For a guy that’s so serious and contemplative on record, Drake has a videography filled with the occasional great sense of humor and/or completely ridiculous visuals. However, Drake’s best video goes all in on spectacle and ridiculousness.
Where other artists would have film an intimate and sensual video (possibly set in a strip-club with plenty of possible grinding and/or twerking) for “Hold On We’re Going Home,” Drake takes his song and honors it by making it the soundtrack to a high-budget short film inspired by 1980’s Miami or, more accurately, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. A$AP Rocky guest stars as does featured artist and Drake protégée Majid Jordan as Drake’s business partners to round out his cast. The plot is: Drake and his business partners have upset a gang that captures Drake’s girlfriend. Drake and his associates arm-up and shoot their way through the gang’s fortress so Drake can save the girl. It’s a simple story that has been told dozens of times.
The whole video is cinematic and overblown in just the right way; something you could enjoy with a big bowl of popcorn. “Hold On We’re Going Home,” despite having a serious plot, still captures the goofy side of Drake, his constant serious faces at the camera, the red shoes his crew wears when they collect their guns, and the fact that the whole video is a 7-minute homage to 1985 era Miami set to a R&B song by a Canadian rapper who used to be on Degrassi. The video does one of Drizzy’s best songs justice, it may not completely capture the smooth sound of the song (something that ends up working for the song as the video does add some grit and determination to Drake’s lyrics); but the video does absolutely capture the ambition and risk Drake took by releasing a left-field R&B song. The song and video show why Drizzy is at the top of the game, he can get real on record, but also make an amazing short film that's a blast to watch.
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Originally posted by BlooRiverAnimal
Where do I begin? The video for Take It Off is just all kinds of amazingness. It's fun and quirky and eccentric and most of all it's Kesha to the tenth power. The video starts off in a very apocalyptic, walking dead-esque setting and then around the the chorus after the second verse, it's turns into this chaotic burst of color, glitter flying around everywhere. People smashing into each other and body parts coming apart leaving colorful dust everywhere.
The video is very creative and is more about just people taking it off. It's about revealing what's underneath. Whatever that may be, in this case, it's glitter and powder explosions. Overall, it's a really fun, creative and if you can see past the imagery of it all, it's quite a inspirational video as well about being yourself and not being afraid to show your true self and all it's colorful glory.
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Originally posted by Citrus
Filmed Jul 1st, 1989, Cher's If I Could Turn Back Time video is one of the most talked about in the history of the medium. Shot on the battleship USS Missouri, Cher turns the vessel into her own oceanic stage and makes every sailor her background dancer. She was promoting the Navy when Rihanna was just an infant, as only an Icon like herself is want to do. The video is nothing but Cher, her voice, and her classic rock attitude that helped pioneer a generation of female superstars. The song would become one of her signature hits, but the video would go on to greater infamy. In 1989, If I Could Turn Back Time became the first music video to ever be banned from MTV. This was due to the revealing, Bob Mackie bodysuit that showed much more of her skin than was common for the time. Eventually, the video was allowed to be shown after it was censored to protect the feelings of the ugly soccer moms of America.
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Sade - 'Cherish The Day'
I LOVE Sade her videos. They're so well done with such a low budget. Like their Artworks, Simple but flawless.
Cherish The Day, in my opinion is over anything they have done visually before.
The video, just a simple idea well developed.
Sade Adu in a roof with her guitar singing + Several scenes showing the daily life of the lower class representing how important just a simple day is for some people.
Also, this video (with Feel No Pain) have always had something special between the fans/stans since they were completely taken as an inspiration for their Singles Recompilation.
Truly a masterpiece.
