The sun is shining, the waves are crashing, and the sand feels warm underneath your feet. Suddenly, a man appears and you realize — it’s Harry Styles. It feels like a dream, but it’s not: It’s actually the official music video for “Watermelon Sugar.” Long-awaited but arriving in perfect time for summer, Harry Styles has […]
Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas have a tight grip on the quarantine gossip cycle and they are not letting go. Repeatedly stepping out on quarantine strolls like the sidewalks were lined with red carpet, the public caught wind of their isolationship early on in quarantine. Now, the couple is doing full-on PDA in a […]
After 17 years of waiting, it’s Hayley Williams Day, and she is here to make the most of it. The Paramore singer released her debut solo full-length album, Petals for Armor, on May 8, and has now thrown in a music video for single “Dead Horse.” The video features many Hayley Williamses — in mirror […]
I can’t tell if 645AR is doing a bit or not. The 22-year-old South Bronx rapper writes songs about serious street shit delivered in a high-pitched squeal of a voice, flipping our expectations for how those stories are meant to be told and undercutting their darkness with humor. In January, his breakout song “4 Da […]
The return of The Dixie Chicks continues to be one of the few good things in the world, even when the songs are so, so sad. Martie Erwin Maguire, Emily Strayer, and Natalie Maines’s latest, “Julianna Calm Down,” off their postponed album, Gaslighter, speaks directly to women in harmful relationships. “Julianna, calm down / You […]
The return of The Dixie Chicks continues to be one of the few good things in the world, even when the songs are so, so sad. Martie Erwin Maguire, Emily Strayer, and Natalie Maines’s latest, “Julianna Come Home,” off their postponed album, Gaslighter, speaks directly to women in harmful relationships. “Julianna, calm down / You […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine — who was released from federal lockup early and given home confinement because of coronavirus concerns — wants permission from the court to shoot music videos in his backyard, a letter from his legal team filed Thursday reveals. “I am writing today only to request the Court’s approval to permit Mr. Hernandez to spend […]
No one likes coffee more than Chelsea Peretti. David Lynch comes close, but only Peretti could have written the ridiculous banger “Coffee Crankin’ Thru My Sys” from her podcast, Call Chelsea Peretti. Eight years after that musical debut, and one year after leaving Brooklyn Nine-Nine where she played Gina Linetti, Peretti has matured as a […]
Even in the comfort of her own home, Kehlani just wants some privacy. That’s the theme of her new song and music video, “Everybody Business,” anyway. In the song, she takes aim at the press and the internet always speculating about her relationships. And she shot the video where they can’t see her, in her […]
As Nicki Minaj once prophesized, you do indeed “gotta keep an eye out for Selener.” In her music video for Rare deluxe single “Boyfriend,” Ms. Gomez goes full Hustlers, courting multiple guys and spiking their drinks with a purple elixir so she can take them home. Side effects may include tripping out of your mind […]
We are living in dark and uncertain times — some, perhaps, might consider this a “ghost story” — so let us offer a balm: the musician Moses Sumney, and his sublime music video for “Cut Me.” Released Tuesday, it serves as the perfect entry into the drug that is his voice: It whines and soars […]
When comedian Jon Daly started hyping up an upcoming shot-for-shot remake of the Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up” music video titled “Cheer Me Up” on Twitter yesterday, I wasn’t sure if he was being serious or not. But Daly is no stranger to creating impressive musical parodies: Take, for instance, Papa John’s Misty, Lil Xan’s […]
At least The Weeknd gives his co-star Zaina Miuccia a headstart in his new gruesome “In Your Eyes” music video, the latest visual off his recently released album After Hours. In director Anton Tammi’s stylish horror homage, released Monday, the singer plays a serial killer version of himself who falls head over heels for a […]
It’s been 20 years since Eminem politely requested that the real Slim Shady please stand up and this time he is not messing around with these clones. Eminem emptied out his ideas notebook on the music video for “Godzilla,” which, yes, since you were clearly about to ask, does include human-size Godzillas walking alongside the […]
Ring the alarm and warm up the fiddle section, the Dixie Chicks’ newest song is finally here. “Gaslighter” — which the band teased on social media in February with a dictionary description of the word, a noun meaning psychological manipulator who seeks to sow seeds of doubt, and a super-short audio clip of the trio […]
