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Maroon 5's frontman Adam Levine is getting seriously creepy in his band's new music video for "Animals," the second single from the American pop rock band's fifth studio album "V," and it features the typically likeable Levine hunting down and stalking his real-life wife, Victoria's Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo after a chance encounter.
Over a shimmering bass line and thumping drums, this Shellback-produced catchy yet controversial (due to its lyrics) song finds Levine trying to 'prey' a woman he's really obsessed with, as he singing of hunting down her in order to have sex with her. "Don't deny the animal that comes alive when I'm inside you," he crudely croons. There is nothing that can stop him from accomplishing that goal.
The newly-premiered visual for "Animals" will definitely draw some controversy just like the lyrics of the song. And the director Samuel Bayer has exactly translated the story of the song into a cinematic music video, which kicks off with any random happening; Prinsloo walks into the butcher shop where Levin works, buys some sort of meat product and leaves. Nothing to write home about. Except, the short meeting is more than enough to obsess over for a bespectacled and bearded Levine, who spend the next four minutes hunting down Prinsloo like she's just another pig out for slaughter, and courts her until she falls for him.
Levine is effectively creepy as this stalker-type, taking dozens of photos of Prinsloo (even as she sleeps), following her to her apartment, bedroom and swinging on some old meat carcasses and smearing himself in blood. Just in case, you know, the stalking wasn't terrifying enough. Levine's insanity later leads him to the same club as Prinsloo, and she's understandably uninterested in him. The two end up in bed together anyway, making out totally naked at Levine's meat-cutting facility while getting poured in blood, Carrie-style. Look at the darker, creepier side of Levine the Butcher below.

A Lower Milford Township native is ready to be the next big Disney star. Her name is Sabrina Carpenter, and she plays the rebellious middle schooler Maya Hart on Disney Channel's hot new tween show "Girl Meets World." The 15-year-old starlet shows off her fabulous vocals in the brand new adorable music video for her infectious song "The Middle of Starting Over," the second single from Carpenter's debut EP "Can't Blame A Girl For Trying," was released back in April.
Carpenter has already carved out a niche as the teen queen of sugary sweet country-pop. She perfected the sound on Meghan Trainor-penned single "Can't Blame A Girl For Trying" and continues to mark her territory with adorable follow-up "The Middle Of Starting Over," which was written by Jim McGorman, Robb Vallier and Michelle Moyer, and her sound reminds us a perfect mix between Taylor Swift and Colbie Caillat before her heart was broken by every dude in town.
"Back to the beginning gonna hit rewind, chance to do it over, get it right this time," chirps Carpenter in the perky chorus. "Life gives you pennies, turn 'em into dimes. I'm in the middle of starting over." The serotonin-raising tune deserved an equally fluffy visual and Hollywood Records comes through with a candy-colored romp that finds Carpenter strumming her guitar and throwing pillows at friends, and it'll definitely get your feet tapping along to the beat.
The candy-colored video is adorable and completely irresistible. The fun-filled clip simply features this blonde beauty performing her song in various places against gorgeous backdrops including an all-pink room, and another place where she stands against a sea background while an inflatable clown fish swims around her, as Carpenter has a blast with her friends, while moving on to future fun - pillow fights, fake fish, balloon parties, and of course polaroids galore - the "Girl Meets World" star gives us a pure pop sing-along. We love the selfie wall they have in one scene, and the flower petal pulling scenes are stunning!

The 1975 have digressed a few decades to become children again and have have essentially copied them with kids playing the band on stage in the eerily familiar video for their new single "Heart Out," the final single and arguably one of the best tracks on English indie rock band's self-titled debut LP, which is a ruthlessly catchy and Accidentally Interesting album, quite possibly the most verse-chorus intensive pop-rock record since Andrew W.K.'s "I Get Wet."
Hailing from Manchester with successful hits like the ever-popular "Chocolate," The 1975 is becoming a more recognized indie-rock group with a growing fan base, and they are riding the hype train to the top. Frontman Matt Healy described his lyrics to The Guardian as "a genuine kind of diary." He added: "And that's the thing I'm really proud of in this album - it's me figuring myself out. Even the line in Heart Out - 'Your obsession with rocks and brown. And fu**ing the whole town...' I'm always talking about me, really."
The video begins in a bizarre, awkward fashion. As soon as it starts, the viewer is immediately transported to a middle school talent show. As one might expect from such an event, it all begins with a weird hip hop-dance performance by three young girls awkwardly with little rhythm and poor posture and some old dudes clapping, before a tween version of The 1975 take to the stage performing their recent single, much to the horror of the elderly onlookers. It's unique, almost creepy and a little bit weird, but that makes the whole ordeal that much more refreshing.
Receiving horrified stares from parents and adults in attendance, the clip comes to life through the excitement of a distinctly more youthful version of the band appearing in the show. The whole scene is put through the lens of their lofty dreams of becoming rock stars. They perform "Heart Out" in a cool, casual demeanor, and the youngsters don't seem to get distracted by the out-of-place spotlights, fog machines, and falling sparklers. Clearly unfazed by the fact that they're performing in a middle school auditorium, this version of The 1975 is everything a good rock group should be.

Hilary Duff has a serious crush as she sexes things up and does the cowgirl line dance moves like a pro in the music video for her folky pop song, "All About You," an insanely catchy single from her upcoming (comeback) fifth studio album. Sounding like a big ol' stomping party, "All About You" is in the same twangy folk-pop vein as her debut single "Chasing the Sun," but that it's a huge improvement for Duff.
The folk undertones, handclaps, shout-along chorus and deliriously enjoyable melodies all make this the winning comeback bid that Duff fans were hoping to hear when she announced her return to music. The former Lizzie McGuire star starts her song with the lyrics, "You could be my dirty secret, I could be yours," providing a distinctly different sound from her previous four studio albums. "Think you're all about me but I'm all about you/ Turn the lights down let me show you it's true!" Sing your heart out, Duff fans, because this song rules.
Duff is one of few Disney stars to have maintained her squeaky clean image, but the 26-year-old mother-of-one amped up her sex appeal, shakes her hips and shows off her toned legs in a pair of tiny black shorts with fishnet stockings and ankle boots for a super-sexy time choreographed routine as she searches for her new man crush in the three minute clip which was directed by Declan Whitebloom.
Doesn't-want-to-age Duff falls in love at the first sight with a cute guy she spotted in a coffee shop. She finds a record that he accidentally drops before leaving the place and then shows a photo she took of him to her girlfriends at dance rehearsals. After running through their cowgirl-ish line dance choreography, all girls go on a quest to track down Duff's unnamed man and return an album throughout the day. Eventually, they find it at a party at the L.A. river below a bridge where, yes, Duff will hypnotize with his her moves.

