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Ariana Grande puts her "petite" beauty on display in a well fancy music video for the straight-up sex song, "Love Me Harder," a Max Martin-produced R&B cut featuring Toronto R&B singer The Weeknd, serves as the third single from Grande's recent  sophomore studio album, "My Everything." As one of the most popular music-artists of 2014, the pint-sized starlet already knew how to please her fans, but her new video, her most serious yet, shows off a sexier version of the pop-princess.
"Love Me Harder" is a darker R&B jam than anyone probably expected from a 21-year-old singer once known for her endless supply of pastel princess dresses. The Max Martin-produced song explored adult themes and is filled with double entendres about rough sex; that one also has a single entendre, delivered by her reliably creepy duet partner, The Weeknd, about feeling the pressure between your hips. This song finds Grande pairing up with The Weeknd as they trade verses about keeping the girl happy by loving her harder.

Grande kept things simple in "Love Me Harder," as opposed to the intergalactic extravaganza that was "Break Free." Here, the sole focus was Grande, as she struck a number of sexy poses throughout the sexyvideo, which was shot in mid-October by Hannah Lux Davis, who explained: "Our visuals are really about this tug of war of just loving harder and the compromise of giving in and needing more and wanting more." The clip opens with dramatic lightning in a sky boiling over with orange clouds. Things get very steamy very quickly and very intense.
Throughout the clip, Grande and The Weeknd, born Abel Tesfaye, withstand earth, wind and water, symbolizing what one would do for love. Most of the video is Grande writhes around on a sandy floor, while singing for her video-love to lover her harder in order to keep her affection. The Weeknd walks nonchalantly through an indoor rain storm, and eventually, Grande and the Canadian singer will get together to sing back-to-back, ultimately illustrating what the song is about - being unable to face the wants and needs of a relationship. Their voices meshed together beautifully and their chemistry was simply off the charts!

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.

One bangin' Sunday! It was a big wild night for Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj on Sunday night, when the three celebrated performers took the stage to open the  MTV's 2014 Video Music Awards, performing a medley of their own singles and their new hit "Bang Bang," and later dropping the music video, which is set to go off like a bang and shows the most glamorous sides of all the ladies. Despite the song's message, it's the kind of song, you put on when you want to dance and let loose and that's exactly what the three manage to do.
The chart-topping track, which is produced by Max Martin, serves as the first cut off of Jessie J's upcoming third studio album, "Sweet Talker," due out on October 14th and also appear on the deluxe version of Grande's sophomore studio album, "My Everything," released today. Backed by clap-heavy production, and built over big bouncy beats and horn blasts, the up-tempo soulful and powerful song is composed of piercing vocals courtesy of two contemporary crooners, as well as rapid-fire spitting from the hottest female MC on the planet who really steals the show with her verse.
The video for "Bang Bang" was shot on the Paramount lot in Hollywood by Hannah Lux Davis who said: "The concept of the video is really about girls coming together and partying it up." Takes us to the streets of New York and beyond, the retro-inspired clip (with shades of the '60s and '70s) opens with Grande, 21, hangs out in her neon apartment as she applies makeup and prepares for a performance; Minaj, 31, then enters a shot, strutting in stilettos and leopard print and takes us above the concrete jungle, as she climbs into her private helicopter drops her off on the helipad on top of one of NYC's skyscrapers.
And finally Jessie J, 26, makes her appearance on a steamy NYC street, driving down a busy thoroughfare in a hot rod and shakes her groove thing with her friends. The trio of divas then break it down in respective scenes shine and shake their booty while singing they turn the streets of Manhattan into a pink paradise." While they take their 'bang bang' action out on the middle of the NYC streets and into the room, the video is certainly not a let down as the dynamic pop trio then come together on the rooftop, wearing brightly-colored skimpy outfits. It makes us wish summer would never end!

