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Nick Jonas is all grown up and free of his Jonas Brothes 'chains.' The actor-singer kicked off his solo career with a bang earlier this week when he released the video for "Chains," his first post-Jonas Brothers single, and a song that he said "embodies the feeling of being trapped in a love that is hopeless." The 21-year-old made one thing very clear: It's not going to sound a damn thing like "Lovebug." Quite the opposite, in fact: "Chains" is drenched in S&M and rather adult themes straight out of "Fifty Shades of Grey." It's all about a girl who's got him in - you guessed it - chains for her love - but we're guessing that's not just a metaphor.
In the black-and-white, brooding and decidedly adult video, directed by Ryan Pallotta, Jonas is seen falling through the air, fighting with an army, while a well-produced track plays over occasionally disconcerting imagery. "Gave you my heart but you took my soul," sings Jonas, while being dragged across the floor of a church and tied up in chains on a chair by a mystery woman.  "You got me in chains for your love..." he sings in the dark, R&B-leaning track and shows off his biceps in a rolled up, ragged white T-shirt by AllSaints.
About halfway through, Jonas finally breaks free of his titular shackles - which may or may not be a metaphor for his time with the Jonas Brothes - and pursues a beautiful girl he loves, played by Dylan Penn, the daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright. Jonas then has to push through a S.W.A.T. team to reach the 23-year-old model. "I'm talking about love, I'm talking about heartbreak, a big theme for me in this is trust, and fear," he told MTV News about the inspiration for the song.
"The story behind 'Chains' is basically that feeling that all people can relate to, its being trapped. For me specifically in this song, I connected to love and trust and for some people they have said its broader for them, its more than love, it can be about anything that entangles you in your life and doesn't let you do what you need to do to feel free," he said. "I think this is a good fit and I fell in love with the song and I really feel like it has become a staple for this album." Jonas may be all grown up, but he hasn't completely abandoned his Disney roots.

5 Seconds of Summer has unveiled a new music video for their song "Amnesia," appears in 5 Seconds of Summer's self-titled debut album that debuted at No.1 on Billboard 200 earlier this week. The four-minute visuals opens with the group consisting of Calum Hood, Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford and Ashton Irwin performing the heartbreaking ballad in an abandoned summer home, while featuring some flashback scenes showing the boys and their girlfriends having fun together during a summer day. It's full of all the teenage angst we would expect from the Aussie pop-rock boy band.
This regretful track "Amnesia," was co-written by Good Charlotte's Benji and Joel Madden along with Louis and Michael Biancaniello and Louis' frequent songwriting partner, Sam Watters, is due for release in the UK on September 7. It finds the guys unable to escape the memories of a failed relationship. While the lyric video for the heartbreaking ballad was filled with painful memories of a relationship gone wrong, the latest promo is a flashback to what seems to be an epic summer day, and sees the lads leave behind their underwear and superhero costumes to have some fun with some pals instead!
In the video, the boys are suffering from a pretty sad breakup, and decide what better way to get over that heartache than to write a song about it. 5 Seconds of Summer wish they could just forget about their past relationship, saying "I wish that I could wake up with amnesia, and forget about this stupid little thing." However, despite the emotional undertones of the lyrics, the boys seem to be having an all out ball in the video. They throw a pool party, golf on top of their station wagon, and drink outside a 7-11, while having shopping cart races.
The video kicks off with Ashton meeting the guys for band practice in a garage, where they used to get together before hitting it big in Australia. The promo is intercut with shots of Aussie pop-rock group meeting up some friends as they race shopping carts, go on a road trip, play golf on top of a car and have a pool party, complete with blow-up giraffes, an astronaut costume, lots of water guns and really wet skinny jeans. Watch the lads get up to all sorts of summer fun in their latest promo below.

