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Demi Lovato’s “Heart Attack” Video: Watch Her Paint-Spattered Clip In Full

Robbie Daw
April 9th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Demi Gets Grimy

Following the four teaser clips released for Demi Lovato‘s “Heart Attack” video, the full Chris Applebaum-directed visual premiered tonight (April 9). As the love jam kicks off, Demi, with her hair pulled back, sings her own praises when it comes to playing men “like a Ken doll” while wearing a white shirt and black gloves. But as the ultimate Disney princess soon laments the fact that she’s finally met her romantic match, we switch to a darker scene that features Demi letting her hair down and rocking out in front of a wind machine with her band.

When the chorus kicks in and Lovato declares that she thinks she’d “have a heart attack” if she ever let her guard down, the vulnerable songstress begins to bleed black paint. It’s a theme that ties in nicely with the untidy cover art for her upcoming LP Demi (out May 14). More »

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J. Cole & Miguel’s “Power Trip” Video: Watch The Grim Tale Of Murder

Robbie Daw
April 9th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Killer Cole

Some pal J. Cole turns out to be; after enlisting Miguel for chorus duty on Cole’s Born Sinner single “Power Trip,” the rapper repays the Grammy winning crooner by bumping him off in the song’s music video. At least we think it’s Miguel who gets whacked — it’s not quite clear.

At any rate, J. sits brooding in a car outside of a house while Miguel and his woman part for the day. The next thing you know, a car containing Cole and an accomplice goes barreling down the road with a plastic bag, some other debris and, as often happens, a dead body strapped to the roof. The cops pull the vehicle over, but only manage to look in the trunk, where they find a shovel, before moving on. Geez — your tax dollars at work here, people. More »

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Sky Blu’s “Pop Bottles” Video Fails To Make Us LMFAO

Robbie Daw
April 9th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
The LMFAO Jokester Skates On Thin Ice With This One

And now for a game-changing moment in music that will completely revolutionize the way we think about the art of music videos and absorb pop visuals from this day forward. Yeah, yeah. Just kidding, everyone — it’s only the snooze-inducing clip for Sky Blu‘s “Pop Bottles.”

Here we see the (former?) LMFAO rapper prep for a show at the Malibu Inn by skateboarding around Los Angeles, playing ping pong and breakdancing in da club, where he’s joined by crooner Mark Rosas. All of this does little to distract from the fact that “Pop Bottles” feels like a substandard LMFAO leftover with a shoestring-budget video. More »

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Paramore’s “Still Into You” Video: Watch The Trio’s House Party

Robbie Daw
April 9th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Here Comes The Rain Again

Paramore fans get a double-whammy today: the slimmed-down band’s eponymous, fourth LP has arrived and the video for its second single, “Still Into You,” is now here for the viewing. The latter finds Hayley Williams, Jeremy Davis and Taylor York frolicking through a stately, pastel-colored house. The trio ride bikes down the hallways, jump around in a sea of balloons and pose in the glow of fireworks.

It all looks like a quite the little soiree, yet we can’t help feeling that we’ve attended this particular house party before (see, particularly, the videos for Lily Allen‘s “The Fear” and Pet Shop Boys‘ “Being Boring”). More »

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MS MR’s “Hurricane” Video Is A Hurricane Of Weirdness: Watch

Carl Williott
April 8th, 2013 // 1 Comment
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Not Even The Strangest Part

It’s a good day for music videos from rising pop acts! Earlier we saw Foxes‘ razor-sharp “Beauty Queen” clip, and now we’ve got MS MR‘s, um, batshit insane “Hurricane” video. Their glitter-puking “Fantasy” video was just a tame little appetizer for the bizarre, pastel-colored uneasiness on display here as Lizzy Plapinger — decked out in blue Avatar skin — sings, “Welcome to the inner workings of my mind.” Apparently those inner workings also include green slime, pink slime and a disembodied goblin hand. Get weird and hit play up top. More »

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Demi Lovato’s Third “Heart Attack” Teaser: Watch The Final One Before The Video Premieres

Jillian Pellegrini
April 8th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
Demi Continues To Tease

Alright, Demi Lovato, you can quit teasing us! The songstress (who just won our Pop Princess of 2013 Ibrawlator!) dropped the third and final teaser clip for her “Heart Attack” video today, and we are so ready to see it in its entirety.

