Today's Pick

The R&B soulful crooner John Legend is back and turns up the heat in the steamy video for his latest classy seductive turn "Tonight (Best You Ever Had)," the lead single from his forthcoming fourth album, currently untitled. The project is set to debut this spring and will feature production from Kanye West, Bink and Paul Epworth. The LP serves as a follow-up to his 2008 solo studio album "Evolver."
Featuring Southern rapper Ludacris, the bedroom banger is a soundtrack for upcoming movie "Think Like a Man." Some scenes including the steamy makeout session between Taraji P. Henson and Michael Ealy are previewed in the newly-premiered music video courtesy of Essence. The song's lyrics certainly suit the title of the movie with lyrics. With the help of Essence, Legend stepped from behind his piano and ripped off his shirt and gets frisky and flirting with a woman who has caught his eye.
With a shirtless Legend is "thinking like a man" in his new video, suggestive lyrics throughout, and assorted sensual imagery going on. The 33-year-old Ohio native seduces his love interest with his sultry lyrics and promises her that he will be the best she's ever had. He sits on a bed and flaunts his frame and gets close with his lady, caressing her as she returns the favor, while a shades-wearing Ludacris charms his lady with his equally seductive verses, giving the refreshing R&B track some hip-hop edge.
The sparse video definitely exudes Legend's sexiness as he remains shirtless for the majority of it. The Grammy Award winning singer is trying to shed his polite guy image with his latest video, which turns a night at home watching movies into a sensual romp, and gives Legend the opportunity to try his hand at being a sex symbol. Its TAJ directed visual should go some way in aiding that cause, especially as it sees the usually coy crooner flash some flesh. Something we're sure his legion of fans will not be complaining about.

Just turned 29, Carrie Underwood has premiered a music video on Entertainment Tonight for her new single, "Good Girl", the lead cut from her forthcoming fourth studio album, "Blown Away," which she has said will feature songs with a "darker storyline," due in stores on May 1. Underwood is primarily a country artist, but here, the 'American Idol' alum heads into territory that straddles three genres. While you can still hear instrumentation from her country roots.
The song, which Underwood co-wrote with Ashley Gorley and Chris DeStefano, shimmies and shakes with 1980s style hand claps and a pop-leaning melody while the lyrics is about Underwood warning a good girl about her boyfriend, saying that he is actually no good, and that she is better off without him. While the song isn't remotely 'traditional country' and isn't too far removed melodically from the rhythmic pop songs that are dominating pop music airwaves right now, there's also no denying the fantastic vocal delivery Underwood provides on "Good Girl."
Underwood debuted the song in a live performance during the annual Country Radio Seminar event in Nashville last month. The Joan Jett guitars and uptempo drum track crackles with rock guitar and vocal fireworks while encouraging audience participation with a singalong chorus that is pure pop. The country cutie shows off her fabulous voice and witty lyrics and without a shadow of a doubt this is the best uptempo vocal that Underwood has given country radio. Underwood shows she's capable of brandishing her weapon only when needed, and always with cool efficiency and power.
Filmed in Los Angeles, the Theresa Wingert-directed clip is sexy and sassy to fit the uptempo tune's lyrics, but doesn't feature a storyline. It's really just a collection of Underwood in various fashions strutting her stuff and flaunting her stunning looks as if her stunning voice wasn't enough, Underwood proves she is also one heck of a dancer and fashion model. Underwood channels her inner good girl as well as an edgier side that matches the grit of the song. Her two sides even sing/debate at each other, suggesting that the titular 'good girl' getting warned about a lying, no-good man might just be Underwood herself.