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Best Music Video
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Originally posted by e437
"Behind These Hazel Eyes" is by far one of the most artistic, beautiful, yet sad videos that Kelly ever made. The video shows a mixture of feelings that Kelly gets in her wedding day. She sees a photo of her lover with another woman and seems that the whole world is going down for her. We can see her then running in the forest, lying on the ground, scenes that show the internal feelings she's battling with. The end is the best part as she gives the flowers to that woman and she starts running away from the person that cheated on her. The video shows an amazing story, maybe what a woman is exactly feeling before marrying her guy and the feelings she's battling with, the hard decision to say "I Do" or "I Don't". It's just a beautiful piece of work afterall
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Originally posted by EuphorianSea
The rock-ish Fighter exudes pure brilliance of twisting hopeful darkness into scarred light and that also becomes apparent in its fellow music video counterpart. Christina took a more interesting approach with Fighter's music video - opting for understated visuals instead of the usual, literal analogies of what being a fighter itself stands for. It's the riskiest venture she has ever done due to the video not complying with the limitations that are frequently held within pop culture and the music industry, in general. This video perfectly captures how much Christina is willing to push herself and showcases what an enthralling project she has the potential to execute through, not just artistic depth, but the ability to convey such a broad message in a more compact form while still leaving us to form our own interpretations of the music video as well. It tells a compelling story of losing yourself during bad times and becoming validated in the newly-found strength because of it. The visuals are stunningly stellar, to say the very least. She isn't too frivolous with something so tangible, which is always a good sign of restraint on her part. This video incorporates many simple characteristics with the subdued atmospheric elements put in place yet you get so much out of it; effortlessly intense. In terms of editing-wise, they've truly outdone themselves here. Each scene is wondrously made to feel like a statement to the viewing audience - without being too lethargic or pointless in how they're presented. Christina has taken a distinctive, bona fide concept and followed through with it. That deserves to be acclaimed in itself.
One of the greatest feats in Christina Aguilera's career. If not, the greatest.
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iamamiwhoami's Best Video
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This is what iamamiwhoami is about. The experience. Even though the music is incredibly important to Jonna, she believes that visuals are just as important. She believes that you should be able to see the music rather than just hear it. This is why iamamiwhoami was created. To create an experience for the viewer/listener. Jonna directs, produces, edits and funds every single one of her videos with her friends with no outside help from a production company, label or a professional director.
It was hard to pick one video, seeing as she has so many flawless ones to choose from but this one is just a little bit more perfect then the rest. The tin foil forest, lit by fluorescent lights dangling from the sky. The knight coming to kill the king and Jonna finding the little hope that will finally come and save her from the ugly truth. The visuals are just so stunning, and the fact that the video was produced solely by them, makes it so much more impressive
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Best Music Video - Heartbreaker (feat. Jay-Z)
For the best music video, I chose 'Heartbreaker' ultimately. The video to me, is her best because of various reasons I looked at as usual. For one, the plot of the music video is really cute. > Instead of her usual plain music videos at the time about being heartbroken, she did something exciting and went with the boyfriend her friends said was a cheater and with the side chick at theater. Then secondly, I went with the fact this video is so hilarious. As you all know if you've watched a video by her, they usually have no humor whatsoever. Everything in it was laidback and hilarious, kinda like her 'This Is How We Do'. Then, what really makes this video her best and most iconic is the fighting scene! Like just go to 4:00, the fighting scene with the alter-ego is like legit iconic. On top of a good plot, humor, and iconic scenes this video is also her best because the budget proves it. It's one of the most expensive music videos of all time, even though most people don't see why. It costs over $2.5 million just for that 5 minutes, anything with that much time and money is worth the choose. The music video was widely liked at the time, retired on TRL, and is still a fan-favorite.
Alexandra's videos from her first era can't be viewed in the states so I've had to use vimeo,
click the link above to view it.
I've chosen Broken Heels as Alexandra's best video as I feel the production is superb bringing a sense of quality to the video and this is helped by the great editing. The dancing from Alex and the back up dancers is on point and dancing in heels is an even bigger achievement. It's stylish, fast and looks high budget, just what a video needs to be.
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I don't know what deserves a title of "Best Video" more than TiK ToK. This video is so iconic and such a throwback! The extent of this can be seen by the thousands of parodies online. The video is anything but serious, and makes it laughable in a good way at parts. The waking up in the bath, the stumbling downstairs, her family, her trashy look and ratty hair - it may not be a work of art, but TiK ToK is by far one of the most enjoyable videos to have come out of recent times, in it's own unconventional and unapologetic way, as usual with Kesha.
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"Q.U.E.E.N." is definitely my favorite video by Janelle Monae. In the beginning it starts with explaining the concept that this museum contains time travelling rebels in suspended animation, inlcuding Janelle Monae. They are all awakened however, when her song "Q.U.E.E.N." is put on the record. From a technical standpoint, the video is stunning, with Janelle looking gorgeous as usual, and with her having a few different hairstyles and outfits including her white and black striped dress and her normal tuxedo. The white backround contrasts great with Janelle's black and white outfits. The last minute of the video has Janelle rapping just with camera zooming in on her, and it's a great way to end an already excellent video.
