Tove Lo hunts down her lover in "Talking Body"

Designed to precede song's official radio impact by a day, the official music video for Swedish dark-popstress Tove Lo's "Talking Body" arrives on Monday, and fans have every reason to expect the video to fall on the sexy side of the spectrum. The alluring visual is a steamy one and dangerously hot, as it follows the 27-year-old on a sensual escapade with her super-hot lover.
The carnal, ferocious sex anthem, the latest single off the singer's debut "Queen Of The Clouds," is one of the album's biggest woosh pop moments, a true "cut to the chase" track, armed with a propulsive memorably slinky chorus and some of the naughtiest, most NSFW lyrics ("If you love me right/ We f**k for life/ On and on and on") on the whole album. According to Lo, her "Talking Body" video is all about "f**k-ups, make-outs, fireworks," but, uh, that's putting it mildly.
The debauchery-filled clip walks the line between public and private, danger and sex, as the Swedish songstress stalks through a old-folk's home lacking walls to a burlesque dance club, and a glitter-bombed street festival, where she can't stop making out with a criminal and hooks up with her jail-bound mystery, model-esque love, but, as if the two live in a world where making out is illegal, the police show up every time they lock lips. But by the end of the video, when she steals the keys to her man's motorcycle while he's locked up in prison and rides off into the dark.

Marina & the Diamonds faces death on 'Immortal'

Marina And The Diamonds unveiled the arty music video for her spiritual song "Immortal," the final track from the Welsh singer-songwriter's upcoming third LP, "Froot," which is a contemplative stunner focused on the undying power of love, due out worldwide on April 6. Searching for a slinky pop track to start 2015 on the right foot? Marina And The Diamonds have you covered with "Immortal," which darkens the fizzy electro-pop of the 29-year-old's previous two albums.
The 5-minute long track "Immortal," which Marina described as "arguably the darkest thing" she's ever written, is another delicate, stripped-back ballad that finds her contemplating the transitory nature of life. "I wanna be immortal/ Like a god in the sky,” sings Marina about that impossible but would-be-damn-cool dream of becoming a deity and enjoying all of their powers. It's definitely dark, slow-tempo with a few synth elements and a recurring theme in the diva's occasionally morbid oeuvre, but she always manages to examine the topic from an original perspective.
But while the subject matter might be depressing (death is inevitable, after all), there is an underlying sense of hope. The simple-but-stylish video that reverberates heavy Lana Del Rey vibes over its five-minute-plus running time, finds the quirky songstress performing the song while swaying in front of projected nostalgic home videos and reaching out to the memories that reflects on the circle of life. There are happy childhood scenes, a wedding and ultimately footage of old folks. She takes us through the circle of life without being overly sentimental.

Taylor Swift Is In On The Joke For "Blank Space"

Taylor Swift unexpectedly premiered the life-changing "Blank Space" music video Monday morning via Yahoo Screen. The Max Martin and Shellback co-produced pop record is the official second single from Swift's newest album "1989," which debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Top 200 last week having sold over 1 million copies in just 7 days!
This song finds Swift sending up her image as a heartbreaker who writes all of her songs about former boyfriends. She warns us that she's "got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane" plus she has, "a blank space baby, and I'll write your name." Swift said her intention with this track was to run wild with the way the media portrays how she conducts her romantic life. Swift explained "Boys only want love if it's torture and a constant chase. Men want love if it's real, right, healthy and consistent."
"Blank Space" has been called Swift's "Gone Girl" moment. But she's also having fun with it. Played straight, the Joseph Kahn-directed video is an unflattering portrait of a woman going nuts, but Swift is smarter than that, and it comes off as a meta commentary. In fact, the video's subsequent disappearance may be the best example of how deft Swift is at controlling what she puts out. wearing stunning gowns, and completely embodying her lyric "darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream." It is, as it's intended to be, hilarious.
Swift's video plays precisely into this. It opens in a fantasy world that's a more grown-up version of the realm on display in Swift's "Love Story" video. But then things turned upon seeing her man, played by male model Sean O'Pry, texting during a picnic date, Swift immediately turns into an incredible stereotype of an unhinged, knife-wielding girlfriend in a perfect, ironic parody of what many must assume is a Swift-ian lifestyle of decadence, glamour, and a little bit of crazy.

