Doug Klinger and Jason Baum talk about the notable music videos from 2021.
Interviews with music video directors and industry professionals, new release highlights, and IMVDb site news.
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Back to Black is the album that Amy Winehouse will obviously be remembered for, as it's her first album that was a major hit before she died at the age of 27 in 2011. It's definitely one of the classic…
I am frequently asked (by no one) who I'd like to hang out with if I could hang out with anyone at all. It's a great question, thanks! The answer for me is easy - Princess Beatrice of York, hands…
A few days ago we had a submission to the database that was a sort of remake of "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy. We weren't able to add it to the database, unfortunately, since its an unofficial video,…
Happy labor day everyone. We would be on the couching watching "Summer Eleven" on Netflix, but seeing as the crew here at IMVDb basically have fake jobs we made up, we figured we might as well be doing those fake…
Today's music video relapse is going to be a weird one. Earlier this morning I was reading about Hyon Song-wol, one of the performers reportedly executed by firing squad a few days ago in North Korea. This is of course…
One thing I hear a lot is people are bored of performance music videos. "Performance video" is almost a derogatory term, like store brand. The thing is, performance videos can be amazing videos, your artist just needs to be worthy…
I don't think you really lived through the late 90s/early 00s unless you attended some sort of gathering where someone made a video montage of pictures to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day. They of course didn't…
Remember the band in Step Brothers that was playing at the Catalina Wine Mixer? Uptown Girl? Horatio Sanz, playing the lead singer of the band, claims they only play 80s Billy Joel songs as the crowd calls for obstensibly non-80s…
Although Robin Thicke didn't win for any of the categories he was nominated for last night at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, he still managed to be a part of the most talked about performance of the night with…
At first we heard that 'N Sync were going to reunite for an appearance on the VMAs, and then we heard that they were not and it was just a rumor. This may or may not be a big deal…
Now that Lady Gaga has released the first music video for her third album, we are officially cleared to get nostalgic about early Lady Gaga. Remember The Fame before it was The Fame Monster? Back when every song came with…
As part of our new features we launched last week, we launched a page to browse music videos by country, complete with a little map where you can click on various countries and see the music videos that have been…
So here's a question: What is the most watched music video by a black solo artist? If you guessed something by Jay Z or maybe Rihanna, you'd be wrong. It's actually "Super Bass" by Nicki Minaj, #21 on our top…
First music videos for artists are difficult - the artist needs to be introduced to an entire market via one concept, and the video can often stick in the public's head as their mental image for that artist. For instance,…
If you are compiling a list of music video performances that look like they were really uncomfortable to shoot, I've got a great entry for you. It's the tune that I think is one of the most fondly-remembered singles of…
Hey remember Duffy? Back in 2008 or so Duffy and Adele were kind of a "wave" (do two people constitute a wave?) of ladies from Europe who had strong voices and one name. Adele had "Chasing Pavements" and Duffy had…
Hey you want to know something weird? Before today I'd never seen a John Mayer music video. Not even one one, and I don't really know how that happened. It's not like I'm not a John Mayer fan - when…
Music videos are sometimes just a good excuse to do some really weird stuff. I'm not talking about the stuff that is overtly and self-conciously odd, I'm more thinking about the stuff that, when you are watching it, you go…
One shot music videos are hard. They usually depend on the charisma and camera presence of one artist, and can fall pretty flat or just seem lazy if not done right. However, when it works, it works really well. For…
Movies and music videos go together really well. If you have a song on your film soundtrack, why not make a music video and then put some clips in there of your movie? But allow me to take it a…
Based on our music video watching history, there seems to be a sort of "sweet spot" in an artist's career where they are up for pretty much anything in the music video department. Maybe they are looking to try something…
Have you ever sat down and really listened to "Rude Boy" by Rihanna? It's one of my favorites because it was on top 40 radio at the time of its release, and it contains lyrics like "Come here rude boy,…
The first frame I ever saw of Lily Allen in a music video made me a fan. In the opening shot in 2009's "Smile", I'm almost positive she's eating an Aero bar - my favorite chocolate bar. Allow me to describe…
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo spent a lot of his early career being a brooding front man. He had one of his legs extended to match the length of the other in the mid-90s, for example. That's a great brooding front…
Perhaps you've heard of The Beatles, a well-known musical group from the 1960s. The Beatles were innovators in a lot of areas, of course, and they are sometimes identified as pioneers of the first modern music videos for the clips they…
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