Have you seen Gravity? Barbarella? Or Star Trek? Or the newer trilogy of Star Wars movies? Mash those all together in your mind, add Ariana Grande and Zedd, and remove sense. Congratulations, you mentally created the same "Break Free" video Grande and her team made in real life. The the out-of-this-world clip is one hilarious mess, as Grande flaunts her enviable figure (and even channels her inner Katy Perry and Lady Gaga), and fighting off aliens, floating around in a spaceship while rocking a scandalous outfit and showing off her best dance moves.
The joy-infused song, the second single from her upcoming sophomore album "My Everything," finds Grande celebrating her independence from a past love. The intergalactic video start with the same Star Wars-esque scroll we saw in the "Break Free" lyric video. The scroll promises us it will be "two steps ahead of modern day sexiness," and it's definitely two steps ahead of something. Our heroine appears in a really terribly green-screened wide shot! As far as we can tell, the 21-year-old pop star is a heroine come to save the alien captives on a distant planet.
She shoots down the two guards with ease. The caged alien right next to her during her ambush fails to react at all to the tiny girl with the big ponytail and white boots shooting two reptilian aliens. This planet's people are apparently not very expressive. But Grande's battles are not over yet! After freeing the prisoners, she fights off the other guards by ducking at a convenient time and by shooting missiles out of her breasts.
Then we see Grande writhe around in her space shuttle and apply space lipstick on her way to da club! Zedd pretty much sticks to bouncing around adorably at his table. And, of course, it makes time to introduce us to the inexplicable alien elephant chilling on the ship. But even their combined adorableness still can't explain why the damn elephant exists. So the camera finally makes time to watch Grande dance. Our heroine and her scruffy sidekick then pilot the ship right on through the galaxies, onto what will hopefully be a much better "Bang Bang" video.

After hyping us up with several Instagram photos from the set, Ariana Grande has finally rolls out the swinging '60s mod-styled music video for her chart-slaying hit single "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea. The Max Martin-produced song is the lead single from the pop sensation's upcoming sophomore album, is due in August. The 20-year-old Broadway leading lady and breakout music star is growing up fast and exceeding our expectations at every turn! The funky visual proves that she's the full package - she's got the moves, the style and of course, the voice!
The boisterous song finds Grande singing about her insecurities about renewing a relationship with a former boyfriend whom she knows isn't good for her. "'Problem' truly represents the feeling of being absolutely terrified to re-approach a relationship that's gone sour, but you want to more than anything," she explained to Billboard magazine. Grande added that the song is based on her still-evolving relationship with an actual ex: "In the song, it ends on a sappy, negative note, but in [real] life, we're hoping it's going to end on a positive one," she said. "I feel like it's all very honest and human."
The songstress looks like she traveled back in time with Azalea and Big Sean to the 1960s. Keeping with the mod black-and-white color scheme (with a touch of pink) and those thigh-high go-go boots she's been rocking as of late, Grande sheds her sweet, teeny-bopper persona for a sexier, more mature vibe and takes us on a psychedelic journey. In what reminds us of a '60s variety show set, the pop princess struts her stuff in a short black sequined dress with a head-topping ponytail as she belts out her hit song and busts out her go-go girl moves in front of her back-up dancers, who break down some pretty impressive moves.
With its Vespas and costume design, this new monochromatic retro clip feels more like a Topshop catalog put to motion. After singing on a motorcycle, and standing on a spinning wheel getting her air on with a slave fanning a feather, Grande meets up with Azalea, sporting her best Brigitte Bardot hair, as she raps her verse with her mesmerizing rhymes and sexy all-black turtleneck outfit. Sean then joining them to whisper the song's hook "I got one less problem without you" over the Thrift Shopped horns. Click below for contortionists, sequins, and a whole sax-load of swirly '60s graphics.

