Today's Pick

Taking matters in his own hands, and showing off his fun-loving spirit, Enrique Iglesias has dished out another brand new video for his whistle-happy track "I Like How It Feels" and it gives viewers a little insight into the 36-year-old's life during work and play, from the sold-out performances and screaming fans to boat rides and parties. Apparently, his life even involves jet skiing with his dog. It features Cuban American rapper Pitbull, and finds the two Latin recording artists celebrating being upbeat and enjoying life.
"I Like How It Feels" is the first single to lead the re-release edition of his latest album "Euphoria," aptly re-named for the occasion as "Euphoria Reloaded," is due in stores worldwide on November 15th. It's a simple set of lyrical declarations that celebrate being upbeat and enjoying life. We've heard of whistling while you work, but Iglesias and Pitbull are taking it to the next level with this larger-than-life number.
When they team up, Iglesias and Pitbull produce anthemic, stadium-size pop records. Latest case in point: their new jam "I Like How It Feels" is backed by a simple yet strong track masterfully crafted for club success. In his sexy accent-tinged voice, Iglesias goes on to repeat many times the song's overarching message: "You know I like how it feels." And then, there is whistling! Iglesias shows off the sides of his work, loves to party and have a good time.
Iglesias turns to different direction for a newly-debuted music video he directed. Instead of releasing glossy visuals like his previous clips, the Latino lover compiles guerilla-style footage which is packed with celebrity cameos from Serena Williams, Juanes, Eva Longoria, Ken Jeong, George Lopez and Nicole Scherzinger. Staying true to the happy theme of the whistle tune, the clip is filled with high-energy live shows, backstage banter, outdoorsy fun, and night-out partying. It's fun, it's shameless and, above all, it's a gift for fans who, this way, get a delicious glimpse into what Iglesias's life must be like.

Delivering a raw rendition of her latest single, Jessie J takes us back with an authentic and wholesome video for "Who You Are," the title track from the English R&B and soul recording artist's debut LP. Jessie explained why she chose this as her title track: "This song saved my life musically. The day before I wrote this song I was ready to give up music. It's amazing how three-and-a-half minutes of melody and lyrics can change your life and I'm so happy that not only has it saved my life but it's saving other people's. That's why my debut album is called Who You Are."
Jessie belts her heart out on her stunning new single about the struggles of a young woman trying to figure out who she is. "I kind of lost myself. It's very personal. It's about being true to yourself. Don't lose yourself in any situation you're put in, and do the dew." She said: "The other day I had a girl message me saying 'I was ready to take my life and then I heard "Who You Are".' That pressure is beautiful but scary at the same time. I want to be a positive role model for young people. I always say that I'm half-artist, half-therapist. I'm very much someone that lives to be happy. It's not just about the parties and I know so-and-so – I'm not that girl. So I looked in the mirror and started to cry and said 'who am I?' Music is my therapy."
The 23-year-old songstress was co-wrote this self-help and self-empowerment dirge ballad with Toby Gad and Shelly Peiken at the end of a lonely three-month trip to Los Angeles when she was 20. Having been shunted from studio to studio with various producers she was ready to pack it all in. The song returns Jessie to an acoustic accompaniment, and makes for a fine closer – it's her Hometown Glory, without the raw emotion but touching nonetheless."
The somber and simple yet effective visual features the British R&B songstress sets in a bedroom without any visual distractions, Jessie faces the camera head on and shares her story about being true to who you are no matter what others tell you. The new clip perfectly emphasizes the intensity of Jessie's vocal performance, as she offers a vulnerable yet compelling performance of the emotional track, and also perfectly captures that raw emotion that ends with a rainstorm that washes away the tears and sorrow to make way for a fresh new start.