OneRepublic just premiered a monumentally inspiring music video for "I Lived," which tells the story of Bryan Warnecke, a teenager boy from Colorado who is living with and fighting cystic fibrosis. The song comes to a climax when OneRepublic takes the stage at the state's adored venue Red Rocks to perform the uplifting tune. Warnecke, who is a major fan of OneRepublic's music, will get the ultimate prize by being flown from his small town to witness live one of the most important concerts in OneRepublic's latest North American tour.
"With every broken bone/ I swear I lived." That lyric stands on its own with its empowering notes. The track co-written by Ryan Tedder in collaboration of Noel Zancanella is the fifth official single taken from the Colorado band's third studio album, "Native." Instead of going the traditional route, OneRepublic took the opportunity to give "I Lived" a real message with its music video by using their single to share Warnecke's inspiring story and aspirations that shed new light on the uplifting single off "Native."
Bryan's been living with this disease that ravages his lungs and makes it feel like he's "breathing through a straw," for 15 years. It's terrifying and heartbreaking, but it's not getting in Warnecke's way as he continues to do the things he loves. Drawing from the words in the song, Warnecke says, "I believe in living every second to its fullest, taking the jump without fear of the fall and taking the pain while giving it my all." He adds, "My dream is to become the first person with CF to compete in the Olympics as the goalie for the USA hockey team. The CF Foundation and OneRepublic are helping to keep that dream alive."
The band filmed the video in early-September with director Noble Jones in Morrison, CO, during the final stop of OneRepublic's "Native" Summer Tour. In the video, the band wanted to highlight someone who embodies the spirit of living and achieving in the face of great adversity. After a brief introduction of his disease, Warnecke shows OneRepublic's fans in the video photographs and footage of how he's grown up dealing with this unfair burden, but refuses to let that get in the way of his dreams. What a moving video! It just fits the whole concept of the song in a way I didn't expect.

Betty Who has a new colorful music video out for her anthem "Somebody Loves You," and no, you don't just have a major case of déjà vu. The 22-year-old Australian singer-songwriter, born Jessica Anne Newham, has simply remade the clip for "Somebody Loves You," which originally got a less-polished video treatment back in 2013. If you're one of the 10 million people who have watched the Home Depot surprise gay marriage proposal on YouTube, then you're already familiar with her breakout song.
"'Somebody Loves You' was originally a breakup song for me. I had written it initially about this guy I was dating, and he didn’t care about me as much as I did. I was writing the song to him like, 'Wait, I love you so much and you're not listening to me.' When we went back to record it, it was way more joyous and fun. Once I figured out what I was doing in my relationship, it all kind of opened up," Betty explained. "The message is either 'you hurt me' or 'let's get down in the club.' I wanted to write a song that would make people feel happy and that's where 'Somebody Loves You' comes from."
Betty's known for earworm hooks, cardio-friendly production, and her stadium-filling voice. Now makes New York her home base as she prepares to conquer the world with her own special brand of fun breezy bubblegum pop. "'Somebody Loves You' has been in my life for so long that I wanted to start fresh in some way and make it new and exciting for myself and everyone who's been a fan of the song since it came out," Betty said via email. "I wanted to make a video that captures the energy of the message of the song, which is about having fun, being joyful, and loving yourself, as well as falling in and out of love with other people."
The newly unveiled take is an even brighter, bolder and bubblier journey, stays faithful to the infectious fun (not to mention retro styling) of the original but amps up the dance-party factor by, like, a buh-jillion, as Betty and her faithful crew sport a bunch of fierce lewks and bounce along to the sound of her euphoric jam on the sidewalk. If people in the '80s had social media and YouTube, this is probably what a mall aerobics class-organized flash mob would've looked like. Like her upcoming tour BFF Katy Perry's "This Is How We Do," it's an über-colorful, purely joyous trip.

The Dutch DJ/producer Tiësto just recently unveiled a visually stunning music video for his new single, "Light Years Away," featuring American minimal techno DJ DBX, off of Tiësto's newest studio album, "A Town Called Paradise," which was released in June. Not only is the song beautiful, but the futuristic video is absolutely mesmerizing which showcasing a distant galaxy being explored by a team in search of organic life.
It's been a big year for the Dutch superstar producer, who continues to find success in anyway possible. He's been able to consistently find ways to break his EDM influences in to pop-culture with seamless execution. "Light Years Away" continues the Dutchman's crusade of emotionally charged crossover dance music, with the whispery sounds of DBX's vocals to a pop-influenced EDM blended track. The accompanying video reflects the interstellar imagery of the track's title. Slick effects and colorful imagery serve as a fitting visual for the track's big hooks and addictive melody.
Set in a strange and unknown universe, the clip focuses on the life of a young lady living on a very distant lonely planet with the help of her robot assistant, as she examines her surroundings and searches for other forms of life. She is seen conducting research and using advanced technology to look for any signs of organic life on the bizarre planet she inhabits. She is clearly unhappy with where she lives, as is made evident from both scenes and lyrics "I don't know where I'm meant to belong/ I'm lost in space."
A robot loyally helps her with her research and takes care of her when she gets injured. At the end, she comes to realize the love the robot has for her and together they melt into a strange electronic screen where they dance and the woman finally finds happiness. The beat and tune both work well with the futuristic-like video and the story is interesting enough. It ends on a particularly compelling note with space and electronics combining.

He recently welcomed her into his world when they collaborated in a Photoshop for agency Select Model Management. Returning the favor, Pixie Lott cast her real-life boyfriend Oliver Cheshire to play the love interest in the steamy music video to her new single, "Break Up Song." Giving a glimpse into their relationship, the pair get steamy in the three minute long clip as they portray the highs and lows of young love.
"Break Up Song," taken from Lott's new self-titled album, is a ballad made up of bittersweet lyrics which the singer has said is one of her favorites off the LP. The 23-year-old singer wrote this song with English singer-songwriter Jim Irvin, and producer Rami Afuni. When asked by You magazine if her model boyfriend Oliver Cheshire minds her writing songs about breaking up like this one, Lott replied: "I don't think he minds, because it makes great music; we are really strong. I think real emotion makes a better song. I just love writing about tragedy and heartbreak."
Directed by Nick Bartlett and filmed at London's Waldorf Hotel, the pop starlet and her 26-year-old beau tell the tale of a couple who have an intensely dangerous and passionate relationship, which basically sees the couple snogging and getting into mischief throughout the video. The action kicks off with the pair running through a hotel restaurant, cheekily grabbing cookies from leftover dinners. Showing off their mischievous side, the pair break into the posh establishment where they are chased around by security before finally escaping and end up in a huge open room as Lott belts out her huge notes, and shows off her tiny figure while lying flat out next to her man.
With some scenes shot using a hand held camera, the duo get hot and steamy and embrace one another as they lock lips and frolic between the sheets. However, the twosome are torn apart when Lott spies Cheshire talking to another woman at the bar and she loses her rag. The video comes to a close with Lott ends their romance by removing what appears to be an engagement ring from her finger before he storms off. The drama then cuts back to the bedroom where they stage make-up sex through Lott's tears and live happily ever after.

