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Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding are at it again. Following the success of their previously collaborated on "I Need Your Love" from his 2012 album, "18 Months," the dynamic duo have collaborated once more for the new pop anthem, "Outside." Goulding flaunts her toned midriff area and her favorite brand of underwear as she's feeling the same pain and regret as Rita Ora and every other girl who has ever loved and lost Scottish DJ in their new video for "Outside," the latest single from Harris' fourth studio album, "Motion," released last month.
It's about decaying relationships. The EDM song acts as a darker sequel to their previous collaboration. Whilst "I Need Your Love" found Goulding singing about being enamored with her guy, this finds her breaking up with him as she wondering if breaking up with her ex was the best choice. "I'll show you what it feels like," sings the UK songstress in the hook, "now I'm on the outside," a mirror in front of her shatters and stops time as she temporarily reconnects and comes face to face with her ex.
So that's the plot the director used for the "Outside" video, takes this to the extreme. Opening to a trailer park, of all places, the colorful clip shows a casually clad Goulding on her knees and is lamenting the broken relationship on the ground in the middle of a street in broad daylight. Although it seems like an odd intro, there's more to the story than meets the eye. As it turns out, both musicians are stuck in troubled relationships that are rapidly imploding: there's fighting, screaming, hair-tearing, and crockery throwing, and both are itching for a way out.
The "Burn" singer has a new boyfriend who appears to be an alcoholic with a nasty temper, and Harris has moved on as well to someone with a similar penchant for arguing and throwing dishes. Both "exes" mediating whether splitting was an intelligent move. Hints of real-life troubles in paradise are sprinkled into the nearly four-minute video which works out fine with the original message of the song - two lovebirds thinking about the past. Outside seems like the safe place to be.

With a week to go until Calvin Harris' star-studded fourth studio album "Motion" hits, the 30-year-old Scottish superstar DJ has shared a action-packed new video for his Big Sean-assisted new single "Open Wide," minutes after premiering the audio on New York City-based radio station Hot 97. Along with the refurbished tune comes the explosive video, featuring a gun shootout in the middle of a desert with Harris and Sean right in the middle of it.
More and more dance music producers have been venturing into hip-hop territory, and Harris has done so with "Open Wide," a tune that may sound very familiar to one of his current releases. "Open Wide," is not a new beat from Harris who previously used the same drop and a similar build up on a solo record called "C.U.B.A," Harris' instrumental Beatport No.1 hit, released back in June. Harris took advantage of the incredible success he achieved with "C.U.B.A.," and reworked it into a hip-hop masterpiece.
The big difference between the two songs is the Detroit rapper, who makes another foray into the world of EDM and adds in two energetic and suitable verses that laid on top of the house-meets-trap beat. "Open that shit wide, let me see how big your mouth is," raps Sean over Harris' signature production, adding, "This goes out to...You know who this goes out to." The U.K. hitmaker's new track "Wide Open," is a pretty generic sounding track, but it'll fit right into main stage festival sets.
As for the Emil Nava-directed cinematic clip, it's clearly a high-budget endeavor, featuring high speed racing, guns and pair up two gangs war showdown in the desert with Harris and Sean right in the middle of it that pops off right as the beat drops. As two opposing sides blast shot after shot at each other, all while a ballerina is gracefully dancing in between all of the sheer fuckery, inexplicably moving around while dodging bullets with the dexterity of Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix." It's aesthetically pleasing, but a bit confusing.

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.

Calvin Harris has been teasing fans all week on Twitter with the promise of new material, and Scottish DJ and producer has finally unveiled the stunning visuals for his brand new single "Summer," the lead single from Harris' upcoming fourth studio album and the follow up to the record-breaking successful "18 Months." Set in a desert where Harris embarks on a gripping dramatic drag race with "Fast & Furious" star Jason Statham in the glamorous clip, which also sees a bevy of model beauties strutting around in skimpy clothing.
The party-ready dance-pop song finds Harris perform vocal duties as he singing about the euphoria of a summertime romance. The exuberant club-stomper marked the Scottish DJ's first time on the microphone since "18 Months"' second single, "Feel So Close." The song was played for the first time on UK's Capital Radio on March 14. peaking to Capital about his new music at the BRIT Awards last month, Harris said he was planning on releasing a series of singles first and had to convince a big name star about a possible collaboration.
The video starts with an ariel view of a long stretch of road, before showing the 30-year-old Scottish hitmaker hits the dessert in a relaxed pair of jeans and a white T-shirt singing "Summer" while walking on the desert road. Sporting designer stubble and side-parting, he looks every inch the understated urban pop star. Meanwhile, a lingerie-clad model watches him from a balcony before seductively reclining on a bed in what is one of Harris' more sensual videos.
Shortly after, Statham can be seen driving intensely down the road in a direct competition with Harris. With a determined look on his face, the character is reminiscent of his many other film roles, which sees him play a rough-around-the-edges bad guy. Fortunately, the battle doesn't last long, as the drag race is soon replaced by a late-night epic pool party, which sees bottles of champagne explode and a delighted Harris celebrate amongst plenty of bottle-popping and party-goers. Visually energetic, the clip is a perfect match for the new single which is eagerly anticipated.