Lorde goes dark with "Yellow Flicker Beat"

On Friday morning, her 18th birthday, Lorde celebrated by unleashing the haunting music video for her popular single, "Yellow Flicker Beat," the alluring lead the theme song from her "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1," soundtrack. She's become a bona fide pop star without sacrificing any of her art-kid weirdness, and the Lorde-curated indie-heavy soundtrack will hit stores on November 17 via Republic Records, and the film hits theaters worldwide on November 21.
The New Zealand teenage songstress penned the intense tune with her "Pure Heroine" collaborator Joel Little. The music is similarly eerie, with Lorde purring over softly buzzing chords that segue into a darkly driving arrangement with a hip-hop groove. "People talk to me but nothing ever hits... voices just burn," she sings. With the typically sweeping themes and moody, electronically enhanced melodies, the electropop entrancing number features Lorde's brooding croon over minimal synthesisers and rattling drums.
According to Lorde, it was her "attempt at getting inside" the head of the movie series' heroine Katniss Everdeen. The song begins with a slow and measured start, which features the "touched by pain" lyrics "I'm a princess cut from marble/ smoother than a storm." As the drums start, Lorde sings "This is the start." And Lorde wanted to give us a visual of the dark, yet powerful song.
Directed by Emily Kai Bock who bringing some of the same ominous Lynchian darkness, the sleek clip is a full-on showcase for the "Royals" musician's freaky witch-marionette rap-hands dancing while moving her body and arms like she only can in several moody, atmospheric settings, including a seedy motel, an empty auditorium, a swimming pool, and even a cushy party, as she sings, "This is the start of how it all ends/ They used to shout my name, now they whisper it/ I'm speeding up and this is the/ Red, orange, yellow flicker beat sparking up my heart."

Selena Gomez "The Heart Wants What It Wants"

Selena Gomez breaks down into tears in the heartbreaking music video premiere for her brand-new song, "The Heart Wants What It Wants," the lead single from the 22-year-old entertainer's upcoming first greatest hits compilation album, "For You," due out November 24 via Hollywood Records. Love is a true mystery. Gomez opened up about the raw tune and bares her heart and soul in this touching new emotional rollercoaster. Would we all be better off if we could truly choose who we love?
Since splitting from Justin Bieber two years ago, Gomez has had a fair share of rumors, confusion, drama, and criticism lobbed at her for consistently reuniting with her ex. Now, the star who went to the treatment earlier this year for her "toxic relationship," is answering all concerned parties in a very big way. She's shy no more! Produced by Rock Mafia, "The Heart Wants What It Wants," is a super personal ballad that hears Gomez singing about her own life and critics she's received from the outside relating to her relationships.
"There is a million reasons why I should give you up/ but The Heart Wants What It Wants," sings Gomez in the chorus of the emotional pop ballad. "The Heart Wants What It Wants," is so unlike anything Gomez has released in the past. And it's so personal it feels like music she's been wanting to release for a long time but hasn't been allowed to. It's the most vulnerable we've ever heard Gomez, who tries to justify her volatile relationship with Bieber.
The former Disney star opens the somber black-and-white visual with a personal monologue about being wronged by someone who's messing with her head: "You make me feel crazy, you make me feel like it's my fault," Gomez's voice is shaky. "I was in pain... I know him though, and I know that I know his heart, and I know what he wouldn't do to hurt me." Then the dramatic clip leads into the vulnerable track as Gomez croons to a smooth mid-tempo beat about love and love lost. She is heard breaking down and crying as she walking away from the camera, in a very film noir-esque shot. At the end of the video, "The Heart Wants What It Wants" flashes across the screen. Gomez just tore her heart open and left it for us to fix.

Maroon 5 hunting down a women in "Animals"

Maroon 5's frontman Adam Levine is getting seriously creepy in his band's new music video for "Animals," the second single from the American pop rock band's fifth studio album "V," and it features the typically likeable Levine hunting down and stalking his real-life wife, Victoria's Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo after a chance encounter.
Over a shimmering bass line and thumping drums, this Shellback-produced catchy yet controversial (due to its lyrics) song finds Levine trying to 'prey' a woman he's really obsessed with, as he singing of hunting down her in order to have sex with her. "Don't deny the animal that comes alive when I'm inside you," he crudely croons. There is nothing that can stop him from accomplishing that goal.
The newly-premiered visual for "Animals" will definitely draw some controversy just like the lyrics of the song. And the director Samuel Bayer has exactly translated the story of the song into a cinematic music video, which kicks off with any random happening; Prinsloo walks into the butcher shop where Levin works, buys some sort of meat product and leaves. Nothing to write home about. Except, the short meeting is more than enough to obsess over for a bespectacled and bearded Levine, who spend the next four minutes hunting down Prinsloo like she's just another pig out for slaughter, and courts her until she falls for him.
Levine is effectively creepy as this stalker-type, taking dozens of photos of Prinsloo (even as she sleeps), following her to her apartment, bedroom and swinging on some old meat carcasses and smearing himself in blood. Just in case, you know, the stalking wasn't terrifying enough. Levine's insanity later leads him to the same club as Prinsloo, and she's understandably uninterested in him. The two end up in bed together anyway, making out totally naked at Levine's meat-cutting facility while getting poured in blood, Carrie-style. Look at the darker, creepier side of Levine the Butcher below.

