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Have you seen Gravity? Barbarella? Or Star Trek? Or the newer trilogy of Star Wars movies? Mash those all together in your mind, add Ariana Grande and Zedd, and remove sense. Congratulations, you mentally created the same "Break Free" video Grande and her team made in real life. The the out-of-this-world clip is one hilarious mess, as Grande flaunts her enviable figure (and even channels her inner Katy Perry and Lady Gaga), and fighting off aliens, floating around in a spaceship while rocking a scandalous outfit and showing off her best dance moves.
The joy-infused song, the second single from her upcoming sophomore album "My Everything," finds Grande celebrating her independence from a past love. The intergalactic video start with the same Star Wars-esque scroll we saw in the "Break Free" lyric video. The scroll promises us it will be "two steps ahead of modern day sexiness," and it's definitely two steps ahead of something. Our heroine appears in a really terribly green-screened wide shot! As far as we can tell, the 21-year-old pop star is a heroine come to save the alien captives on a distant planet.
She shoots down the two guards with ease. The caged alien right next to her during her ambush fails to react at all to the tiny girl with the big ponytail and white boots shooting two reptilian aliens. This planet's people are apparently not very expressive. But Grande's battles are not over yet! After freeing the prisoners, she fights off the other guards by ducking at a convenient time and by shooting missiles out of her breasts.
Then we see Grande writhe around in her space shuttle and apply space lipstick on her way to da club! Zedd pretty much sticks to bouncing around adorably at his table. And, of course, it makes time to introduce us to the inexplicable alien elephant chilling on the ship. But even their combined adorableness still can't explain why the damn elephant exists. So the camera finally makes time to watch Grande dance. Our heroine and her scruffy sidekick then pilot the ship right on through the galaxies, onto what will hopefully be a much better "Bang Bang" video.

After a long wait, and snippets of teasing clips, Grammy award winner Zedd has finally released a music video for the official extended mix of his new progressive hit "Find You," which features vocals by Carly Rae Jepsen's boyfriend Matthew Koma and up-and-coming Swedish singer Miriam Bryant, dropped back in January. The song's been re-surfacing frequently, over the past couple of months, as acoustic mixes and independent remixes. It's kind of the perfect mix of dance music video meets pop love story. And the colors of course are just wonderful.
This EDM song finds Zedd linking again with "Clarity" co-writer Koma, who provided vocals on another track, "Spectrum." This time Koma shares the singing duties with Swedish vocal powerhouse, Byrant, whom Zedd first heard on German radio. They previously worked together when the German DJ made a remix of her song "Push Play" for the deluxe edition of his debut studio album "Clarity." Speaking on Vice's Thump channel, Zedd said this is a very different tune from any that he'd done before. He added: "It's a song you could easily play with a full band instead of just a DJ."
Zedd debuted a 15-second snippet of this song during the January 26, 2014 Grammy's music awards show. He performed the entire song live for the first time with Koma and Bryant during the episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live on February 3rd. The song can be heard during Bud Light Platinum's "Turn Up Your Night" campaign, which aired for the first time during the 2014 Super Bowl. The song also featured on the soundtrack of the futuristic action-adventure film "Divergent." It's a massive hit and major dance floor bomb in one.
As for the music video, it's so high-budget and features a beautiful storyline as well as breathtaking shots of the three artists. Opening scene sees a girl dramatically getting her head out of the water in a bathtub. Bryant, Koma and Zedd will have scenes, the last two playing the guitar and the turntables, respectively, against white backdrops. The girl from the first scene and a friend will then try to save their life riding and running away from a flock of scary crows who are chasing them. How will it all end? Click 'play' below!

The rising EDM star Zedd and Paramore's frontwoman Hayley Williams play two young lovers who express attraction and separation between each other using contemporary dance in brand-new music video for their piano-driven electro-pop song "Stay the Night," the first single from the 24-year-old German/Russian electronic dance music producer/DJ's new deluxe edition of his debut album "Clarity", in stores today. The song features Williams singing, "Are you gonna stay the night?" over one of his signature club beats.
"I love building a track around a vocal," said Zedd. "It enables me to marry the melodies and harmonies together so they fit like a glove which is what I tried to do with 'Stay The Night.' Hayley sounds amazing on the record, she really brought it to life with her emotion and attitude." According to Zedd, the original idea was to have a guy singing lead. "We had the topline written and we needed a singer, and we were kind of brainstorming on who would be a good fit; at first we thought it might be better to have a male singer," Zedd told MTV News. "But then, since I know Hayley's voice, we had the idea to use her for the track. I kind of think it's more sexy and interesting with her singing it."
Zedd told MTV News that Williams' soulful vocals fitted well as he has a lot in common with Paramore's rock sound. "Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a longtime, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that," he said. Williams wrote the lyrics about a couple breaking up but staying together for one more night of passion. She finished them in a Paris hotel room, the day before she recorded her vocals. "I was actually getting into the shower and it just happened," she explained to Radio.com. "The words just came to me and I got out immediately and wrote everything down."
Directed by Daniel "Cloud" Campos, the clip sees Williams looking flawless with her new short hair belting out the lyrics of the song, and Zedd playing the piano, as a couple perform a contemporary dance routine around a sofa. The storyline is a pair of troubled lovers, who know they're no good for each other, yet cannot deny (or ignore) the chemistry they share. The clip shows the couple tries to get past those awkward couch moments and find a true connection and the only thing that'll spark romantic bliss is the will to dance. Love doesn't always work out, no matter how much we want it to, we all know that to be true, though it takes a truly deft touch to express it. Especially without saying a word.

Anton Zaslavski, known primarily by his stage name Zedd premiered a new music video for the acclaimed tune, "Clarity," which heavily features vocalist form Foxes (UK-bred Louisa Rose Allen) in an on-screen love affair. The song is the title track for Russian-German electronic dance music producer and DJ's debut studio album. "Clarity" has hit No.1 on the iTunes Dance Chart, and had the biggest first week for a dance artist's album in the last 10 years.
After producing smash-hit remixes for the artists like Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas and Skrillex, 23-year-old Zedd is ready to spin it to the next level. His debut album, "Clarity," is the one of the most intriguing and successful dance albums of the year, offering a wide range of electronic-musical styles, the album is a fully realized statement from an artist whose sound is far more mature than his 23 years would suggest. With roots as an electronic dance DJ and producer, Zedd has recently expanded his reach and drawn from dubstep, complextro and progressive-house traditions to create his own uniquely entrancing sound.
The title track, is more mainstream pop with a dance edge. With the song's energy and sentimental lyrics the experience is captivating and leaves viewers entrapped, which was the Germany's EDM sensation's idea all along. With silky smooth piano notes and Foxes' powerful vocals are especially impressively sweet, and become the main highlight of this electro house track. With deep lyrics this is a mellow track that displays a different and even more creative side to the producer/songwriter. The video plays a lot to the hectic separation and being back together that is described in the song, but isn't too chaotic to follow.
The Jodeb-directed video works as a visual into an electronic and ties together perfectly with the track. The video jumps from gorgeous scenery to intergalactic designs, and crashing visuals that are intoxicatingly stunning. The emotive journey the video took us on was two lovers torn apart by distance and difficulty and want so badly to be together but something just keeps them apart. It featuring a love story with the main character chasing after his beauty until they finally end up together. Zedd takes a background role and Foxes plays the role of the heartbroken female in the video, while her lover pursues her through cities, mountains, and deserts.