The massive trifecta of Scottish deejay Calvin Harris, fellow Swedish DJ Alesso and British synthpop duo Hurts' frontman Theo Hutchcraft have teamed up and unveiled the official music video for their collaborative huge progressive anthem, "Under Control," which will be released on November 24. The video is colorful, vivid, and entertaining. The trio lark about as the apocalypse draws near, and it answers anyone wondering what these guys would do if the world was ending.

The track was originally premiered at Alesso's set in Ibiza at the beginning of August, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 1. Alesso originally revealed the collaboration back in May, tweeting that the song is "sounding big." The track is a true Euro club banger, with a relentless 90s house beat and rave synths forming the foundation beneath Hutchcraft's trademark melodramatic vocals, while while Harris and Alesso deliver a masterpiece of musical production, with epic builds that climax into a burst of synergistic energy.
The banging EDM adventure "Under Control" has that perfect medium that isn't too chill, but still makes you bounce as you listen. As is normally the case with EDM anthems, they get even better when paired with a good video. You can find all three guys featured in the 'end of the world' style music video as they head into the big city for one last show before the meteor to destroy Earth hits. And of course, they pick up a couple ladies along the way to help them party the right way during their final hours on Earth.
Shot in Los Angeles, and featuring phenomenal vocals from Hutchcraft, the accompanying music video depicts a meteor coming to Earth and all three artists looking moody, pissing about and performing live in the face of the oncoming apocalypse as we see the trio brace themselves for a meteor strike by playing a gig in a limo with girls they picked up on the side of the road to mark the end of the world.  After a few tense seconds, we're treated to a happy twist ending perfect for the uplifting tune.

Calvin Harris has just released the raunchy music video for "Thinking About You," a dance-pop collaboration with Jordanian singer Ayah Marar, that serves as the eighth and final single from the Scottish producer and DJ's No.1 third studio album, "18 Months." The 29-year-old DJ producer extraordinaire teams up once again with up-and-coming vocalist Marar (from "Flashback") on "Thinking About You," which is a signature Harris retro-house track with a dizzying build up and light summer beats. Another week, another music video walking the fine line between blatant nudity and art.
Directed by Vincent Haycock in Los Angeles, the clip captures the smooth hidden house track's fun dance vibe perfectly as it whisks you away to an island full of adventure, exotic scenery, and a party that seem to exist only in dreams. Or kind of like the movie that agent 007 would be seen at. Instead of using the women front and center, Haycock punctuates the storyline of excesses gone amok in Harris' video with the odd topless girl walking through a mansion, a couple having sex on a private jet, punches being thrown by two troubled young men, some lesbian action, and poor Marar getting her yacht hijacked by a group of armed pirates.
Chock-full of Gatsby style extravagance and nudity, the explicit clip follows numerous seemingly unconnected story lines, taking viewers everywhere from a mile high club venture to a boat heist in the middle of the ocean. To advance the story lines, Haycock also throws in pirates, a fist fight, a private jet and a drug-fueled party set in a European castle. Opening in the kind of mansion you think of when picturing 90s hip hop videos, "Thinking About You" spends the better part of its initial minute following a scantily clad model through her luxurious abode. She eventually drops her top, revealing her breasts, and the scene then jumps to a separate scene involving two bikini-clad gals on a boat.
As the video goes on, the energetic music backs a tale of high seas hijacking, cocaine parties, and additional shots of mansion life that feels more dreamlike than anything else. It's far more entertaining than the vast majority of videos released as of late, but what's most surprising is how even in the midst of all the action mentioned above the song is what stands out as the true highlight. "Thinking About You" is a bonafide hit, and after this track reaches radio it will be inescapable.

Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding hooked up and look like they're making more than just music as they couple up in their sexy new video for their new collaboration, "I Need Your Love," the seventh single from the 29-year-old Scottish producer and DJ's third studio album, "18 Months," and was also included as a bonus track on the 26-year-old English singer's sophomore studio album, "Halcyon." What's better than two powerhouse acts? Both literally and figuratively!
If Monday has you down in the dumps, there is an 80% chance the following video will change things entirely. The mid-tempo electro-dance track, is a club-banging dance jam that matches his infectious beats with Goulding's saccharine voice - a match made in dance music heaven. This dance floor classic was transformed into this french funk tune that is sure to take over your body. It has some nostalgic sounds intermixed with the future funk he's putting out there as 80's synths roll into some new vocoder vocals. If you can make it from the beginning to the chorus without feeling the need to dance and/or scream with joy you are a far more controlled person than myself.
Discussing her collaboration with Harris, Goulding told Pop Justice: "I think it's one of the first songs he's written with someone. He's written a lot of songs by himself. I mean, he's really, really clever. I've always been a fan of him and we used to have the same management, ages ago. He's done well for himself. We wrote that song in his flat about a year ago now and then we sort of scrapped it and came back to it and re-recorded it and there was a bit of confusion around that song for a bit."
The promo is so bright, sunny, commercial and mainstream - a whole steamy, summery affair for the pair, who play a couple that reunited with a lost camera that contains a compilation of footage of them together, journeying around the world in love with one another and recording themselves as they gallivant through the streets and bedrooms of Miami. They kiss, they frolicking around in bed before they smooch, cruising in a convertible and getting a tattoo, and then they go to the beach, and they make the most out of Miami's awesome nightlife.

The infectious, heart pounding, club sounds of Calvin Harris returns and teams up with Tinie Tempah unveiled a unique, eye catching, hectic and controversial video for their radio-friendly collaboration, "Drinking From the Bottle," the sixth song from Harris's latest third studio "18 Months," available in stores now. The 28-year-old Scottish DJ tries to show us a different side of Hollywood in his new video.
The dance track, where Harris writes about life's excesses through his lyrics, finds Harris linking up with the English rapper, who declaring he's being "busy for the next top model / Who's wearing something new and something old / And something borrowed / I know this crazy life can be a bitter pill to swallow / So forget about tomorrow / Tonight, we're drinking from the bottle."
Directed by Vincent Haycock and AG Rojas, Harris and Tempah take us on an emotional roller-coaster through Hollywood in the visuals, and its plot centers around, you guessed it, The Devil, who wanders around Los Angeles, observing people and engaging in all possible vices, including booze, drugs and even cannibalism throughout what ends up turning into a monologue inclusive short film.
Take a tour of Hollywood's sleazy side with the devil himself, the fantastic clip opens up with two fellas on the street having an interesting conversation about Joan of Arc before it breaks into the track. As the video progresses, we see a man dressed as the devil going through his daily routine of intriguing activities. Meanwhile Tempah is somewhere dark, surrounded by thick, beautiful women who are shaking their assets to the track. Aside from it's main character, themes of sex, drugs and alcohol are at the forefront, causing some fans to question what they just watched.

Calvin Harris has released a magnanimous new video for his new energetic jam, "Sweet Nothing," which features the guest vocals from Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine, and is the fifth single feature on the Scottish DJ's upcoming third studio album, "18 Months," which will be released at the end of October, and Harris stated via his Twitter account that it would be "like a compilation album but with me all over it."
This electro-disco dance-hall banger is about a lover who gives such sweet nothing. viewers are introduced to a back story that explains the sad lyrics. The ballad follows the familiar pattern of taking love-strung vocals and layering them over a bouncy, ever-building beat. It's a classic Harris club tune supporting Welch' iconic, quivering vocals. Ironically, Harris' outstanding production beats perfectly pound away as Welch's powerful vocals emotionally help you sail away through the video's emotional story.
Welch never really strains herself, apparently saving her typically athletic singing for tracks that won't primarily be used at dance music festivals. The English songstress adds her throaty vocals to a throbbing dancebeat and delivers more aggressive and animated performance as the beat gets faster and pounds away halfway through the video. The result is propulsive and ear catching, while also providing some series drama. The video is a little cinematic catharsis, directed by Vincent Haycock and was filmed over two days in a Working Men's Club in Dalston, London.
The video rather than depicting the usual fist pumping club scenes took on narrative form, and see this odd pair taking on characters in a downer narrative. It begins with a desolate-looking Harris is sitting in a fast-food restaurant waiting for his food, while Welch Playing the role of an abused woman as a mysterious cross-dressing cabaret singer in a small, dingy, seedy, Serbian nightclub, pouring the pain and frustration of her unfulfilled life and fearful of her future into every revealing and explosive performance, which continues to be artfully intercut with Harris' unfolding situation and eventually it all converges.

Calvin Harris has released the music video for new club killer "Let's Go," the third single from Scottish DJ's upcoming untitled third studio album, which is highly anticipated by his fans. The original radio edit features vocals from American pop and R&B Artist Ne-Yo, who is such a gorgeously bouncy electro-house tune that within just the first few bars, you can tell it's destined to become a summer anthem.
"It's not about what you've done, it's about what you're doing, no matter where you've been, Let's go!" the 28-year-old R&B entertainer aptly states over his unmistakable electronic flourishes of euphoric synths and speaker-jumping beats, which was used in the UK to soundtrack an impressive footballer-starring Pepsi Max ad campaign. Coincidentally, the final result isn't too different from the fizzy beverage; it's sparkling, addictive and sure to give you a burst of energy.
It sounds very much like a Harris song, - however while Ne-Yo's voice is always lovely, it intrudes a bit on this track. Instead Harris could have tried leaving Ne-Yo's voice out of the chorus leaving more music to dance to. It worked for "We Found Love," after all. The DJ and his featured guest invite people to get on the dance floor with his upbeat anthem, and the clip culminates with the disc jokey spinning his turntable for a large number of revelers and his featured guest performing in a live concert.
Harris's romantic, fun and vibrant video features three couples in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, and Los Angeles take a whirlwind day out through their home towns. Rio sees the couple take a bike ride along the sunny streets, in Tokyo the couple take part in a dance off before hitting a club, and in LA the couple train in a gym before hanging out with Ne-Yo at the end. All three couples end up at Harris's concert where the Scottish producer spins tunes behind the DJ booth, and leads them to a massive crowd dance party.

After had an impressive debut earlier this year, and burning up dancefloors with "Bounce" that he recorded together with post-pop punk pal Kelis, Calvin Harris comes through with another infectious dance track, "Feel So Close." Due out Aug 24th, the track is the second to be released from Harris's forthcoming third as-yet-untitled album. The production on the track is staggering, especially the addictive, repetitive chorus that won't leave your mind after the very first listen.
Lovely tune, subtle vocal, great chopped up guitar riff with bass added to compliment. In this follow up stomper and electro/house pop banger, the Scottish producer and DJ created an uplifting summer party vibe with a hypnotic hook and vocal arrangement. Featuring his Harris' own vocals, "Feel So Close" is a solid hybrid between progressive Do-It-Yourself dance and chart-savvy pop that is infused with a spiky guitar riff, a soulful club groove and a simple, yet potent melodic hook.
We've already heard two new Harris tracks this year, but "Feel So Close" makes me most certain about his next album. It's definitely one of his best catchy tunes, and everything from his vocals, the drop, back-up singer makes this feel-good track so perfect. Harris is currently DJing on tour for Rihanna and his hit song "Bounce." I like Harris's swag and his approach to music. His singing fits perfect for the electro vibe that must of his tracks have. "Feel So Close" has the Harris attitude that his fans adore.
The 27-year-old Scottish's new single "Feel So Close" may have only got its radio premiere last Friday and won't be officially released until August 24th, but the promo wheels are clearly in motion as Thursday we have been given access to the official music video. The plot is basically random people 'getting together' and creating new friendships, which fits the lyrics. The video set once again in America, showing different aspect of people's lives and feelings to each other including pom poms, street gangs and cowboys, however with the underlying message of love.

Scottish Electronica musician Calvin Harris has proven himself a force to be reckoned with and is back with a brand new music video for his moody dance jam "You Used To Hold Me." Harris announced on his twitter message Wednesday morning at 4:56a.m. that "I've got a new video for You Used To Hold Me here!" I can never really take Harris seriously until you hear his music.
The Scottish artist has hit big in the UK and other parts of the world with his pop/synth/electroclash sound, which mixes some disco influences with his quirky vocals and always catchy songs, such as No.1 single, trance-pop masterpiece "I’m Not Alone". Harris produces, writes and sings most of his own stuff and has also worked with people like the Kylie Minogue and UK rapper Dizzee Rascal. "You Used To Hold Me" is an upcoming 2010 single release from the 25-year-old Scottish Pop/Dance singer and DJ's fifth single taken from his decent sophomore studio album "Ready For The Weekend," out now on Fly Eye/Columbia/Sony, and reached No.1 in the UK Album Charts in August. The song will be released on February 8, 2010 from Ultra Records.
Favoring a naughty schoolboy look that makes him seem even younger than his already tender years (22 when his first major-label album was released), Scottish artist, producer, and remixer Harris has a similarly youthful and forward-looking approach to his music. Skipping the usual apprenticeship in the clubs or on indie labels, Harris went from posting his own D.I.Y. electroclash music online through /MySpace and similar sites to signing with the multinational giant EMI almost in a single step. No surprise since he now has over a million sales on his last album worldwide!
Like many of Harris's video clips, this one involves a pack of model-perfect girls wearing skimpy clothes gyrating across the screen, except this one has a monster truck in it. The car-crunching video is like a car show with a slew of dancing women amongst Harris DJ'ing in front of a monster truck. How many times has your heart been broken, feeling like you got ran over or hit by a truck? That's what I got from this video, but I'm sure your interpretation may be something else.