Ariana Grande puts her well-established love of princess dresses to work in a new music video for her latest song "Right There," features rapper Big Sean and was released as the third single from Grande's chart-topping debut album, "Yours Truly." Grande scored a hit with Mac Miller and now she enlists another rapper close to her heart, Big Sean, for "Right There." If you liked "The Way," then you'll love this hip-hop-flavored tune, which features Grande's breezy vocals. And it's a modern day Romeo and Juliet-themed visual, except this time the story is loosely told to give the lovers a dose of modern-day truth rather than a vial of poison.
This mid-tempo love song finds the 20-year-old bubblegum-soul songstress trading verses with G.O.O.D. Music MC Big Sean about their feelings on relationships. Whilst Grande croons more traditionally romantic sentiments Sean bigs up his attraction to females. "My black book of numbers thicker than the dictionary," he boasts. The song's producer Harmony Samuels sampled the jazz funk loop from Lil' Kim's hip hop tune "Crush On You." The rapper's 1996 hit single interpolated The Jeff Lorber Fusion's "Rain Dance" from their 1979 album "Water Sign."
Just in time for Halloween, the video takes place at a Victorian style masquerade ball in a grand mansion, and shows tons of sexy costumes in it. The clip features Grande in the pink gown, fluttering her fan, surrounded by ball attendees. The men are in a red, black, and white color palette, while the ladies are dressed in metallic dresses. Everyone seems to be dancing by fanning themselves, so the party is both fun and environmentally-friendly. The video is seductive and smoldering and Grande is stunning in a Marie Antoinette like, rose-colored ballgown and looks more confident than ever, batting her eyelashes and waving a fan.
Directed by the Young Astronauts, the clip stars Grande plays the part of the innocent 'Juliet' as she filters 'Romeo and Juliet' through the campy lens of a late-90's teenage rom-com, attends a masquerade ball, and instead of grabbing her boyfriend Nathan Sykes to play her suave 'Romeo' love interest, she grabbed Arnold Schwarzenegger's 20-year-old model/actor son Patrick for the part. Meanwhile, Sean spits his bars from a priest chair in a sanctuary. As the video comes to a close, the lovers join in on the wet and wild fun as they continue to passionately stare at each other under the firework-filled sky.

Ariana Grande continues her debut album release celebration and takes a time machine back to 1993 and throws a block party in her sunny visual for her new single, "Baby I," the second single from her newly-released debut studio album, "Yours Truly," which premiered at No.1 on last Tuesday by Republic Records. The 20-year-old entertainer is channeling mid-'90s R&B sweetness on her new single, which is all about not being able to fully express how much you are crushing on that special someone.
Follow-up the huge success of her debut single "The Way," the breezy Babyface co-written and produced fun track is an uptempo R&B and pop song that features Grande's big vocals over another snap-worthy R&B beat with its more sophisticated edge as Grande singing, "Baby I got love for thee, so deep inside of me I don't know where to start." It definitely shows off Grande's vocal range and the video matches that. Lyrically, the song is a confession on Grande's behalf admitting a special love for someone and how she can't formulate her strong feelings into words.
The '90s R&B music influence demonstrated in "Baby I," which has also musically present on the rest of her debut album. Additionally, '70s disco energy is also present in the song like Mariah Carey gone retro. In an interview, Grande opined that "Baby I" was more sophisticated and mature than her previous hit single "The Way," which was part of what made her excited to release the song. With her deftness with the blue-eyed soul genre, Grande sings as though she is wise beyond her years, and succeeded in meeting the bar where she set it with her debut, while her extraordinary vocal performance runs as nothing short of everything.
Travel back to the 90s, Grande takes fans for a ride on the "Baby I" Express down Nostalgia Road in her summery clip in which shows the 'Victorious' alum in a variety of settings including dancing in the streets, riding on top of a white convertible, commanding a choreography on a rooftop, and partying on a bus cruising around town, and hanging with friends while showing off some cute fashions and sporting some choreographed dance moves. The Florida pop singer looks stunningly beautiful as she soaks up the sun's rays, and melts hearts smiling to the camera, while wearing both sexy and old-school fashion outfits in the colorful visual.

Ariana Grande and The Wanted's Nathan Sykes have been given a delicate music video and get affectionate for their duet ballad "Almost Is Never Enough," which will be featured in the new film "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones." The track will also appear on Grande's upcoming debut studio album, "Yours Truly," due out September 3rd. The movie, just released on Wednesday, is based on author Cassandra Clare's extremely popular book series, about the teen fantasy and will be the newest wanna-be "Twilight."
Co-written and produced by Harmoney Samuels, "Almost Is Never Enough" is a tender ballad whose lyrics speak of finding love but it slipping away from your hands. Grande and Sykes take turns for the verses, with Grande singing alone the first chorus, and the twosome joining their voices for the last section. The 20-year-old pop's new princess sounds dazzling over this sparse piano ballad, and gets damn near Mariah Carey territory with some of her notes.
Grande recalled to MTV News: "I didn't know it was going to be a duet and Scooter(manager) just said 'Check your email'. And Nathan just sang the hell out of it," she added. "I thought it was Brian McKnight. I'm like 'Who is this?' Honestly I wasn't expecting it. I didn't know he had that in him. I saw him perform live on one of the radio shows that we were at together and I was like, 'Damn he can sing.'" The 20-year-old Florida singer also told MTV News: "The version going on the Mortal Instruments soundtrack is a much shorter version. The one that's on my album is very long. But I'm really excited by it."
Juxtaposes footage of Grande and Sykes with romantic scenes from the upcoming movie "The Mortal Instruments," the Charming video, directed by The Young Astronauts, is straightforward enough as two singers becoming acquainted for the first time, and recording their duet in the studio booth, and getting cozy on the sofa, hug a few times, and snap along to the song's rhythm, dramatically lipsynching the big ol' retro-style ballad even more convincingly than when we pretend to be in a music video on the daily commute. It's basically all a bit 90s, with Grande giving Sykes some loving looks over a microphone and being generally quite dramatic.

