Category: Music Videos
Love Is Invisibly Abusive in Charli XCX’s Billie Eilish-esque Video for “Chains of Love”
Though Charli XCX is, of course, a music video innovator in her own right (see: “Beg For You,” “Hot In It” and “360”), it doesn’t [Read More…]
Katy Perry Offers More Visual and Auditory Clichés with “Bandaids”
Even as Katy Perry does her best to be “in on the joke” that has been her career ever since the rollout period for 143 [Read More…]
Ellie Goulding Serves Some Wuthering Heights Vibes of Her Own With “Destiny” Video
Charli XCX isn’t the only one to be feeling the spirit of Emily Brontë by way of Emerald Fennell lately. For it seems Ellie Goulding [Read More…]
Predictably, FKA Twigs Opts for 2000s Aesthetics in “Predictable Girl” Video
Because the only thing more unshakeable as a “blanket trend” than the 90s is the 2000s, it’s no surprise that FKA Twigs, an 80s baby [Read More…]
A Song That Will Haunt You, Chase You Into the Woods and Potentially Make You Want to Scratch Your Eyes Out: It’s Not Exactly a Party “House” That Charli XCX and John Cale Have Provided—and That’s a Good Thing
Gothic, haunting, disorienting and featuring the sort of sound that makes it feel like it could be right at home on David Bowie’s Blackstar, Charli [Read More…]
Hilary Duff Returns With a “Mature,” Yet Skewering New Single
While SZA missed the opportunity to call “Kill Bill” “Mature” (after all, she does keep repeating, “I’m so mature” throughout it), Hilary Duff knew that [Read More…]
ROSALÍA’s “Berghain” Brings Opera and Classical Music to the “Mainstream,” Even If No Such Thing Really Exists Anymore
In, say, 1990, when Madonna released “Vogue,” there was very much a concrete “mainstream” to bring something “underground” to. In 2025, the mainstream is all [Read More…]
PinkPantheress and JT Drop “Noises” Video in Time for Halloween
Considering the hyper-paranoid nature of “Noises” in its original incarnation on Fancy That, it’s no surprise that, with the addition of JT for PinkPantheress’ remix [Read More…]
Florence Makes Love to Mother Nature in the Rightly Occultish “Sympathy Magic” Video
As the release date—Halloween—for Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Scream approaches, Welch has seen fit to unleash the third single and video from the album [Read More…]
Selena Gomez Releases Codependent Anthem “In the Dark” for Nobody Wants This Season 2
As the first song that Selena Gomez has released after being fresh from her marriage to Benny Blanco—with whom she recently made the joint album, [Read More…]
