Today's Pick

Beyoncé, following up to her sexually-charged performance of "Drunk in Love" with her husband Jay-Z at this year's GRAMMY Awards, unleashed the elegant, magnificent and eye-popping video for her next single "Partition," which was co-penned by Justin Timberlake as third single on the R&B star's self-titled fifth album. Beyoncé explained in videos for the album that she is very much aware that she is showing off her body; she wants to prove to women that you can have children and still have an amazing body. The "XO" singer and Rise Fragrance creator wasn't singing much about love, but served up sex for the latest clip.
"Partition" is a sexy urban song, that Beyoncé wrote inspired by the thoughts she had on her mind the night she got engaged to Jay-Z. The track opens with the call-and-response that Beyoncé pumps the crowd with before going to "Get Me Bodied" every night on tour. It contains explicit lyrics that describes Beyoncé making love in a limousine. She sings in French on the bridge, where she criticizes those who believe feminists are not interested in sex. And the steamy track gives gawkers a peek into the intimate side of Beyoncé's marriage to Jay-Z. If you thought their Grammy performance was too hot to handle, you'll want to take a cold shower in Siberia after watching this video, which features Beyoncé performing a striptease on a piano and giving viewers a whole new way to think about the word "peaches."
Directed by Jake Nava, the sexy, extravagant and scintillating clip was inspired by Beyoncé's desire to prove that women can maintain their personal sexy even after childbirth, and a trip to the famous Crazy Horse strip club in Paris. "The day I got engaged was my husband's birthday and I took him to Crazy Horse and I remember thinking, 'Damn, these girls are fly.' And I just thought it was the ultimate sexy show: 'I wish I was up there, I wish I could perform that for my man...' so that's what I did for my video," said Beyoncé.
"It takes me back to when me and my husband first meet and he's trying to scoop me and he thinks I'm the hottest thing in the world," she explained. "I kinda had this whole fantasy of being in the car and this whole movie played in my head." Opening with Beyoncé staring down her man at the breakfast table while drinking tea, the clip dives down a rabbit hole of burlesque shows, strip teases and backseat canoodling as the Beyoncé danced suggestively, showcasing her famous assets and teases Jay-Z, who makes another classic, cigar-smoking cameo with an array of outfits and head-spinning dance moves. The clip suddenly cuts back to the breakfast table at the very end in classic it-was-all-a-dream fashion.

Broken hearts don't matter when you're in paradise. And for Snoop Lion and Rita Ora, who made an escape to a tropical paradise where they soak up the Thai culture, sun, water, and dance on the beach in the feel-good video for their rosy-sounding heartbreak duet, "Torn Apart," which appearing on Snoop's latest 12th studio album, "Reincarnated," which has released in April, and marked a departure for Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. from his days of Snoop Dogg to Snoop Lion. The album, which focused on a reggae sound rather than Snoop's traditional rap vibe.
The 41-year-old reborn reggae musician has steadily rolled out new records and definitely settled into his new persona with fully embraced the laid-back vibe of reggae music. A definite cross-cultural experience, with the reggae sounds and Southeast Asian scenery, "Torn Apart" is a light-hearted summer tune. The 22-year-old British-Kosovo singer's strong vocals provide a great contrast to Snoop's chilled singsong verses and the track's thumping horns. The summery visual goes really well with this reggae-infused track and captures the song's mellow and relaxed groove as the two convene with a crew of indigenous dancers where they all shake it to the reggae-tinged beat.
Shot instagram-style and live from Thailand, the video begins with Snoop and Rita cozying up at a bar during their exotic getaway, recalling their fond memories of an amazing summer gone by in a black-and-white vintage filter. The clip quickly changes to color footage of the duo frolicking on the idyllic picturesque beaches and tropical scenery, mingling with the local traditional dancers and doing summery things like playing in the waves, throwing back brewskies, and jamming to some warm weather-appropriate reggae, while some Thai kickboxers working out in a swimming pool - perhaps an homage to Thai culture?
As the Major Lazer-crafted beat pulsates in the background, the energetic songstress wears a series of floaty summer outfits, jewels and bikinis seems to have got into the holiday spirit, is evidently enjoying herself and also manages to hop onto the back of an elephant for a quick ride, and swimming underwater, while the video also features the two write their names in the sand, then the video switches back to black-and-white with Snoop waking up as if from a dream. It's pretty much your perfect "fun in the sun" dream Thai vacation, only with perfect bodies and probably a five-star resort to go home to when you're profusely sweating and craving some air conditioning.