Ed Sheeran premiered the dance-driven music video for his beat-driven slice of funk lite "Don't," the official second single from the British singer-songwriter's eclectic sophomore album, "X." Though Sheeran's latest single, "Don't," was inspired by a bitter breakup, the singer has taken a more optimistic approach with the track's new video. Directed by Emil Nava, the clip focuses on one dancer's journey from poverty to wealth, as he limberly pops and locks his way from the ghetto to a mansion.
The Benny Blanco and Rick Rubin co-produced mid-tempo "Don't," the biting cheating anthem is all about a ex-girlfriend who cheated on Sheeran, and moving seamlessly through life. Sheeran almost didn't include "Don't" on the final cut of "X," as he felt it was "a bit too personal." Label and friends ultimately convinced Sheeran. He opened up to Rolling Stone about the song's origins, saying the funky cut was inspired by a real-life romance with another singer who slept with one of Sheeran's close friends while they were staying in the same hotel. But despite internet rumors, the track wasn't written about Taylor Swift, a songwriter known for penning tracks of romantic revenge.
Despite the song's downer lyrics about a celebrity breakup and betrayal, being packed with a pile of attitude and a sprinkle of revenge, the video delivers a cheerier vibe with a rags-to-riches story about a guy who dances his way to the top. Played by the 25-year-old sinewy hip-hop dancer Phillip Chbeeb, aka PacMan, who was a season 5 contestant on "So You Think You Can Dance," and steals the show in a rags-to-riches saga, as he springs into action, locking, popping, high-stepping and levitating up the social ladder and make his way through the city of Los Angeles until he's ensconced in a mansion.
The video opens with Chbeeb sleeping outside on a weather-beaten mattress, but once Sheeran's soulful falsetto kicks in, he wakes up by a shack, and begins his epic dance voyage. After some quick breakdancing, the man walks into his house and puts on a shirt; from there, he slips in and out of several increasingly nice homes. While he's back in the streets doing his routines, he's checked out by Sheeran from his window as he passes by in a black SUV. And he finally arrives at a fancy mansion, where he finds a nice suit to wear, shows off some Matrix-styled moves, and sits by the grand table to enjoy a massive Thanksgiving-style feast.

Sam Smith debuted his scandalous, fiery and heartbreaking music video for his latest track, "I'm Not The Only One," the fourth single off his soulful debut album, "In the Lonely Hour," which tackles Smith's lack of a love life, debuted at No.1 on the UK charts and has sold over 1.3 million copies. The 22-year-old British crooner's new video features two TV stars depicting a unhappy married couple's tortured relationship and portrays the effects of a husband's affair on his devastated wife.
We've featured Smith's angelic falsetto many a time, but his latest single employs it to devilish effect, "I'm Not The Only One" is a smooth, slow-burn revenge ballad and further proof that Smith is primed to make a big splash with his debut album. He wrote this song with Jimmy Napes, who explained: "I wanted to make a Norah Jones-esque record with a heavier beat. This is the same chord pattern again and again. It's complex in its simplicity." Infidelity is an ugly, wretched subject, but at least Smith has given it a beautiful soundtrack. "I'm Not The Only One," makes revenge sound very, very sweet.
The Luke Monaghan-directed steamy and emotional clip features "Glee's" Dianna Agron as a scorned bride and "The Mindy Project's" Chris Messina as the cause of and cure for her heartache. While the gorgeous couple's life seems perfect on the outside, Agron's character knows she's "not the only one" in her husband's life. Agron delivers a powerful performance as a stepford wife onto his adulterous schemes and trying to keep it together after realizing her husband is cheating on her. "You say I'm crazy," Smith's lyrics echo the anger and frustration Agron's character feels about her husband's cheating ways and pieces together her husband's indiscretions.
"'Cause you don't think I know what you've done/ But when you call me baby/ I know I'm not the only one." Messina's clandestine encounter is intercut with Agron's furious reaction, as she weeps at their home, proceeds to uncork a bottle of white wine in a liquor store, drink away her problems, and then eventually set fire to Messina's possessions. Not the most original imagery, but Smith's soulful vocal lends it some feel-good power. For reasons never explained, she welcomes him back into her home at the end of the video. Maybe her soul has been assuaged by Smith's sweet crooning?

We just can't get enough of Katy Perry! The superstar singer is heating up the summer and enters a hyper-stylized, pastel-soaked pleasure dome in the colorful wild new clip for her upbeat YOLO anthem, "This Is How We Do," which is the newest single from her "Prism" album. The new clip is a modern art masterpiece and is nothing short of colorful, fun and filled with a slew of questionable advice featuring over-the-top visuals and outrageous outfits. There are, however, plenty of vivid colors and retro styling that references the early days of pop art, vintage fashion, and twerking ice cream cones.
This 1990s New Jack Swing influenced dance track is a girls night out anthem that pays tribute to those ladies who party all night. Perry called it "the sequel to 'Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.).'" The lyrics also reference La Super Rica, Perry's favorite taqueria in her Santa Barbara hometown. Perry explained in a tweet that the inspiration for this song was: "My OG crew, our parties & my hometown Santa Barbara." If you can get over the fact that "This Is How We Do" features groan-worthy lyrics like "Now we're talking astrology/ getting our nails did all Japanese-y," you'll realize it's actually kind of a jam.
Unlike women's empowerment, in-depth love and infatuation she crooned about on her other tracks, the current Joel Kefali-directed video is all about having fun no matter what. "This is how we do, yeah, chilling, laid back/ Straight stuntin' yea we do it like that," the 29-year-old singer gives a slew of questionable advice. The singer wisely steers the costumes clear of any ethnic groups this time, instead opting for pop culture references with the Pee-Wee Herman-inspired backup dancers, Yves Saint Laurent's iconic Mondrian dress, a pepperoni pizza swimsuit, green hair extensions and rocking cornrows.
Perry flaunts tons of colorful looks and boasts about living a carefree lifestyle without consequences in her wacky pop art video, which gives off a clear 80's vibe, complete with side ponytails, colorful outfits, and outlandish jewelry. "This one goes out to the ladies at breakfast in last night's dress," she said after singing about driving in a Maserati. Perry acts out the lyrics to her video pretty literally, as she cooks pancakes for her boys, plays ping-pong all night long, and even performs some Mariah Carey-oke, complete with a cameo by the elusive chanteuse herself. Sound weird? That's a massive understatement. Check out the bizarre little offering below.

