MIKA travels through time in "Boum Boum Boum"

MIKA travels through time in the newly-premiered music video for his catchy new track, "Boum Boum Boum," the lead (French) single from his yet-untitled forthcoming fourth studio album, which is expected to hit stores in early 2015 via Universal Music. (Yeah, MIKA likes to release his first singles well in advance!) Like a mini-action movie, the clip, literally spans across several centuries, while only being roughly four minutes long is chock full of Old West duels, duels in 1700s France, film noire intrigue, and modern day espionage.
This song, written by MIKA with the collaboration of Doriand, marks the return to the music spotlight for the Lebanese-British singer-songwriter after finishing the promotion of his latest album "The Origin of Love," released in 2012. The racy "Boum Boum Boum," for those non-French speakers, is about a couple that are so into each other that like to 'make love' everywhere possible. To make love is to do ‘boum boum boums.' Love, jealousy, guns and ultimately distaster in nearly every film genre, be it MIKA of Arabia, the Wild Wild West, a James Bond caper, or even gumshoe noir.
"This video was an epic two-day shoot in and around Almeria, Spain," director Jonathan Lia says. "We didn't want to make a literal translation of the lyrics, but rather create a world that was as if you put five of your favorite films in a blender to tell a loose narrative around the themes of sex and violence. The western and film noir vignettes were shot at Western Leone, where films such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars were shot. The fortress in Lawrence Of Arabia was an actual fortress called The Alcazaba in Almeria from the 10th century. The Bond vignette was shot at Hotel Cala Grande. The 1700's Revolution vignettes were shot in Guadix in a farm where they grow trees, hence the symmetrical nature of the forest."
The clip sees MIKA travels back in time and becomes the star of his own Clint Eastwood-esque western, complete with blanket poncho, Sergio Leone-style whistling and saloon bar piano. And that's just the start. He's a gunman in the Wild West, he channels Al Capone in the black and white scenes, he's a powerful Emirates royal, and he even fights in the Napoleon army in France! But not all is past, there a few 'present' scenes where we can see MIKA, sort of a James Bonds replica, who even has his lethal but beautiful female companion, running away from two enemies who try to eliminate him.

Scissor Sisters Boozily Say "Baby Come Home"

True to form, the funk pop outfit Scissor Sisters have donned their nun outfits and sailor uniforms, dress as their favorite beer/liquor mascots and eventually become animated rabbits with another high-concept crazy trippy visual for their latest track, "Baby Come Home," the second single from the New York glam-pop band's just released fourth effort, "Magic Hour," which was released just this week.
The new album is dedicated to getting you on the dance floor and keeping you on the dance floor. Forever, but also contains touching ballads. It's a combination of rhythm and romance like you've never heard before. The album finds the Grammy nominated band collaborating with some of the hottest names in the music business, including Azealia Banks, Pharrell Williams and Calvin Harris. Speaking about the album, the lead singer Jake Shears told The Guardian: "[Magic Hour] is a sweet joyful melange of beat-driven future-pop. It style-hops all over the place unabashedly."
"Spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York," the band took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism. "Baby Come Home" is a sugary, lollipop of a tune! The song follows their previous single, "Only the Horses," and finds the group donning some fun wardrobe choices: a knight, Viking, nun, and sailors, witches and jailbirds while the song ear-worms into your brain. The Scissor Sisters creatively capture the lyrics in their super fun, colorful, and booze-fueled new music video for "Baby Come Home."
Following the imaginative clips for "Shady Love" and "Only The Horses," This one's more of a graphic design wonder, a fluorescent, an explosion of animation, lyrics, costumes, humor, and shifting tapestry of characters, which has the band acting out illustrations from beer bottle labels with a mix of live action footage and animation. It starts off rather lighthearted, but by the final third, the band end up on a rather unexpected trip to hell. In the colorful animated piece we see Shears and the gang recreate various beer labels which is a great excuse to play dress up. Join Scissor Sisters as they embark on an animated, character-filled adventure!

Scissor Sisters Run Free In "Only The Horses"

Following up the memorable clip for "Shady Love," the electro-pop outfit Scissor Sisters come through with the sharp visual for their new single, "Only The Horses," from the New York band's upcoming fourth studio LP, "Magic Hour," which comes out on May 28. Formed in 2001, the New York glam rockers are an American band "spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York," who took their name from a sexual position between two women also known as tribadism.
"Only The Horses" is gorgeous, hypnotic and features heroic horses, full of bright colors, and a lot of paint. It shouldn't have come as a surprise that the video for Scissor Sisters' utterly amazing Calvin Harris-produced single "Only The Horses" mostly features horses! There's some other stuff, too, but it's mainly about the horses. Given that the song's lush, galloping synths have a decidedly equine quality, though, it's hard to imagine a better set of visuals than the ones that the band came up with.
"It's a sweet joyful mélange of beat-driven future-pop, and it style-hops all over the place unabashedly," says Jake Shears of the new record "Magic Hour," which is the result of a series of team-ups between glam quartet Scissor Sisters, and a whole host of stellar artists, writers and producers. The new video is definitely a metaphor for something. The slow motion sequences are a tad grating - especially the shots of the horses galloping through the desert.
Directed by Lorenzo Fonda, the clip is suitably exuberant, which opens with horses galloping through the desert with ropes attached to them, but these are no ordinary horses! They're horses on a mission to liberate the four members of Scissor Sisters, who are being held captive inside a pyramid, covered in brightly colored paint. As the horses continue running, the ropes pull the pyramid apart, sending the paint flying through the air in a dazzling tableau of color.