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Lana Del Rey's "Ultraviolence" video is nothing like what Stanley Kubrick or "A Clockwork Orange" author Anthony Burgess, who coined the term the singer used for the title of this song and her album, could have dreamed up. Instead, it's an innocuous bridal fantasy, in which Del Rey wanders around outside in a low-cut wedding dress trudging through the woods, wistfully and sensually singing the lyrics to her track. The soft-focus lighting and the 29-year-old singer carries a look that suggest her thoughts are in some distant place, and the visual has a grainy look it and gives off a haunting and eerie vibe.
The laconic, string-laden torch song finds Del Rey exploring the close distance between love and pain. Far from just a casual "A Clockwork Orange" reference, the ultraviolence that Del Rey is singing about is between a husband and wife, and many feel that lines like, "He hit me and it felt like a kiss" serve to glorify domestic battery. The violins, lightly thumping drums and Del Rey's angelic singing gave the song a church-y feel, pointing out that the track presented her title sound.
The song's eerie, controversial title was inspired by Del Rey's connection to the seemingly conflicting emotions of aggression and softness. She explained: "I like that luxe sound of the word 'ultra' and the mean sound of the word 'violence' together. I like that two worlds can live in one." "I like a physical love," Del Rey added. "I like a hands-on love. [Pauses.] How can I say this without getting into too much trouble? I like a tangible, passionate love. For me, if it isn't physical, I'm not interested."
The Francesco Corrozzini-directed direct clip was shot entirely on the iPhone in soft-focus colors and appears to capture the singer's dream state, in its depiction of Del Rey wandering down an overgrown path that's maybe meant to symbolize a long, long walk to a groom? However, on the way to the alter, the enigmatic songstress does stop to suck on an orange and the fingers of a male companion, which almost looks like an orgasmic experience for Del Rey. When she arrives to the alter, no one is in the church except her, leaving her to have one sad wedding day. Poor Lana.

Hilary Duff finally returned to the music business with the release of her long awaited comeback track, "Chasing the Sun," and its accompanying music video. "Chasing the Sun" is the first cut off of Duff's upcoming fifth studio album. Due out in the coming months, the record, has an "earthy, indie-pop vibe," will be the multihyphenate's first in seven years! Are you in serious need of a summer getaway? Well, cue up the 26-year-old's new video as Duff opts for some good, silly fun and spends her hours imagining herself in her beloved sun.
"I took a break from music for quite awhile, but it gave me the power to choose my next steps carefully and I'm really proud of the album I've made," Duff said of her comeback via a press release. "'Chasing The Sun' is a light and fun summer song that I hope helps people to feel a little more carefree." The upbeat, catchy tune, co-written by Colbie Caillat, has a beachy, summery lilt and tells you to go with the flow, live life to the fullest and all those other sun-soaked cliches. It shows a more mature side to the singer, without completely abandoning her roots.
Backed by a simple guitar strum, the breezy return to form recalls Metamorphosis-era HilDuff at her most earnest and summer-iest. As suggested in recent interviews, the reggae-infused, straight-outta-2003 song steers clear of the electronic/dance sound of 2007's "Dignity," instead diving into folkier-type territory. "I'm chasing the sun/ Won't miss out on the fun/ Gotta get it while our hearts are young," the former Lizzie McGuire actress repeatedly crooning across the cheerful pop track.
The sunny visuals for the single are equally bubbly. It shows Duff as a frustrated office worker who fantasizes about the outside world - a sunny getaway. her daydreaming takes her to a sandy beach where she frolics in a bikini while lying in the sand and getting a sun-screened rubdown from a hot male companion she spots in the pages of a magazine. Eventually, she begins to re-enact her daydreams in real life, causing havoc between the other office workers. After a freak accident almost leads to her throwing a hamster ball with the hamster in it, she ends up being fired and taking her stuff back home.

The Romanian dance queen INNA is ready to strike back the music scene with fresh new music. One year after the release her latest studio album "Party Never Ends," and following the release of her latest single "Cola Song," the singer released the new video of her brand new danceable, club-ready single titled, "Good Time." The uplifting song is the second official single of her upcoming fourth studio album, "Soy LatINNA," scheduled to be released this summer, and it's featuring the guest vocals of the summer hit making machine Pitbull.
It's the second time that the two artists collaborated. Remember dance diva and rapper joined forced with a song "All the Things," included in the re-issue of the rapper's latest album, "Global Warming: Meltdown." The sound of "Good Time" is definitely new territory for INNA. It's a departure from her more 'housey' beats and she returns rather closer to the 90s dance sound, and totally out of her so distinctive Romanian eurodance style. For the first time, she risks with something totally different than what we might expect.
Pitbull is definitely going to give the song exposure, and the beat in the chorus of "Good Time," is so addictive, bubbly, and will instantly put you in a good mood. You just know DJs will have “Good Time" on full blast throughout this whole summer across clubs in Europe. "Good Time" is so irresistibly catchy, it's impossible not to shake your body to it. And it exactly makes you want to do the 'hand' routine INNA does in the lyric video, which was released three weeks ago and shows the fit Romanian performing a non-stop choreography with two female back-up dancers against a grey backdrop. We believe that INNA's now found her bona-fide summer hit!
The new music video, isn't too far away from the lyric video's concept, is full of dance moves. Against colorful backdrops, INNA and a set of dancers will dance like there's no tomorrow in front of literally thousands of cameras. INNA changes outfits multiple times in the video, wearing wigs, helmets and even looking super 'comfy' in red Adidas sweatpants. The best thing about the lyric video was the cute hand-choreography done in the chorus, and thankfully, realizing this, INNA decided to kept the same choreography in the official video.

It's summertime, if you're hankering early for parties, beaches, and pools, and looking for your special summer anthem to get you in the mood, here's a new video that might just do the trick. Southern California-based rapper T. Mills released the music video for the super-catchy "All I Wanna Do," the title track off his EP. As you'll soon realize from the video, the 25-year-old's fun ode to drinking, having a good time and a sunny beach, is the perfect element to get the party started as the temps heat up!
The EP's titular track wastes no times introducing the world to the latest evolution of Travis 'T' Mills. He's come a long way from the days of "Stupid Boy," and this track perfectly showcases the direction he's now headed with high-gloss production and an almost entirely rap-free pair of verses. There is still a smooth flow to everything, but the attitude found on Thrillionaire and everything before it has been replaced with a sound fit for radio play. "All I Wanna Do/ Is just have a good time/ just a have a good time / yea baby," he sings. The depth of Mills' latest effort is equal to that of a puddle on a hot July afternoon, but no one ever said great pop music required an emotional catharsis.
"Go For It All" further reveals the new Mills. His rhyme game is back on the verses, but the overall feel of the track is very much mainstream. Think B.o.B. during his "Airplanes" days, only slightly more directed toward female fans. Mills wants ladies to know he not only loves them, but he believes in them and all their dreams. He wants them to know they can do whatever they put their mind to, and he is going to be there to support them no matter what. It's not necessarily my cup of tea, but it will likely go over like gangbusters with his younger audience. Those looking for someone they can shares their dreams with will no doubt take comfort in Mills' enchanting wordplay.
The rise of Mills has been unlike any other in recent memory, and "All I Wanna Do" is further proof he is destined for big things in the not too distant future. His first releases seem like child's play compared to the quality and anthemic nature of this material, but it's also largely a departure from the sound that helped build his brand. I'm not sure fans will embrace the change as fast as the execs at Sony probably would like, but with the right marketing campaign 2014 could quickly become a very exciting year for Mills and his ever-growing bandwagon of followers. Check out the John Colombo-directed video below.