The Veronicas return with a vengeance and a twisted ballet music video for their gritty new song, "You Ruin Me," the first new release in seven years and the lead track lifted from Aussie pop sibling duo's upcoming self-titled third studio album, due later this year through Sony Music after splitting with their longtime label Warner Bros.
It's been a decade since the twins cracked the music industry and have been absent from Australian airwaves for five years, but now the sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso - the 29-year-old Brisbane born-and-raised twins who go by the name The Veronicas are back, and kicked off their long-awaited comeback with tortured ballad "You Ruin Me." It's a semi-orchestral, hate-drenched intense breakup ballad which comes from an altogether different place than the Origliasso twins' 2007 catchy electo-pop hit "Untouched," but it's a great reminder of both their songwriting and vocal prowess.
Written with APRA Award winning production team DNA Songs, "You Ruin Me" is a musical statement of The Veronicas' maturity. The song concentrates on the Australian sisters' vocal talents, it's built on keys and fleshed-out with a lush orchestral production, and there's not a single beat to be found. Talking about the inspiration behind the song, Jess revealed to the Courier Mail: "We are in such a great place now as far as being artists and being comfortable as women, and this song was the last piece of the puzzle to say goodbye to the broken parts of ourselves."
The dramatic video, inspired by Darren Aronofsky's dark 2010 feature film "Black Swan." In true rock star form, the raven haired duo sit in a fierce black car with their hit song playing on the radio while wearing identical white framed sunglasses and a slick of rouge, as they pull up outside the State Theatre at Sydney, with a neon lit sign saying "Tonight The Veronicas - Private Show." The twins perform the song on stage while a twisted back story about a jealous ballerinas and a particularly creepy and unscupulous dance instructor unfolds. It's weird, twisted and strangely beautiful. Kind of like the song. Watch the twisted ballet drama below.

Pitbull is out to continue his journey as Mr. Worldwide, but he needs a fitting Mrs. to accompany him on his quest for "Globalization." The Miami rapper released the new music video for his latest party anthem, "Fireball," where he travels to a fun-filled Havana night club only to fall in love with a woman who feels quite reminiscent of Jessica Rabbit.
The energetic "Fireball," is the first single from his upcoming eighth studio album "Globalization," due in stores later this year via RCA. "Fireball" is a Latin-flavored and feel-good carnival-esque track with its catchy rhythm, featuring vocals by newcomer John Ryan. "Lot of craziness going on in the world right now, so lets escape it for 3:55," said the rapper before dropping the tune. The song is a collaboration with Ricky Reed and it came about while the pair were enjoying the titular cinnamon-flavoured whisky-based liqueur on a beach house roof. Reed told Billboard magazine it's a, "quasi ode to day drinking."
Directed by David Rousseau, The 1940s-inspired sexy clip has an old-school movie vibe that starts off in a black and white world, but it's not a stark, bleak affair and this is a Pitbull music video after all. Set backstage at a Latin-themed night club, we see Pitbull arriving in a retro car, fully suited, surrounded by a band, parties it up with some flamenco dancers, adorned in a variety of exotic outfits - feathers, fringe and bikinis dance along, because this world is on fire.
The party atmosphere is heightened by "Fireball" guest Ryan who plays the guitar and also surrounded by a batch of beauties. Soon, the world comes into color, tied almost completely to a red-dressed beauty. In a very obvious ode to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," men's hearts pound out of their chests and their tongues roll out of their mouths, but the buxom beauty only has eyes for Mr. 305. In a continuing ode to the beloved cartoon, Pitbull and his newfound love, A real-life Jessica Rabbit (except not a cartoon), leave the club, only to meet once again in a "caliente," rainy alleyway.

Jennifer Lopez's celebration of the backside has arrived. The steamy video for the painfully repetitive song "Booty (Remix)," featuring a verse and bonus booty from Iggy Azalea delivers exactly what the song promises. It's definitely about butts in case you were confused, and shows off two of the best backsides in music as Lopez and Azalea, women who have butts, sing about them and go back-to-back and shake their assets. The wait for big booty is over and we have reached booty exhaustion.
The rump shaking ode' originally appeared on Lopez's "A.K.A." album earlier this year and was written by Chris Brown and Diplo and it features Lopez's fellow Hispanic pop star and frequent collaborator Pitbull. Lopez has always been known for her curves, but was initially shy about recording this floor filler that celebrates her infamous backside. She explained the song's meaning on Hot 97's The Angie Martinez Show: "It's about owning everything about you and who you are and embracing that." The bouncy tune finds Lopez poking fun at her celebrated rear.
This latest remix adds Azalea's ample talent to an already butt-shaking song, which finds the Australian rapper shouting out one of Lopez's old hits. "The last time the world seen a booty this good was on 'Jenny From The Block,'" she spits. "I want to tell all my ladies to get up on the floor and shake it, shake it!" Pitbull's verse was completely replaced by Azalea's on this new version.
The Hype Williams-directed music video is exactly what it was advertised to be by the teaser as the two divas dance together in black-and-white bathing suits with slicked back wet hair while colliding their backsides with one another. The butt slapping begins in earnest followed by nearly four minutes of gyrating hips and ample booty shaking. These ladies are proud of what they've got but aren't afraid to appreciate another woman's physique either. In the final scene, the 45-year-old debuts her alter-ego "Roxy," who shakes her glorious backside in hyper speed while dressed fishnet stockings. Watch below and learn how to pay it proper to the almighty derrière.

After serving us a proper dance anthem with "Whatever We Want" back in March, Australian recording artist, producer and deejay Havana Brown is back to the music scene with new banger, "Better Not Said." The 'trap meets EDM' track is the first taste of new material from her upcoming yet-to-be-named sophomore album, which is due out later this year via Island and Universal Records.
Driven by a clap-heavy trap beat and sharp melodic synth work, "Better Not Said" sees the Aussie export DJ diving deeper into the EDM world with another killer banger that includes quite the explosive dance drop, but has that same vibe Brown's breakout hit "We Run The Night" had. The 29-year-old pop star described the song in an interview with the DailyTelegraph (AUS) as a mix of two genres - trapdoor and EDM. "Mixing the two together is really fun" she said. "It's got a bit of trap with more of a hip hop sound but I still love my EDM drops."
It instantly scoops you up, brings you to the highest point possible, and as soon as you reach that peak the drops brings you right down to get your rage on. "A lot of things are better not said," Brown told The Daily Telegraph about the song's meaning: "It is when you can keep control of a situation, from relationships to the bedroom to work. It is everything. Sometimes things are better on your own, doing it yourself." Better not mess with Brown ever, because if you do her wrong she'll kidnap you and hand you to the Chinese mafia which is the plot for her new video for "Better Not Said."

