[Music Video] Iggy Azelea "Fancy" [Get The Look]

Iggy Azalea recreates a classic teen movie for her visual for her newest single "Fancy."  No, not Mean Girls, Heathers, or any John Hughes movie.  She gave her take on another cult classic, Clueless, which basically established influenced many women in the mid '90s.  Through this movie, viewers learned that everything is up for negotiation (including grades) matchy-matchy clothes aren't a bad thing, and you can fall in love with your ex step-brother, but only if he's Paul Rudd.  

Iggy, playing Cher, recreates many essential scenes to the movie, including the debate scene against Amber.  But instead of talking about RSVPs, she's talking about the best rappers.  You can see the topics on the black board, including Best Rapper Alive, Best Rapper Ever, and Best Rapper on the Come Up.  Other scenes she recreates include Dee driving on the free way (complete with a Donald Fasion look-a-like in braces), Phys-Ed, and the Valley Party.  Unfortunately, we don't get the great one liner "there goes your social life" when Amber says she can't have balls flying at her nose, or see a great game of Suck and Blow.  However, with Charli XCX and her cronnies on her side, Iggy is "rolling with her homies."

To get the matchy-matchy look from the movie and depicted in the video, head over to American Apparel to get a matching print top and bottom.  I saw a lot of cute option, including this sunflower combo (worn in the Ariana Grande "Baby I" video).  They also had furry crop tops and tartan plaid skirts, and my favorite, shorts.  The yellow shorts are similar to the skirt, and the white furry tee that it is paired with that is very Cher.

[Music Video Review] Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home / Drake discusses return to acting

Drake releases the visual for his single "Hold On, We're Going On."  Unlike his other videos in which Drake is usually hanging out and having a good time with his friends, Drake is playing a character in this cinema-like visual.  Set in Miami 1985, Drake gets into the action to save his girl.  The throwback theme matches the old school feel of the song and reminds me of previous Michael Jackson videos from that time period.  The video is directed by The Matrix director, Bill Pope.

Drake also commented on the video with MTV News.  Watch the video below where he describes the influence for this video and what's next for his acting.

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[Music Video] Robin Thicke - Give It 2 U Remix ft. Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz

Visual for the "Give It 2 U" Remix, featuring a verse form 2 Chainz.  Directed by Diane Martel, the same director of "Blurred Lines," this features a bizarre half time show which sights like an "ass float," cotton candy mascot, HBCU dancers, and Robin Thicke's son Julian.  No naked girls like "Blurred Lines," but still has a an out of the box theme and features the bold red lettering on the screen.

[Music Video] Ariana Grande & Nathan Sykes - Almost Is Never Enough

Ariana Grande and Nathan Sykes from The Wanted release a music video, set in the studio, to their song from "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" Soundtrack.  Its a very beautiful song.

[Music Video] Big Sean- Fire (Starring Miley Cyrus)

Here is the visual for Big Sean's "Fire," starring Miley Cyrus.  The song and video is pretty short, clocking in at 2:51.  The video is left up to interpretation by the viewer and mostly features Miley being...Miley.  It does featured the infrared that Big Sean has been known for with his "Hall of Fame" project.  The song is great, its basically and on going flow about getting through adversity and talks about his experiences growing up and becoming famous.  It reminds me of songs like "So Much More" and has a feel that only Big Sean can have, an old school Motown sound influenced by his hometown, both sonically and lyrically.  This song is a free download for Samsung users and can be downloaded here.

[Music Video] Miley Cyrus-We Can't Stop Director's Cut

Not too much different from the original video.  Just different scenes used throughout the video and a karaoke performance scene from Miley  I like how it includes "Diamond Martel shot it," I wink at the song's producer name, Mike Will Made It.

[Music Video] One Direction - Best Song Ever

I wouldn't call myself a "Directioner," I haven't ever actually listened to any of their albums, I couldn't match all of them to a name.  But with all the hype surrounding this video, I had to check it out once it came out.  Quite a funny video and a catchy song.  It was fun to see who was who at the end of the video.  Great make up work and story line, definitely should be nominated for a VMA next year.

[Music Video] Selena Gomez - Slow Down

The video for my favorite song off Stars Dance, "Slow Down."  It kind of reminds me of Leighton Meester's ft Robin Thicke video for "Somebody To Love."  Selena has a way of having things look sensual by not trashy.  Love it, beautiful video.

