The 31-year-old recently talked with Billboard about this Dr. Luke-produced ballad. "It sounds like betrayal. It sounds like running. It sounds like fainting. It sounds like love. It sounds like... *gasp!" Minaj broke down the concept behind the song with Ryan Seacrest: "I feel like it's kind of like a tragic love story," she explained. "And it doesn't even necessarily have to be like a boy and girl relationship. I just kind of feel like while I was working on the album, I started realizing how much has changed, and how people has changed, and how people come in and out of your life. I just felt like talking about that."
Minaj passionately sings the chorus of her soft ballad while rapping the verses. The hip hop star may have toned down her look, but that doesn't mean she's lost her edge. The rap superstar pushes the envelope in the strange, yet simple video, directed by Diane Martel, which predicts a surreal mood for the rapper's upcoming album, and fits right in with Minaj's raw emotions all over the track, and her natural look, as we see a cigarette-smoking Minaj shows a more vulnerable side in simple makeup against muted backgrounds singing the majestic song while crying silver tears, shining a grill, wearing Playboy bunny ears and chilling with a shirtless, bearded the Game, who plays Minaj's silent love interest.
In what looks like a set for a high fashion shoot, Minaj emotes through the tune's yearning lyrics under the hallucinogenic clouds of pink alongside fluffy bunnies smoking E-cigs and melting powder blue mansions in the hills. But from the looks of select scenes, perhaps Minaj's new "love the haters" philosophy is just a side effect of all of her pills and potions. Overdose on the emotional and eccentric visuals below.

In getting ready to release her highly-anticipated debut LP "Goddess" on September 9, Los Angeles-bred, British-based singer-songwriter Jillian Banks, simply known as BANKS has premiered a string of stunning tracks and videos that have generated significant internet buzz. Her stylish new video for latest single "Drowning" is no exception. Currently ruling the world from her dark and sexy hall of mirrors, it doesn't look as if she'll be slowing any time soon! For all those drowning: let BANKS give you a reason to swim.
BANKS has been bewitching the world with her siren-like voice and brilliant beats since she broke onto the music scene last year and exists on that distinctly London present-day point where pop and R&B and experimental, architectural bass music all overlap, and "Drowning" is a fine example of what she can do and she once again shows her smooth vocals played over a irresistible instrumental. With honest lyrics and more soul than heaven, let yourself fall for the sultry songstress and super babe in her brand spanking new music video for "Drowning."
BANKS recently teamed up with i-D fashion Magazine to advance her broody, witchy aesthetic. In this new video from the publication's Chart series, filmmaker Mike Piscitelli takes "Drowning" and gives it life. The video is hypnotic enough to, well, drown in. Trapped in one of those Yayoi Kusama-inspired infinity mirrored rooms and enveloped by an army of mirror images of herself as she weighs in on an ungrateful lover while reflecting on a hopeless relationship. The mirrors and smart Lorde-like suit-and-crop-top combo give the video a polished fashion element, and fashion means drama, obviously.
wearing exactly the same outfit in her signature colors of black, white, and red in a dimly-lit room of seemingly endless mirrors, a sultry and ethereal BANKS writhes center-stage, sleekly styled, reflected ever after and slinks through a room full of mirrors and lightbulbs, making very intense eyes at the camera. She gracefully moves across the refracted panes, noting all the times she apparently made soup for the special someone, she finally realizes "you are not deserving." The video marks the third installment of i-D's style-meets-music series and this latest one is decidedly the most straightforward of the bunch, but it's in no way less dynamic.