"It’s about getting what you want from your man, and if he can't deliver that, then I'll do it on my own, you know. So the video clip is loosely based on the idea that a guy hasn't been able to fulfil my needs, so I'm handing him over and I'm trading him off to an Asian gang for cash. It's a little bit rough, and a bit of fun - I loved playing that character," Brown explained. The clip shows Brown riding a high-end car with a man, presumably her boyfriend, tied and locked in the trunk. After making a few stops to execute a fast-pace sexy choreography with a few girlfriends, Brown will arrive to her destination which is meeting a few members of a Chinese mafia to hand the man.

On the day of his 22nd birthday birthday, Nick Jonas decided to throw his own b-day bash inviting fans to join him at the South Street Seaport in New York City to debut the artistic, colorful music video for the latest single, "Jealous," off of his upcoming self-titled album solo album, which is set to drop on November 11. Take a trip through TV Land, Jonas gets truly trippy and pretty deep in his brand new video, which goes in and out of being shot in black and white and color. We're loving this side of him!
Follow his first single "Chains," The upbeat, sexy song was inspired by his pageant galpal, whose bombshell appearance receives unsolicited cat-calls and attention from random strangers. The lyrics express jealousy within a relationship, specifically, other guys looking at his girl! "It's not your fault that they hover, I mean no disrespect," Jonas shows off his sultry side, belts his heart out, admitting that he gets jealous of his gorgeous girlfriend, Miss USA 2012 squeeze, Olivia Culpo, 22. "It's my right to be hellish, I still get jealous."
Jonas enlisted Culpo to prove his point about why he can get so hellish. The Peter Tunney-directed surreal clip takes viewers on a psychedelic ride as he hops on a motorcycle through a cartoonish backdrop, while Culpo and another woman are seen in various glamor shots, basically just driving Jonas crazy with jealousy. "I had a specific experience that sort of inspired me to write this song and got the ball rolling in that sense, and it's not limited to that by any means," Jonas told MTV. "And this video is about getting a little bit deeper and opening the conversation up and just having fun while we do it."
And it certainly seems like they had a lot of fun, as the video features Culpo stripping down to her lingerie to play the cello in the clouds, Jonas playing piano with a little old lady and getting beat pretty bad at a game of basketball, walking down a city street and singing with an old-school microphone. Late Jonas and Culpo come together in an old-school yellow cab. But, if you look closely, the clip shows a completely different side of the singer, is feathered with a bunch of inspirational and hidden messages which appear on street signs, on city walls and his instruments. It may serve as a deeper message, possibly in reference to his new solo career.

Nearly a year into promotions for his critically-acclaimed debut album "Testimony," August Alsina revisits the project with an official music video to his Nicki Minaj-assisted sixth single "No Love (Remix)." The Best New Artist winner of the 2014 BET Awards actually hesitates in the cinematic visual and having a simultaneous affair between a cute curly blonde and voluptuous Minaj. Would you have that hesitation? Me neither! Her Minajesty all the way!
Directed by Benny Boom, the black and white racy video for "No Love (Remix)," which the rapper wrote part of the treatment herself, who and the 22-year-old New Orleans R&B singer get real close and cozy as the sensual, as the smooth R&B track sets the mood. It's not all peachy though, as Minaj and Alsina's love is tested when she kicks him out of the house after one of his old girlfriends calls him on the phone.
By the time she hops on the phone for her guest verse (singing and rapping!), she's back to fiending for Alsina's love, though she admits he's conceited and "weeded," whatever that means. Meanwhile, Alsina's dancing with another rando in the club. While Alsina harmonizes about his inability to commit, the YMCMB femcee swoons in as the woman looking to soften his heart and they look pretty comfy together on camera too, taking selfies. That is, until Alsina gets busted for having a side chick.
"I know you hard, I know that you a killer/ I know you started off a dope dealer/ But let your guard down, your n---as know you feel her," she spits. Minaj's fellow YMCMB rapper Tyga also makes a cameo towards the end of the nearly five-minute clip. After cheating on the "Anaconda" star, and making her go through terrible times of stress and pain, Alsina of course regrets the decision and realizes how much he really loves Minaj's role and comes to his senses quickly realizes that it's time to right those wrongs and he will win Minaj's heart back with a huge flower arrangement and a promise that he'll be exclusively hers from now on. Watch the video for the hood love song below!

Jessie Ware has revealed the video for the Ed Sheeran-co-written single, "Say You Love Me," the second official single from Ware's upcoming sophomore album "Tough Love," which is out October 21 in the U.S. and October 6 in the UK via PMR/Island. The 29-year-old  Ware recorded the video with award winning directors Tell No One, the creative duo of artists Luke White and Remi Weekes, who won the Golden Lion at last year's Cannes Festival for their short film "Metamorphosis."
Ware has always been an emotional and expressive singer, but it has never been more obvious than on her new single, "Say You Love Me," which she wrote this song with Sheeran in about 45 minutes in New York and it is somewhat of a sonic departure from her past record. The "The A Team" songwriter also plays guitar on the track. Ware told MTV UK, "it was one of those serendipitous moments where somebody somewhere was on our side." Speaking to The Daily Star about her collaboration with Sheeran, Ware said: "The way Ed writes and his work ethic is incredible. I have to give him so much credit for being able to write something that's so right for me and elevates the way I sing - he really pushed me hard."
"Say You Love Me" was bigger and bolder than anything we'd yet heard from her and the touching "Tough Love" song gets an effective and lovely visual treatment. The rather simple video takes a similar approach with its directness - just singing and feelings. It shows the British soul singer sits atop a large rock on a set with a beachside backdrop behind her, and the camera simply films her in extended takes the entire time as she lets the words do the storytelling and sings the heart-wrenching yet beautiful lyrics of her new song "Say You Love Me."
The most exciting moment in the video is when she lets a bird land on her hand before it quickly flutters away. It's a quiet and lovely treatment for a standout song from Ware. There's nothing else, but you'll see that there really doesn't need to be. For such a passionate ballad, the video is just enough. Ware's expressiveness is overwhelming, and she reacts to each line as if she were in the middle of a conversation. It's a stunning performance!

