Today's Pick

What’s the best way to deal with a breakup? Olly Murs hammers down the brick wall that's separating him from his heartbroken on-screen love Demi Lovato in a tense and emotional new video for their emotional duet "Up," the second single from the British singer's latest fourth album, "Never Been Better." It's just as moody as you'd expect for a song about a flailing relationship and the devoted love of a couple for one another and that they will definitely overcome the troubles that currently affect them.
The "Troublemaker" crooner and the "Heart Attack" hottie songstress trade verses about heartbreak, all while smashing various household items from guitars, to flower vases to pillows, perfectly depicting the frustration and pain you feel when going through a split. But, just as the lyrics suggest, there's a glimmer of hope that things will be looking, well, up, for this failing relationship. Together, the pair are like a whole demolition crew of emotion as they are seen leaning on the opposite sides of a wall as they sing about fighting to keep a relationship alive.
The shadowy video, directed by Ben and Gabe Turner, is a bit dark but emotions run high, with both artist brooding in bare rooms and having breakdowns on either side of a brick wall, as they portray the varying emotional stages of the uplifting soaring ballad. Murs lamenting a broken relationship in his living room, singing "Just tell me it's not the end of the line" before Lovato comes in on the chorus and on the other side of his wall to apologize for breaking his heart. But they'll try save it as they decided to bring down the wall between them, remove most of the bricks and give their love a second shot.

Never has there been such a thorough discussion about sex with Nicki Minaj than in her song, "Only," the third single from Minaj’s upcoming third album, "The Pinkprint," due out on December 15. Rapping alongside Drake, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne, Minaj adds to the racy content with her newly released dark and twisted video for the extremely sexual song on Friday, a month after the song's controversial lyric video for using Nazi imagery, and a week after she performed of the Dr. Luke-produced hip-hop record on "Saturday Night Live" last weekend.
The Young Money first lady going head to head with her label-mates Drake and Wayne as they rap a verse each. The rap queen kicks off the song shutting down rumors of her sleeping with Wayne and Drake in a very explicit way. Drake reiterates that he's never had sexual relations with Minaj, but would if she hadn't already got a man. Wayne brings home the final verse, which continues the hardcore lyrical content as the Young Money boss' fantasies about sleeping with the Queens MC, who trades Nazi imagery for torture porn in new "Only" video.
Directed by Hannah Lux Davis, the porn-esque video, which is full of risqué costumes, bondage equipment and blood in a dominatrix setting, is not as controversial as the previously dropped lyric visual. It starts off with a bunch of muscular men being abducted and taken to the Trinidadian raptress, who shows off her killer curves in a sheer black body suit over a black bra and tiny panties as she and some other ladies in a dark-lit room where they torture several men. While fellow hypnotizing Young Money rap about how they have never slept with her, Brown appears in another place to sing his hook, sporting a pair of creepy colored contact lenses and golden grills.

Jessie J takes us on a journey of how awesomely awesome her life is in the video for her girl power anthem "Masterpiece," the third single off her latest third album "Sweet Talker," which debuted at No.10 in the U.S., has spawned the Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande-assisted Grammy-nominated hit "Bang Bang," and "Burnin' Up" featuring 2 Chainz.
The melodic ballad that is tamer than its single predecessors but still packs the same punch, is about self-empowerment and living up to one's potential. "I still fall on my face sometimes, and I can't color inside the lines/ 'Cause, I'm perfectly incomplete/ I'm still working on my masterpiece," the British pop star sings. The song's thematic similarity to her debut album, "Who You Are," in that it is addressed to her haters.
Shot in Los Angeles, the Tabitha Denholm-directed music video see a makeup-free Jessie J doing everyday things as she wakes up in her L.A. hotel room and shares grainy Instagram-like footage from her regular day. She then jumps in her BMW vehicle and heads to the set for lengthy photoshoots, handles interviews with the press, and later is partying out in the streets and performing the uplifting track along with a huge crowd of her adoring fans, who know all the words to her new song. Sure, Jessie J's perfectly incomplete, but she's still working on her masterpiece. The best is yet to come!

X Factor finalist 2012, Ella Henderson, has premiered her brand spanking new video for her next single, "Yours," the third single off tetney singing sensation's debut studio album, "Chapter One," which is now getting an official US release! It features songs like "Glow," "Mirror Man" and the breakout single "Ghost." Look out for the LP on January 13.
Henderson co-wrote "Yours" with Josh Record, who also produced the song, and it's so incredibly romantic we don't know whether to be happy or sad. About the whole shebang, Henderson said: "I wrote 'Yours' to represent something beautiful that's going on in my world right now. Being able to strip everything back to just me and the piano allows me to simply speak through my music."
The beautifully stripped ballad gets an equally minimal visual which was directed by James Lees and it's shot entirely in black-and-white, giving it a soft, romantic vibe that fits in perfectly with the style of the song. Shot in New York, the video sees the 18-year-old British singer playing the tune on a piano in her city apartment, and gazing lovingly at her boyfriend sleeps the day away to reflect on their relationship. A simply beautiful stripped back black and white study of X Factor UK breakout star.