Australian DJ, Havana Brown always planned on being a singer, has just dropped a new video for the remix of her sizzling debut club-pop single, "We Run The Night," featuring a guest vocal appearance by rapper Pitbull. The original version was a huge hit when it was released last year. Now the remixed track is repeating history, having already reached the number one place on the Hot Dance Club Songs Chart in the US. The pair back up their claim by owning the dance club in the new video.
The quite catchy autotune is an ultra-ferocious club banger built around a universally appealing hook, and it saves this femme fatale from what would otherwise be a disastrous release. "We Run The Night" is as epic as it is euphoric, with an insanely infectious breakdown that's guaranteed to throw the crowd into overdrive, and the track is the perfect introduction to the talents and tastes of Brown. The dance-club beat, the lyrics, the flashing lights, and of course the brilliance of Pitbull, combine together producing one club-ready "must have."
"It's created for both the clubs and the radio," Brown reveals. "That was really important for me and it was very difficult to pull off. As for the track, it's about how music makes me feel." Brown says her vast experience as a DJ playing other people's tunes has also had a huge impact on how she approaches her own. After working the club circuit for three years, Brown became the first female DJ in Australia to sign a major label record deal with Universal Music in 2008, released her first mix CD, "Crave," and topped the year off opening for the Pussycat Dolls on their promo tour.
Directed by Benn Jae with Tony Prescott and shot in Miami, the video begins at a private party where young people, elegantly dressed, are moving in time with the music. The beat begins, the music starts, and with Pitbull introducing the song, all the excitement commences. Brown now begins to do what she does best: she sings, she moves, she looks into your soul. It is no wonder that dance floors overflow when these two team up. Together they exude pizzazz. The clip shows off this special excitement as these two world class DJs do their stuff. Brown even shows off her mixer-desk skills sliding the controls while singing.

Elen Levon unveiled a brand new sultry music video for her second single "Like A Girl In Love." The 17-year-old has already been generating a lot of buzz on the Australian pop scene, as well as internationally, with her dancey debut single "Naughty." An artist like Levon does not come along very often; with a voice that carries power and thrust beyond her years, along with fashion sensibility and dance moves to boot, Levon is on the fast-track to becoming one of the nation's most talked about pop sensations.
Produced by Rogue Traders' James Ash and penned by Melinda Appleby and Jamie Appleby, "Like A Girl In Love" is a sizzling hook-heavy summer track with a thumping bass line and wailing hypnotic vocals. Levon is steadily moving away from her previous "Naughty" pop sound to more electro-oriented tunes, and her thumping new electro-pop jam "Like A Girl In Love" shows that she'll be blasting into the clubs this year.
Filmed on a really stunning location in Cambodia, the moody visual is polished, slick, eye-catching and providing an unmistakable ethnic and exotic feel. It plays out a bit like a Southeast Asian version of Rihanna's "We Found Love" without the sex, drugs and nudity. The video features Levon running wild across the beautifully rugged landscape with male amour, through small towns and a creepy abandoned amusement park with accomplice in tow while she sports a US-inspired bikini ensemble, before roaming around the Asian wilderness on the back of a truck.
Unlike the "Naughty" visual, "Like a Girl In Love" actually does justice to how hot Levon is. She's been totally weaved-up and sexed-up, racing around a burned-out village in booty shorts and barely-there tops. I particularly love the beautifully filmed scene on the world's shabbiest Ferris wheel. It's apparent her label was going for an edgier, more adult style while staying age-appropriate and it works. The American flag outfit is hot and the exotic location makes it unusually atmospheric.

Usher is tempted to steal back the woman of his life from his love rival and lets his emotions get the best of him in his latest moody visual offering for the ultra-sexual song "Climax," the lead single from Usher's upcoming seventh album, features juicy scenes in which he makes love to the camera and is so passionate and full of rage he nearly bursts through the screen and places Usher in a difficult position as he battles heartbreak.
This slow break-up jam finds the 33-year-old R&B superstar in lover mode as he croons in his falsetto, "Where are you now, when I need you around?" over Philadelphia producer Diplo's rippling synths. "It's odd that people view 'Climax' as a sexual song," he said in an interview. "It's not. It's not even about sex. It's really about the ultimate experience or finale of an experience of love and life." The song was released via Twitter on February 14 as a Valentine's Day present for his fans. It's a doubly satisfying departure from Usher and Diplo's respective strains of club-ready fare!
As if Usher's single "Climax," which details the struggles of loss and yearning when a relationship goes south, wasn't dramatic enough, the music video adds a whole new dark element to the song. Directed by Sam Pilling, this dramatic, highly-suspenseful and attention-gripping clip was shot in Atlanta, and visually captures the energy and extreme intensity of Usher's game-changing and "Sexxxxxxy" (Rolling Stone) single, as Usher looks suitably anguished throughout the promo while he croons and takes us through a few twists and turns of a very complicated situation.
Sitting outside his love interest's house in his car contemplating his next move with a gun loaded before he reaches his climax. Usher mentally goes through all the possible scenarios that can go down if he tries to get his girl away from another man. Though the video's narrative is a little muddled, but it essentially features bits and pieces of a forbidden relationship and allows Usher to really live in the pathos of the song's heartbroken lyrics, and it is difficult to look away from Usher when he sings so passionately. Unlike true Usher style, the clip is a purely cinematic affair that casts him as a jealous spurned lover.