The Veronicas return with ballad "You Ruin Me"

The Veronicas return with a vengeance and a twisted ballet music video for their gritty new song, "You Ruin Me," the first new release in seven years and the lead track lifted from Aussie pop sibling duo's upcoming self-titled third studio album, due later this year through Sony Music after splitting with their longtime label Warner Bros.
It's been a decade since the twins cracked the music industry and have been absent from Australian airwaves for five years, but now the sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso - the 29-year-old Brisbane born-and-raised twins who go by the name The Veronicas are back, and kicked off their long-awaited comeback with tortured ballad "You Ruin Me." It's a semi-orchestral, hate-drenched intense breakup ballad which comes from an altogether different place than the Origliasso twins' 2007 catchy electo-pop hit "Untouched," but it's a great reminder of both their songwriting and vocal prowess.
Written with APRA Award winning production team DNA Songs, "You Ruin Me" is a musical statement of The Veronicas' maturity. The song concentrates on the Australian sisters' vocal talents, it's built on keys and fleshed-out with a lush orchestral production, and there's not a single beat to be found. Talking about the inspiration behind the song, Jess revealed to the Courier Mail: "We are in such a great place now as far as being artists and being comfortable as women, and this song was the last piece of the puzzle to say goodbye to the broken parts of ourselves."
The dramatic video, inspired by Darren Aronofsky's dark 2010 feature film "Black Swan." In true rock star form, the raven haired duo sit in a fierce black car with their hit song playing on the radio while wearing identical white framed sunglasses and a slick of rouge, as they pull up outside the State Theatre at Sydney, with a neon lit sign saying "Tonight The Veronicas - Private Show." The twins perform the song on stage while a twisted back story about a jealous ballerinas and a particularly creepy and unscupulous dance instructor unfolds. It's weird, twisted and strangely beautiful. Kind of like the song. Watch the twisted ballet drama below.

Havana Brown kidnaps man in "Better Not Said"

After serving us a proper dance anthem with "Whatever We Want" back in March, Australian recording artist, producer and deejay Havana Brown is back to the music scene with new banger, "Better Not Said." The 'trap meets EDM' track is the first taste of new material from her upcoming yet-to-be-named sophomore album, which is due out later this year via Island and Universal Records.
Driven by a clap-heavy trap beat and sharp melodic synth work, "Better Not Said" sees the Aussie export DJ diving deeper into the EDM world with another killer banger that includes quite the explosive dance drop, but has that same vibe Brown's breakout hit "We Run The Night" had. The 29-year-old pop star described the song in an interview with the DailyTelegraph (AUS) as a mix of two genres - trapdoor and EDM. "Mixing the two together is really fun" she said. "It's got a bit of trap with more of a hip hop sound but I still love my EDM drops."
It instantly scoops you up, brings you to the highest point possible, and as soon as you reach that peak the drops brings you right down to get your rage on. "A lot of things are better not said," Brown told The Daily Telegraph about the song's meaning: "It is when you can keep control of a situation, from relationships to the bedroom to work. It is everything. Sometimes things are better on your own, doing it yourself." Better not mess with Brown ever, because if you do her wrong she'll kidnap you and hand you to the Chinese mafia which is the plot for her new video for "Better Not Said."

"It’s about getting what you want from your man, and if he can't deliver that, then I'll do it on my own, you know. So the video clip is loosely based on the idea that a guy hasn't been able to fulfil my needs, so I'm handing him over and I'm trading him off to an Asian gang for cash. It's a little bit rough, and a bit of fun - I loved playing that character," Brown explained. The clip shows Brown riding a high-end car with a man, presumably her boyfriend, tied and locked in the trunk. After making a few stops to execute a fast-pace sexy choreography with a few girlfriends, Brown will arrive to her destination which is meeting a few members of a Chinese mafia to hand the man.