Pixie Lott showcases her trim physique in retro swimsuit as she frolics around Cannes in new music video for her new single, "Lay Me Down," the second official single and the follow up to Top 10 UK hit "Nasty" from her upcoming third self-titled studio album, scheduled to be released on digital retailers on August 4 via Mercury Records. She was spotted among the many stars in Cannes during the film festival last month. And now Lott has revealed exactly what she got up to in the South of France as she unveiled the official music video for her new single, "Lay Me Down."
The pop starlet drops the upbeat bluesy-pop single with sass and soul, while delivering one hard to forget hook.She wrote in a message to her fans: "I absolutely loved shooting this with a fabulous team. I shot it with the same company who did my video for 'Heart Cry,' because they captured the perfect vibe before. It was my first time in the south of France and I was in awe, so beautiful. I think the track is a perfect second single because it still has an upbeat vibe you can dance to, but with a meaningful lyric in a soulful way. I love performing this live with the band because we can really get into it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it!"
The release of "Nasty" back in March signaled a new era in Lott's career and it harked back to her roots, and number one inspiration - Motown. Even the fact that her upcoming album will simply be called "Pixie Lott" indicates that Lott is ready to lay herself bare in her most personal work yet, that reflects who she is now as a musician. But before the full extent of her renaissance becomes clear with the album's release in August, there's "Lay Me Down," to contend with first. Shot in Cannes, the video stars a Bardot-esque Lott opted for retro glamour and echoes her 60s influences in both fashion and music.
Echoes her 60s influences in both fashion and music, the Ben Falk-directed cinematic visual shot in Cannes, sees the 23-year-old British pop princess oozed old Hollywood glamour while having a glorious day and soaking up the sun on a Mediterranean getaway as she wears big hats, bright red lipstick, a series of retro sexy outfits including a red and white high-waisted bikini and lays down by her hotel, the pool, and even a fabulous yacht against the stunning backdrop of Cannes. Lott seemed to be channeling Bridget Bardot's effortless class in one shot which saw the singer sitting atop a sun lounger with a large black hat on.

Celine Dion, the queen of the power ballad is back and she has brought reinforcements as the 46-year-old Canadian singer teamed up with the American R&B hitmaker Ne-Yo on a new video for their power ballad "Incredible," the second single from the ballad queen's English-language studio album, "Loved Me Back to Life." Fan's have long been awaiting the music video release, after they performed the single on 'The Voice' last year. The video is simply incredible!
This song about an unbelievable love affair is a duet with Ne-Yo and has Dion reverting to type with a trite ballad that vows their love will "go down in history," but their voices do meld soulfully. The tune is soulful, modern and subtle with palpable R&B undercurrent and cheesy heart-felt lyrics. Apart from the first verse, "The whole world is watching us now/ Since there's no way to come down," the entire four minute single seems to be a variation on the song's chorus, "Let's make them remember. Using one word incredible... We'll go down in history, they'll describe our love as incredible."
While "Incredible" is about a couple's love, the video is clearly meant to inspire. Filmed in Los Angeles by director Zach Merck, both at night and during the day, the montage of different segments is meant to offer something for everyone. As the four minute short simply features Dion and Ne-Yo appear to feign some good chemistry and prove a perfect pair as they grip their hands tightly with their eyes close while singing the word "incredible." The duo spend most of the video belting out the track atop a building's rooftop, overlooking downtown Los Angeles, interspersed with footage of real-life people showing off their incredible talents.
A young girl singing the lyrics as well as a woman wowing her peers with her break dancing and a football player who just won't quit as well as a misplaced giraffe on the loose wandering around the city. This gives the Canadian diva ample opportunity to power grab for her life and make iconic faces, while her duet partner looks on sheepishly. That scene is intercut with footage of real-life heroes and a giraffe taking a leisurely stroll. "Incredible" is the highlight of Dion's underrated "Loved Me Back To Life" LP and deserves more attention from pop fans. Watch the pair in action after the jump.

OneRepublic debut indescribable music video for their brand new single, the Adele-esque "Love Runs Out," features African-inspired dancing, fireworks and multiple Ryan Tedders. According to frontman, the hard-hitting pop-soul song was originally going to be the first single from OneRepublic's third studio album, "Native," but he couldn't quite finish the chorus and eventually shelved the swamp-rock anthem altogether. The hitmaker happily found the time to fix it up for the deluxe edition of the album, and it's currently shooting up iTunes.

This catchy rock tune is the follow up to OneRepublic's "Counting Stars." Tedder ahead of the band's Colorado appearance he told us of "Love Runs Out," "I put on headphones, and I didn't have any of the verse lyrics really fleshed out. I walked through Amsterdam for two and a half hours, and I would type in my iPhone when a line or a word would come up." He added. "It took me about a year, and we finished it in Paris."

"Love Runs Out" features their classic singing talent with the promise to do anything for you, "till the love runs out," that is, until forever. The Meaning of "Love Runs Out" is love being the maximum. OneRepublic promises to be "your man," "your light, your match, your burning flame" And they want to swear by the most important thing in life, "if you ever doubt" the sincerity of that promise. They list all the things anyone could swear by "for God, for fate, For love, for hate, For gold, and rust, For diamonds, and dust." OneRepublic swears by love - loving "till the love runs out." Since love is endless, their promise is eternal. The song is just about emotions, and a fleeting promise, nothing else.