In the middle of his current tour supporting his critically-lauded sophomore solo record, "Lazaretto," the unequaled Jack White has unleashed a brand new stunningly blue-tinged music video for the LP's third single, "Would You Fight For My Love?" The brooding "Lazaretto" track finds a sensitive White cautious about committing to a relationship having been previously burnt. White used two live bands for the recording of "Lazaretto," the all-male Buzzards and the all-female Peacocks. This song features both playing simultaneously in separate rooms at Third Man Studios.

The alt-rocker made what he called the world's fastest record - he performed and pressed to vinyl the album's title track in less than four hours. Now Continuing White's tradition of innovation and penchant for quick turnarounds, he's applied a similar tactic to the moody video for "Would You Fight For My Love?" Set in downtown Denver's the historic Cruise Room, a beautiful art deco-era, spooky and original post-prohibition bar in LoDo's Oxford Hotel, the blue-hued visual was conceptualized, produced and shot within a 24 hour period. The six-hour shoot came together on less than 12 hours notice by British director Robert Hales.
The conceit has its pros and cons. It's an admittedly simple video drenched in a moody blue color scheme and has an old-school glamor that luring viewers into its scene of brokenhearted blue tones. The stylish video opens with a woman selecting a track on a bar jukebox, with a brooding, unusually dapper White plays a lonely-looking and sharply dressed bar hound fidgeting with a drink and sitting alone at a bar, which is bathed in blue light before he performing his lovelorn lyrics "It's not enough that I love you/ There's all these things I have to prove to you," while gazing directly into the camera.
The clip interacting with the female vocalist, played by musician and photographer Scout Pare-Phillips, on the unfulfillment anthem, but its stripped-down feel and ghostly aesthetic are of a piece with the song's mid-tempo rock and eerie, cooed vocal hook. It's an intriguing and fitting complement to one of the album's best cuts. The very well-groomed White and Pare-Phillips lurk around bar and never seem to make a true connection, occasionally vanishing into thin air, and the clip ends with White raging on an old-school microphone.

Chris Brown sparks a new flame with Ariana Grande as the pair will fight for their medieval love, cozy up, dance and ride horses in the long-awaited romantic fantasy-themed music video for their pop-dance collaboration "Don't Be Gone Too Long." In a fairy tale setting, Brown, 25, courts Grande, 21, play medieval forbidden lovers romancing in the moonlight and display their unbreakable love connection in the video.
Brown continues to keep the surprises coming. After sharing his Trey Songz-assisted record "Songs On 12 Play" on Friday, the R&B star comes through just hours later and delivers a new music video to his dance-pop duet with Grande, "Don't Be Gone Too Long," which was announced back in March, before it was postponed due to Brown's incarceration for breaking the Rihanna case's probation. Then Grande decided to remove herself from the song and cancel the video premiere. A version without Grande will now appear on Brown's sixth album "X," which drops next Tuesday.
Shot in a darkly lit palette with dramatic Arthurian aesthetics and a Romeo and Juliet-inspired plot, the video, directed by Brown himself, taking it back to medieval times, features him and the pint-sized diva as a fairy-tale couple whose happily ever after is interrupted when the two are forced apart. Grande playing a princess who falls in love with Brown, but when discovers their forbidden romance, the royal kingdom heavies appear on horseback to separate the pair, and Brown is captured, hauled away and gets thrown into prison, he must do anything it takes to escape and get back to his love while Grande is kidnapped by an evil king and taken back to captivity on a castle balcony.
Interspersed with the narrative are shots of Brown performing acrobatic dance moves in a castle alongside Grande's tutu-clad ballerina poses and show off their amazing chemistry together in the romantic scenes. Nothing can keep them apart. Brown eventually manages to escape, breaks free, finds himself on a journey back and rescues Grande and the lovebirds reunited, but is discovered by the guards once again toward the end of the visual for a to-be-continued battle on a cliffhanger. The fantasy backdrop is very cool, and the moody video feels like an episode of "Once Upon A Time." Watch their forbidden love story unfold below.

Calvin Harris and John Newman hang out in a Hollywood Hills dwelling looking properly moody, blame it on the night and not on the fact that they're such players. Is stoicism a virtue? This is the question asked in Harris' new video for their killer track "Blame," albeit asked in between shots of young, model-esque women dancing with wild abandon. In the video, Harris gets to sleep with a woman that's totally in his league, while Newman will get to do the same but with a girl that would never see him with sexual attraction in real life.
The fairy-tale EDM turn "Blame," is the latest single, follow-up to Scottish DJ's hit tune "Summer," taken from his upcoming fourth studio album, and it's leading the midweek UK charts and broke yet another Spotify record now. "Blame" somehow feels fuller and more rounded-out, structurally, than much of his other output. Luckily for Harris, everything he touches these days seems to turn more golden than his glowing tan. The vocals, by British blue-eyed soul singer Newman, soulfully insists on the surging bridge, before it bursts into one of Harris' infectious four-to-the-floor choruses.
Back to the Emil Nava-directed video, it opens with Harris and Newman, play unavailable men in the midst of an existential crisis, each in their own perfectly appointed and urbane homes sitting on bed giving the back to the lady who's slept next to them. What troubles them is unknown, although Newman is pictured in a room designed in the style of the Playboy mansion alongside a woman in black négligée who happens to be unconscious, giving the viewer the idea that perhaps something wicked this way comes.
Midway through it becomes apparent the video's narrative will be more about the women - figures who at first were the window dressing to male angst take center stage. A twist is introduced when one central female figure in each of the vignettes takes a tumble down Alice's hole into Wonderland, in a spectacular, watery fashion. I guess the idea of the video is that the duo met the girls they slept with at the club, and instead of blaming it on their inextinguishable appetite for sex, they want to blame it on "night" for having met these sweet and innocent girls the previous night and had taken them to their houses.