When you think of frequent Scandinavian collaborators Röyksopp and Robyn, you probably imagine thumping club beats, or maybe even lighter, more ballad-like fare. Point is, you might not expect the Norwegian Electronic music duo and Swedish singer team to score the music of a revolution. But in their latest video for "Do It Again," they do. In black-and-white cinematography that recalls silent film, the song features a quartet of scenes showing different people rebelling against tyranny, and follows a group of rebels storming a castle, a pair of lovers on the floor, and a woman struggling out of a hospital bed.
"Do It Again," the lead single and the title track of "Do It Again" EP, is a throbbing electropop song on which Robyn contemplates resuming an on-again, off-again relationship, while incorporating fluttering synths and slamming drums. Röyksopp and Robyn wrote the track after an epic night out of partying in Bergen, Norway, resulting in what the trio calls an accidental pop song. Robyn recalled to The Sun: "We were thrown out, but all these simple ideas were tossed together, about wanting more. And it turned into that track."
Röyksopp and Robyn's buoyant "Do It Again" may be the perfect track for a carefree night out, but the video... well, it's a little heavier than that and will make you want to start a riot! A theatrical six minutes long, the visual is the story of a rebellion - a story of defiance meant to inspire you to do more than dance. But despite the weight of it all, there's still sex, there's still romance, and there's still plenty of dancing. This is still Robyn, after all. Speaking with Dazed & Confused magazine, who premiered the clip, Danish director Martin de Thurah said the clip, was shot in Mexico, is meant to capture the pursuit of something unattainable. "The stories we worked on and the world we created was much more interesting and captivating than just to focus on (the artists') performance," he said, in putting "Do It Again" to film. "I worked with the idea of 'what is our heart's desire?' and I realized that no one in the world truly gets to live out their passions. We are all under some construct, whether you're an atheist living in Denmark or a gay person in Russia."

Following the release of her latest single "Cherry Pop," the Romanian dance/pop singer and model Alexandra Stan doesn't rest at all and she has ready another one called "Dance," as the third promotional track from her upcoming sophomore album and possibly the first international (specifically the U.S.) one. Burst onto the scenes with her international smash dance hit "Mr. Saxobeat," the 25-year-old Euro-dance vocalist has ditched experimenting with K-Pop and gone back to the sensual sexy sounds of the saxophone.
This time the singer returns to a more pop sound with electronic touches and the famous sax, slightly softened, and Stan moves away from the K-Pop experiment used in "Dance” and gone back to the sensual sexy sounds of her famous saxophone. It sounds more of K-pop with electronic touches and the song's beat is reminiscent of Ke$ha's "Die Young" meets Stan's very own "Mr. Saxobeat." It has a catchy melody to it that will just inspire her fans and listeners to get up and dance.
The lyrics start out rebellious yet they turn into positive and optimistic. "In my dreams you're falling, you're falling, you're falling down, I'm breaking, I'm breaking your rules, I really believe you can try and change your ways," Stan sings. "By the time you'll know I'm gonna take your hand, Won't let you go, We'll lose our mind, We'll lose our mind." I love how it ends subtle, with Stan singing the closing lyrics backed by acoustic guitar, displaying her honey-rich voice. "Why don't you dance dance dance, And fall in love with friends, let's start a new romance," she sings.
"Dance" is a fun little track (albeit safe) with an equally enjoyable visual. The Khaled Mokhtar-directed steamy video is pretty straight forward. It shows the Romanian dance queen, who is a gymnast/dancer/boxer, can't help but "Dance" and lets body language do the talking with her extremely toned body in an array of unitards while vamping it up for the entire 3:41, as Stan dancing and moving her body to the cheerful beat of "Dance," while different people dancing it out to this K-pop styled jammer exceptionally well. It reminds me of early Kylie! Check out the video below.

When we last saw Bea Miller, formerly known as Beatrice at the time, she was sobbing her little eyes out on a Thanksgiving-night elimination episode of The X Factor USA Season 2. (Worst. Thanksgiving. Ever.) But now, a little less than two years later, Miller finds herself with much to be thankful for. Now, the 15-year-old sensation gets all teen-angsty in her brand new video for "Young Blood," the lead single and title track from her debut album and debut EP. No need to fear the wolves at night... it's just Miller and a group of kindred spirits out on the prowl.
The Instagram sensation and the gravelly-voiced teen made enough of an impression to land a record deal with Hollywood Records, in conjunction with Simon Cowell's Syco label. Not that she's your typical reality-show singer or  Disney diva. The 15-year-old worships The Pretty Reckless, recorded her debut EP full of relatively rebellious pop/rock anthems burning up iTunes and is an outspoken LGBT advocate (she was raised by two awesome moms). And she proved she really does have the "X factor," even if it won't be long before she's made a name for herself outside of Cowell's old show.
Miller wanted to empower the teens who will rule the world when taking about "Young Blood," which has a rebellious edge that representative of what she's about? "It's very dark, but, like I said with the actual song, it's kind of a balance of light and dark. It's weird. I actually saw the rough edit. There are going to be so many more rough edits, but I saw it yesterday, and there's a lot of jump cuts and quick movements but there are also slow moments. It has kids laughing and then kids screaming and crying... it's kind of a balance all of these emotions."
Like the song itself, it makes sense then that the clip would be a fairly gritty affair. Directed by Mark Pellington, the atmospheric video was filmed in what appears to be an abandoned warehouse and finds Miller and a bunch of equally pained-looking teens in an extremely emo mood. It's a great fit for the catchy and surprisingly stirring anthem. "The song has darkness and light within it, which I think is really cool and representative of kids," Miller explained. "We're the future, and we can do whatever we want because someday this world will be ours. Literally, it will be because we will be the adults who are in charge some day."

