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 I saw him in concert in 2002 he couldn't even… Read More

Warning: if you are afraid of doctors of have a fear of drowning, you may want to sit this one out. The new video for "This Is Gospel" by Panic! at the Disco plays out like a nightmare as Brendon Urie is held down against his will by a team… Read More

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 "wow this is weird". So since it's Monday, we might… Read More

OMG! Cameras Everywhere has had a pretty crazy summer. For the first time, rather than holding a single weeklong summer camp in California, they held three weeklong summer camps, with one in Los Angeles, one in New York, and one in London. The final LA camp just ended on Friday,… Read More

Super groups come in all shapes in sizes, but there is only one super group that can get away with song titles like "Sex Never Felt Better", and that is TGT, a group made up of Tyrese, Ginuwine, and Tank. Their latest video, directed by Benny Boom and for their… Read More

It’s Friday, you guys! You know what that means. It means it’s time to grab a cronut and sit back with the top 10 most popular music videos released this week. At the top of the list is the amazing video for "Hopeless Wanderer" by Mumford & Sons, starring Jason… Read More

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 instance, Coldplay has done a lot of music videos, but the only… Read More

Director Colin Tilley is a frequent collaborator with Jason Derulo, having directed videos for his songs "The Other Side" (2013) and "It Girl" (2011), among others. Tilley's latest video for Derulo, "Talk Dirty To Me", features silhouetted dancing in front of an orange screen, a setup in a blue-striped room,… Read More

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 step further. What if your movie had an actor who… Read More

Sunday afternoon, we noticed a lot of tweets and Facebook posts directing us to the new Mumford & Sons video for "Hopeless Wanderer". People were very careful not to reveal the concept of the video, but since it's been out for a while, I think we can spoil the fact… Read More

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 different or shake up their image a little bit, but… Read More

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, boy. Can you get it up?" When you are hanging… Read More

From the first public mention of Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience projects, there has been a buzz around them that hasn’t stopped, even nearly six months after the release of the first album. From interactive campaigns, to a weeklong residency on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, to now four pretty… Read More

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 the Aero bar. It's a chocolate bar with air bubbles… Read More

Here we are again, the end of another great week of music videos. Some people might think the word "end" is a reference to the frequency of butt-related videos that appeared in this week’s most popular list, and they would be correct because it is. One video that didn’t have… Read More

If you are a group of girls trying to levitate one of your friends at a birthday sleepover and you actually succeed, there is the question of what to actually do next. In the case of "The False Alarms" by LA electronic band Fol Cehn, the post levitation doesn't go… Read More

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 man move. Somewhere around the mid 2000s, however, Rivers Cuomo… Read More

It’s white cycs, motorcycles, and booty drums in "Get Like Me" by Nelly featuring Nicki Minaj and Pharrell Williams, directed by Colin Tilley. Shot with some of Tilley’s signature camera movements, the mostly black and white video features splashes of color and ass throughout. Nelly, Pharrell, and Nicki all perform… Read More

Hip Hop videos are rich with tradition. Whether it’s rap hands, mean mugging, or random dudes everywhere, there are music video elements that have appeared in every era of hip hop. In the video for "Hive" by Earl Sweatshirt, director Hiro Murai takes some of those traditional hip hop elements… Read More

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 made starting in 1966 with "Paperback Writer" and "Rain". While… Read More

Stealing a mysterious bag from a giant house - after likely killing a few people - is just the beginning of the story for the two ladies in "Alarm" by Wise Blood, directed by Keith Musil. We never do find out what was inside the mysterious leopard print bag, but whatever is… Read More

When it comes to making a one shot music video, all the elements need to be in place on both sides of the camera for the video to work out. For the Wild Nothing video for "Only Heather," directed by Ryan Reichenfeld, they not only needed to find an actor… Read More

Whenever I hear someone talk about clearing a sample, I think back to the 2001 The Avalanches album Since I Left You. The Avalanches were was an Australian eletronic group that basically created an album almost entirely out of samples, not really thinking it would be an issue since they… Read More

It's a well-established fact that Zooey Deschanel is America's main exporter of charm. She charming things up in your movies (even your Christmas movies), your TV Shows, and even in your commercials. Additionally, ever since she and M Ward met on the set of the 2007 film The Go-Getter, she… Read More

As we predicted, people continued to release music videos this week. Some people even released two. The good news is we got them all, counted up the views, and determined that these are the top 10 most popular for this week. At the top of the list is One Direction’s… Read More