Self-proclaimed auto-tune king T-Pain returns with a mid-tempo groove and wanders the streets alone in the music video for "5 O'clock," the first official single off his upcoming fourth studio installment, the heavily-delayed "rEVOLVEr," which has no release date but is expected to come out later this year. Like Adele's new video for "Someone Like You," the "5 O'Clock" video shows the 26-year-old artist meandering through the streets of a beautiful Amsterdam, including the famed Red Light District.
It's a pensive contemporary R&B ballad, with rumbling beats, pealing organs, and featuring Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa and a vocal sample from British singer Lily Allen's 2009 track "Who'd Have Known," T-Pain's laidback auto-tuned mid-tempo tune, is built around the dreamy, adult lullaby, finds the autotuned rapper king telling the story of a party animal promising his neglected girl he'll return home soon. T-Pain is apparently over the loony nuttiness that defined him five years ago, and is all on his "this song is serious!" tip with a heavy dose of Auto-Tune, and of those stripper windows in Amsterdam.
"The song is basically about me being where I am at a club. I'm just taking too long and Lily wants me to come home right now," T-Pain explained. "And it happens a lot with me in real life, so why not make a song about it? She doesn't care where I am or what I'm doing, she just wants me to come home. But she needs me, she needs her hubby." Directed by Erik White, the video's story is a literal interpretation of the track, T-Pain getting a text strolling on home as his girlfriend awaits.
It's a long, languid clip that matches Allen's musical bed, and features an emotional T-Pain strolling the late night streets solo, looking like he's about to cry, and struggling to get in contact with his music video girlfriend Allen, who isn't in the video and is represented by a close-up of a woman's mouth singing her oft-repeated part, and she looks distraught and worried about her R&B boo, texting T-Pain and glumly singing her sampled vocals as she waits on her love. Khalifa makes a guest appearance, with a confident, sexual verse that shows no qualms about showing up at your girlfriend's place at 5 AM.

Adele finally unveiled the heartbreaking and beautiful visual for her massive hit "Someone Like You," the soaring, cut-yourself-already ballad is the second single from her heartbreaking sophomore album "21." The clip lets the raw, powerful emotion of the song speak for itself and perfectly captures song's somber feel. The 23-year-old British songstress looks so forlorn and lost when she watches her love slipping through her fingers.
Romantic pain has rarely been so utterly beautiful, the piano-and-vocal-only ballad tune was inspired by a broken relationship of hers, and lyrically it speaks about the end of Adele's first "real relationship" with her long-time friend and lover and it shows her confronting his marriage. Adele told The Sun: "It's simple - just letting go. It makes me really upset. It's my most articulate song. It's just to the point, it's not trying to be clever, I think that's why I like it so much, because it's just so honest, no glitter on it."
The piano melody is gorgeous and combined with Adele's sonorous, sorrowful voice, the effect is highly emotional. Adele co-penned this hushed closing track on "21" and it maybe a cliché, but Adele has saved the best until last with this heartfelt and enchanting piano ballad. The songs on "21" come from a deep place, and most of lyrics refer to Adele working through the ending of a relationship. It's sad but beautiful and displays Adele at her best – marking the perfect end to what has been in our eyes, a faultless album. "Someone Like You," is an actual thing of beauty, placing the listener in one of those moments where you feel you're in the presence of a future standard.
In keeping with the singer's subdued style and its vibe fits with the melancholy tune, the Jake Nava-directed clip is a somber, black-and-white affair, features Adele wandering the early morning streets, strolling alongside a river, gazing out over a river against a cloudy backdrop in Paris, and pining for her long-lost love. It's incredibly sad but also, in a lot of ways, beautiful and resolute." Nava explained, "The location evokes style and romance. And shooting early in the morning allows you to focus on Adele in this lonely and emotional space." It's not every day that someone as talented as Adele comes along, and her latest video is living proof of that!

Country music superstar Jason Aldean has just released the music video for "Tattoos on This Town," the fourth single to come off the 34-year-old Georgia native's fourth studio album, "My Kinda Party." Lyrically, the song is pretty standard for the country genre: Drag-racing pickup trucks, rope swings, scars - "real life stuff" Aldean tells us. The song is just alright, but its new accompanying video is downright beautiful and really enhances the track. It takes you on a heartbreaking journey of young love, pregnancy, war, and certainly leaves a lasting impression, tugging at the heartstrings with an unexpected, emotional twist.
The up-tempo soft country rock song is a nostalgic look at small-town life and love, in which a man expresses his desires of leaving something behind on his small town to let others know he and his girlfriend were here. The inspiration behind the lyrics came from simply reminiscing on younger years and faded memories left in one's mind. Comparing the song to many of his previous hits, this song runs parallel to our own tales of mischief, lost innocence and heartache.
Aldean told The Boot the song calls to mind his adolescence, when he had few cares or responsibilities. He said: "You're just out having fun, growing up wherever you grew up and doing all these things that helped shape you as an adult" However, you don't realize that your teenage years are going to be some of the best times of your life. "Then you get older," he said. "and look back and remember those times and what it's all about."
The Wes Edwards-directed clip portrays a young couple's love story, starting from their teenage years, fast-forwarding through marriage and settling down, all the way to the young man's leaving for war. Some time later, his wife is paid a visit by two Marines who inform her about the death of her husband. It then fast-forwards through the young widow's life, in which she attends her husband's funeral and also gives birth to a son. As the video ends, the son, now a young boy wearing his late father's old cap, throws a stone into the lake near the tree where his parents had carved "I Love You" many years before.