Funk it up! Pharrell Williams acts as a photographer at a fashion shoot in the just-released music video for his new funky single, "Come Get It Bae," and like its predecessor mega-hit "Happy," it's chock-full of fun, funky moves. It also features a cameo from none other than twerking Miley Cyrus, who only takes a few seconds for the pop star to flash her famous asset, once she joins the booty-shaking fun while providing guest vocals on the song. This isn't the first time the duo have worked together, Williams also produced "4x4" and "#GETITRIGHT" for Cyrus' "Bangerz" album.
The overwhelmingly catchy "Come Get It Bae," is the third single from Williams' chart-topping album, "G I R L." It serves as an innuendo for sex through the metaphor of a motorcycle, a recurring theme throughout "G I R L." The "Bae" is short for "Before Anything Else," or alternatively another way to say babe or baby. This song finds Cyrus supplying some backing vocals to Williams' melange of sexual metaphors. He explained to The Sun: "I wanted her on that song as I love her tone. It just felt good and that's it and I wanted to make music with people who feel."
The Luis Cerveró-directed video's concept is a simple affair with jam-packed with youthful, lovely dancing ladies. The producer basically films a Dove advertisement and begin with a much more female-friendly message: "Beauty has no expiration date." From there, it goes on to show various models twerking and dancing some hand-clapping choreography suggestively to the super fun and joyous jam in a large dance studio filled with mirrors, as Williams films them on a Super 8 camera and opted for one of his omnipresent hats along with ripped jeans and a denim shirt over a white tee.
Cyrus crashes in on the fun mid-way through the crazy colorful video to sing her verses, with the kind of look we've come to expect from the singer by now. Wearing a goofy outfit - cutoff denim short jean shorts, a midriff-baring white crop top, a varsity jacket of sorts, and high-top sneakers, Shockingly, she doesn't twerk, leaving that task to one of the models instead, but she does stick out her extremely long tongue, mug for the camera, and bust a few some goofy moves with skateboard Williams. Pop a wheelie, and blast this to while away your Hump Day.

British drum 'n' bass production duo Sigma, also known as Cameron Edwards and Joe Lenzie, who made headlines with their chart-topping hit single, "Nobody To Love," a rework of Kanye West's "Bound 2," which soared to the top of the charts in eight countries, is back with a music video for their new jam "Changing," featuring the fiery vocals from the talented Paloma Faith, whose soulful jazzy gospel vocals blend perfectly with Sigma's drum 'n' bass production, and the energy on this track is raw, and refreshing.
"Changing" is an epic storming dance cut given a powerful edge via Faith's booming, gospel-like, full orchestral sound, and the strings that fill the track throughout. The track is the first collaboration between raspy soul singer Faith and D&B superstars Sigma, as their sounds are complete opposite, but this has been a pleasant surprise, as Faith's vocals totally work with Sigma's signature drums and bass. "Changing" will be include Sigma's upcoming debut album, due in stores later this year via 3Beat/All Around the World Records. "Changing" was premiered on BBC Radio 1 during Annie Mac's July 11 show, and six days later, here's the accompanying promo!
Filmed in Miami's colorful back streets, the song's music video finds various acts heading to Miami as Faith exploring the streets of downtown Miami while performing the track in the backstreets of the Florida city before meeting up with Sigma's Edwards and Lenzie. It's a pretty simple video, but it really didn't need more. The summery vibe - anything filmed in Miami is summery - matches the upbeat sound of "Changing," although the song is more about a relationship going sour, hence the music video theme should be a more gloomy but whatever.
The 33-year-old Faith looks flawless and edgy as she cruises down the Little Havana neighborhood in a Cadillac, gets together with Sigma in front of a graffiti-filled wall, and belts her heart out the "Changing" notes sat on a house porch, with the track itself a brilliantly euphoric spring led drum and bass number which is sure to soundtrack radios, festival tents and pretty much everywhere else over the rest of the summer.

Bastille have premiered a very beautifully haunting music video via MSN.com for their latest track, "Oblivion," the eighth and final single from the British quartet band's debut album "Bad Blood." The indie-rock ballad "Oblivion," is endlessly mysterious and now we have a perfect visual companion, which stars 18-year-old actress Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark in the HBO TV series "Game of Thrones," adapted from George R.R. Martin's novels.
Smith is a storyteller and a magnificent musician, and his music is a thrilling example of what great pop music can achieve. The beautiful part about "Bad Blood" is that it is both entirely predictable yet completely disarming. The exploration of any and all sounds; the delicate use of strings to heighten emotion, the touching piano-based "Oblivion." There are moments, instruments, timings, buried within his experimentation that take you entirely by surprise.
This is never more evident than in "Oblivion," which features little more than a piano and Smith sounding for all the world like he's standing in a desert staring at the night sky as he mournfully proclaims, "When oblivion is calling out your name/ You always take it further than I ever can." Smith and Bastille really deliver, ranging earworm choruses across the album. There's something 80s about the heart-swelling melodies of "Oblivion," but only because they evoke a-ha and Tears for Fears in their determination to be both catchy and muscular.
Beginning with Turner sitting in a room alone listening to "Flaws," a previous "Bad Blood" single, the Austin Peters-direvted clip follows Turner as she enters the middle of an empty rodeo arena. Going up to the microphone in front of an audience, Turner opens her mouth miming the lyrics to "Oblivion" and Smith's voice comes out before getting into her car to race at a very strange competition. It's a very simple video but the simple-ness really makes a good match with the deep ballad. the clip is a very simple and diverts from traditional "storytelling" and focuses more on provoking an emotional reaction, whatever that may be.

As a singer breaking into the business, going viral is typically an exciting time. But Virginia Beach native-turned-Brooklyn, N.Y. resident Catey Shaw might have a different attitude when it comes to her new "Brooklyn Girls" single that's quickly sweeping across the Internet. Entertainment Weekly calls it "the most hated song on the internet right now;" The Cut calls it "The anthem nobody wanted," while Gothamist says "This 'Brooklyn Girls' video will make you want to move back to Ohio." Shaw's music video for "Brooklyn Girls" has spread quickly.
Shaw channeled Katy Perry's "California Girls" to pen "Brooklyn Girls," an ode to the combat boots-wearing, Jay Z-adoring, brownstone-loving women across the East River. The indie pop hit's upbeat tempo and repetitive lyrics effortlessly loop like a merry-go-round tune, and this aggressively poppy pop song meant to capture the zeitgeist of the borough and stereotypes a certain type of Bushwick female with blue dip-dyed hair and contrived toughness, dancing in front of graffitied warehouses. If you love Shaw's sound, her upcoming record, "The Brooklyn EP," will be out on September 9.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Shaw described the beginning of her love affair with Brooklyn. "I landed in Brooklyn a little over year ago and immediately noticed a difference in the residents, as well as a difference in myself," she said. "It's undoubtedly part of the New York City from the movies, but has more of a neighborhood feel. If the city is four-on-the-floor, then Brooklyn is a syncopated kick drum. There's really just nothing like it." After she moved, the inspiration for the song came naturally.
Shaw knows all the cool, hip chicks reside in Brooklyn as she with blue, ombre locks hops around the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in her combat boots, playing her ukulele in a crop top and a Brooklyn Nets snapback. "Brooklyn girls, when they walk in, they rule the world. Brooklyn girls, tough and pretty, break the rules," the chorus continuously repeats as Shaw's video shows ladies with shaved heads, tattoos, piercings, while images of PBR and the romanticized L train flash in the background. But Shaw isn't actually singing about Brooklyn the place. She's singing about Brooklyn the adjective. She states: "The whole thing about a Brooklyn girl is you don't have to be from Brooklyn. It's more the whole idea of the strong female."