Snoop Lion and Miley Cyrus have put together some slow-motion and preside over the various ongoings of a crowded city in the new visuals for their collaboration "Ashtrays and Heartbreaks," which is the lead single appears on the 41-year-old rapper-turned-rasta's latest reggae effort, "Reincarnated," the twelfth studio album by Snoop Dogg, and the first under his new, reggae-fied moniker Snoop Lion, and he certainly tells one hypnotic, hazy story! His new reggae sound is evidently turning Snoop into a poet as the song about love and loss tells a visual story that features a toked up Snoop on the streets of a slowed down LA and glass reflections of a spiritual Cyrus.
"Reincarnated's highlight is "Ashtrays and Heartbreaks," with, yes, 20-year-old Cyrus, still in her first flush of post-teen stonerdom, sounding every bit like the sort of suburban teen was led not-quite-astray by Snoop's previous incarnation. Produced by Major Lazer, Ariel Rechtshaid and Dre Skull, the Reggae-flavored summery track finds Snoop proclaiming, "Tonight there's gonna be a lot of smoke in the air." A heartbroken Cyrus then reminisces about losing those close to her, whether it's the passing away of a family member or a breakup. "Is there any possibility that everyone feels like me," she sings, "You're gone, but you're never missed."
Snoop told MTV News that he feels Cyrus is often criticized by the press unfairly. "She loves what I do and I really love what she does, so for us to come together, it's bold and courageous," he said. "People just expect so much from her because they've been watching her whole life, from being a kid. She's just ready to be a grown up and express herself, and I support it." Asked how this duet came about, Snoop recalled: "It's basically what we are both going through right now. We're both going through transformation, we both love making music and doing what we do and speaking from our hearts, and it's just a great collaboration."
Rapper and singer find power in pain in the PR Brown-directed cool-toned video. In which the two artists are look positively chill and only seen as projections on a variety of reflective surfaces, including car windows, store fronts, and a heart-shaped pair of sunglasses, and so many mirrored surfaces. The video reflects the feel-good nature of the song, which encourages to the listener to "raise a glass to the memories [and] set them free," not surprisingly, Snoop puffs some celebratory smoke in slow-motion as well.

Dancehall and hip-hop has always held close sonic ties. The Moroccan-born rapper French Montana is continuing the Coke Boy craze, and doesn't seem to be showing any signs of slowing down his grind. The "Pop That" rapper finally drops off the provocative visual for his dancehall-infused track, "Freaks," his sexually-charged collaboration with Nicki Minaj who steals the limelight in her pasties. The track will appear as second single on Montana's upcoming debut LP, "Excuse My French," duo May 21.
It's par for the course for dancehall-inspired cut, which samples both Li'l Vicious Destination Brooklyn track of the same title and Chaka Demus & Pliers' 1994 single "Murder She Wrote." It combines Caribbean energy, with a hip-hop twist. Minaj pays homage to her Caribbean roots on this dancehall-flavored track by using a rhyming style reminiscent of her "Beam Me Up Scotty" days, Minaj spits some sexually-charged bars over a beat and wastes no time squatting on a throne backwards while giving an eyeful of her assets and pasty-covered boobies.
Forget the demure Minaj at the "American Idol" judges table, the rapper goes back to her raunchy roots, bouncing her notorious backside in incredibly tight spandex, gold pasties and little else. Montana told Billboard it was a no-brainier to get Minaj on the track: "Nicki Minaj being from my home town, we were talking about doing something together, and this record was it. I wanted to do something different, especially with Nicki on the record with me, and Rico Love produced it. The game hasn't had a dancehall song, a Jamaican song like this in so long, and Nicki being from Trinidad and me being from Morocco, that record is international."
The Eif Rivera-directed visual finds the pair in the midst of a good ol' fashioned basement dancehall-esque type party and amongst a constant dance battle and plenty of Dutty Wining. Montana rocks furs, but it's Young Money diva's cameo that has everyone talking. While it is French's anthem, Minaj clearly outshines the Bad Boy artist with her physique, as she really came through, taking her top off, shaking her money maker and keeps eyes set on her with her leopard ensemble and gold pasties, dripping sex appeal.