MIKA has teamed up with post-Nickelodeon pop star Ariana Grande to release a music video for his latest anti-bullying anthem, "Popular Song," the second single in the US from the 29-year-old British singer-songwriter's third studio album, "The Origin of Love." The heart of the video is fantastic and shows the pair hosting a grisly dinner party to get revenge on a pack of schoolyard bullies that picked, teased and were otherwise horrible to them.
Funny enough, it seems like the 19-year-old lovely and talented Grande's own popularity is on the rise heading into this partnering. MIKA, meanwhile, is still doing what he does best - peppering infectious melodies with raw cleverness. The track contains a killer "Wicked" sample, featuring a fresh twist line from the Broadway musical's smash track "Popular," and uses a very rough tempo and instrumentation, to fit in with the theme of the album. MIKA said of the song in an interview: "I went to see ["Wicked"], and I thought, 'Grande's actually being mean,' so I thought it would be nice to take the song and write my own version of it because I don't like what she was saying in that part of the show."
"Popular Song" is a song to inspire bullied and unpopular people to stand up. It is a different view of MIKA's previous efforts, with its peppy beat + catchy melody + playful lyrics = perfect song to bounce around to. OK, we get it, high school sucks as anyone who went to high school knows. Wouldn't it be nice to invite them over for dinner, then magically turn them into stone like the witches? Well, no matter how much they suck, MIKA and Grande do a nice job of acting out our ultimate high school fantasy in the Chris Marrs Piliero-directed stylish video for "Popular Song."
The clip follows a Gothic theme, being set in a spooky, dark, "Addams Family"-esque high school. MIKA texts an invite to a dinner party to his popular classmates who are bullying him and Grande. This is interlaced with scenes of the two brewing a potion in a witch's cauldron and scenes of them falling victim to bullying. MIKA later prepares to return to his mansion in his talking car. At the dinner party, the bullies consume their drinks drugged with the potion, and turn to stone. They are then smashed into pieces. The video ends with a twist, as the pair have a toast and the former takes a sip from his drink, the video flashes back to when the two were children and MIKA is seen kicking down Grande's castle made of wooden blocks. MIKA subsequently turns to stone as well.

Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande puts her own heart up in her new music video for her debut single "Put Your Hearts Up," the official first single from her upcoming debut album. Grande is best known as the emotionally scattered Cat Valentine on Nickelodeon's "Victorious," but like her co-star Victoria Justice, she's also got a blossoming singing career.
The uplifting pop tune was co-written by celebrated songwriter Linda Perry, and samples a melody from 1993 smash hit "What's Up?" by her band 4 Non Blondes. The pop tune is full of energy, and encourages listeners to band together, because "if we give a little love, we can change the world," sings the 18-year-old actress and singer who has previously starred on Broadway in the musical "13." Grande shot the video for "Put Your Hearts Up" recently and has been tweeting about how she's lending a hand in the editing process.
"Put Your Hearts Up," was so much more than just a catchy pop single. It was a pop single with soul, heartbeat, substance. "It's a song that I hope inspires people to put their hearts up and that even the smallest acts of kindness can make the word a better place. And seeing everyone make little hearts with their hands when I sing "Put Your Hearts Up" almost makes me cry every time. Every. Single. Time," she shared. Grande's vocals have this ability to carry you from the darkest of places into a euphoric trance, it proving she's a force to be reckoned with.
Co-directed by Meiert Avis and Jeremy Alter, the video for "Put Your Hearts Up" features the red haired cutie in a signature Grande magenta gown that definitely lifts up your mood, as she strolls down the street that looks quite similar to Universal Orlando theme park, spreading the power of love to the people she passes, and even features a crazy dance number where Grande leads hundreds of people. We love the homage to Singing in the Rain!