Releasing their haunting coming-of-age single, "Mother & Father" in earlier June, New Zealand siblings Georgia and Caleb Nott - also known as Broods - have now offered up the hypnotizing music video. It's a clip that is as spellbinding as the song itself. Shot in black and white, the visual shows flash close-ups of the angelic-faced duo as well as Georgia frivolously dancing to the song's profound melody.
New Zealand may be churning out a lot of pop stars this year (like Lorde!), but Broods has remained relatively low-key and musically different after releasing their self titled EP this past December. The Kiwi duo blissed us out with "Bridges" toward the end of 2013, followed it up with "Never Gonna Change" back in March, and now the brother-sister duo are keeping it in the family with newie familial track, "Mother & Father," the first taste of what's to come from their upcoming full length debut album, "Evergreen," out on August 22nd.
Nothing short of an emotional triumph, the melancholy new track speaks to the importance of family, which is understandable given the brother-sister bind that makes the Broods what it is. It's darkly menacing, but we still love our parents. On "Mother & Father," Broods sounds more comfortable and polished than ever. And it's a percussive, pulsing, electronic one, and a logical next step for the band. This tune will steal your heart with the stunning percussion and sentimental lyrics. This is truly the song to tug on those heart strings and send your mind careening into the warm sunset.
"Mother & Father" truly makes you want to hug singer Georgia. Prepare for a serious case of The Feels because it's strewn lyrically with the What Ifs we all combat in life. A low cry, synth-based beat trails along, creating perfect unison that is reminiscent of the brother-sister bond that created this band. Brother to Georgia and all round gun at musical instruments, Caleb makes sure "Mother & Father" is a robust ode to the synth. Broods keep things simple for their new "Mother & Father" video, but it fits perfectly with the dreamy, nostalgic quality of the single. Check out the video below, and prepare to be mesmerized.

Jason Mraz is back with a music video for the tender song "Love Someone," the lead-off single from the 37-year-old San Diego singer-songwriter's newly released fifth studio album, "Yes!" The 14-song release promised a purely acoustic and more intimate sound. The New Age-minded musician does believe that saying "yes" to other things can open an internal door to creativity, and he tries to say "yes" about things in his own life.
"Love Someone" isn't about a specific personal relationship; instead, the love in question is a more general feeling of being lucky, especially as relates to music. "When I let go in a song I feel like the mental chatter, anything that might show up as doubt or fear, that tends to fall away," Mraz says. "You just lock into one beautiful thing, which I feel is love, and when I sing to someone or with someone I feel that's giving the love away. You get it back in return with how amazing you feel." Mraz sure knows how to make love melodic.
He teamed up with the all-female eclectic rock-folk group, Raining Jane, for "Love Someone," and Mraz wrote it with the lady quartet while walking down a dirt road in Virginia with a small herd of goats. "We all grabbed an instrument and we're walking down the road just making things up," Mraz told Radio.com. "That's really what songwriting is. It's taking risks and making things up and seeing what sticks. It was an observation of how wonderful love is," he added. "When you give it away it comes back to you immediately. It really is what gives us life."
The clip truly captures what it means to fall head over heels for a life partner and the progression of a relationship from its early, carefree stages to the days when having that special person by your side. Zoom in on house at night, Mraz quietly strums on his guitar and backed by his flawless band of lady angels in all white while scenes of couples at varying ages flash on screen. The story follows a couple throughout their relationship and the great lengths it takes to maintain a special bond. Feel the joy, laughter, and tears - mixed with a whole lot of heart in the sweet video.

San Francisco-based melodic pop rock outfit Train is back to the music spotlight with the Western-themed music video for their brand-new track, "Angel In Blue Jeans," the lead single off Train's upcoming seventh studio album "Bulletproof Picasso," out September 16. "This entire album took a lot of blood, sweat and tears but we hope it will be looked at as our best to date," the band says in a statement. "'Angel' was the first song written for this one and we’re excited that it will lead the way to your ears and, hopefully, hearts."
"Angel In Blue Jeans" starts off as a mournful ballad that sounds like it could be the soundtrack of a Western film, but then picks up and turns into a mid-tempo rock song with a steady beat and a catchy "whoa oh oh oh" hook. Slow, but steady, the new track keeps frontman Pat Monahan's usual charm of nonsensical lyrics and themes up, with lyrics about "getting shot down by an angel in blue jeans." After being in the game as long as Monahan has, you figure he'd have run out of heartbreak to sing about, but as long as his misfortunes keep leading to great songs, we're not complaining.
Something bad is going down out in the West and Sheriff Train is in the middle of it all. Filmed in early-July and it was directed by Brendan Walter and Mel Soria, the western-themed gun-toting video, which features the Mexican-American actor Danny Trejo and Hannah Simone from "New Girls." As they braved the SoCal desert heat this summer, Trejo is Simone's knight in shining armor while Simone playing the song's titular angel in blue jeans, and Monahan as a nefarious, Tarantino-esque crooked sheriff who has done Trejo wrong by holding him at gunpoint in the desert and stealing his girlfriend Simone.
Here, Monahan plays a Trejo eventually hunts the band and his kidnapped better half down in an old dive bar, and that's when the fireworks begin. "This song to me and the video, they sound and look like a Quentin Tarantino vibe," Monahan told ET. "I'm a bad guy. I think my face is really good at being a bad guy and it's great 'cause Danny, who usually is a bad guy, ends up being the hero, which is super cool." And as expected in any western-themed video, guns are drawn and violence abounds. But at the heart of the video is the love story of the song, which certainly lends itself to the western video with a haunting melody, a plucking guitar, and, of course, Monahan's distinct voice.