Oh, so you’re a connoisseur of ballet? Name every member of BTS, then. After the release of their new album Map of the Soul: 7 and the music video for “On,” Jungkook, RM, J-Hope, Jin, Jimin, V, and Suga are back with another music video that will almost definitely shatter YouTube. For “Black Swan,” the […]
Whether its a street race, a heist, the big basketball game, or just a presidential run, rapper Roddy Ricch just can’t stop winning in the new video for his viral hit “The Box,” which comes from his debut album Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial. Co-created with Christian Breslauer, the visual follows Ricch’s unstoppable success […]
Why can’t Harry Styles drop on, like, a Sunday evening when we’re already curled into a mass of blankets, instead of a hopeful Friday morning? It’s not the time to sob, but the “Falling” music video does not care. Styles is stuck playing the piano (fingers adorned in massive gold rings, you know, casually) as […]
Remember that catchy song that leaked about three weeks ago that you absolutely did not under any circumstances listen to because that would be music piracy and you would never do that? Well lucky for you patient and law-abiding little monsters, the music video for Lady Gaga’s first single “Stupid Love” off her highly anticipated […]
Wait, has BTS been starting a cult this whole time? In their new music video for “On” the seven members — Jungkook, RM, J-Hope, Jin, Jimin, V, and Suga — power through hardship and walk into glory … or maybe something more sinister. Each boy starts caught up in a folktale: Jin saves a dove; […]
Doja Cat is quite the distraction in her new music video for “Say So,” transporting us to a vibey ’70s Los Angeles world. In the video, Doja challenges a record player repairman to “keep it focused” as she sips a fruit cocktail and lounges around a gorgeous loft. Although he manages to get the job […]
Taylor Swift wanted her fans up bright and early to get this lesson on feminism. “The Man” music video dropped at seven o’clock in the morning this Thursday, before young Swifties head off to school and before adult Swifties have their morning coffee. Taylor Swift, in some award-worthy makeup, literally becomes the man in this […]
Somebody please let Camila Cabello know what silent films are, because girl is playing fast and loose with the concept of diegetic sound in her latest music video, for the bonus track on the digital edition of Romance, “My Oh My” featuring DaBaby. The (mostly) black-and-white video casts Camila as a silent movie star within […]
The Pussycat Dolls have no respect for the 2010s and, frankly, we get it. The Nicole Scherzinger–led girl group has loosened up their buttons for the first time in about 11 years, completely skipping the teens. Their new single “React” is the group’s first since 2008’s Doll Domination, which, yes, upon 2009 rerelease, is the […]
The Barbz can have a little beef, as a treat. Nicki Minaj’s fans have been patient while she entered retirement and now they’re being rewarded with both a new single, “Yikes,” and with Meek Mill drama. The rapper, who Minaj has recently gotten into two public fights with, also released a new single Friday, “Believe,” […]
If each of the videos for Hayley Williams’s new songs exists in a shared universe, she’s gone from running naked in the woods and being pursued through a dark house, to being clothed in the woods and turning into a bird in a bright house, and now, for her latest solo single, she is safely […]
Lil Nas X looked to the past for his latest futuristic music video, “Rodeo,” featuring Nas. While walking along a dark, abandoned path that nothing could go wrong on, Nas X is randomly attacked by a vampire, which turns him into a bat-faced human reminiscent of another dancing supernatural creature: Michael Jackson in the “Thriller” […]
It’s liberation season for Hayley Williams. Formerly the knockout voice of Paramore, she is now the knockout voice of her own solo career — even if she’s still withholding the key changes from all of us. Following her debut single and its accompanying video, “Simmer,” Williams has dropped another steady and personal track in “Leave […]
Get ready to turn your screen up to max brightness because Billie Eilish has directed and released the new music video for her single “everything i wanted,” and it is, on the one hand, very good, but on the other hand, it looks like it was shot by the cinematographer who did “The Long Night” […]
Two things about Rosalía and the new video for her song “Juro Que.” First, it’s great. Second, can this be her audition for season three of Netflix’s Élite, because she and Omar Ayuso look great? (We’re not saying break up Omander. That is sacred ground. But why not bring a new student who is also […]