Rocking a perturbing new hairstyle, Sean Paul is back with a new video. When he came in to the WiLD studio, he said he was working on something his fans would love! The Jamaican pop rap and reggae singer gets to live every guy's most outrageous fantasy on his second video for the trance-inspired dance-floor track "She Doesn't Mind," the second single from the Jamaican recording artist's forthcoming fifth studio album, "Tomahawk Technique."
Paul channels his inner Akon in this synth-heavy attempt at crossover success with "She Doesn't Mind." The dancehall beat track, a fusion of electro-pop and Hip Hop, again has the infectious vibe Paul runs with but with a tinge of Electro making the track sound averagely good. While his previous infectious, dancehall attempt with Alexis Jordan did not impact the US charts, this might due to the fantastic video it accompanies.
The 38-year-old dancehall superstar transforms himself into a clubber with this trance-inspired high-energy dance anthem. The song finds the Jamaican singer instructing girls on the dance floor how to get a guy's attention. The song was co-written and produced by the Dance-Pop hitmaker Benny Blanco, whose impressive resume includes Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl," Ke$ha's "TiK ToK" and Bruno Mars'"Grenade." The clip is just roar! The ladies aren't scanty but certain things that happen during the video says that she doesn't mind. Paul sexes up TSA in the Evan Winter-directed video.
The dancehall star sends his female partner-in-crime through security, where she is frisked by a female attendant, but neither seems to mind. Meanwhile, he waits in the airport as the female flight attendants cater to his needs. "The main concept of the video is that we've all been through security, we all know it starts to feel a little personal perhaps when they start patting you down and doing that whole thing," explained by Winter. "We decided to take it a little ways extra and make it so that we get a little sexy with going through security." You'll never look at airport security the same way.

Rihanna gets buddy Avril Lavigne on board in the just-released video for her celebratory tune "Cheers (Drink to That)," serves as the seventh overall single from 23-year-old Barbadian's fifth studio album, "Loud." This grungy party-drinking anthem dedicated to a night on the town is a wise, world-weary paean from a gal at the bar who's seen some stuff, has moved on and wants to buy everybody a round of fruity shots. The video is about letting loose and toasting to the weekend.
Bet you didn't think Avril Lavigne would be sampled anytime soon, but this track samples Lavigne's 2002 ballad "I'm With You," with incorporates the element of dancehall, dance-pop, pop rock, and R&B. About why the decision was made to sample Lavigne, rather than getting the Canadian pop singer to come in and re-record the vocal for the song. "I asked the same thing, but when I heard the track, it was already embedded in the music, so the producers already had it that way," she explained. "But it wouldn't have made a difference. It would have sounded the same. But I'm just glad that we could use her sample, because it became such a huge part of the instrumental that if it were not to be in the song, it would change the whole vibe of the song."
Rihanna told MTV News about this tune: "I love that song. That is one of my favorite songs on the album. It makes you feel like celebrating. It gives you a great feeling inside like you want to go out and have a drink. People can't wait for the weekend." Rihanna also told Spin magazine: "It's a song you would hear in a bar but I think you could also hear it all over pop radio. It's really grungy and melodic and catchy. And the way the producers sampled Avril — it's like she's an instrument. It's really cool how they combined [the song] with her vocals."
There are no special effects, storylines or no chance of lawsuits. The music video shows footage and behind-the-scenes from her concert experiences and performing on tour to her every day life as well as various different activities she did during her homecoming trip to Barbados. It also finds Rihanna in an appropriately celebratory mood and it's mostly a lot of shots of her partying backstage with friends and celebrities. This is probably the most candid and loose we've seen Rihanna as she goes bar hopping and slices open a coconut. Again, that video fit the song, as is the case here.