Paris Hilton is really out of this world in her brand new music video for latest single, "Come Alive," the second single off her upcoming sophomore studio album. The 33-year-old entertainer has tried many different jobs in her multihyphenate career as a socialite-actress-model-singer-jewelry-designer, but it's hard to write off her music career as passing fling. It doesn't matter, though. Like it or not, she is still making music, and her new colorful video for “Come Alive” graced the Internet with its presence today.
"Come Alive" lives up to its title, as it offers a more mature aesthetic than previous Hilton offerings and in all seriousness, she's also showing growth as a vocalist this time around. "Come Alive" is carefree, fun, and a signature Hilton tune as she sings, "I just want to live in the moment!" There could not be a better cliché to strive for this summer. "Come Alive" is a love song and the insanely amazing clip matches the track's dreamy feel, making it anything but ordinary. The pink explosion aesthetic of the video could easily be confused for a razor commercial, but her clip, which of course features a flower blooming right around the climax of the song.
"It's all about love and how it makes you feel alive. So when I was coming up with the concept for the music video, I wanted it to be something that was very magical, ethereal, just very fantasy like, that's why I wanted to have a unicorn in it because I just think they're such beautiful, magical creatures," Hilton shared to E! about the Hannah Lux Davis directed video. Well, she definitely succeeded.
Filmed in Los Angeles, Hilton's "Come Alive" video is an absurd fairytale rave. Everything is the color of cotton candy as Hilton created an insane world filled with glitter, flower crowns and studded bikini tops. The heiress-reality star dons giant angel wings, a glimmering gown, and even dazzles the night in a blue bodysuit, while singing along while swinging on a romantic pink-flowered swing, lounging on pink clouds, and even next to a unicorn. This is either the type of stuff that made up our childhood dreams or Hilton's latest music video. If you guessed the latter, congrats; here's a rainbow lollipop. Call it Coachella on crack or Lisa Frank's private rave. Either way, this is not a drill.

And you thought your last breakup was tough? Lykke Li took her last breakup really, really badly. On the song "Gunshot," she compares a failed relationship to a bullet going through her head; for the track's brand-new music video, the Swedish singer dons some ghostly makeup and performs a parking lot mourning parade that ends with her face-down in the concrete, convulsing from imaginary gunshot wounds. The clip features some of the singer's most savage sentiments to date, and it is a stark and striking thing, and might be her most depressing music video ever.
Taken from her third album "I Never Learn," an onslaught of emotion about the ups and downs of twentysomething womanhood, this Greg Kurstin-produced searching power breakup ballad "Gunshot" finds an anguished Li longing to get her lover back. Speaking with NME, the Swedish songstress explained how the ending of a relationship had a major impact on the writing of her "I Never Learn" album. "I wrote 'Gunshot' straight after a meditation I had and the words just came out kind of violent words. So this is also the moment in, in a relationship where you've fucked up and some things you can never take back," Li says of the song. "I think that a lot of people can relate to that moment where it's just gone forever."
The 28-year-old Swedish singer has always been an artist's artist, establishing herself as more than a mere musician but an actual slave to some muse who only allows her to be creatively fueled at its whim. She has a reputation for being temperamental and difficult, but always those things in slavish devotion to best actualizing her art. In her latest music video for "Gunshot," Li finally lets her artistic side take over the visuals she creates. For the first time she is giving us a piece of performance art not based in any realistic depiction of the song or her actual persona.
Filmed in Paris and directed by Parisian duo Fleur and Manu, the clip finds Li in the middle of an urban wasteland. she looks like a wraith, with corpsepaint makeup and an ill-fitting trench coat, and she dances expressively across a burnt-out apocalyptic parking lot. There seems to be some kind of shantytown there, and she encounters colorful characters - bloodthirsty little kids, girls who seem to twerk compulsively, dirtbike trick riders - without seeming to notice any of them. Maybe the video is some kind of extended heartbreak metaphor, and maybe it all just looks cool. Either way, you can watch it below.

Our new favorite dance-pop singer Kiesza follows her number one single "Hideaway" with a new single "Giant in My Heart." It felt like Canadian pop belter came out of nowhere with her irrepressible and inescapable sound, and judging by its super-catchy follow-up "Giant In My Heart," she's here to stay. The Canadian songstress has now unleashed her a new wild accompanied clip for "Giant in My Heart," featuring a man who dresses up like a shimmering drag queen to watch her perform.
Kiesza has written music for Rihanna, Kylie Minogue and Icona Pop, and last week she put out her own debut EP, "Hideaway," on Island Records. It sounds right off '90s dance pop radio, but in the wake of Disclosure's breakthrough, that thumping bass also sounds pretty in-the-now. "Giant in My Heart," follows the same style of her soaring debut club throwback "Hideaway," mixing pop and deep house. It builds on the diva vocals and lose yourself-beat that made "Hideaway" a success, while the lyrics tackle the aftermath of a breakup. The perfect summer sound.
Kiesza has defied all expectations and dropped a massive tune as the follow-up to her international smash hit "Hideaway," proving that there is more to this new star than being a one-hit wonder. Picking up where "Hideaway" left off, "Giant In My Heart" once again sees the dance star plunder the 90s house scene for her beats, with subtle electronica pounding beneath her powerful, diva-esque vocals, before building to a seriously retro hook. All the while, Kiesza gives us another great dance sequence in theme with the song's '90s vibes.
Its video, on the other hand, is a definite departure from the visual clip for "Hideaway." Filmed on the streets of Williamsburg, the quirky new promo follows around a put-upon New Yorker who's living a double life: At first he seems like just another disgruntled 9-5er whose day is marred by the annoyances of working an unsatisfying and frustrated office job, but then we find out that he lead a very freeing, second life at nighttime, a fierce stiletto-wearing drag queen who goes to watch Kiesza perform in a club with his like-minded friends. By the end his two worlds collide, as if he's taken her lyric "just give me back the moments that we made" truly to heart.

MIKA travels through time in the newly-premiered music video for his catchy new track, "Boum Boum Boum," the lead (French) single from his yet-untitled forthcoming fourth studio album, which is expected to hit stores in early 2015 via Universal Music. (Yeah, MIKA likes to release his first singles well in advance!) Like a mini-action movie, the clip, literally spans across several centuries, while only being roughly four minutes long is chock full of Old West duels, duels in 1700s France, film noire intrigue, and modern day espionage.
This song, written by MIKA with the collaboration of Doriand, marks the return to the music spotlight for the Lebanese-British singer-songwriter after finishing the promotion of his latest album "The Origin of Love," released in 2012. The racy "Boum Boum Boum," for those non-French speakers, is about a couple that are so into each other that like to 'make love' everywhere possible. To make love is to do ‘boum boum boums.' Love, jealousy, guns and ultimately distaster in nearly every film genre, be it MIKA of Arabia, the Wild Wild West, a James Bond caper, or even gumshoe noir.
"This video was an epic two-day shoot in and around Almeria, Spain," director Jonathan Lia says. "We didn't want to make a literal translation of the lyrics, but rather create a world that was as if you put five of your favorite films in a blender to tell a loose narrative around the themes of sex and violence. The western and film noir vignettes were shot at Western Leone, where films such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars were shot. The fortress in Lawrence Of Arabia was an actual fortress called The Alcazaba in Almeria from the 10th century. The Bond vignette was shot at Hotel Cala Grande. The 1700's Revolution vignettes were shot in Guadix in a farm where they grow trees, hence the symmetrical nature of the forest."
The clip sees MIKA travels back in time and becomes the star of his own Clint Eastwood-esque western, complete with blanket poncho, Sergio Leone-style whistling and saloon bar piano. And that's just the start. He's a gunman in the Wild West, he channels Al Capone in the black and white scenes, he's a powerful Emirates royal, and he even fights in the Napoleon army in France! But not all is past, there a few 'present' scenes where we can see MIKA, sort of a James Bonds replica, who even has his lethal but beautiful female companion, running away from two enemies who try to eliminate him.

