Tag: Music Video (1-7 of 7)

Dec 5 2012 01:06 PM ET

Foul-mouthed Instagram parody of Nickelback's 'Photograph' strikes a chord -- VIDEO

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CollegeHumor’s parody video of Nickelback’s “Photograph,” called “Look at This Instagram,” pokes fun at the commonplace and predictable filter treatments “photographers” use to transform food, finger nails, feet, fireworks, and other f words into art.

“Started out as a lemon tart, then my phone went and made it art,” bellows the singer in his best Chad Kroeger voice. His female collaborator channels Creed more than Nickelback, but she makes up for it by putting hipster glasses on her cat (“he thinks he’s people!”).

Watch the video below (don’t you think it would have looked better in sepia?): READ FULL STORY »

Dec 2 2012 12:27 PM ET

Happy birthday, Britney: 3+1 of our favorite music videos

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It’s Britney’s birthday, y’all. The pop songstress turned reality television judge celebrates the big 31 today. Wowza. It seems like only yesterday that she was reminding us how not-so-innocent a teenager she was. Obviously, in terms of drama, it also feels like she’s lived about eight lifetimes. But 2012 was an upswing for her. She’s on The X Factor, has a new song with Will.i.am, and on the personal life front, is still engaged. You go, girl!

In honor of Brit’s big day, we rounded up four (3+1) of our favorite Spears music videos from over the years…including one I’m betting you non-superfans have forgotten about. Check out the dancing — and the signature syrup-y sweet vocals — below:

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Obviously, you’ve got to start off with one of her most famous tracks. This video had everything: Sexy Britney, wig changes, that famous nude bedazzled bodysuit — not to mention a killer dance tune to start with. Just try and listen and not get the weirdly sexual airplane fun stuck in your head all over again.  READ FULL STORY »

Nov 13 2012 04:30 PM ET

MTV finally reveals why it stopped playing music videos

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Some complaints are so pervasive that they eventually become their own cliches — think “The Simpsons hasn’t been funny since Season 8!” or “Saturday Night Live hasn’t been funny since [whatever year the complainer was 16]!” Chief among these is the stale lament that MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore — “It’s called Music Television, dadgumit!” (Somehow, you never hear those same people complaining about The Learning Channel‘s similar misnomer.)

But listen up, people: MTV’s head of programming* has heard your cries, and he’s finally ready to give you the answers you crave. All will be revealed in the following video:

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Aug 18 2012 01:07 PM ET

Jason Alexander serves up lattes for Nickelback

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Before he started playing bass for Nickelback, Mike Kroeger worked at Starbucks, a gig that supposedly inspired the band’s name. (As in, “Here’s your nickel back.”) Now, the band’s reliving those golden years with the video for “Trying Not To Love You,” which features such dream-of-the-’90s hallmarks as “half-caff mocha-soy” drinks, soul patches, Baywatch nostalgia, and a starring role from Seinfeld‘s Jason Alexander, a man who once proclaimed that “coffee’s not coffee, coffee is sex!” He takes that rule a little too seriously in this clip, where he plays a schlubby barista who’s trying to win over former mouth-to-mouth-resuscitation-loving lifeguard Brooke Burns by drawing hearts in her cappuccino. (Does Nickelback own a special TV that plays nothing except old Baywatch episodes? See also: “Gotta Get Me Some,” where Chad Kroeger compares some poor girl to “a scene from a Baywatch rerun.”) First, though, he has to compete with some fedora-wearing latte artist (also played by Alexander) who can sculpt foam until it resembles the members of Nickelback. Which is… supposed to be hot? Or at least funny? Hmmm. You can watch the video below and judge for yourself. But when forced to choose between different versions of Jason “Video Vixen” Alexander, I still prefer this guy.

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May 17 2012 07:04 PM ET

Remembering Donna Summer: Her life in film and television

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Donna Summer was one of disco’s greatest chart divas. But the singer, who passed away Thursday at the age of 63, also made her presence felt on both the big and the small screen.


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A 21-year-old Summer appeared on the German TV series and sang the song “Black Power,” written by Peter Thomas.

Apr 16 2012 03:31 PM ET

Paul McCartney directs Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp in new music videos -- WATCH

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Want Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp to star in your music video? Here’s a handy step-by-step guide to making it happen:

1. Be Paul McCartney. (Note: This one’s pretty important.)

2. Call Natalie Portman.

3. Open with some small talk — possible topics include Brad and Angie’s engagement, the last issue of GOOP, and Game of Thrones. (Even celebrities love Game of Thrones, right?)

4. Ask her to be in your video.

5. Wait for her to say yes.

6. Call Depp; repeat steps three to five.

McCartney himself has mastered this formula. Last Friday, the Beatle premiered three new clips for “My Valentine,” a single off his grade-A album Kisses on the Bottom. One shows the Black Swan actress signing the song’s lyrics. The second features the man behind Jack Sparrow doing the same. And in the third video, both stars appear. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 2 2012 02:30 PM ET

Watch David Lynch's insane new NSFW music video

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David Lynch is releasing an album called Crazy Clown Time, and he has just created a seven-minute-long music video for that album’s title track that features topless chesty ladies, a man who sets his own mohawk on fire, and a dude wearing a football uniform who spends the entire video jogging in place. If you had to describe what the video was about, the simplest description would be: “A bunch of people who are obviously not high schoolers pretend to be high schoolers having a party in the back yard, and David Lynch sing-narrates everything that happens to them.”

But if you wanted to really get into what the video is about… well, that’s a bit trickier. Maybe it’s a deconstruction of American youth-culture iconography. Maybe it’s a retelling of the fall of the Roman Empire. Personally, I think it’s actually just a brilliant stealth remake of Glee. Watch the video and ponder: READ FULL STORY »

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