Thanks to an addictive retro R&B beat, lyrics about a healthy body image, and an equally viral music video, Meghan Trainor is "All About that Bass" became an unexpected hit of the summer. Not bad considering Trainor is a 20-year-old Nashville singer-songwriter from Nantucket, Massachusetts, who got her start penning tracks for Rascal Flatts. Yet, if the record industry had its way, no one would have heard her debut single. With its throwback soul beat, its body-positive message couched in a cute metaphor, and its dance-filled, candy-colored video, Trainor's "All About That Bass" couldn't have been better designed to go viral.
Now Trainor has officially reached the top of Billboard's Hot 100 with "All About That Bass," which dethrones Taylor's Swift's "Shake It Off." This makes her the second female artist this year to do so with a debut song. (The other would be Iggy Azalea with her song of the summer "Fancy.") In a recent interview with ET, Trainor opened up about the positive-body image message behind the song: It doesn't matter what your body type is, as long as you know how to work what you've got. "I'm glad a lot of the comments I've gotten are about [girls'] eating disorders and how my song saved them - which is crazy, but amazing."
With its blend of country, pop, early '60s girl-group harmonies and throwback rock 'n' roll ode, has just the type of unique sound to break through the EDM rut radio seems to be stuck in. "All About That Bass" reinforces the idea that female bodies exist for men's pleasure, and that being desired by a man is crucial to a woman's self-worth. It says it's all about that bass, but it seems it's really all about the boys. "I wrote this song because I myself struggle with this concept of self-acceptance. It was written from a real place so I’m glad that other people can relate to it," Trainor sayd.
Directed by Fatima Robinson, the adorable pastel-ridden-pink video stars Trainor and a sassy troupe of dancers who have no trouble flaunting "all the right junk in all the right places." It also features Vine celebrity Sione Maraschino, a guy who has no problem shaking it along with the best of the ladies. They groove and flaunt what they've got as they campaign to "bring the booty back," and put an end to the unattainable standards of the beauty industry. Watch below, and let Trainor assure you, she "won't be no stick figure silicon Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go on and move along."

Alicia Keys revealed an uplifting video on Facebook page for her powerful brand new song, "We Are Here," The pregnant songstress wants her child to grow up in a better world than the one we occupy now. Those feelings of world peace and equality spawned the meaningful lyrics to "We Are Here," a new song the R&B artist preaching about the need to rid the world of war, violence and discrimination. The clip is simple, with the focus on the inspirational anthem's message, as Keys pounds the ivories and sings about violent current events.

The stripped-down, piano driven track provides her with ample excuses to put her famous pipes through their paces. "The day I wrote this song, I was sitting in a circle of people of all ages and we were asked, 'Why are you here.' Why am I here?? This really hit me on a deep level. I realized no one had ever asked me that question before," explains Keys. "As I prepare to give birth to a new child, I can't help and think about the world I'm bringing my baby into. No matter where we come from, when we see the state of the world today, we can all feel the growing frustration and desire to make a difference. And we all have a voice - we just need to know how to make it heard."
"We Are Here" is a song with a beautiful message and Keys using music to heal and inspire amid the chaos in the world. Keys is inspired by her desire to make a difference and create a kinder and more peaceful world for ALL children. Keys is using her voice to reinforce her vision of an empowered global community in which all people are heard, respected, equal, and treated with dignity. She's rallying fans and challenging them to raise their voices for the causes they believe in - because real change begins with all of us. Keys said, "It's not about me, it's about WE. This is OUR world. And we are here."
Rocking her signature throwback braided and beaded hairstyle straight out of her "Fallin'" days, the Grammy-winning singer uses her voice to spark change and stands for peace, love, and unity on the marching anthem, while reflecting on the current global and political turmoil in Chicago, Israel, Gaza, and Nigeria. "Our souls were brought together so that we could love each other, brother/ We are here /We are here for all of us," Keys croons out on the power ballad from behind the piano on a rooftop overlooking her hometown of New York City in the empowering video.

La Roux paid homage to one of history's most durable industries and channels an '80s sex infomercial in the music video for her fun retro-disco song "Kiss And Not Tell," from British electro-pop sensation's chart-topping sophomore album, "Trouble in Paradise." The phone sex hotline has seen its share of ups and downs over the decades, but it remains an impact player in the pay-for-pleasure circuit after all these years. The sound of a human voice will never go out of style.

In keeping with her own brand of neon cool, La Roux focuses on the kitschy phones of the '80s for the video, which featuring every kind of telephone you can imagine, an impressive cadre of vintage phones in the shape of keyboard synthesizers, quirky hamburgers, miniature piano phone, and Full House–esque big red lips make appearances as a variety of anonymous heavy breathers steam up on the line with Elly Jackson of La Roux's phone operator. Both playful and upbeat, the video complements La Roux's vintage synth-driven sound and is a treat for fans of '80s infomercials.

Singing in a lower register and with more controlled tones than on La Roux's debut record, Jackson sounds like a different person on this song. "I wasn't just an angry young girl when I made the first album, I was f---ing FURIOUS," she laughed to Q magazine, "That's why I sang in a register only dogs could hear." So what changed? "I'm not in pain any more," Jackson replied. "The first album was all, 'Ohhh, you don't love me.' I would drive to Ben's studio in tears every day. It's different this time because I didn't have that ache to write - I'm not writing songs to say, 'Yeah, that's what I f---ing feel about you!' I'm writing about characters instead."

The Alexander Brown-directed colorful clip is impeccably styled, hitting all the right aesthetics as we see striking red-haired singer is the face of an erotic hotline as she plays the role as a late night television host, inviting viewers to call in to do some kissing without any telling. The number onscreen have the option to listen to the song, or leave a "cheeky" message in order to interact with other people and have a little "pleasure" of their own (phone sex). After some thinking about, people are convinced by La Roux, and shows us a male and a female reaching "ecstasy."

UK band The Vamps are "survivors" in the newly-premiered music video for "Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)," the fifth single from their debut album "Meet the Vamps." On this track, The Vamps borrowed the chorus from Simon and Garfunkel's 1970 hit tune "Cecilia." Just like they did with their previous single "Somebody to You," which featured Demi Lovato on the official single edit, The Vamps have asked a US artist to feature on the single edit of "Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)." This time it wasn't a popular artist like Lovato, but a Canadian newcomer: Shawn Mendes.
They have been tipped as the pretenders to One Direction's pop throne but The Vamps insist that they are completely different to the boy band. Although they admire their chart rivals and would love to emulate their success, lead singer James McVey insists there are very few similarities between the two groups. Speaking to MailOnline ahead of the exclusive premiere of their new video "Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)," he said: "We don't really care about the comparisons but our music is very different. We play instruments and write. However, they are probably the most successful band in the world so we wouldn't say no to their success."
The video for "Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)" was shot in Malaga by director Frank Borin and the band loved every minute of it. McVey said: "We shot it in Malaga and we'd never done a video abroad before and it's kind of like a desert island style thing and we're stranded on the island. We meet the natives and don't want to leave. They were quite long days but we loved it. The song has been the song on our songlist from day one so it's always been one of our favorites 'When we play it live, the fans love it and so we wanted it to be a single.'"
The clip has a "Survivor" theme. After being shipwrecked, The Vamps find themselves on a lonely tropical island and learn to fend for themselves. They build a place to live, search for water and food, and make a "Vamps Help" sign with palm tree leaves placed on the sand. While on a recon mission of the island, the British band is ambushed by a group of females who inhabited the island before them. They take them to their camp, and thankfully for our singing friends, the girls are peaceful and rather friendly. They hang out until one day a plane flies over the island and The Vamps have to chase it as it is their only chance of going back to civilization.