British techno-chanteuse Jessie Ware caught our attention two years ago as one of the freshest voices in alternative R&B with her elegant vocals and understated sound highlighted on her acclaimed debut album "Devotion." Since then, Ware hasn't done much on the music front, but now she is set to return with her as-yet-untitled sophomore album later this year and has shared the video for the new album's elegantly devastating first single, "Tough Love."
On Ware's earlier songs, she demonstrated a soulful style of downtempo pop. With "Tough Love," produced by BenZel, she experiments with even softer atmospheric textures and plays with the tonality in her voice. It's a warm new-age power ballad, one that's slow to build, but once it does around the three-minute mark, the song explodes into a gorgeous crescendo of buzzing synths against Ware's alluring vocals. "Tough Love" has ethereal, Kate-Bush-esque vocals, a crisp, Prince-ly beat, and enough thick, delicious bass to satisfy the fans who came to her via electronic artists like SBTRKT and Joker.
"Tough Love" is a convincing sign that Ware may actually outdo her first album with her next. Speaking about the track previously, Ware commented: "I had just finished a run of shows in the States and went to NY to work with BenZel for a couple weeks, mainly as a different focus to touring. I didn't have any expectations or pressures with what would come out of those two weeks, and think 'Tough Love' sums this up. It was me experimenting with my voice and having fun with it. It just felt right and kind of dictated the route of the next album, much like 'Devotion' did on my first album." Ware's lyrics were inspired by the trails of maintaining a long-term relationship with her fiancée while touring round the world. "It's not always easy being away from the person that I love so much, but I'm also doing something that I really, really love," she explained. "It's realistic that it's not always real easy."
Directed by BRTHR, the clip plays like a European experimental film from the early '70s. It matches that song's slow-burning aesthetic and seamlessly translates the song's gossamer vibes into visual form, which mainly means lots of shots of roses, lights and sees the London soul singer running through a sunny field and lying among purple flowers. The clip is full of ravishing golden-hour images of the back of Ware's head, film that changes from color to black-and-white, and close-up images of plant life and underwater faces. It's not an attention-grabbing video, or even a particularly notable one, but it's all arranged around the song, which still kills.

John Legend delivers a compelling message of acceptance, beauty and self love through various women in the music video for "You & I (Nobody in the World)," the fourth single, serves as the follow-up to his chart-topping ballad "All of Me," to be lifted off Legend's fourth album, "Love in the Future." Legend is known for making the hearts of women melt with his love songs. Think his "All of Me" took all the tears out of you? Think again. The delicate master of soul's newest simple-but-beautiful clip is as exquisite and heartbreaking (or heartwarming) as you'd expect.
The emotional number highlights various life occurrences in the everyday life of a female. In the song, the 35-year-old Legend is telling the woman in his life that he believes she is perfect just the way she is. The song lyrics read, "You fix your make up, just so, Guess you don't know, that your beautiful, Try on every dress that you own, You were fine in my eyes, a half hour ago." Adding, "All of the stars, they don't shine brighter than you are, Ain't nobody in the world but you and I."
Legend helps promote positive body image with the powerful and stirring video, which begins with a familiar scene. As he sits on his bed, waiting, supermodel wife Chrissy Teigan stares straight ahead as she tucks her hair behind her ears, as if in front of a mirror before this scene cuts to others of women of all races, ages and sizes with their respective flaws looking at themselves in the mirror and trying to adjust their already perfect selves. The video shows clips of women from all walks of life and taking in their reflection.
A cancer patient removes her wig, a topless pregnant lady shows off her belly, a woman trying on clothes, a young girl getting her ears pierced, a pregnant lady showing off her baby bump and another woman crying while removing her bra to reveal her mastectomy. "Orange Is the New Black" star Laverne Cox also stars in it and wiping off make up from her face. Some look dismayed by what they see, which is heartbreaking. Others look pleased, as if they can hear Legend sing his words of encouragement: "You were fine in my eyes, a half and hour ago." Their sad faces turn into smiling faces as they embrace their differences, flaws and all. Watch the celebration of individuality.

Colbie Caillat is back with a self-confidence anthem, "Try," off her "Gypsy Heart" EP, and an equally inspiring powerful new video to go with it. The 29-year-old fresh-faced Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter issues a powerful message of self-love when it comes to living up to society's standards of beauty. And the raw and emotional clip shows Caillat has opted to strip away the glamor and present herself and her friends as they really are without their makeup.
California singer wrote this super-empowering piano ballad with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, who inspired and urged her to vent her dissatisfactions in the industry when it came to pressures about how women look. The song contains a message of self-love aimed at females. "It's exhausting being a woman," Caillat told Billboard. "This song is not to say that we should never wear makeup, but to say that, sometimes, it's okay not to." she added "We wanted a song that was honest and vulnerable. We shot the video in reverse, we started bare, and by the end we finished with the full hair and makeup, and then reversed the film for the finished product."
In the clip, Caillat is tired of being Photoshopped as she and various other women of all shapes and sizes bravely remove their makeup to show acceptance of their God-given features and flaws. "Put your makeup on/ Get your nails done/ Curl your hair/ Run the extra mile/ Keep it slim so they like you, do they like you?" she sings as her and other air-brushed ladies flaunt their done-up hair and makeup. At first, I was a little taken aback. Wasn't this supposed to be about being your true self? Instead, what I saw was a cartoonized version of Mariah Carey in a Dove ad - smokey eyes, fluffy hair and a perfect complexion, all in front of a white backdrop.
But things started to take a turn for the optimistic around the 0:44 mark when we saw the women wiping off their makeup. Caillat takes part, too, removing her hair extensions, peeling off her fake eye lashes and revealing her natural look. "You don't have to try so hard/ You don't have to, give it all away/ You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up/ You don't have to change a single thing/ you don't have to try," she reassures, giving women a reason to love themselves, ending the video looking smiley and seriously at the camera. "Don't you like you? 'Cause I like you."