LIGHTS trapped in an elevator in "Up We Go"

It's been three years since the release of LIGHTS' sophomore LP "Siberia," but the synth-leaning Canadian songbird returns and goes on a crazy elevator ride in the one-take new video for her new single "Up We Go," the first offering from the Juno Award winner's upcoming third record, "Little Machines," which due in stores on September 23rd via Warner Brothers Records. "Up We Go" is perhaps her biggest banger to date—sparkling, anthemic, amped up synthpop.
"Up We Go," is a delicious electro-pop filled with up-lifting lyrics, finds LIGHTS moving into slightly more commercial pop territory than she'd perhaps explored before. "It's been a hard year, and I only know/ From down this low It's only up we go, up we go," sings the 27-year-old Canadian electro-pop star in the motivational chorus of "Up We Go." Her current musical style is giving me Ellie Goulding meets Ashlee Simpson vibes. And we love it.
The Canadian electropop pixie had this to say about the tune and the video: "I like to think that 'Up We Go' is an anthem for that feeling of release we experience following a hard spell. It took a lot of moving parts to make this really ambitious one-take video shoot a success. While trying to choreograph the band, all the great extras, the fans we brought in, the set movements, the folks behind the camera, and my performance... there were moments I thought it would be impossible. But everyone absolutely killed it. Everyone was just ready to go."
The Alon Isocianu-directed clip sees LIGHTS stuck in the confines of an elevator while going on a crazy ride, utterly oblivious to everything around her as various other folks get on board. Upon entering the elevator, LIGHTS starts singing along to "Up We Go." The upward ride seems pretty normal until a pair of sparring lucha libre wrestlers walk in, then a couple who explicitly deep into a make-out session, and then a whole LIGHTS' own band. None of them, however, deter her from belting out her brand new song. When LIGHTS reaches the "last" floor, a huge celebration with confetti engages. But in the end we find out the "ride" wasn't that real in the Watch the charming elevator-set romp!

Alexandra Stan debuts 'Give Me Your Everything'

Alexandra Stan, original "Lemonade" lover and Co-Queen Of Romania (alongside Inna), is coming for complete global domination once again. (Well, in Japan.) Apparently the positive results obtained in Japan have led the 25-year-old Romanian singer and model to take a fairly drastic choice regarding her new sophomore album "Unlocked," which hits stores exclusively in Japan on August 27th, while the rest of the other countries will have to wait till September.
Leading up to "The Day Of Stan," the diva's been dropping promotional singles for weeks on iTunes, including the horn-heavy uptempo dance-pop "Dance," the experiment J-pop-tastic "Cherry Pop" and her intense tear-jerking power ballad "Thanks For Leaving." This week, the Romanian star unveiled yet another banger called "Give Me Your Everything," the fourth single taken from "Unlocked," a moody Caribbean jam that wouldn't sound at all out of place on Rihanna's "Talk That Talk." Illuminati realness!
Stan isn't exactly a singer you'd expect to push herself in a new, exciting direction, but new single "Give Me Your Everything" reinvents the cutesy, innuendo-loving Europop star into an exotic vixen of global proportions. The midtempo synthpop track which characterized by a style and oriental sounds, "Give Me Your Everything" is a completely different song than the previous singles. In the song, the female narrator takes a stance, where she tells her lover not to be so hard on her, and if he really loves her, he needs to give her his everything. Overall, Stan's vocals are hypnotic and crystalline.
"I can't stop sleep-walking underneath the moonlight, I can't hear you calling reaching for me every night, I'm yours, you're mine, Oh, your kiss brings me back to life," Stan sings. "Don't you be so hard on me! If you love me, give me your everything," the genre-blurring goddess declares above the infectious drum melodies. The song and video speak for themselves. The song's music video was directed by Vlad Fenesan, and features the "Mr. Saxobeat" legend chasing a mysterious man in a dark landscape and more intense than the uplifting dance, but the Romanian star looks stunning in it and it has Middle Eastern melodic flairs, which enhances it sonically.

Ariana Grande Blasts Rockets in "Break Free"

Have you seen Gravity? Barbarella? Or Star Trek? Or the newer trilogy of Star Wars movies? Mash those all together in your mind, add Ariana Grande and Zedd, and remove sense. Congratulations, you mentally created the same "Break Free" video Grande and her team made in real life. The the out-of-this-world clip is one hilarious mess, as Grande flaunts her enviable figure (and even channels her inner Katy Perry and Lady Gaga), and fighting off aliens, floating around in a spaceship while rocking a scandalous outfit and showing off her best dance moves.
The joy-infused song, the second single from her upcoming sophomore album "My Everything," finds Grande celebrating her independence from a past love. The intergalactic video start with the same Star Wars-esque scroll we saw in the "Break Free" lyric video. The scroll promises us it will be "two steps ahead of modern day sexiness," and it's definitely two steps ahead of something. Our heroine appears in a really terribly green-screened wide shot! As far as we can tell, the 21-year-old pop star is a heroine come to save the alien captives on a distant planet.
She shoots down the two guards with ease. The caged alien right next to her during her ambush fails to react at all to the tiny girl with the big ponytail and white boots shooting two reptilian aliens. This planet's people are apparently not very expressive. But Grande's battles are not over yet! After freeing the prisoners, she fights off the other guards by ducking at a convenient time and by shooting missiles out of her breasts.
Then we see Grande writhe around in her space shuttle and apply space lipstick on her way to da club! Zedd pretty much sticks to bouncing around adorably at his table. And, of course, it makes time to introduce us to the inexplicable alien elephant chilling on the ship. But even their combined adorableness still can't explain why the damn elephant exists. So the camera finally makes time to watch Grande dance. Our heroine and her scruffy sidekick then pilot the ship right on through the galaxies, onto what will hopefully be a much better "Bang Bang" video.