Florence And The Machine have posted their new video for "Never Let Me Go," the fourth single from English indie rock band's latest second studio album "Ceremonials," an album absolutely packed with big, grand ballads. In its new video, a newly gothified frontwoman Florence Welch indulges in a bit of ice-rink romance, and things don't turn out too well. Upon the release of the video, critics praised Welch's gothic look and the video's dark atmosphere.
Musically, "Never Let Me Go" is a downtempo power and piano ballad with elements of R&B and pop music. It has a piano-led instrumentation accompanied by thumping drums while backing vocals repeatedly sing "never let me go" throughout the song. Many critics noted similarities between the song and materials by other artists including Enya, Evanescence and Ryan Tedder-produced songs. The song received mostly positive reviews by critics who praised Welch's vocals and its balladry nature.
Lyrically, the theme of the song revolves around the sea and the ocean, and the song also talks about sin and redemption. Speaking about the song, Welch told Digital Spy, "The gospel thing comes from my obsession with hymns. I'm drawn to anything that has a hymnal quality, be it Spiritualized or dusty old albums by Georgian choirs." Welch takes us to the dark side in her latest video, and this isn't the video for you if you like closure and certainty.
The promo was directed by Tabitha Denholm and stars 'The Twilight Saga' actor Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Welch's love interest. The clip match the almost supernatural tone of the song and sees Welch in a black hoodie as she enjoys a good time with a boy she met in a dark place. The pair together skating and shots of a dirty water trickling down Welch's face and hands are shown. The joy ends as soon as it starts, leading her to be covered in black gooey substance, and pouring from her mouth before she appears to melt away to nothing.

Nikki Reed and Paul McDonald are madly in love in a newly released video to support their love-lullaby duet "Now That I've Found You" on MTV's Hollywood Crush, and it's clear the couple is head-over-heels in love. The Twilight star, 23, and the American Idol alum, 27, released their single in November, right before the release of "Breaking Dawn - Part 1." The newlywed lovebirds give their fans a quick peek at their blossoming relationship, which they started a year ago.
"I'm always walking around the house with a guitar, and I'm always writing songs and stuff like that," McDonald told Hollywood Crush about their labor of love. "Nikki's a great writer and she always kind of sings along with me. I'm like, 'Dude, you have a great voice. Why don't we do something?' When we were on the way back from France, this song kind of happened on the plane. We just got together and wrote it."
The video was directed by Whitney Dean with Reed, who initially wanted to shoot a June Carter/Johnny Cash-esque clip, but she later opted for a simple and sweet story that tells the story of two people, and have it be more about the atmosphere. "I don't know if you notice, but there's a very specific choice in there with cuts and specific shots that are partial and you can only see parts of our mouths and hands. I don't want to dwell on the shots of us for too long," She explained.
The video shows the gorgeous couple walking through the forest, gazing lovingly at one another and provides a look at the couple's romantic life together. It also features shots of them getting lovey dovey in an empty field, singing together atop a rusted-out Volkswagen Beetle and Reed stares longingly into McDonald's eyes and as the folk music plays, we can almost see their adorable babies running barefoot on the beach as the two parents prepare an organic dinner. They enjoy a warm sunny day in what looks like a cornfield, gazing lovingly at each other while hugging and holding hands. We put a call into the couple to talk about their labor of love.