Warning: This post contains spoilers. There are a few mysteries "Heart Attack", the new video from Enrique Iglesias, directed by Colin Tilley. One of them is what happened to his hand, which for most of the video is bandaged with some blood soaking through. The other is why the character… Read More

Warning: This post contains spoilers. One thing music videos can do that no other medium really can is present a story fragment - something that could be part of a full narrative, but the viewer only sees a piece of. Inside of that piece can contain plot twists, plays on… Read More

IMVDb is the music video database, so obviously one thing we need to do really well is display music video credits for people, companies, and artists on their pages. The first incarnation of our page credit display was a simple table of credits, and then we had a more complicated… 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

In the new music video for "A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES" by Linkin Park x Steve Aoki, the artists at Ghost Town Media created a virtual city on a pretty epic scale - 50,000 buildings divided into 7 districts, each marked by a giant structure resembling each of the 6… 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

One of the great things about music videos is that a music video director can turn out a pretty big pile of videos in the time that it would take one feature film to be made. That means we sometimes see directors playing with a lot of different styles in… Read More

Remember that Saturday Night Live bit where everyone starts crying when "Someone Like You" by Adele comes on? Emotionally reacting to that song briefly became something that we all decided was a thing. The issue I have with that is I don't find "Someone Like You" to be a particularly… Read More

An Afrojack-produced song, "Good Time" by Paris Hilton featuring Lil Wayne, had a music video release earlier this week, and now it's the Dutch music producer and DJ's turn with a music video for his own single, "The Spark". Featuring Spree Wilson and directed by Tim Nackashi, "The Spark" follows… Read More

Say what you will about Miss Taylor Swift, she has produced some pretty amazing ballads in her short career so far. It's all part of a balance: for every quasi-novelty single like "I Knew You Were Trouble", there's a ballad like "Begin Again". She keeps them short, and she knows… Read More

The relationship between Warner Bros. Records and The Flaming Lips is a fascinating one. Since being signed to one of the biggest record labels in the world, The Flaming Lips have had a seemingly large amount of free reign over what direction they want to go in and how out… Read More

Paris Hilton has been full of surprises over the last few years. Perfumes and handbag lines aside, she made her DJ debut in 2012 at the Pop Music Festival in Brazil, and then appeared in a 3D K-Pop music video later on that year. In May, she signed with Cash… Read More

Tyler, the Creator has always seemed to bristle a little bit at Odd Future being called a "hip hop collective", as they are introduced as on many talks shows. I think Tyler sees OFWGKTA and himself as artists that happen to make hip hop, among other things. That attitude is… Read More

You have to wonder what the casting call description said to produce the group of people that appear in the new video for "What I Might Do" by Ben Pearce. Directed by James Copeman, the video is set up as casting call montage in front of a white cyc that… Read More

Hey, do you like space? People are talking a lot about space right now because of the new Alfonso Cuarón film Gravity, which is apparently very good and also about space. Let it be known that we here at IMVDb fully support space and awesome movies about space. Speaking of… Read More

In the last 15 years I have probably heard around 6,000 songs specifically about being in a club. The issue is, I have never been in a club, and I honestly don't know how to find one or what to do once I am inside one. I am also relatively… Read More

The new video for "High Roads" by Cults starts with a shot that travels through Cults members Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion, as well as a TV screen and a wallpaper pattern. At the end of the video, we're shown the same sequence but in reverse, taking us out of… Read More

With the massive publicity surrounding the end of Breaking Bad and the announcement of the spin off Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk is becoming a household name really fast. He of course played Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad, (a character without which I don't think the show could have reached the heights it did), but Bob… Read More

There a fine line between trying to be "weird" and just being genuinely strange, and it's a line that makes and breaks a lot of music videos that decide to go down the "weird" path. It's like trying to be cool - if you have to try too hard, maybe… Read More

Over the course of our Indiegogo campaign for IMVDb Production, I've been writing about some of the features we have planned. Today I'm going to talk about one feature that very nearly didn't make it into the feature list: IMVDb Shoots. Internally, we see call sheets for music videos fairly… Read More

Of the several things we're concentrating on here at IMVDb, data intake is one of the most difficult challenges. Around a year ago we started taking credits via a single web form, and since then we've had about 6,000 submissions. That's a good start, but there are some issues. One… Read More

Arcade Fire like to mix it up in the promotional department. They put out more interactive music videos than any other band we can think of, announce albums in replies to random fans, and use graffiti as viral marketing. This past Saturday they were on the season premiere of Saturday… Read More