Category: Music Videos
Lykke Li’s “Utopia” Video Uses the Nostalgia of Home Movies For A Different Effect Than Kesha’s “Learn to Let Go”
Released in time for Mother’s Day, Lykke Li’s vastly divergent from the iPhone-centric video for “Deep End,” “Utopia,” finds her reminiscing about her recently deceased [Read More…]
All Weddings Should Be Funerals: Cardi B’s Video for “Be Careful” Replicates Kill Bill/Jhené Aiko Motifs
Despite Cardi B deleting her Instagram account after Azealia Banks called her “a caricature of a black woman,” she came back on the social media [Read More…]
Lykke Li’s Video For “Deep End” Is A Less Vain Version of the Vertical Video for Nicki Minaj’s “Chun-Li” (& A Telling Pattern in Music Videos of iPhone Filming)
With the upcoming release of Lykke Li’s fourth album, the sign of the times entitled So Sad So Sexy, the requisite music video promotion of [Read More…]
The Video for “This Is America” Is, Frankly, More Powerful Than Generation Z
While much rightfully deserved ink has been devoted to the bravery of Generation Z and its associated spokespersons (namely Emma González) in the wake of the [Read More…]
Christina Aguilera Re-“Accelerates” Her Career in New Video As Kesha Doppelganger
Christina Aguilera has taken many career punches over the years, the last and most brutal ones being for her previous two albums, 2010’s Bionic and [Read More…]
Giovanni Bianco and Nicki Minaj Team to Unwittingly Re-Create “Vogue” at the 1990 MTV VMAs for “Barbie Tingz”
Giovanni Bianco, in addition to Steven Klein (who directed Minaj’s companion single, “Chun-Li“), is a longtime collaborator of Madonna’s in terms of art direction (most [Read More…]
Dave Meyers Turns Ariana Grande’s PTSD Topsy-Turvy in “No Tears Left to Cry” Video
Max Martin, another Swedish prodigy (apart from the entity that is ABBA and the now deceased ΛVICII–damn, the Swedes really love to stylize their monikers), has [Read More…]
Every Woman in Hollywood Clears Her Schedule to Be in Drake’s “Nice for What” Video
It’s been said Drake can make even the most firmly placed of panty lines drop (even for that brief moment, Rihanna’s–though she seems the type [Read More…]
At the Funeral of His Ego: Jhené Aiko Teaches Us It Takes Two Music Videos for One Song to Properly Carry Out An Ex Revenge Fantasy
Jhené Aiko, who has been saturating a, shall we say, different kind of audience after briefly touring as Lana Del Rey’s opening act on the [Read More…]
The “Delicate” Video Channels Britney In Her Barefoot Gas Station Phase More Than Her “Lucky” One–With a Dash of “Drowned World/Substitute For Love” Thrown In
Every musician/celebrity reaches that point in their career where they wonder if, as Madonna once said on the first bookend to Ray of Light, they “traded [Read More…]
