Since the death of Nelson Mandela there has, of course, been a lot of focus in the news on South Africa. If you didn't know much about Mandela before, you're probably learning a lot as news organizations around the world recap his life. One of the Mandela stories I wasn't… Read More

One of the many services we provide here at IMVDb is telling you when someone who doesn't usually participate in music videos is in a music video. Trust us, if you want to impress people at a party, nothing does the trick like "you know that guy/girl was in a… Read More

Is it just me, or does a lot of Christmas nostalgia come from the 1950s and the 1980s. I'm not saying that Christmas wasn't awesome in the 1970s or any other decade, but when we collectively pull things together from the past that we want to in our modern Christmas,… Read More

Today we're continuing our Christmas music video run with a video that definitely doesn't have any Christmas trees or jingle bells - Dustin Kensrue's 2009 video for "This Is War", directed by Kevin Adamson. First of all, you might be wondering why we're including this in our series on Christmas music… Read More

If you are not a fan of Christmas music, then right now is not a good time for you. Even if you don't like it, though, you have to admit that Christmas music is pretty fascinating - it's a seasonal genre that virtually every popular act has tried to get… Read More

Today is the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, and even though it happened half a century ago, people are still fascinated by it. The images of that day - and images of the Kennedys in general - have become part of American folklore. There have been many artistic takes on… Read More

This morning I thought to myself "I bet if I searched on IMVDb for Uncle Kracker videos I'd find some pretty weird stuff." And, here we are. Today on music video relapse we're watching the video for a song called "My Girlfriend" from 2009, directed by Ross Ching. The song… Read More

Kanye West's love of premiering music videos on The Ellen Degeneres Show show is puzzling. Yes, Ellen's show is extremely popular, but it just seems like an odd venue. This week Kanye revealed his video for "Bound 2", and every moment of it was full of cringe. Especially because the… Read More

Does anyone remember "The Mellow Show" on Saturday Night Live? It was one of SNL's numerous talk shows that are set up for people to do impressions, and this talk show featured interviews with musicians who are decidedly mellow, including Dave Matthews and John Mayer. It was hosted by Andy… Read More

There's been a fair bit of talk about women in music videos lately with Katy Perry calling out pop stars who show too much skin and Lily Allen pretty much starting off her comeback with a song and video about how she is above what people think of her as… Read More

In the world of music videos, you have your narrative stuff, your high-concept stuff, your performance stuff, and so on. Then you have your videos that center around a novel visual concept and just run with it. This is really a format that came into its own in the 2000s… Read More

ARTPOP, Lady Gaga's third studio album, came out yesterday, and with it we are sure to get a slew of new music videos. (Lady Gaga likes making music videos a lot, and we already know that Terry Richardson is directing her next video for "Do What U Want".) Her music… Read More

Most insanely popular music videos don't hide the reason they are insanely popular. They are either by an insanely popular artist, or feature twerking butts, or feature any number of things people want to see. Some insanely popular music videos, for one reason or another, don't really wear the reason… Read More

One feature that we've had on IMVDb for a long time is the random video feature. You can go to imvdb.com/random or go to "Random Video" underneath the "Video" menu, and it'll take you to one of the many videos in the database. This morning I hit it and it… Read More

Remember the Sexy Sax Man video featuring a shirtless man that showed up in random places and played the melody line from "Careless Whisper" by George Michael? Mike Diva, who directed the video, has a pretty ridiculous YouTube channel featuring videos like a banned 90s Lunchables commercial aimed at "urban youths" and a Japanese Furby commercial.… Read More

  Accepting the job to direct the video for some songs must be nerve-racking. If the song is amazing itself, it needs an amazing video to go with it. So I can only imagine that director Joseph Kahn must've felt a sense of duty as he took the job to… Read More

Last night's YouTube Music Awards were, uh, interesting. While hosts Reggie Watts and Jason Schwartzman were pretty terrible, the live music videos were a lot of fun, and for that we can thank the show's creative director, Spike Jonze. Hopefully he had nothing to do with the cake thing, though.… Read More

Being media savvy has long been an asset for artists. In the past, it was more about being savvy about the press and other print and video coverage. Now, of course, there is a far greater range of skills you need to manage your image, and a lot of those… Read More

When you are watching a film or TV, there is always a small chance that Shaquille O'Neal will appear. While other sports stars settle for a failed Boca Raton, FL restaurant (I'm looking at your Wilt Chamberlin and Pete Rose), Shaq has a real estate firm, several rap albums, Google… Read More

If you guys are fans of Vine, you are probably familiar with Simon Rex, who took to the medium pretty soon after its initial release. He's recently stopped making vines it seems, but he used to make a lot of them and they almost always involved him taking him shirt… Read More

Back in the very early days of IMVDb (then FilmedInsert), pretty much any music video we came across was new to the database, so we just would search for "music video" on Vimeo and YouTube and go to town. One of the first videos we happened to come across was… Read More

Quick - name two of your favorite things that are much better when done painfully awkwardly. If you are like me, you probably answered "balloons dropping" and "zooming in on someone". To me, there's nothing more fun than a bunch of balloons being dropped on someone who doesn't really notice… Read More

From around the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s, Johnny Cash and Johnny Cash's estate managed to pull off one hell of a rebranding. For those who only really know the post-American Recordings Johnny Cash, you may not be familiar with 1970s/1980s Johnny Cash, who was significantly less popular and… Read More

I'm still coming to terms with the time that I saw Shaggy open for the Rolling Stones. He was the opening act for a portion of one of the legs of their endless tours, and sitting there in a half full arena in South Florida watching Shaggy play to an… Read More

When all is said and done, I think there will be lots to write about Paul McCartney's post-Beatles career which has seen its ups and downs over years. You could fill up a box set with all of his songs about his early days in the Beatles, and you could… Read More