The dance music icon Benny Benassi returns with a beautiful visual for his new summer jam "Let This Last Forever" performed by Gary Go. The music video is a synchronized swimming dream and is bound to stimulate every man's senses with an erotic dose of synchronized swimming. You're probably at the end of a long, exhausting week. Well, skip the espresso machine Monday morning, enjoy the video and get ready for a full dose of electro house induced energy, and let this last forever.
Benassi pools talents with British singer Gary Go, who lends his vocals once again. Their new upbeat collab, a more relaxing tune, beams summertime vibes. The single will be included on the Italian producer's upcoming album, due out later this year via Ultra Music. It's a shimmery, uplifting dance song that's a perfect segue between afternoon day drinking and late night partying. "Let This Last Forever" boasts Benassi's beloved signature sound. Coupled with Gary Go's inspiring, summertime lyrics, some acoustic strumming and a soaring melody, this is sure to please dance fans across the globe.
If you aren't familiar with the world of synchronized swimming, the Aqualillies are who you call. Remember the Nicki Minaj pool scene in the Justin Bieber "Beauty And A Beat" video? That was the Aqualillies synchronized swimming behind them. They are usually a part of a production, but in the video for "Let This Last Forever," director Bryan Schlam makes them the center of attention, focusing the entire video on some of the Aqualillies performing in a pretty amazing looking house overlooking Los Angeles.
The clip depicts graceful water ballet and sensual pool frolicking on a hot and sun-drenched afternoon that features the Aqualillies, a way glamorous synchronized swimming troupe, and alternates between mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic shots of the ladies doing formations in neon, floral print bikinis and swimming around au naturel. Schlam plays that up in the video with plenty of strategically placed shots and lingering slow motion. It's simply stunning, and in this case, might as well keep your head underwater. Watch the "Let This Last Forever" video below in all its glory.

It's been three years since their last album, "Here and Now," the Canadian rock band Nickelback are back in action, and just unveiled a protest-heavy new music video to their latest politically-themed single, "Edge of a Revolution," the lead single from their upcoming eighth studio album, "No Fixed Address," due out on November 4th under Nickelback's new label, Republic Records.
The rising rock radio track was described as a departure from Nickelback's original sound and it's more like a song with a political protest message that's not been part of their hit catalog to date. Nickelback have found their "anti-system" calling just like Green Day found theirs years ago in the “American Idiot” era. In the interview, the frontman Chad Kroeger stated the song touches upon "fat cats on Wall Street" and was inspired by current events such as the war in Ukraine and how the government has been treating their citizens.
Directed by ace song video director Wayne Isham - who has directed song videos for artistes like Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, KISS, Roxette and Britney Spears - the "Edge of a Revolution” visual stays true to the song lyrics and features footage from cultural and political protests like Egypt's Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, along with Kroeger and the rest of band members performing and chanting rebellious before a dark and crowd classroom full of young kids at a school class where they'll teach them to doubt the current system and fight for their own beliefs and not what society tells them to do that they ultimately decide to reject in favor of much-needed change as they pushing over classroom furniture and scattering papers in the air chanting "we want change!" As the rock band preach their speech to the sat-down younglings, footage of wars, arresting scenes of soldiers, riot police, demonstrations, and repression acts will be displayed on the wall behind them.

The weekend just got a lot hotter! After being teased with some pictures and previews, the music video for Nicole Scherzinger's new mid-tempo ballad single "On the Rocks" landed online in full on Thursday. The clip offers simplicity in the classic black-and-white fashion where the former Pussycat Dolls singer has a sit down with her love interest so they can duke out the pain together. And, unsurprisingly the 36-year-old looks hot, even though she's crying through a lot of the video. Sad times...
Follow-up to 2011's "Killer Love" has also been preceded by her mediocre hit "Your Love." "On the Rocks," serves as the second single off her upcoming sophomore album, still untitled, due out sometime next year on Epic Records. Produced by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, "On the Rocks," is actually inspired by one of Scherzinger's past relationships. "This song is really personal to me. I love it. It's a break up song," she told BBC Radio 1 recently. "I want the girls and all the people out there who's ever had a hard time in a relationship to put this song on repeat and feel really empowered."
The video fits and compliments the song well with an emotional Scherzinger, clad in sexy lingerie, tearing in a bed. The emotional roller coaster visual then transitions to verbal arguments, then vandalism, to the songstress making her exit. "It's my favorite video I've ever done. It's black and white, it's very cinematic," Scherzinger explained. "I just wanted the video to not feel like a music video, just really authentic and really raw. It's very empowering. It's a very emotional and personal song for me."
Directed by Tim Mattia, the breathtaking black-and-white clip sees Scherzinger emotionally distraught while singing her heartbreaking song. Overcome with emotion, she gets super dramatic and confronts her boyfriend  (soon to be ex) as she fights him and screams at him for f*cking their relationship up big time. Scherzinger's had it. She's had it so much that she's going to actually push her soon-to-be-ex off the chair (with magical powers) and throw him out of the house they have in the middle of the desert breaking the fragile wooden door in the process before tearing up the house. Once she's done with him, a liberated Scherzinger runs away through the desert to find a new better life.

Although it's only been a year or so since we first introduced Nottingham-born songstress Indiana (aka Lauren Henson) on the blog, it seems like we've been waiting years for the 27-year-old British rising pop starlet's full length debut, "No Romeo," which was scheduled to be released on September 1st, but has been pushed back to October 13. The album ranges from twinkling Scandinavian dance-pop to brooding lullabies and that futuristic alt-R&B that's been all the rage lately.
The follow-up to the Nottingham native's breakthrough "Solo Dancing," Indiana premiered her second scintillating new track, "Heart On Fire," which finds the Nottingham singer turning away from the icy vocals of her breakthrough hit, demonstrating the versatility of her singing. "I've been experimenting with my voice, and there are songs on the album where I sing in such a way that I've never sounded like before," she told Billboard magazine. "I'm learning so much about my lower register. Everything has evolved."
"Breathe my heart on fire/ Read between the lines/ Breathe my heart on fire/ That's not me to cry." Indiana softly sings with a dazzling, soulful frailty amidst the track's dance beats. Opening with an exotically futuristic sonic build before emerging into a feat of majestically glittering state of the art dancefloor pop with echoes of classic Robyn or Kylie Minogue, "Heart On Fire" sets an extraordinarily addictive and enticing tone in anticipation of Indiana's debut full length and reinforces her as one of the UK's most hotly tipped new artists.
Shot in California, the Tim Mattia-directed clip, is one for girls and boys who like motorbikes, leather, guns, men with beards and swimming pools. It's another love story, only to be stuck with another bad boy. It's clear that won't be a happy ending to this tale of a love triangle between Indiana and two drug-dealing motorcycle dudes. But, it's highly unlikely you'll be able to guess the twist. After going undercover for a good amount of time, DEA Agents raid the hotel room of a known drug dealer. The task is breaking their heart because of the good times they all had together, but their task has to completed. The risk vs. the reward.