Florida Georgia Line release new single and video for "Dirt" and it's a bit of a change for the Country music's party-friendly duo as boys start thinking about settling down in the lead-off single from their upcoming sophomore album. A plot of land tugs hard on Tyler Hubbard's and Brian Kelley's souls in this pensive ballad, offering up its history and its future, its memories and its potential. The clip sees a love through the years and showcases a sweet love story that truly comes full circle. From being young, in love (and dirty) to one of the partners in the couple passing away, the video cherishes it all.
Florida Georgia Line have said their new single would be different and they weren't lying. "Dirt" show the guys' sentimental side. The heartfelt mid-tempo ballad veers the duo far from the rising popularity of bro-country they embraced with such songs as "Cruise" and "This Is How We Roll," while featuring Hubbard and Kelley celebrating a couple who create a life on a dirt field, raise their family, surround it with a white picket fence, and enjoy the good life right there on their own little plot of the American Dream.
Kelley says "Dirt" really touched him and fellow bandmate Hubbard. "We had goose bumps the first time we heard it. With most of our other singles, you don't have to think at all, it's a self-explanatory feel-good song," he tells People Country. "But this one makes you dig a little deeper, makes you think about your life and where you're at and where you want to be." The video  paints a similar image, couple epitomize the song and brings the song to life as it gives the song a nice narrative with noted songwriter-turned-actor JD Souther playing a husband eulogizing his wife, who has returned to the dirt.
The clip begins with Souther discussing the love of his life and why 1968 was such a meaningful year to him. "It was the first year that Rosie started bringing my lunch out to the field every day," he says. A young Rosie brings her farmhand boyfriend lunch before the two roll around in the mud. Then, it's their wedding day and he's chasing his young wife with the down-home mud on his hands. The couple proceed to have five children, one of which dies at birth. They teach their children the same value of a small town's dirt. Meanwhile, Florida Georgia Line sing their sentimental Southern song from a barn.

After finishing in third place on the U.S. X Factor in 2012, Fifth Harmony are back, they're sexier than ever, and they're making it perfectly clear to let everyone know who's "Bo$$." The girls - Camila Cabello, Normani Hamilton, Dinah-Jane Hansen, Ally Brooke, and Lauren Jauregui - gave fans exclusive access to the confidence-inspiring video a day earlier after Shazam'ing the premiere of their new track, which is the first off their upcoming debut album, scheduled to be released later this year via Syco and Epic Records.
"Shut your mouth/Boy I think you know who run this house," Fifth Harmony command in unison on their hard-nosed "Bo$$," an upbeat girl-power anthem that features the fivesome demanding your respect, showing off their confidence, and unabashedly getting exactly what they want. As the quintet name-drops the likes of Michelle Obama and Kanye West while exploring a theme of female empowerment over horn-filled beats. "The whole point of this song is for girls who are our age to turn it on and feel confident and empowered because at this age being insecure is such a normal, common thing," Cabello told MTV. "So I think when you turn that song on, feel sexy and feel good about yourself, so the whole point is about being yourself and liking it."
And in the music video, the X Factor girl group member once again prove that they mean business. "The concept for the video, it's very empowering and kind of defines 'Bo$$' in different settings," Brooke shared with MTV. "We have four or five different set-ups and each kind of represents us in our own element, us kind of owning that certain situation." She added, "As we grow, our music grows, and it's very natural and organic and it's nothing that's forced, which is really really important to us because we don’t want to just do something drastic just to do it. We want to do something that's more real to us."
Dressed in an all-black ensembles for the video, the girls bring their empowering song to life, as they were clearly on some "Michelle Obama ish," proudly displaying their sexy, confident attitude in each scene. Kicking over chairs in white jackets, beating dudes in arm-wrestling matches, shimmering during a photo shoot, it's all in a day's work for the Fifth Harmony ladies, who flash nary a smile while flaunting their independence as women. The choreography is on-point, and Fifth Harmony appears to be reaching a new level as a collective.

Foxes drops the creepy candy-coated music video for the title track to her debut album. The "Clarity" singer brings power and polish to her upbeat and danceable debut album about throwaway nights and wasted days, the foibles and rollercoasters of love, "love" and lurve, and swaps EDM for hammering tribal drums, dramatic orchestrations and powerful singing with genuine pop-gems with sun-baked choruses and enough bite to warrant repeated listens. For her new video, Foxes visits the town of Stepford - renamed by her to be the town of "Glorious," but the concept remains the same - shows us how the uppercrust lives.
Everything about this debut from Southampton singer-songwriter Louisa Rose Allen, better known as Foxes, strains to be huge. Though the album is formulaic and polished, there is enough crackle in its dark, lustrous soundscapes and tales of nocturnal romance to intrigue and Foxes' voice has the power to match those booming drums. It's been a long time coming, but Foxes has executed a surprisingly near-perfect album that remains cohesive without each song sounding like one another. Hitting the nail on the head, this album is very much a glorious effort.
Title track "Glorious," in short, is what it says on the tin. The melancholic faux-dubstep ballad truly stands out on the album and it's easy to see why the album shares its name with this song. Foxes' unique songwriting stands out yet again and also shows off her flare for writing a catchy melody. While it's impossible to fault "Glorious" in any way, it's best moment is the final minute where Foxes is joined by layer upon layer of backing vocals to belt out a heart wrenching lyric and melody combination to an epic crescendo.
Filmed in Spain, the retro-pastel clip about the glorious life at the country club finds Foxes at a summer dinner party surrounded by still people while she lounging poolside takes her time to liven up the party and sings over soaring instrumentals. The idea of animatronic, soulless suburban sprawl is artfully captured in these white-boarded houses and plush lawns. What is distressing is that our focal point, Foxes is hard to differentiate from the citizens of "Glorious," aside from her angst-filled lip synching. To call this country-club setting unsettling and sterile is definitely an understatement. It's simultaneously romantic and on the verge of social implosion.

The music biz can be a hard knock life, unless you have Jay Z in your corner. Now UK Roc Nation signee Alexa Goddard is ready to take the throne and poised to set the charts alight with a shiny new music video for her electro-pop debut single, "Marilyn." Dropping before she storms this years "Wireless Festival," the clip comes in aid of the zesty blonde singer's forthcoming new EP of the same name, recorded in Los Angeles and New York and due out August 17th!
Goddard, Jay Z's newest protégée doesn't want to be normal, she informs us on her debut single. She wants to be someone, like Marilyn Monroe. Lofty aspirations, for sure, but Goddard isn't some wide-eyed newbie who's just starting to daydream about fame and excess and the glamorous life. The 23-year-old Hampshire lass has been at it for a few minutes now, having done time as a YouTube sensation in the UK with over 40 million views, and featured on songs by Trans Siberian Orchestra and fellow British artist Wiley.
So here we are with "Marilyn," Goddard's first proper, major label single, is a tune about wanting to have a great life like Marilyn Monroe, the tragic film star's and it takes a few listens, but it's really quite (very) good. It's not going to revolutionize the pop scene in any way, shape or form, and in fact, the opening lyrics "Let's go down to Carnaby, get fucked up like we're royalty" veer a bit too close to the Shamelessly Borrowing From Lorde's "Royals" department. But all in all, "Marilyn" is a harmless pop track that might please the casual tween-aged radio listener or soccer moms looking for a slab of edginess to spice up their afternoon.
The accompanying music video, directed by Hannah Lux Davis, sees the British singer driving around Beverley Hills and hanging out at a traditional American diner. As Goddard using popular song tackling the topic of Marilyn Monroe, while sacheting around Los Angeles in a pastel-palette, fifties-fuelled haze. There's candyfloss, there's ice cream, there's a couple of tiny dogs - basically the whole thing is fun, flirty, fifties and filtered, and it makes us want to recreate every scene from Grease and chuck an Instagram filter over the whole thing.

