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Pop Magazine presents the Top 50 Music Videos of 2021* featuring Jon Batiste, Ava Max, Little Simz, Rita Ora, David Guetta, Imanbek, Jungle, Coldplay, Diplo, Damian Lazarus, Dennis Lloyd, JP Cooper, LP, and many more…
Nov 29, 2020 · Visuals from Beyoncé, Future featuring Drake, Anderson .Paak, Harry Styles and Woodkid will vie for the prize of Best Music Video Award at the 2021 GRAMMYs.
- Arca, “Prada/Rakata”
- Lana Del Rey, “Chemtrails Over The Country Club”
- Doja Cat, “Streets”
- Japanese Breakfast, “Posing in Bondage”
- Lil Nas X, “Montero
- Lorde, “Fallen Fruit”
- Megan Thee Stallion, “Thot Shit”
- Mitski, “Working For The Knife”
- Radiohead, “If You Say The Word”
- Tyler, The Creator, “Lumberjack”
The dual video for Arca’s recent reggaeton singles is populated predominantly by the 3D renderings on the album covers for the second through fifth installments of the artist’s Kick album series. While Arca is credited with the video’s “[s]ymbolic gestation” and creative direction, visual artist Frederik Heyman provides digital models of Arca and t...
In the elaborate video “Chemtrails Over the Country Club,” Lana Del Rey—wearing her notorious mesh mask—drives a vintage Mercedes and laughs by the pool as chemtrails cut across the sky. The video’s quick cuts, collagelike approach to pop symbolism, and film grain mediate the cinematic glamor of videos for songs like “Born to Die” with Del Rey’s lo...
Just as Doja Cat’s “Say So” spawned a massively popular TikTok dance that ultimately made its way into the song’s music video and live performances, she and director Christian Breslauer drew inspiration from the Silhouette Challenge for her “Streets” music video. In the clip, the moment when Paul Anka’s “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” gets chopped a...
The video for Japanese Breakfast’s “Posing in Bondage” plays out like Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees” if Gregg Araki had been at the helm, with singer Michelle Zauner (who also directed the clip) gliding down the aisles of a desolate, fluorescent-lit convenience store. But while the Radiohead video is an allegory on death and reincarnation, Zauner...
The vibrant, unapologetically gay video for Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” is rife with profane religious imagery, including a central set piece depicting the 22-year-old rapper/singer riding a stripper pole to hell and performing a lap dance for Satan himself. The title of the song, inspired by Lil Nas’s birth name, symbolizes a gard...
At first, the simple but chillingly executed “Fallen Fruit” feels too literal: When Lorde sings, “We will walk,” she walks. But as she traverses the tropical beach from her “Solar Power” video, the scene alternates between day and night, providing flashes of the idyllic setting’s fiery destruction. As it becomes increasingly clear that this beach s...
In which the 26-year-old “WAP” rapper claps back at her white male critics—which include Republican House candidate James P. Bradley and professional Twitter troll Ben Shapiro—for their abject hypocrisy. The colorful clip mixes camp, body horror, and soft porn to reiterate that age-old chestnut that pussy rules the world. Cinquemani
In many ways, “Working for the Knife” feels like a refinement of Mitski’s well-established creative impulses. In the song’s lyrics, she laments that she’s spending the final days of her 20s as a cog in the workforce, expanding on themes that date as far back in her catalog as her 2012 debut. And working alongside director Zia Anger and choreographe...
In the haunting video for Radiohead’s “If You Say the Word,” a group of men and women dressed in business suits are hunted like wild animals. They’re captured and corralled in a livestock trailer, where they’re fed tiny, sad-looking wedges of sandwiches and, eventually, handed briefcases and deposited back into the workforce. The clip, which mixes ...
The video for “Lumberjack” succeeds by mixing disparate images and tones with both wit and confidence. The collapsing of incongruous visual references to twee cinema, fairy tales, high fashion, and hardcore hip-hop reflects the sense of humor that Tyler, the Creator has long been known for, if not his long-softened edgelord tendencies. The 80-secon...
Nov 11, 2021 · The greatest music videos of 2021, as voted by RYM/Sonemic users.
Jul 30, 2021 · The 8 Best Music Videos of July 2021 Including Syd’s mini rom-com, Lil Nas X’s twerking prison riot, and a hypnotic dance masterclass from Normani. By Eric Torres
Aug 9, 2021 · These are the best new music videos that everyone is watching in 2021—from Camila Cabello's family fiesta to Willow Smith's pop-punk moment.