Unlike teasers one and two, number three does not feature flashes of Demi smoldering fiercely into the camera. It’s much darker and more shadowy than the first two, featuring someone (we assume it must be Demetria herself) rising from a pool of quicksilver-y looking liquid. The whole third teaser — all 10 seconds of it — is actually quite reminiscent of the opening credits of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. More »

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Chvrches Cover ‘Game Of Thrones’ Theme, And May Have Been Singing About ‘GoT’ This Whole Time

Carl Williott
April 8th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly love Chvrches any more than we already do, the Scottish synth-pop trio went and covered the Game of Thrones theme song. Because, obviously, the song was just begging for a bit of analog electro to make it sound like a fantasy video game score. Big Legend of Zelda vibes here. Is this the nerdiest Idolator post in history?

No, now it is: We think maybe Chvrches have secretly been writing songs about GoT all along. Seriously, every one of their tracks could apply to major parts of the show. (Minor spoilers ahead) “Lies” could be the alternate theme, for obvious reasons. In “Science and Vision,” Lauren Mayberry starts off singing, “Breathe, don’t speak / It’s leaving your body now.” Don’t even try to tell me that’s not about  Melisandre and the smoke monster. And then there’s “The Mother We Share” which, c’mon, the Lannisters! That whole clan shares the same mother-lover. As for “Recover,” that could refer to Tyrion Lannister after his face got slashed during last season’s battle, or Bran Stark ever since he got pushed out of the window in the pilot episode. Ah, but what about “ZVVL,” you wonder? Easy: it surely means something in the language of the White Walkers.

ANYWAY, enough Game geekery, watch their fun cover below. More »

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Jennifer Lopez Makes A Cameo In Becky G’s “Becky From The Block” Video: Watch

Robbie Daw
April 8th, 2013 // 1 Comment
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J.Lo & Becky Go For A Spin

You can take the girl out of the ‘hood, but not the ‘hood out of the girl, or at least so declares pop starlet Becky G in her new single “Becky From The Block.” The video for the “Jenny From The Block”-interpolating track features the 16-year-old up-and-comer paying homage to her Inglewood, California roots by giddily bouncing around her home turf, with “Jenny” herself — aka Jennifer Lopez — making a short cameo in a convertible at the end.

That’s all fine and dandy, but the song’s lyrics contain somewhat of a frightening warning to all of Adele-loving Ms. G’s future love interests: “If you wanna date me, you gotta ask my Daddy and my 30 uncles, you can meet them in an alley!” More »

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Jessie Ware’s “Imagine It Was Us” Video Serves Up ’90s Realness: Watch

Robbie Daw
April 8th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
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Strike A Pose, There's Nothing To It

Imagine it was us? No, Jessie Ware, we’re going to imagine it’s 1990, and we’re all attending one of the amazing drag balls featured in Paris Is Burning. (Or at least we’ll pretend that it’s 1992 and we’re club kid extras in Madonna‘s “Deeper And Deeper” video.)

Like “Aaliyah,” her 2012 collaboration with Katy B, Ware’s video for “Imagine It Was Us” — a new song featured on the upcoming US release of Devotion (out April 16) — has us zipping back to the days of George HW’s final days in office as President; a time when the clubs were housin’, the wigs were high and everyone was deep in vogue. More »

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Demi Lovato’s Second “Heart Attack” Music Video Teaser Is About Face: Watch

Robbie Daw
April 8th, 2013 // Leave a Comment
Everyone Be Still. Demi's Being Fierce

Demi Lovato clearly has been tipped off that she and Selena Gomez are neck-and-neck in our Ibrawlator Disney Pop Princesses battle, because she’s served up yet another video tease for “Heart Attack”  — the second such clip in two days. As we gathered from the album cover art for the upcoming Demi (out May 14), this is a far edgier and “real” era for Lovato than ever before.

So, Lovatics, what do we glean from this latest appetizer before the main “Heart Attack” course? Oh, you know — just Demi staring us right in the eyes, with makeup looking like perfection and her dark locks blowing around like she’s about to slay a full-on drama cyclone. More »

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