15. First of the Year (Equinox) - Skillrex
Since the Grammy nominations, I've decided to dive into Skrillex more. I knew who he was and I liked a few of his songs I heard (the popular ones; Scary Monsters and then Kill Everybody, honestly). However, I was really liking his stuff; I'm really impressed with his production skills. In this video, you get creeped the **** out and get your mind blown in a somewhat flawless amount of storytelling and insanity. That little girl ****ing slays entire videographies. I always get awesome reactions to people seeing this video cause it portrays the unseen dark and power of the victim.
14. S&M - Rihanna
Despite the arguable claims of plagiarism that were plastered upon S&M's music video (whatever happened to that suit, anyways?), this music video is crazy cool. It got so much controversy as a song and a video, but my problem is this. It's called S&M, and it's a vibrant colorful upbeat "wonderland" of mild-at-best innuendos, minus the dark room where she has a whip. Anyways, she looks amazing, the whole video considering how vulgar the theme was speculated to be at first, and most importantly it's a music video you'll remember along with the song, which in my opinion for its shock value is actually one of Rihanna's more memorable #1s, but we won't go into that. It's easily one of the most talked about videos of the year.
13. The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
I love this side of Katy; video and song. I need it more, since Thinking Of You and The One That Got Away are her best singles. Nuff said.
IN ANOTHER LIIIIIIIIFEEEEEE I WOULD BE YOUR GIIIRL
12. Blow - Ke$ha
As Ke$ha's best video, this music video has pretty much everything that sums up why Ke$ha is so great. Sparkles, class, witty humor, and undeniably humorous obnoxiousness. The intro and the ending are hilarious, and the unicorn heads kill me every time. A bit of sensuality and laugh out loud moments and easy charting on the best videos of the year, without a doubt. They talked over of the amazing bridge, which was upsetting, but the dialogue was so epic that it almost didn't matter. I love clever Ke$ha, I'd take her over whatever you describe We R Who We R's video.
11. In The Dark - Dev
This music video perfectly matches the song itself: classy sexuality. The scene where the dark hands cover her body... well, let's just say even the strictest nun would join that orgy and the hands jolting to the beat was for some reason awesome to me. Dev looks hot as hell throughout the entire video and if this song to hit #1 and smash hard, this video would probably make her a sex icon for the next couple of years. The field of hands also was sick as **** to me, which is why I used it in my song countdown banner. It missed the top 10 just because I'm not here for snakes.