"All that glitters isn't always gold." Christina Perri uploaded the brand new visual for "Burning Gold," the second official single from her latest sophomore album "Head or Heart," and features a throwback clip that harkens back to '60s girl groups, bright lights, old school Hollywood glam and lots of gold, of course. Fearing the life she wants might be slipping out of her grasp, Perri declares that she's had enough and she wants a change. With the flip of a jukebox song and the grasp of a microphone, the singer steps forward to take charge of her life.
The 27-year-old Philadelphia singer is best-known for her emotional ballads "Jar Of Hearts" and "A Thousand Years," but Perri isn't afraid to raise the tempo occasionally as she proves on "Burning Gold," which was co-written by Perri with Kid Harpoon and was produced by John Hill and Butch Walker. The cover art for "Burning Gold" features Perri with a Midas touch, turning her right hand, arm and shoulder into gold. That gold - giving your life meaning - is what "Burning Gold" is all about. Change starts with the daily grind: "I wish the wind would carry a change. It only ends once you've burnt all the useless packaging of your life down to gold."
Perri is not afraid to stand up for herself in her "Burning Gold" video which gives off a "Dreamgirls" vibe. As a waitress at a very dirty truck stop diner, her life is pretty miserable, but she's got to work there to make ends meet. She gazes through the window from time to time watching the better lives of other, and realizing hers is sort of doomed. However, when a famous singers and his back-up dancer enter the diner one day, Perri out of the sudden gets a shot of courage, selects a song on the jukebox, grabs the microphone and starts belting the song and exposing her amazing talent.
This famous male singer spots Perri, and hires her as her new back-up singer. After going on tour, Perri falls in love with his 'savior' aka the famous singer who hired her. They supposedly live a happy life until Perri finds him cheating on her. A heart-broken and furious singer gets the keys of his Porsche, drives away with no fixed destination, leaves and gets off the car below a cement bridge and sets it on fire - leaving all her 'new life' and all the glitz behind. "All that glitters isn't always gold."

You could be forgiven for assuming that the video for Linkin Park's "Final Masquerade" is the trailer for some brooding, post-apocalyptic summer blockbuster. It paints a bleak picture in a setting with an abandoned baby cries in the middle of the street, menacing white wolves, armies of mysterious hooded figures, white and black winged angels weep, cities enveloped in dust and smoke and graffiti that reads "the end is near," "trust no one" and "beware of shape shifters." You've been warned.
Add in frontman Chester Bennington's urgent vocals and you have a dramatic picture of fading hope for what could have been on the third single from the band's sixth studio album, "The Hunting Party." "The light on the horizon was brighter yesterday," he sings. "With shadow floating over, the scars begin to fade/ We said it was forever, but then it slipped away/ Standing at the end of the final masquerade."
"Final Masquerade" is a sharp, edgy, lushly harmonic heavy-hitter that falls perfectly in line with Linkin Park's lengthy string of hulking, hooky hits. The track is more like "A Thousand Suns" than "Hybrid Theory," which Linkin Park gives at their most controlled, meditative, a slowly unfurling, mid-paced anthem built around simmering keyboards, unfussy, low-tempo beats and palm-muted guitar. This heavy-hitting song features one of Bennington's finest vocal performances on the album.
The five-minute clip was directed by Mark Pellington, the famed auteur behind such iconic videos as Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" and U2's "One," as well as Demi Lovato's "Skyscraper" and Jason Mraz's "I Won't Give Up." It features Pellington's signature mix of vivid imagery and haunting, slightly out of focus, dream-like flashes of dread and mystery. The video is a graphic landscape more colorful than the majority of the band's videos from their most recent album, "The Hunting Party," but the message isn't any lighter: the video shows apocalyptic scenes, death, sorrow and outrage.