Category: Music Videos
Adele and the Wine Factory: “I Drink Wine” Video Refreshes the Public’s Memory of There Being a Bigger Wine Enthusiast in the Music Business Than Taylor Swift
Every time you think Adele might have disappeared yet again for good (Greta Garbo-style), she’s known to randomly reemerge and remind fans that she’s not [Read More…]
The Video for Joel Corry’s Remix of “Hold Me Closer” Pointedly Only Includes Nods to Brit’s Pre-Conservatorship Looks
As Britney Spears continues to show us that she has something of a fetish for repetition (as evidenced by her constantly twirling around to the [Read More…]
And By the Way, Taylorella Is Going Out Tonight: “Bejeweled” Riffs On Cinderella With Cameos Galore
As Taylor Swift continues her Midnights blitzkrieg, a steady release of music videos for the album is par for the promotional course. And after only [Read More…]
Honey, I Blew Up the Taylor in Wonderland: “Anti-Hero” Video Shows Swift Being Too Big For This World
After directing the aggressively white and heteronormative “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” Taylor Swift made it clear that she had plenty of other future directorial [Read More…]
“Beautiful” 2.0 and What’s Changed Since Xtina’s Original “Beautiful” Video
To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Stripped—the album that Christina Aguilera carved out for herself to assure the masses she wasn’t just another “cookie-cutter” pop [Read More…]
“Sunset” Video: Caroline Polachek Lives Her Best Life in Barcelona While Channeling Beth Orton and “La Isla Bonita”
When one is as well-traveled as Caroline Polachek, it’s probably hard to be “impressed” by much of any milieu. After all, this is the girl [Read More…]
Tove Lo Turns Body Dysmorphia and an Eating Disorder Into A Danceable Anthem on “Grapefruit”
Perhaps if anyone was going to succeed at making such a hotbed, highly delicate issue danceable, it was bound to be Tove Lo. Having finally [Read More…]
If Brandy and Monica Continued to Hang Out After the Plot of “The Boy Is Mine,” It Would Be Ciara and Summer Walker’s “Better Thangs”
In the summer of 1998, there was scarcely anywhere one could go without hearing the contentious yet mellifluous lyrics of Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy [Read More…]
“Confessions of A Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)”: Xtina Pulls A Lindsay Lohan for “No Es Que Extrañe” Video
As though to prove that a girl needs to have “daddy issues” (that odious and blame-shifting term) in order to be driven into the devilish [Read More…]
Tanu Muino’s “Hold Me Closer” Video Uses Stunning Choreography and Mexico City Visuals to Compensate for Elton and Britney’s Absence In It
As Tanu Muino continues to make herself a force to be reckoned with as a music video director, carving out a name for herself in [Read More…]