Röyksopp & Robyn "Do It Again" for a revolution

When you think of frequent Scandinavian collaborators Röyksopp and Robyn, you probably imagine thumping club beats, or maybe even lighter, more ballad-like fare. Point is, you might not expect the Norwegian Electronic music duo and Swedish singer team to score the music of a revolution. But in their latest video for "Do It Again," they do. In black-and-white cinematography that recalls silent film, the song features a quartet of scenes showing different people rebelling against tyranny, and follows a group of rebels storming a castle, a pair of lovers on the floor, and a woman struggling out of a hospital bed.
"Do It Again," the lead single and the title track of "Do It Again" EP, is a throbbing electropop song on which Robyn contemplates resuming an on-again, off-again relationship, while incorporating fluttering synths and slamming drums. Röyksopp and Robyn wrote the track after an epic night out of partying in Bergen, Norway, resulting in what the trio calls an accidental pop song. Robyn recalled to The Sun: "We were thrown out, but all these simple ideas were tossed together, about wanting more. And it turned into that track."
Röyksopp and Robyn's buoyant "Do It Again" may be the perfect track for a carefree night out, but the video... well, it's a little heavier than that and will make you want to start a riot! A theatrical six minutes long, the visual is the story of a rebellion - a story of defiance meant to inspire you to do more than dance. But despite the weight of it all, there's still sex, there's still romance, and there's still plenty of dancing. This is still Robyn, after all. Speaking with Dazed & Confused magazine, who premiered the clip, Danish director Martin de Thurah said the clip, was shot in Mexico, is meant to capture the pursuit of something unattainable. "The stories we worked on and the world we created was much more interesting and captivating than just to focus on (the artists') performance," he said, in putting "Do It Again" to film. "I worked with the idea of 'what is our heart's desire?' and I realized that no one in the world truly gets to live out their passions. We are all under some construct, whether you're an atheist living in Denmark or a gay person in Russia."

Paris Hilton Is A Pink Goddess In "Come Alive"

Paris Hilton is really out of this world in her brand new music video for latest single, "Come Alive," the second single off her upcoming sophomore studio album. The 33-year-old entertainer has tried many different jobs in her multihyphenate career as a socialite-actress-model-singer-jewelry-designer, but it's hard to write off her music career as passing fling. It doesn't matter, though. Like it or not, she is still making music, and her new colorful video for “Come Alive” graced the Internet with its presence today.
"Come Alive" lives up to its title, as it offers a more mature aesthetic than previous Hilton offerings and in all seriousness, she's also showing growth as a vocalist this time around. "Come Alive" is carefree, fun, and a signature Hilton tune as she sings, "I just want to live in the moment!" There could not be a better cliché to strive for this summer. "Come Alive" is a love song and the insanely amazing clip matches the track's dreamy feel, making it anything but ordinary. The pink explosion aesthetic of the video could easily be confused for a razor commercial, but her clip, which of course features a flower blooming right around the climax of the song.
"It's all about love and how it makes you feel alive. So when I was coming up with the concept for the music video, I wanted it to be something that was very magical, ethereal, just very fantasy like, that's why I wanted to have a unicorn in it because I just think they're such beautiful, magical creatures," Hilton shared to E! about the Hannah Lux Davis directed video. Well, she definitely succeeded.
Filmed in Los Angeles, Hilton's "Come Alive" video is an absurd fairytale rave. Everything is the color of cotton candy as Hilton created an insane world filled with glitter, flower crowns and studded bikini tops. The heiress-reality star dons giant angel wings, a glimmering gown, and even dazzles the night in a blue bodysuit, while singing along while swinging on a romantic pink-flowered swing, lounging on pink clouds, and even next to a unicorn. This is either the type of stuff that made up our childhood dreams or Hilton's latest music video. If you guessed the latter, congrats; here's a rainbow lollipop. Call it Coachella on crack or Lisa Frank's private rave. Either way, this is not a drill.