Selena Gomez's 21st Birthday Video

Selena released her own video (made with her friend Ben who makes her choreography videos) for her track "Birthday" off of her new album Stars Dance as a gift to her fans for her 21st birthday.  Its shows the birthday girl having a good time with her friends.  Very fun.

[Music Video Review] Drake - Started From The Bottom

Many people are hating on Drake because his "bottom" is not the typical bottom of most rappers.  But each person's bottom is different.  For Drake, it can feel like being from the suburbs doing well in a job you don't like and being stuck in the snow of the North.  For others, it may be something with a bit more edge.  However, this video shows that no matter what your bottom is, the view is best from the top when you are with the people who were there for you all along.

[Music Video Review] Kendrick Lamar ft. Drake - Poetic Justice

According to Wikipedia, Poetic Justice is "a literary device in which virtue is ultimately rewarded or vice punished, often in modern literature by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character's own conduct." This device is evident in both the video and the song.  Kendrick has a way of having many different level and elements of his songs that can be understood in different ways.  On first glance, the song title "Poetic Justice" might just be a reference to the Janet Jackson/Tupac film, but it also is a reference to this literally device and how him trying to meet up with Sherane ultimately turns out.  The song is filled with double entredres and ironic twists.  This also translates in the video.  Kendrick wants to be alone with Sherane, and he ultimately is, but in death.  He thought Sherane was the only one for him and vice versa, but she was also talking to other dudes, including Drake.  Very reminiscent of Romeo + Juliet, the Leonardo Dicaprio/Claire Danes version.

[Music Video Review] Carly Rae Jepsen - "Tonight I'm Getting Over You"

Carly continues her strong fight against not being a one hit wonder with her 3rd single "Tonight I'm Getting Over You."  A bit more dubstep than Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" Carly sings about trying to get over a boy who she never had an official relationship with, but they had a connection that was full of promises.  In the video, Carly hangs out with her ombre blue nails and a wardrobe looking straight from the racks of Urban Outfitters first spending time with the boy, then pushing away from him, and then falling back into his arms.  I think the video and songs are a good depiction of those sticky relationships that aren't really relationships, but you are just as much invested.  Although the songs never references them getting back together, the video gives a nod that these things are cyclical and start up and end all the time.

Taking it Personal

So, if you haven't noticed, I take music really personal, as I'm sure a lot of people do. Have you ever loved a song so much, and when some one else likes that song or it becomes a commercial success you get kinda territorial and boast about how you liked the song before everyone else did? Or when a music video comes out for a song, and it doesn't fit into what you had in your mind all along that you are kinda disappointed?  That's how I kinda felt when I saw the behind the scenes of the "Un-thinkable" video.  I guess its important to insert this disclaimer now: I have nothing against interracial relationship.  I don't think it wrong to date outside of your race, and I also don't think its close minded if people only date inside of their race. To each their own, and other people's relationships are none of my business.  And I'm not saying the video shouldn't be about this issue that people still deal with today. But anyway, I listened to "Un-thinkable" since it was posted on the October's Very Own blog back in December.  And it was so relevant to me and past experiences that I have and most other people had that a lot of people I know, including myself, took the song very personal.  So you had an entire idea of the song and what a video would be like in your head that its very difficult for the video to match up to your vision.  Drake said something along those lines in an interview about the failure of the video "Best I Ever Had" that the song meant a lot to so many people that everyone had their own vision in their head.
I think music videos are essential a percentage of a song.  They can make a song better or worse. It's like the missing piece of the puzzle.  For instance, the "Over" video it actually made that song better because his perspective was more clear.  I also need to see the "Find Your Love" video because even though I don't think it will ever be my favorite song, the video piece of the song seems essential for me to fully judge it. But videos can also ruin a song though. Do you have any examples? Maybe any Young Money video lol. I also didn't like the video for Jay-Z "I Know." I guess it was relevant to the song, I just didn't like it. Another example to me is performance footage of a video.  I don't want to see clips from a concert, you might as well not made a video.  The only exception to this is Jay-Z's "Encore" because that was relevant.
Some songs to me are better off without a video though.  My first thought for an example of this is Drake "Fear" should never have a video made because the song can stand, and needs to stand alone.  Any other ideas?

Even though I didn't have this idea in my head and I don't believe the song original was about this topic, having the video about the controversy surrounding interracial relationship does give the song a new perspective and deeper meaning.

Here's behind the scenes of the Alicia Keys' video: