Today's Pick

The always talented, interesting and energetic, M.I.A. returns and continues to purvey her rebellious sound with astonishing comeback visual for her 'insane' new song "Bring The Noize," which pays tribute to Public Enemy's 1987 classic of the same name, and is the first official single lifted from the British rapper's upcoming fourth studio album, "Matangi," which in Hindu is a goddess, of music and word. It's also M.I.A.'s real name - Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam. A fertile combo with sensational, radical, halting, genre-bending and political songwriting, spiritual maxims, pop cultural context.
It's been over a year since she taught us that “bad girls do it well” and now the 37-year-old singer is ready to bring the noise. Born a Sri Lankan and spending most of her life in England, M.I.A. always compliments and correlates those two cultures. Perhaps it's her status as both a visual and musical artist that makes her so intriguing, or her unabashed, strong and sometimes controversial political line. M.I.A. moves to her own rhythm and doesn't allow herself to be highly sexualised as others do. She has now decided to delve deeper into electronic music with "Bring The Noize," which demonstrates the diversity of her artistic ability as she effortlessly spits verses over a hard hitting bass line throughout the entire song.
M.I.A. tends to release the sort of songs you might hear if you added a drum beat to the fast-forwarding of a Pixar movie. Her musical style has always been a kind of manic clusterfuck, and she while she’s been incredibly successful she’s also been accused of releasing full albums – full artistic statements – with no actual songs. "Bring The Noise" changes all that. The breakthrough single is a drum-heavy record with chopped up vocals and a whole lot of noise. It keeps with M.I.A.'s brutal and heavy beat sound. Slightly tribal, the samples range from club noise to fairly average hip-hop synth strikes, and evokes feelings of a conscious anthem reminiscent of Public Enemy's classic track with a beat you can actually dance to.
The clip is a colorful, intriguing, and as always, energetic number that finds M.I.A. showing off her both soft and wild sides. Armed with her pink hair the video's expose in underground London falls in line with her poignant messages. As M.I.A. passing through barbed wire to reach a dark underground club where She crowning herself a goddess in a temple of dance, bejeweled around rows of mostly male worshipers, who have removed their shoes and dressed all in white. Here  M.I.A. introduces her goddess-among-men in style, as an icon of worship. It's at least an intriguing watch, playing with cultural unfamiliarity within familiar fashion and art.

After what seems like a year without rain, the drought has finally ended, as Selena Gomez grows up and pays tribute to pop's past in her brand-new music video for her fun dance track, "Come & Get It," the lead single from the 20-year-old pop songstress and actress' upcoming as-yet-untitled debut solo album, fourth overall, following the three discs she released as the frontwoman of Selena Gomez & the Scene. The new video features Gomez braving the elements as she dances by a fire in a sexy sari-inspired getup before swimming in the open water, and we think it's her best video yet!
The Ester Dean penned and Stargate produced track is a mid-tempo pop song with elements of Indian music, about an up-and-down, on-off relationship. lyrically, it describes an addiction to a troublesome romance as a female lover's attempt to rekindle a previously ended romance. "Come & Get It," an easy, breezy tune with an ambling melody and a hint of reggae lilt, is fairly monotone, but repeat listens reveal the song's infectiousness. The track combines a Bhangra beat and vocal with a club-ready vibe and a dreamy bridge. And Gomez seems completely on-board with her love affair on the dance track.
The tribal electro-pop jam was released a few months after Gomez's split from her former boyfriend Justin Bieber. Fans immediately began speculating that the tune was a message to her ex that she wanted to get back together. However, the singer denied this was the case. She told Ryan Seacrest, "It's not really about a specific person. It exudes confidence and strength and that is something I'm willing to share with the world. I want to represent something good and be a good example."
Teaming up with director Anthony Mandler, who most recently directed Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" video, the two collectively worked to bring the Bhangra beat of "Come & Get it" to life. In the video, Gomez embracing an earthy, tribal feel and showed off a super sultry side of herself that we've never seen before as she battles the elements by taking on Earth, fire, and water. The singer seductively danced with the Earth in a revealing black outfit in a field of flowers. She fought fire in a red-hot outfit dancing with a group in the firelight. Gomez also channeled her inner mermaid by gracefully swimming in the ocean, and looked absolutely stunning while doing it!

Canadian alt-pop legends Delerium has premiered a new music video for their first single in four years, titled "Dust In Gravity," on 'Much On Demand.' last week. The single is co-written by Stef Lang and features Canadian R&B/Pop Recording artist Kreesha Turner on vocals, who was recently nominated for this year for two Juno Awards ('New Artist of the Year' and 'Pop Album of the Year'), brings an R&B vibe to this electro-pop tune. The single was out November 24 on iTunes.
Both the original track and a remix of "Dust In Gravity" by Niels Van Gogh, will appear on Delerium's forthcoming full-length original compilation "The Definitive Collection," which is set to release on March 2, 2010 from the duo, Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber over the years. The Canadian worldbeat band from Vancouver have gone on to sell over a million albums in North America alone since in 1987, including the worldwide dance smash hit "Silence."
Delerium are also best known for their supposed revamping of that Sarah McLachlan track. But, this is a far cry from that not in a bad way, but just in a completely different direction. This has great remix potential and we are glad they didn't pick a run-of-the-mill vocalist. Turner has a very unique voice and it fits well. She cites R&B acts like Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and D'Angelo, hip-hop acts including A Tribe Called Quest, Andre 3000 and Common and rock acts like the Foo Fighters and Our Lady Peace as her inspirations.
The video was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, is set against a decaying urban landscape, in which its residents discover there's more to what they see around them. It showcases the group's penchant for combining ambient electronic elements and dance pop beats. The addition of Turner's vocals adds a contemporary R&B flavor to classic Delerium.