G.R.L. girls go bad in the video for "Ugly Heart"

G.R.L., the rising American-British-Canadian five-piece girl group has gotten some shine by collaborating with Pitbull on their hit "Wild Wild Love," but now, the quintet has a deeply enjoyable single of its own to flaunt. The girls just released their very first music video for the stomping single, "Ugly Heart," a radio-friendly, ukulele-tinged and Dr. Luke-produced track. Pretty boys (and possibly gals), if you have an ugly heart, you might want to stay away from G.R.L.! Or probably stay away from the girl group and tattoo parlors because it could get UGLY! At least, that's how it initially seems in their brand new video.
The girls are back with a fresh ukelele country-folk style. Smooth production with an ambitious summer feeling. After committing a crime, the give G.R.L. girls are arrested and taken into custody. At the police station, the girl band will perform a choreography on top of the policeman's desks and will do the same at the mug shot / identification parade room. The girls will wrap up the music video in the corniest way possible. Ah! That ending was so corny. Still, pretty much flawless music video.
The accompanying and long awaited clip was directed by Chris Marrs Piliero (Black Keys, Britney Spears, Ke$ha) and was filmed in downtown Los Angeles, capturing the girls - Lauren Bennett, Paula Van Oppen, Natasha Slayton, Simone Battle, and Emmalyn Estrada - in full force girl power mode, bonding together and seeking revenge against a "pretty man" with an "Ugly Heart," who has clearly done them wrong. It's a really fun visual and the ladies look absolutely amazing. It's definitely not too shabby of a music video! Their HAWT dance moves and stellar vocals definitely make us wanna get up and dance!
As we see the girls get carted out of a tattoo parlor by the po-po, booked at the police station and thrown right into the slammer - all while delivering heaps of hair flips, mean muggin' and ample shimmying, of course. These girls have gone wild! But by the end of the video, as the ladies strut their stuff into the line-up room and deliver a mini-dance breakdown, we discover their true crime: Defacing a hot dude with a bunch of "Ugly" tattoos all over his face. "Now your face is like your heart," Simone sasses in the clip's final few seconds. Check out the epic dance-happy music video below.

Neon Jungle wants to make everything "Louder"

Neon Jungle take it a beat slower in their brand new video for their another corker of an explosive new tune, "Louder," the fourth official single taken from the British four-piece girl group's upcoming debut studio album, "Welcome to the Jungle," due out on July 28th via Sony and RCA Records. Pop starlet troupe Neon Jungle - made up of members Shereen Cutkelvin, Amira McCarthy, Jess Plummer and Asami Zdrenka - may be relatively new to the scene, but their voices prove that they're here to stay.
"Louder," a epic electro-pop powerhouse ballad complete with crashing drums and a explosive chorus, is a departure from their usual electronic dance tunes, which the girls have said was done intentionally. In a joint statement to UK's heatworld, the group explained the meaning behind the song, noting that the track is a departure from their other tunes that have a more electronic sound. "I think people expected our fourth single to be another dance track but it was always in our plans to release a slower song and surprise people. It's still got the energy and power but in a more subtle way."
After club bangers "Trouble," "Braveheart" and "Welcome To The Jungle," it's definitely not what we expected for their next track, but that doesn't make it any less addictive! "Lyrically it's very relatable, it's about drowning out feelings and emotions," the feisty girl band recently expressed about the massive bangerballad of a tune. "It's about not being in control of the way you feel because of someone else and wanting to turn everything up louder to escape that."
The ladies of Neon Jungle have one goal in their new Colin Tilley-directed video: "Make everything 'Louder,'" and they certainly succeed, filling their video for "Louder" with booming drum beats, vibrant scenes and an intensity that permeates throughout the entire video. "Make everything louder, do it til my skin vibrates," the British quartet sing on the chorus, passionately belting out the lyrics. "Make everything louder, I wanna hear my eardrums break." The feisty foursome keep the performance intensity and go from big beats to an even bigger power ballad in the dramatic video.

Kiesza barrels through the pain with "Hideaway"

Kiesa Rae Ellestad, ask 'Kiesza,' is the kind of artist that knows how to work through the pain. The 25-year-old Canadian spent her teens increasing her threshold as a trained ballerina and after that, she joined the Royal Canadian navy and competed in Miss Universe Canada. It's difficult to believe Kiesza isn't at least 40. Kiesza has packed so much into her life. It hardly seems credible that she is still in her mid-20s. "I guess I didn't stick with many things for too long," smiled the Calgary native.
Ironically, Kiesza has taken a roundabout route to achieving a goal she set for herself at just seven years of age. Youthful musical ambitions were hardly surprising. Kiesza says she was "force-fed" Michael Jackson songs by her mother. Kiesza has now relocated to London and the Michael Jackson influence is evident in her first single after signing to indie label Lokal Legend in 2013, classics-inspired "Hideaway," and the accompanying video. "I love the music scene in Britain. 'Hideaway' is a deep house song but it's regarded as mainstream. That kind of thing doesn't happen in America or back home in Canada."
Inspired by 1990s dance music which her mother would regularly listen to, "Hideaway" is an uptempo deep house song incorporates elements of pop, electropop, dance and old school music over a sparse, 1990s trance-indebted backing track. Production-wise, the song is a combination of a thick vintage Chicago house bassline, a cracking drum machine and an EDM synthesizer. "The song basically pays tribute to '90s dance music so Michael was obviously a megastar during those years. I can also see how Michael could have influenced the video though it wasn't deliberate on my part. I was just intrigued by the idea of filming an entire video in one take."
"Shooting the video seemed impossible," Kiesza tells Rolling Stone. "I had less than three days to learn five completely new dance styles. Almost everyone told me that we couldn't do it. Then to top things off, on the day of the shoot, I broke a rib. I did the video in two takes and couldn't move for an entire month afterward, but I pulled it off." The energetic video is an impressive one-take shot that follows Kiesza as she dances her way through the streets of Brooklyn, switching off dancing partners and styles, while the song's thick bass and cracking drum machine drives the beat forward. But most impressively, she masks her pain like a pro. Fall in love with Kiesza and rekindle the omance with New York and '90s glory days by clicking play below.

The Saturdays are about "Not Giving Up" on love

English-Irish girl group The Saturdays strike back and dance around in black PVC outfits with huge glow sticks in racy video for new track "Not Giving Up" and, inspired by Darth Vader, it involves lots of Lightsaber-esque batons. The Pop quad have stretched the campaign for their latest album "Living For The Weekend" all the way out, serving up first single "What About Us" in 2012, and today the video for new release "Not Giving Up," a dynamo dance-floor jam, serves as the fifth cut to be lifted from "Living" and the first since band-member Frankie Sandford gave birth.
"Not Giving Up" is amazing for a variety of reasons: For one thing, it's about not giving up on love. Persistence is inspiring! But then, the actual song's fantastic too. Actually, it's stupid good. The uptempo club-pop stormer is utterly relentless and very much 'The Saturdays,' powering through the speakers much in the same way as "All Fired Up," the best single on Irish beauty's last album "On Your Radar," as well as "White Lies" and "Get Ready, Get Set," the best non-singles on their last album.
The pre-chorus build is a major earworm of a melody, the chorus was clearly divined by dance-pop angels from above and the post-chorus is a quick talking, tongue-tying moment of serious pop pleasure. It's made for some serious shufflin' the club. Once again, in true The Saturdays fashion, there's next to nothing actually happening here. However, as any a seasoned follower of the group with agree, they're best when playing it simple. The band's label Fascination recently confirmed that a "radio remix" version of the song will be released as the single, while the EP contains three remixes and new B-side "Bigger."
The "What About Us" hitmakers clearly decided to go down the same route and strutting a string of risque moves when they created the clip for new single "Not Giving Up." The simplistic yet sexy video sees the fivesome - Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Rochelle Humes and Vanessa White - are each seen working their magic with lightsaber-esque tubes and dressed all in black racy tight leather PVC outfits as they pull out a range of various dance moves in a dimly-lit room while belting out the song and performing sexy dance routines with huge glow sticks.

Zendaya embraces '90s fashion in "My Baby"

Following the release of her single "Replay," Zendaya drops the brand-new swag-tastic visuals for her Bobby Brackins-produced track "My Baby." The song was recently remixed by Cali rapper Iamsu and singer/producer Ty Dolla $ign. While Zendaya let her killer dance moves rule her video for "Replay," this time the singer is a bit more relaxed, letting her hip-hop swagger speak for itself as she bounces to the beat. In fact, it's kind of hard not to notice that Zendaya is channeling her idol, '90s R&B star Aaliyah, in the video.
Like 2 Chainz, Zendaya's different. The talented 17-year-old actress/singer proved that she's not your average Disney diva with '90s R&B-flavored debut single "Replay" and hammers the fact home with bouncy urban jam "My Baby." It's a cute change of pace that shows another side of the Disney starlet's bubbly personality. The follow-up urban-pop track taken from her self-titled debut album released last September, was recently also remixed by rappers Ty Dolla $ign, Iamsu and Bobby Brackins.
In the months prior to the release, the singer opened up about embracing both pop and hip-hop in her music. "I'm kind of creating my own music and I'm kind of creating my own zone, my own lane as an artist. I want to do rhythmic pop," Zendaya told MTV News last year. "It's not necessarily your average pop song. It has some kind of urban edge, some kind of more hip-hop-ish tones to it that kind of edge it up and do something a little different so it's not just your stereotypical pop music." Zendaya promised us a while back that she was "gonna swag it out," and with her new video, she keeps that promise.
Zendaya is bringing the '90s back in Stephen Garnet-directed video, as she flaunts her personal style, shows off several different cutting edge styles, and rocks everything from a Diamond Supply Co snapback and teal lipstick to a gothic-looking black cloak and epic fingernails. The Oakland homegirl loves the Raiders Varsity jacket, as she's said before, and she proudly dons the NFL team's gear head-to-toe while singing along to the urban-flavored track. With all the wardrobe changes, "My Baby" is similar to her "Replay" music video. But it's a new look for Zendaya in a couple of different ways, and all eyes are on her.