Packed with crazy visuals, the Sophie Muller-directed clip is a highly conceptual affair filmed entirely on on a soundstage with a green screen in front of some sort of saturated Instagram filter backdrop of moving clouds in a fake desert, a plastic sea, a troupe of traditional dancers and some frantic tambourine work. The band dance and sing with horses, big drums, and Tedder plays the tambourine, cavorting with an elderly lady holding down the piano line, and a group of tribal dancers performing on the sand. Flashes of images and symbols run through the video - it doesn't have a plot and the treatment doesn't quite suit the song, but everybody represents something to give a meaning to the video.

Jack White grooves, burns rubber, explodes guitar in the stylish black-and-white new clip for "Lazaretto," the scorching first single and title track from White's new sophomore solo album, drops next week. The record takes its name from the quarantine stations built for maritime travelers between the 15th and 19th centuries. No modern rock star does eccentric as convincingly as Jack White and so he delivers exactly what is expected with his new clip, directed by French pair Jonas and François and features White shredding the song's riffs while surrounded by broken glass and flames.

"Lazaretto" is a hippity-hoppity garage cut - the closest White comes on this disc to evoking the thump and crunch those dang Black Keys sometimes get with the help of Danger Mouse. He delivers the lyrics in rap-attack mode, this time closer to the slam-poet style of Saul Williams. And while this aggressive approach as an instrumental element itself makes for the catchiest song in the collection, the hip-hop harp ultimately draws one's attention back to the lyrics. White's latest single, "Lazaretto," is full of chaotic groove, and now it's been paired with an equally insane music video.

Everybody knows White is a guitar god, but "Lazaretto" is dominated by the low-end. The Nashville rocker keeps finding new, old ways to start the adrenaline pumping. Early on in the clip, the multi-instrumentalist plugs in his bass and nestles into a funky riff, as psychedelic synth leads sparkle between heavy drum fills. White spends much of the video mugging for the camera, cranking out one an ear-busting guitar solo midway through. It is a work of postmodern art, hitting all the hallmarks of the genre: ironic, referential and highly staged. Those attributes, are a delight to watch.

The gravity-defying clip opens with a guitar pick flying through shards of shattered glass and the whiplash visuals only get more eye-popping from there. The b-shots give us a collection of outsiders, reflective of White's perceived image of himself. We get snakes, shattered glass, explosions, speeding cars, a raging bull bull and a tattoo of the Third Man Records boss himself. But as with the old-fashioned rock'n'roll and the country-twanged fiddle of the song itself, damned if those familiar pieces don't fit together into something exhilarating. The climax - a guitar shattering into a million pieces - is the true highlight.

The Fray really push their imagination in the music video for "Break Your Plans," the official second single from the American alternative rock band's latest album, "Helios." The guys of The Fray have been making music together for over a decade, and the band's frontman Isaac Slade has a way of pouring emotion into every song he sings. In "Break Your Heart," The Fray return to their The Fray-esque sounding piano ballads. The intimate performance was the perfect setting for Slade to showcase his trademark vocals, which sound as raw and real as ever as he elongates and emphasizes each note on the heartfelt track, "Break Your Plans."

How do you move on so fast? You meant to break up, maybe there was never any chance anyway. Maybe it's all gone. But wait! What if you don't? We can try again. Don't break up. Break your plans instead. The Fray "Break Your Plans" meaning is a second chance for love. It might seem your relationship would never work. It might seem like it could not last. But love doesn't depend on "fate." All that counts is what comes next. Why not try again? Slade does two things that men in tearing relationships often don't do: one, he stops being afraid to ask for healing and to state his feelings. Two, he doesn't promise it'll be easy. He admits there's no guarantee we'll make it. He just asks you to try.

The group delivers a moving, stripped-down performance that highlights the meaning of the lyrics, which tell of a desperate longing for a loved one to stay. "We wanted to capture the moment right before a couple parts ways, where everything is pointing to the split," Of the track, Slade notes, "and one of them suddenly gets this fire-almost out of nowhere. Maybe it's the feeling of the other just starting to leave, maybe it's a moment-in-time but suddenly there's fight left, and they go for it."

"Break Your Heart" is a moving ballad, as usual very well sung by Slade, and the clip, directed by Marcus Herring and Bill Fishman, is just as moving. Its plot, however, is "something different." And by the different, we mean CRAZY. A fisherman makes his way to the vast ocean on his boat for a day of laidback fishing. He gets his prize, but it's not a big fish... it's a SIREN. The two fall in love, go for a swim, kiss but suddenly, the good-looking fisherman starts feeling bad, and noticing scars in his body after checking him out in a mirror. The SIREN sees how her man falls into the water and turns into a SHARK. Oh, my, god.

