With the number of music videos and songs that coming out today, deciding which ones to watch or listen to can be hard to decipher. To save time, I’ve listed a few music videos you should take the time to watch and a few others you should just pass up.
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The pop-punk band We Are the In Crowd formed in 2009 and has released six music videos including one acoustic video and one montage video. The new music video “Kiss Me Again” comes off their album Best Intentions released in 2011.
The music video features Alex Gaskarth, the lead vocalist for the pop-punk band All Time Low.
The video shows two teenagers (Gaskarth and WATIC lead vocalist Taylor Jardine) getting interrupted when they try to kiss. At the same time the video shows the bands performing at a house party.
The video over all shows the adorable love side with the ability to get you into the song by adding the house party setting. In the video you get to see Gaskarth and Jardine interacting with one another while they perform.
The song and video rekindle the feelings of a first kiss or the desire for the one you love and I mean who doesn’t love that feeling?
The two really pull off the song well together and look great together performing.
This video really fits this song and is well worth the watch.
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Who doesn’t love a good boy band made up of five British and Irish boys?
The Wanted, a new boy band to the United States, formed in London back in 2009.This group of heartthrobs released have released two albums and embarked on their first US tour with 10 dates in January and February of this year.
The band’s single “Glad You Came” hit number five on the ITunes downloads chart after the Fox hit show “GLEE” covered the song.
It didn’t take long before the band’s latest video for the song became just as popular.
This video has the right beats and lyrics to get you into the mood to get up and moving and leaves you struggling not to tap a foot to this song.
The video shows many aspects that people would love to watch including a beautiful island, gorgeous girls dancing and feeling the heat, good looking guys for the girls, sexual tension and a party that leaves you realizing you have your nose pressed to television pretending you’re there too.
This song and video would definitely fit in any party scene or beach party and will get any crowd moving.
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Nothing beats a good old-fashioned country love song when sung by the one and only Luke Bryan.
Country star Luke Bryan has been performing since 2005 and has been touching the hearts of country girls across the country with his songs like “I Don’t Want This Night to End” and now “Drunk on You.”
Bryan’s new video for Drunk on you covers the word adorable from all angles.
It shows Bryan saving a ticket for a mystery girl that he had a night a few shows back. He doesn’t know where she lives but he saves a ticket for her every night with little support from his crew.
The video shows Bryan performing the song “Drunk on You” at his concert while he looks back on everything he did with the mystery girl as if to be singing this song to her.
After the show to his surprise and his crew’s, there stands his mystery girl right off the stage.
This great video and lets you feel the fire and passion between the two and makes you think about your own special person that brings you the butterflies and passion.
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The country heart-throb Jason Aldean’s video premiered this week for his song “Fly Over States.”
The video although simple hits the points of the song.
It shows Aldean walking through an empty, old plane singing the sing while the video pans onto photos of areas that the lyrics mention. The video shows the color painted skies, dirt roads and farm lands.
What I love that in Aldean’s videos he always seems to incorporate real people from real places in his videos like a little boy, a country farmer, a mechanic and single mom and her kids from right there in the country living their lives in those farm land roots.
Aldean always seems to release great videos with a lot of emotion and real life people.
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Alex Clare, an electronic, soul artist from London released his first UK album in 2011.
I’ll start by saying I love this song.
I tend to dislike songs with dubstep almost in an instant but this song was an exception. I originally liked dubstep but once it started to get pushed down listeners’ throat with the constant drops and the appearances in every song it began to be too much.
This song has become pretty popular on the commercial front and appeared in the recent Internet Explorer commercial.
This music video shows two masked persons with swords and fighting gear on as well-reminds me of Mortal Combat-with the music playing and Alex Clare appearing in the shot once in awhile from another location in an empty, falling apart room.
This music video although good, really could have been better.
With the music lyrics reading messages like, “I feel like I am just too close to love you” and implying the underlying point of a lover struggling to leave, I feel like the video could have been shown a different way.
However, I can see a different perspective from the video in the sense that perhaps the fighting between the two masked figures could represent the inner turmoil represented in the song. The fighting could represent the tough decision of having to leave someone even though you know you love them.
The drops in the dubstep also appear at the ideal moment right where the chorus begins creating a lot of power in the video and song.
Overall I think this music video although simple can still be considered a video worth the watch but the connection between the words of the song and the video not all there.
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Katy Perry, famous for her songs of a different beat like “I Kissed a Girl,” recently released a song that once again does not quite match the video.
The song “Part of Me” screams the words of a broken heart. However, not long after she discovers a new piece of herself that no one, not even a lover, could take away from her.
After her last hit video, “The One That Got Away” that should so much raw emotion, this music video showed an unexpected idea. However, after watching the video a few times you come to realize that it actually works.
The video shows Perry sitting in her car as she observes her boyfriend fraternizing with another girl at his work. This being the last straw for Perry, she walks into his work to say that they’re done. Perry gets into her car and drives away with a stop at a gas station. Inside as she gets ready to leave she sees a sticker about women in the marines. This sparks something in Perry as she goes to the gas station bathroom, cuts off her hair-reminding me of a modern day Mulan- and joins the marines.
The video continues to show Perry participating in the marines singing of the new her that her ex-lover cannot take away from her.
Although at first I thought this video went a little out there and did not match the song, I now stand corrected.
I think the song fits the video quite well. The strength and mindset that it takes to join the marines can never take away from you.
This definitely shows the idea of inner strength.
And now we come to video that should result in the immediate changing of channels or exiting out of the internet.
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“Teenagers,” a well known song from the rock band My Chemical Romance, became a teenager anthem for the My Chemical Romance followers.
Now Macy Gray has attempted her own cover of the song.
This soul singer started performing back in 1990 and since then released six albums including her new album “Covered” where Gray covers a variety of artists like My Chemical Romance, Radiohead, Metallica and Kanye West.
Needless to say Gray’s cover of “Teenagers” resulting in being enough to make you turn back to your old MCR albums just to remember how the good quality of the song really when sung the right way.
I am all for different ways of singing songs and different genres, however Gray butchered the song.
Although there no music video has been made for the song yet, an audio video shows Grays photo and plays the song, if you see this video do yourself and favor and don’t listen to it.
The rough and wheezing sound of Gray’s voice sounds wonderful with slow songs with a slow tempo and bit of raw emotion in it. Her voice does not fit with rock songs especially ones written and performed by My Chemical Romance.
Gray also changes lyrics in the song along with adding her own. Her additions simply don’t flow.
Also in my opinion, MCR, a band far too original and unique, can’t be successfully covered by anyone else and have the songs maintain the same edge they are intended to have.
If you come across it, definitely pass this song up. I can only hope the sake of Grays career, that her other covers are better.
These are the songs and videos that you should take the time out of your schedule to sit and watch and the one you should pass up.
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