Lily Allen returns with scathing "Hard Out Here"

Finally, Lily Allen is back after a four-year hiatus from music and at long last unveiled a new song and video. Her upcoming third album's first cut is the hilarious, yet realistic "Hard Out Here" takes the 28-year-old songstress into Auto-tuned, deeply sarcastic territory, as Allen tears into society's outlandish expectations for females. The Pop usurper's triumphant return takes crack shots at industry sexism and her video details the challenges faced by young women living in a post-Kardashian sex tape era.
Following the release of her cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" on last Sunday, Allen is properly back with this sweary, controversy-stirring ode to gender inequality. It seemed like an odd way for a pop star so used to over-sharing her own experiences into perfectly constructed, attitude-heavy pop to come back, which is where "Hard Out Here" comes in. Teased earlier via a Twitter Q&A that involved questions based on mistreated females from history, "Hard Out Here" is very much the opposite to the safe, pipe-and-slippers-sporting Keane cover.
A feminist anthem through and through, "Hard Out Here" tackles everything from tired gender roles and expectations to double standards regarding sex and appearance for men and women. Allen wears her classic wry smirk throughout the whole video, during which her manager tries to reinvent her as a champagne popping, e-cig smoking twerking machine. She sings sweetly over a typically jaunty piano-lead beat by way of a reintroduction, before the song rattles through a series of gender injustices that positions Allen at the forefront for change.
The Christopher Sweeney-directed visual is a scathing takedown of music industry sexism, involving a lot of ironic twerking and such a perfect fit for the song, as Allen throws major shade at the current pop culture. It starts with Allen undergoing liposuction wearing full makeup. Her male manager asks, "Jesus, how could somebody let themselves get like this". She defends herself saying “Um, I had two babies," but he and a doctor ignore her and continue talking about her as if she isn't there. Allen begins to mime and then jumps off the operating table. Then she removes her hospital gown and begins a synchronized dance routine with some female twerking dancers.

Enrique Iglesias brings drama on "Heart Attack"

Enrique Iglesias has suicidal thoughts in the dramatic music video for his latest single "Heart Attack," the second English single and overall the third single from the Latin star's upcoming as-yet-untitled second bilingual album and tenth of his career, due in stores in early 2014 via Universal Republic. The new visual ties in perfectly with the meaning of the song. There's Iglesias, standing perilously overlooking a scary drop!
The latest offering from the 38-year-old singer is a thrilling pop number with piano-driven verses and dubstep breakdowns. "Heart Attack" will get your heart pumping. Iglesias describes the dubstep-infused track as a more serious song for him. And with lyrics like, "I thought I never want you back / But I don't wanna live in a world without you," we can't help but notice it's the typical cycle for both men and women when it comes to relationships. In the midst of the break-up drama and reports, could this be an anthem written for Iglesias' now ex-girlfriend, tennis star Anna Kournikova?
Speaking to Ryan Seacrest, the Grammy Award-winning singer explained the writing process, he said: "I don't know why we do that. I think both girls and guys, we do that to ourselves. But it's happened to all of us and it's a story we can all relate to and you think you've learned your lesson and it can happen over and over and over again. The way I look at music and write songs, it's like when you go to the movies, and some songs are more real and some songs are more fantasy."
The video treatment drives the melodrama home, in a slick Colin Tilley-directed clip that was shot in both Santa Barbara and El Lay, and sees 'When a Stranger Calls' actress Camilla Belle playing the leading female role as Iglesias' love interest in a very dramatic relationship storyline, which traces the highs and lows of a couple's relationship. As the Spain-born singer walking into a shameful bed scene of Belle and her lover. A furious Iglesias, who obviously doesn't like getting cheated on, hits the dude and throws him to the ground. A heart-broken Iglesias' emotions then go from anger to despair, as he heads to a bridge, stands on the edge and thinks suicide. There's a band, performing up there with him in front of an intense smoke machine. It's all just so emotional.