Death Cab for Cutie debut a rand new music video in support of their latest single "Stay Young, Go Dancing," is lifted from the San Francisco-based indie rock's latest seventh album "Codes and Keys," which contains within it one of the most cutesy offerings the band have ever crafted. The rockers take the track's title about as literally as possible and the new video would be equally as cheesy and romantic, is filled with romantic scenes about a long-lasting love.
This song features a string quartet called the Magik Magik orchestra. The frontman Ben Gibbard told Q magazine he wasn't concerned about falling in the pomp rock trap of needlessly using a string ensemble. He said: "Using orchestras and choirs for the sake of it is when it sounds really bloated. Look at "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses. There's no need for an orchestra to be on that song. It doesn't serve the music or make it better." Fans of beautiful indie-pop-melodies and violin sounds rejoice!
Jam! Music asked Gibbard how much of the love content on "Codes and Keys" was written about his new wife, actress and musician Zooey Deschanel? He replied: "There are moments on the new album - like 'Stay Young, Go Dancing' or the first verse of 'Monday Morning' - that are about my wife." The frontman added, "With all of these songs that I write, I want them to have as much universal appeal as possible and certainly don't feel like I want to undermine the complexity of the lyrics at times and make that happen."
In the Claire Carré-directed clip, they tell a flashback story about a love that never fades away by tracing the love journey of a couple from their old age to winsomely charming childhood as they progress through their relationship. The clip also features a whole lot of Gibbard playing guitar on a porch. "I liked the idea of moving backwards," Gibbard told Spinner. "In the beginning you see this couple who are in their 70s, and throughout the video they move through these corridors and become younger and younger and I think it's a rather touching way to show these two people."

Continuing her tradition of hit songs, Kelly Clarkson is back in action with a feisty video for her 'Just The Way You Are'-inspired mid-tempo pop cut "Mr. Know It All," the lead single from her upcoming album, "Stronger," which hits stores on October 24. Departure from her signature pop rock sound, "Mr. Know It All" has a distinct R&B flavor, sounds softer and more feminine as American Idol first winner sings. It showcasing the free-spirit side of American Idol first winner and a side to her vocals we haven't seen in a while.
The empowering song finds Clarkson warning her guy he might think he's got it all figured out, but "Baby, you don't know a thing about me." She told Entertainment Weekly: "It's everything I am as a woman and a singer. I love telling men off!" Clarkson described the break-up themed tune as the most different from any of her other singles because the message is not just about relationships. The singer added that though she has a list of people that have brought her down, the song is also about ignorant people who think they know everything about someone.
The Justin Francis-directed video for the song took place in Nashville. Clarkson explained that "The idea behind the video is variety. The whole point of the song that I like is 'you don't know a thing about me. I love that concept because it's ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There's many sides to everybody's personality. We're kind of doing a variety of different Kellys." It featured Clarkson sings in front of a "wall of doubt" in which covered with negative headlines from newspaper and magazine clippings about her.
Clarkson remarked it as "basically all the crap that's been said about me that's kind of funny or ridiculous. we're playing with that and it's how I handle it, kind of sarcastic and funny." Clarkson dressed in a long gown with feathers on her hair which represents freedom. The anti-rumor theme becomes crystal clear at the end of the clip, when the 29-year-old songstress tears the articles off the wall to reveal a road outside. The singer steps through the barrier of bad press with her suitcase, letting us know that her life would not suck without all the unwanted attention. And, just like the song itself - things become hopeful and upbeat for the First Lady Of American Idol once more.