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

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

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

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

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

It's kind of annoying when an old music video I know exists but just doesn't seem to be online. Many acts or labels that went defunct before the age of music videos may not really be motivated to put high quality versions online, and we get that. We have an… Read More

Here's something that might make you feel old: "Hey Ya!" came out a decade ago. "Hey Ya!" was released so long ago that Andre 3000 could reference polaroid pictures in his song and people generally said "oh yeah, I know what a polaroid picture is. I know you have to… Read More

Colin Tilley is Tyga's music video director of choice for Hotel California - the fourth Tilley-directed video for Tyga's album was released today for "Show You" featuring Future. For this installment, Tyga is taking some time to relax on Catalina island with a yacht and a good book (just kidding,… Read More

Yesterday, Fastball released their first music video in more than a decade. This is notable to me because All the Pain Money Can Buy was the first CD I ever bought, and that is 100% because of their awesome music video for "The Way", directed by McG. McG's influence on… Read More

Being a Rufus Wainwright fan means always being somehow aware of what Rufus Wainwright wants in his career at any given time. The son of folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, Rufus spent roughly a decade (1998 - 2007) alternately searching for mainstream chart success and entertaining more… Read More

We here at IMVDb pay close attention to the distribution of music videos online. While we mainly use two trusted sources of online video that house most of the world's music videos - YouTube and Vimeo - we also recognize the need to be able to break out of that… Read More

Fred Durst did a reddit AMA yesterday afternoon. In the early hours of the AMA, the top comment was simply "lol" (this has since been deleted), so Durst faced a bit of an uphill battle for a while with the general reddit community. Durst pushed through, though, and it was… Read More

Doug(las) Klinger, Content Director for IMVDb, is a big Eminem fan, so I didn't tell him I was writing about Eminem today for our Music Video Relapse post because he'd probably tell me to pick "Toy Soldiers" or something super deep, but this is column so I'm going whole hog… Read More

Somewhere along the path of his career, Weird Al stopped really parodying music videos. I don't know why. If you'll recall, when Weird Al used to parody a song, he parodied the music video as well, as if the music video was so important to the identity of the song… Read More

I firmly believe that the only compact disc that was produced more than AOL discs in the mid-90s was Hootie and the Blowfish's 1994 album Cracked Rear View. It made Hootie and the Blowfish a household name, and is the 16th best selling album of all time in the USA.… Read More

I'm not a guy that can handle watching people perform in nerve-racking situations well, so when Lana Del Rey appeared on Saturday Night Live in January 2012, I had a hard time watching it. She was making her national TV debut on one of the biggest TV stages there is,… Read More

On Friday Karmin released a video for their first single off of their upcoming studio album, Pulses. The song is called "Acapella", and it's a definite departure from the duo's previous work in a lot of ways, not to mention the styling and use of toast. The video premiered on… Read More

Yesterday the video for "Ooh La La" by Britney Spears was released to promote Smurfs 2, featuring Spears and her children. She's in full Mom mode here - basically mugging for the camera with animated Smurfs to a theatre full of small children. It's a fun, colorful video and smurfs… Read More

Somewhere in the history of America, somebody decided that making fun of the French was not only okay, it was awesome and should be encouraged. What culture out there is more stereotyped here in the USA if not the French? It's not just baguettes and mimes, we're defintely down for… Read More