It's been three years since the release of LIGHTS' sophomore LP "Siberia," but the synth-leaning Canadian songbird returns and goes on a crazy elevator ride in the one-take new video for her new single "Up We Go," the first offering from the Juno Award winner's upcoming third record, "Little Machines," which due in stores on September 23rd via Warner Brothers Records. "Up We Go" is perhaps her biggest banger to date—sparkling, anthemic, amped up synthpop.
"Up We Go," is a delicious electro-pop filled with up-lifting lyrics, finds LIGHTS moving into slightly more commercial pop territory than she'd perhaps explored before. "It's been a hard year, and I only know/ From down this low It's only up we go, up we go," sings the 27-year-old Canadian electro-pop star in the motivational chorus of "Up We Go." Her current musical style is giving me Ellie Goulding meets Ashlee Simpson vibes. And we love it.
The Canadian electropop pixie had this to say about the tune and the video: "I like to think that 'Up We Go' is an anthem for that feeling of release we experience following a hard spell. It took a lot of moving parts to make this really ambitious one-take video shoot a success. While trying to choreograph the band, all the great extras, the fans we brought in, the set movements, the folks behind the camera, and my performance... there were moments I thought it would be impossible. But everyone absolutely killed it. Everyone was just ready to go."
The Alon Isocianu-directed clip sees LIGHTS stuck in the confines of an elevator while going on a crazy ride, utterly oblivious to everything around her as various other folks get on board. Upon entering the elevator, LIGHTS starts singing along to "Up We Go." The upward ride seems pretty normal until a pair of sparring lucha libre wrestlers walk in, then a couple who explicitly deep into a make-out session, and then a whole LIGHTS' own band. None of them, however, deter her from belting out her brand new song. When LIGHTS reaches the "last" floor, a huge celebration with confetti engages. But in the end we find out the "ride" wasn't that real in the Watch the charming elevator-set romp!

A week before her debut album "Souled Out" arrives in stores, Jhené Aiko debuts the video for her single "The Pressure." From red carpets to raising a child, the L.A. songstress illustrates the challenges and stressful woes of being in a relationship amidst raising a child and fulfilling the duties as an artist in the Childish Gambino and Calmatic-directed clip. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter rocks blonde dreads in the vignettes, which feature a cameo from her real daughter Namiko.
Backed by a guitar-tinged, hip-hop production containing synths, metallic slaps and a shaky beat "The Pressure," is a PBR&B song that thematically revolves around Aiko's stress of finishing her debut album. During her first verse Aiko maintains her cool exhaling deeply, however during the song's lyrics become sharper, Aiko becomes flat-out dismissive. The lyric "I don't wanna see you go, but I don't have time to solve this/ And you don't have the right" as Aiko reflecting on the difficulty and stress she experienced while putting the finishing touches on "Souled Out."
Falling in line with the title and the song's lyrics, the video reflects just a few of the pressures that Aiko feels in her complex life both her personal and professional life as a pop star. The video starts around a dimly lit Aiko, as the camera rolls through a series of vignettes, the scenes consist of the singer drinking beer and eating pizza with her friends, flaring paparazzi bulbs, in her living room, trying to write more syrupy, slinky ballads while her daughter Namiko tugs on her blonde dreads, as well as all dressed up at a red carpet event.
She briefly finds serenity before a panorama of full moons before we're back in the thick of it: dating. Aiko sits on a leather couch enjoying an herbal refreshment with her beau, whose lost in the depths of his iPad - playing Candy Crush, presumably. Aiko is understandably salty; she shifts uncomfortably in her seat, a woman scorned. The scenes then begin to tick up tension, with friends fighting, lovers leaving and Aiko sending her child off to celebrate a birthday without her, this is followed by Aiko fading out.

Canadian producer and electro-pop singer Grimes, known offstage as Claire Boucher, came out swinging in late June with "Go," her first song in two years. The tune signals a departure from the sound she established herself with, mostly, she explained at the time, because she had written it for Rihanna originally, but it was turned down when Rihanna chose not to record it, Grimes and collaborator Vancouver beatsmith Blood Diamonds then decided to reclaim the track for themselves. In her hands, the track features screams and drops and echoes; it's vibing just fine with the rollout for Grimes' highly-anticipated new album.
It's a truly epic bit of pop weirdness, and now her recent summer jam has a pretty wow-worthy video to match. It is a dizzy pileup of images: Black lights! Iron masks! Billowing silks! Big-ass swords! Intense Vapo-Rub dance moves! Sand dunes! Hair flips! It's a whole lot to process like next-level crazy and we mean that in a good way. In the past, Grimes music videos have brought Claire Boucher to a football game, a motocross rally, and deep into the woods. For her brand new "Go" video, she's out in the desert, visiting the Salton Sea, and dancing amongst mimes in a neon chamber. And really, the video was also partially inspired by Korn's "Freak On a Leash." Seriously.

Co-directed by Grimes with her brother Mac under the alias Roco-Prime, the cryptic clip is a sci-fi homage to Dante's Inferno features sweeping desert landscapes and casts Grimes as Dante and Blood Diamonds as Virgil. It even opens with the first lines from "Inferno," spoken over images of dancers moving in a dark. Eventually, her new "Go," the EDM-influenced lead single off her forthcoming LP, kicks in, and the singer wields swords and crosses deserts while wandering through her personal circles of hell. What happens next is a wild visual feast of claustrophobic demonic dance and gorgeous post-apocalyptic imagery in her Korn-inspired take on the epic poem.
"It's our take on Dante's 'Inferno.' The circles of hell reflect more contemporary issues though. In the 'Inferno,' people's actions in life echo eternally," Grimes explains on her Tumblr about the different scenes represent a contemporary take on Dante's infamous "circles of hell." "It's not a traditional hell, it kind of reflects stuff that's going on today. We shot a bunch at the Salton Sea, which is basically an apocalyptic wasteland filled with dead fish because of human carelessness, a hallway of bullet holes à la Korn 'Freak on a Leash.'" If that sounds like a lot, don't fret. "It is also abstract enough to just be a trippy visual accompaniment to the song," the singer concludes.