Jessie Ware's sophomore album "Tough Love" mostly dealt with heartbreak and unrequited love, but on some songs, the tone was much more hopeful. One such track, "You & I (Forever)," was perhaps the LP's most uplifting offering, and now, it's received a touching music video to boot. Ware issued an invitation for her family members, friends, and fans to shoot footage in a photo booth for the video, which was subsequently placed alongside performance shots of the singer.
The track opens with Ware admitting, "For me, 'You & I (Forever)' is celebrating the person you love being by your side. This is what it means to others." UK singer wrote this song after childhood sweetheart Sam Burrows proposed to her on the Greek island of Skopelos. She explained "(It) is me celebrating the memory of the fact that he's proposed to me and that we'll be together for ever." The song finds Ware singing about her frustration regarding Burrows' delay in proposing. "We waited such a long time, we've been going out forever," she said. "I wanted it to be this motorbike riding song, lots of yearning on an open highway."
The video’s director, Adam Powell, chooses to take us back to those 1889 vibes by putting treating the video to be grainy and black and white, which featuring Ware singing in a photo booth spliced together with shots of various couples, of all sorts. Straight, old, LGBT, young, mother and child, and a few singles who are simply interesting characters, getting their pictures taken. The sugary sweet video is a simple, but truly compassionate and effective concept. Strike a pose with Ware in this tender "You & I (Forever)" video.

Charli XCX is red hot while holding a hunk hostage in a brand new music video for her 90's-inspired pop/rock track, "Breaking Up," off her upcoming punk rock-inspired sophomore album "Sucker," is expected to be released on December 16. When discussing the album Charli states that while the album is still pop, "it's a very shouty, girl power, girl gang, sort of feel." The cartoony video definitely fits that description with Charli's bad chick attitude in it.
This slice of brat-pop finds Charli bashing her former lover. "That song is really brutal - every time I sing it I feel bad for everyone of my ex-boyfriends," she explained. "I feel like I'm making all the guys I ever dated cry," Charli added. "Which I kind of like." Obviously, the 22-year-old English singer likes to destroy them really bad with a hammer! Well, only if you're her boyfriend and you mistreat her.
The ultra-colorful BRTHR-directed video opens with vintage Charli listening to her boyfriend prattle on to his parents about how every girl in school wants to be with him. After tossing her drink onto the ground and shattering it, she lowers her cat eye sunglasses and says "we had a good run, Patrick" with an infinitely bored expression on her face. After she breaks up with her football star boyfriend, she hops into limo with her girlfriends and begins her girl power and feistiest breakup anthem.
The rest of the video takes place at a bowling alley and entails generous hair flipping while Charli belts out the lyrics and playing bowling with close gal pals and enjoying sweets. Throughout the chorus of the song she proclaims "you say you love me, I say what?" These simple yet sassy lyrics affirm the fact that this song is letting the world that she doesn't need to be on the arm of a guy to be confident. The style of the video is dripping with the 90s revival aesthetic that millennials are begging for these days and Charli makes it look ridiculously fun that gives off all of the ultra-cool dark pop vibes that the song does.

We danced in the mirror and singing in the shower all summer, and now it is time to move forward as Becky G dropped the sexy new video for her mellow, mid-tempo new single, "Can't Stop Dancin'," and the video takes a 180-degree turn from the fun and flirty visual we got for "Shower," and will thaw you out of this winter weather.
The talented pop princess follows up what should have been the song of the summer with "Can't Stop Dancin'," the second single off her upcoming debut studio album, a slow-burning song that's ostensibly about dancing, but also clearly about other things as well. "Your lights are shining like the sun out tonight/ Just keep your body moving how I like/ Oh yeah, the music feels like paradise/ It can't get any better," Becky sings beneath the hot and cold neon lights. It's so fun and just free-spirited.
Going along perfectly with the title and feel of the song itself, the Hannah Lux Davis-directed colorful clip opens with the 17-year-old Mexicana standing on a porch, hair blowing in the wind and bathed in the sweltering sunlight as she slinks around a village caught in a heatwave and serves up hair tosses and hip shakes aplenty before entering into the local saloon. Becky then proceeds to break it down and makes her way into a darkly lit dance club, where she dancing with her friends and occasionally flirting with boys and doing tons of product promo in the process.