The Saturdays continues preparing to launch of its upcoming retrospective compilation album officially called "Finest Selection: The Greatest Hits," including all of the band's single plus three extra songs and scheduled to be released on August 11 via Polydor Records. Now, British-Irish girl band strip down to their swimwear as they party up a storm on Greek island in a sunny new music video for their one of three new tracks on new album, "What Are You Waiting For?" and it's seriously going to make us wish we were on a girlie holiday.
Written and Produced by Xenomania, the song, served as the lead single off of the UK fivesome's upcoming greatest hits compilation was premiered on BBC Radio 1 on June 26th. It is a banging, blazing club cut perfect for summertime revelry. And so, what better than to have a video full of beach-y fun and poolside glamour? Filming took place on the Holiday Village resort in the gorgeously sunny Rhodes, Greece in late May, and all five girls jumping up and stripped down in sexy skimpy swimsuits as they soaking up the rays and partying whilst holidaying at on the sun soaked Greek island.
The clip kicked off with the five-piece taking to the winding roads in a jeep, while the picturesque beach also provides a fitting backdrop, and there are a lot of sunshine, smiling and bikini action going on, while showing off svelte and toned bodies that prove The Saturdays are every inch the perfect pop stars. The girls sit by an outdoor pool at the Holiday Village resort in Rhodes before casually hanging out on a yacht and in a jacuzzi.
Una Foden hair flipping and wears a black patterned number that accentuates her toned body; Rochelle Humes rocking giant hoop earrings in a red swimsuit; Frankie Sandford looking seriously fit in a monochrome swimsuit as she performs vocal duties while relaxing in the water with a fruity cocktail, and sultry bandmate Vanessa White is equally eye-catching in a snakeskin print bikini, while Mollie King shows off her slender frame in a vibrant red two-piece. In keeping with the catchy track's upbeat mood, the video also finds the band getting into the holiday spirit with a group of pals as the good times move from pool to boat where they dance on the top deck during a cruise around the stunning Greek island.

Just in time for the 4th of July, Kenny Chesney has released the colorful video for his summery new song, "American Kids," the lead single from his upcoming studio album, "The Big Revival," due out September 23rd. The new video, is as fresh and innovative as the song itself, shows the Country superstar out in the Southern California desert having fun and playing music with an eclectic group of carefree youthful friends letting loose in a crazy fun psychedelic school bus 'Partridge Family' style, which sets the tone for a lighthearted and spirited music video - the perfect imagery for an upbeat song.
The feel-good song celebrates the energy and spirit of youth across America with lyrics that are certainly sympathetic to the crazy-fun energy of being young and eager to cut loose. "There is so much more to being alive than partying, tailgates and bonfires," said Chesney. "It's every single detail of being young, growing up, remembering when, laughing about how, but especially knowing you can still do all those things! American kids are so much more complicated, more fun, more real and if there's anything about this song, beyond the rhythms, the hooks and the playing, that I love, it's the fact that it captures all the little things that life really is made of."
The 46-year-old singer once again worked with longtime director Shaun Silva for the clip, which celebrates what makes America's youth unique by featuring a cast of characters from all walks of life. "If I could create a video where it wasn't so literal, but more about the state of mind and the freedom my fans embrace, then to me, that's the best way to capture the song on film," Chesney said. "Anyone, everyone who's ever been glad they're alive... they'll take one look at this and know." The sense of freedom in the video goes along with what the song is all about with a fun, colorful ride.
There's dancing, tambourines, singing and a whole lot of fun happening throughout. Chesney shows off his younger and wilder side as he strumming a guitar while a group of young folks kicks up sand dancing around a custom-painted old bus that looks like it might have traveled to Woodstock back in the day. It isn't a clip with a storyline, but rather, a playful tribute to being young in America and a spirit and it's exactly what the singer had in mind. "The spirit of this thing - the song, the bus, the idea of the kids riding around, having fun, playing music and just celebrating life - makes you want to get involved," Chesney told Entertainment News.

Just in time for the 4th of July, Becky G is inviting you to cool off and captures the fun, buoyant feeling of summer love with her brand-new video for her new single, "Shower," the lead single off her upcoming still untitled debut studio album, which she says, like the "Shower" video, will be a whole lot "edgier" and "more grown up" than what you've come to expect from her. Becky is stepping up her game with every new single she puts out, and her latest song, "Shower," promises to be a serious contender for song of the summer.
Co-written with Dr. Luke, Rock City and Henry Walter, the pop-rap song finds Becky singing about how she's found a love so powerful that this guy make her sing in the shower every time. "We wanted to captures moments of feeling good, and me personally when I feel good is when I'm hanging out with friends or that special person," Becky shared with MTV while shooting the video in Los Angeles. "It's a party basically... You're going to have fun watching it because we are having fun making it."
The bubblegum pop track, with its catchy and quick clap-measured beat, also contains cute, feel-good lyrics that are irresistible to sing along to. Becky serenades her summer beau with, "You light me up inside /Like the 4th of July /Whenever you're around /I always seem to smile /And people ask me how / Well you're the reason why /I'm dancing in the mirror and singing in the shower." In an interview with Rolling Stone about what's the story behind "Shower"? Becky explained "Singing in the shower [laughs]. It didn't come to me when I was singing in the shower, but I am a shower singer and someone was making me feel some type of way about it."
And like the single itself is a rather easygoing joint with a peppy beat and "la-da-dees" sprinkled throughout, the newest visuals are equally carefree, showing her perky, upbeat tune visualized by all of the summer essentials - pool parties with good friends, barbecues with good food and summer romances with cute boys. The video also shows plenty of CoverGirl product placement and Becky actually getting into a shower (rain), getting her hair soaking wet and do wet-hair flips like only a true diva can do! "Going back to my previous music videos, it's all about my culture, the way I was raised and now people are going to see me growing up," the 17-year-old said. "It's really special for me."