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Really captures the essence of the song.
The video is a lot of fun with plenty of colour and creates a really careless, happy, child-like atmosphere.
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The ATRL Elite - Best Music Video
As I said in the introduction challenge, Hot N Cold was one of the first music videos I watched. Today, I still think this is Katy's best video (My sister loves it too and she doesn't listen to american artists , she used to stan hard with me for Katy) because it shows her funny side without being a try hard mess (LFN/Birthday). The whole plot is very entertaining and Katy looks amazing, I can watch this video over and over. I love the fact that everything was just a hallucination of Alexander.
Come Into My World is an obvious choice but it is still her best, and most acclaimed, video. The video works so well as it is a perfect match for the song, showing us the strange world of Kylie. The reason I love this video so much is the amount of detail in it. On the first watch you only really pay attention to Kylie, as she moves through the city and walks with herself. However, upon repeat watches you take notice of the background. All the other people are affected too. They go about their business as normal each cycle, but with more and more of them. As the video goes on the bikers start fighting, the road is littered with things thrown from the windows, all the ladders set up outside the store etc. You could watch this video a thousand times and still not notice all of the quirks. Even I noticed things I hadn't before when I was making this entry.
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Dirrty is Christina's best, most iconic, most provocative, most controversial, most risky, most memorable, most shocking, most talked about, most sexual, most unique and most everything music video. I mean, it starts off with assles chaps and it ends with her dry humping a background dancer wearing about 2 inches of fabric. It also includes Christina dancing half naked in the shower, Redman punching a human bear, people crawling in mud, a boxing match where Christina knocks the other irrelevant girl out, an iconic entrance including a motorcycle and a cave and Christina spitting in a bucket surrounded by half naked, buffed up, bald headed men. Do I need to say more? I don't. But I will
The Dirrty video was released in 2002 and killed Christina's innocent, all american, cookie cutter, pop princess image. If Lady Marmalade shot the first bullet, Dirrty shot the next 15, laid the dead body in a coffin and put the last nail in it. The video was slated and bashed by conservatives and basic bitches all around the world. Time magazine, who included Legend X in their influential 100 list last year, said that "she appeared to have arrived on the set... direct from an intergalactic hooker convention". Vanity Fair/ NME/ Guardian/ Vogue journalist Emma Forrest said "she's depicting is subcultures within sexuality, and to say that this is normal young woman's sexuality is just not fair. ... Even Madonna never did that to girls". Yes, compare ha to the queen of pop Emma. In Thailand, the video was banned from all TV stations. Christina responded to the criticism like the badass bitch that she was in the video
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I like to shock—I think it's inspiring. I love to play and experiment. When you are bold and open, a whole bunch of people automatically feel threatened by you, especially in Middle America... OK, I may have been the naked-ass girl in the video, but if you look at it carefully, I'm also at the forefront. I'm not just some lame chick in a rap video; I'm in the power position, in complete command of everything and everybody around me.
And she was right. The video, despite initial backlash, is still remembered as one of the most iconic pop videos of all time. It is inducted in the TRL hall of fame as the 4th best video of the MTV generation. British newspaper The Sun named it the raunchiest video in history. Slant Magazine included it in their 100 Best Videos Of All Time list and Fuse included it in their sexiest videos ever list. Just last year, VH1 made a countdown of the 25 most scandalously sexy videos of all time and Dirrty was at #2 making it the highest rated female video on the list. When Christina was voted the sexiest female artist by VH1, this it the video they played. It's been proclaimed the sexiest video of all time by readers of MSN Music and FHM. It received 4 VMA's nominations and it was parodied on SNL by Sarah Michelle Gellar. The video is even credited for popularizing the ****drop, Christina's singature move in 2002 - 2003.
Dirrty is the ultimate turning point in Christina's career that saw her transform from a cute little popstar to a pop icon, a visionary and a force to be reckoned with. And it's one of my favorite music videos of all time, so I obviously refused to keep it short and I will proudly take any lashings, drags and low rates for it
So whilst we wait for the judges (which might take a little longer due to the amount we have to watch), pick your top 3 and worst 3, comment on each others entries, have some discussions, have a fight, have a kiki etc.
, she used to stan hard with me for Katy) because it shows her funny side without being a try hard mess (LFN/Birthday). The whole plot is very entertaining and Katy looks amazing, I can watch this video over and over. I love the fact that everything was just a hallucination of Alexander. 