Brand new bubbly R&B girl group Love Dollhouse is here to kick summer off a little early! Armed with their addictive debut single, "Can I," the ladies are ready to get you pumped for fun in the sun. It's been a while since a new R&B girl group broke big, which is odd because the '90s and early '00s were littered with iconic all-female acts like Destiny's Child, En Vogue, TLC and SWV. There is, however, some hope on the horizon in the form of Love Dollhouse - a Urban pop trio of teenagers from Detroit with a killer debut single.

Reminiscent of the girl groups who stormed the '90s era, Love Dollhouse brings with them a funky new groove set to catch the attention of the masses. Although running into a few member changes along the way, the teenage trio - Jasmine, Ryan-Destiny, and Chelsea Stone - seem to be a perfect fit for showing off what they have to offer. Combining lush vocals, an infectious beat, and lots of girl power, Love Dollhouse strike with fresh and festive old-school R&B/Soul production perfect for this summer.

Written by Claude Kelly and produced by Jon Jon Traxx, "Can I" is a smooth slice of timeless pop-R&B-infused pop gem with an infectious chorus and the kind of lush, layered harmonies you just don't hear on the radio anymore. The infectious song definitely has a fuzzy throwback vibe that evokes the great girl bands that went before them. With a pinch of Motown here and a dash of TLC there, "Can I" is perfect introduction to Love Dollhouse's lush, elastic harmonies, slinky hooks, and soulful grooves. Lyrically, the song upends the male/female dynamic by putting the girl in the power seat.

The Erick White-directed fun and flirty clip, takes it back to the 90's from the cutaway dance scenes to the vintage bicycles and random graffiti, features Californian sunshine, rooftops, a pretty decent looking party, and captures the exhilarating, anything-is-possible vibe of a summer filled with friends, parties and new romances. The Detroit Urban pop trio perform some cute choreography but mostly just kick back and sing their hearts out trying to gain the affection of the men who caught their attention while strutting their stuff and cruise through L.A. The video is a blend of a 90's style hip hop music video with new age technology and style mixed into it. Watch the girls in action below.

Charli XCX, who recently scored her first U.S. No.1 thanks to Iggy Azalea's "Fancy," has premiered the Amsterdam-set music video via MTV.com for her solo new song "Boom Clap," which is the British pop singer's contribution to the soundtrack of "The Fault in Our Stars." It's an appropriate choice for the unorthodox love story between Hazel Grace (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort). The romantic comedy-drama film adaptation of John Green's best-selling novel follows the lives of two cancer patients as they fall in love, suffer, and celebrate together.

It's about time for Charli to have a huge hit under her own name. The mastermind behind Icona Pop's "I Love It" is currently atop the Billboard Hot 100 as the scene-stealer on Iggy Azalea's The New Classic single "Fancy," but this "SuperLove"-worthy electro-pop burst sees her back on her own. Instead of an emotional love song, this upbeat, '80s-sounding pop hit is more of a toe-tapping love anthem than a tear-filled ballad. "The scene that ['Boom Clap'] is in is an uplifting moment in the film, Charli explained to Billboard magazine. "And while the song itself is very euphoric and enthusiastic about romance… it's about wanting to fall in love, but there's this hint of sadness in that, which I like."

The 21-year-old singer-songwriter shot the video in Amsterdam, where "The Fault in Our Stars" was partially filmed in too. Interspersed with dramatic footage, cartoonish scenes and snippets from the movie, the "Boom Clap" clip goes between colorfully doodled-around shots and features Charli enjoying herself and traipsing around the city while wondrous graphics frame her face, as the Brit croons while riding on a boat, gets lost in a sea of bikes, walks the streets, and poses on various canal bridges. The ending of the video - the pop singer strolling off down the sidewalk - is presumably more upbeat than the ending of "The Fault In Our Stars."

The singer-producer's video is one of these soundtrack videos that haphazardly alternates movie footage with footage of its star. But the video still has a ton of Charli dancing around Amsterdam and looking mad charismatic. If "boom clap" is "the sound of my heart," as the True Romance-r belts out here, she shouldn't be alone in that particular cardiac condition. By the way, although "Boom Clap" hasn't been sent to radios, not it's charting high on iTunes presently, it will presumably appear on the U.K. singer-songwriter's sophomore LP, due out later this year.