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.
"Indie Cindy" by Pixies, directed by LAMAR+NIK, is a narrative video that mixes camera sources and moves forward and backwards through time. The video is the second collaboration between the band and the directing duo, and like their previous collaboration,…
The story of Tally Hall is an interesting one. A band out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, they gained a pretty sizable following in the midwest in the mid-late 2000s with their music as well as their comedy and the fact…
Shot in Washington DC and set in an ornate mansion complete with a golden throne, "We Been On" by Rich Gang featuring R. Kelly does a great job highlighting how awesome your life is after several years of success in…
Director Elliott Sellers has been on a roll this year. Hes established a style that combines beautiful live action footage with perfectly placed visual effects, like in the video for "Heart Heart Head" by Meg Myers. In this video, Meg…
Perhaps your've heard that Micheal Jackson has made some really famous music videos, and perhaps you've seen some of them. "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Black Or White", etc. You know them all, but did you also know that Michael Jackson…
Anyone who was upset about the Miley Cyrus VMA performance last month might as well just look away now (this means you Mika Brzezinski) because it was nothing compared to Mileys new video for "Wrecking Ball," directed by Terry Richardson.…
Do you ever wish you could go back to the horror section of a 1995 Blockbuster Video and find wall-to-wall VHS copies of campy horror films that youve never heard of? Well with "Evil Eye" by Franz Ferdinand, directed by…
"Graceless," The National and director Sophia Peer's second collaboration from the excellent Trouble Will Find Me album, features the band members drinking lots of beer and ruining their nice suits at a sweet pool party. It was shot at The National frontman Matt Berningers parents house, and features the…
If there's one thing we don't really ever need to see more of in music videos, it's people listening to a song on headphones and reacting. Probably the most famous example of this is 2001's "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" by Cake,…
The Ladies of G.R.L. are in a tough spot in "Vacation", their new music video. Some dudes are staying at the G.R.L. house, and these dudes are anything but good housemates. They are the messiest cereal pourers ever, shave and…
Here we are, gang, at the end of another week of music videos. As predicted by Nostradamus, Katy Perrys "Roar," directed by Grady Hall and Mark Kudsi, was the most popular video released this week, with more than 5 and…
Coming off their massively successful song and video for "Safe And Sound," Capital Cities turned to Carlos Lopez Estrada to co-direct their newest video for the song "Kangaroo Court." The band came up with the idea of a nerdy Zebra…
When I think of lucky musicians, nobody sticks out in my mind more than the two dudes from Los del Río, a Spanish musical duo formed in 1962. You probably know them as the two guys who sing the song…
Ass and rap videos go together like Simon and Garfunkel, but there are stuff fun and unique ways to approach the pairing, and director Benny Boom proves that with the video for "Clappers" by Wale ft. Nicki Minaj and Juicy…
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…
In "Kangaroo Court" by Capital Cities, a nerdy zebra takes some serious measures to get into an exclusive club that doesnt allow his species. Co-directed by the band and Carlos Lopez Estrada, the video has a pretty massive cast of…
"Let It Rain" by Eliza Doolittle is a performance based video which features beautiful shots and some really effective VFX. The Elliott Sellers directed video begins inside a dimly lit house, but the walls soon are ripped away and Eliza…
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…
In the last two years, director Phil Mucci has established a distinct style in the music video world, to the point where he has written his own rules on how things get done. Starting with "The Devil's Orchard" by Opeth…
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,…
Its not easy to get a music video audience emotionally attached to a singing tree and animated bird, but in the video for "You & I" by Crystal Fighters, director Elliott Sellers pulls it off. Shot the same weekend that…
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…
What a week for music videos, you guys, clap it out. You guys still feeling your VMA hangover? Well snap out of it, weve got some popular-ass music videos to discuss! At the top of the list is "Loco" by…
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…
Facebook isn't really known as a video site, but today Jay Z and Justin Timberlake made music video history by premiering the video for "Holy Grail" on Jay Z's Facebook page. It was directed by Anthony Mandler and it's a beautifully…
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