Sia Unveiled A Cage Battle With "Elastic Heart"

Maddie Ziegler is back! The child dancer of the iconic "Chandelier" music video isn't the sole star in the new Sia video for "Elastic Heart," though. The 12-year-old "Dance Moms" prodigy now shares the spotlight with 'Transformers' actor Shia Labeouf. The two will go on a cage battle with an extremely strong abusive lover-Satan figure and they just killed it.
The bubbling ballad "Elastic Heart," featured on Australian pop star Sia's re-release of her 2014 album "1000 Forms of Fear," is about finding love after enduring heartbreak and pain. With its syncopated drum beats and synth-tastic melodies, this Sia soared was a perfectly chaotic combination. Set inside what looks like an enormous birdcage, the eye-catching clip, was once again co-directed by Daniel Askill, sees burly, buff, and dirty LaBeouf interpretive birdcage fight with Ziegler as they perform a moving piece of interpretive dance.
What follows is confounding, but absorbing. After pacing across from one-another and busting out a few epileptic dance moves, the two crawl across the floor towards each other, and LaBeouf engages in an interpretive dance-fight with Lil Sia tossing LaBeouf around the cage like a rag doll. And once again, Ziegler reprises her role as Sia's diminutive stand-in-blonde bob, skin-colored leotard, and all. This time, she conveys an especially compelling sense of intensity, emotion, and grace. Overall, it's a mesmerizing viewing experience.

Jhené Aiko ramps up the sexiness in "Wading"

Wrapping up 2014, Jhené Aiko pleases fans' palates with the sexiest new video yet for her sultry ballad, "Wading," one of the more emotional songs from the Californian singer''s recently released debut album "Souled Out," and she wasted no time channeling that energy into the visual. Ever since her EP "Sail Out" released in 2013, the 26-year-old songbird has risen into the higher tier of modern day music artists. It's safe to say that Aiko has the winning formula figured out.

The Dot da Genius-produced ballad that finds Aiko "turn[ing] blue" thanks to her unreciprocated feelings for a certain man. First for those who don't know what the term wading means, slowly walking through water or a liquid substance. Aiko's voice croons through this track flawlessly. She takes a Tupac verse and turns it into a what if metaphor for losing her love. It's very ambient as her voice echo and fades out. To accompany the record, a melancholy, director Jay Ahn creates a moody, atmospheric clip set in a starkly-lit strip club.
Along with a dope story of infidelity, most of the visuals are dark and colored with a red tint. The R&B singer sports a skimpy black leotard with knee high boots and puts on her best "come hither" face as her plays an exotic private dancer in a seedy underground nightclub and everyone is enjoying themselves until a man tries to put something in her drink. From there, another gentlemen comes to her defense, which starts an epic Kung Fu battle before the SWAT team raids the venue as a terrified Aiko looks on the scene.

Ariana Grande Rolls Around In "Love Me Harder"

Ariana Grande puts her "petite" beauty on display in a well fancy music video for the straight-up sex song, "Love Me Harder," a Max Martin-produced R&B cut featuring Toronto R&B singer The Weeknd, serves as the third single from Grande's recent  sophomore studio album, "My Everything." As one of the most popular music-artists of 2014, the pint-sized starlet already knew how to please her fans, but her new video, her most serious yet, shows off a sexier version of the pop-princess.
"Love Me Harder" is a darker R&B jam than anyone probably expected from a 21-year-old singer once known for her endless supply of pastel princess dresses. The Max Martin-produced song explored adult themes and is filled with double entendres about rough sex; that one also has a single entendre, delivered by her reliably creepy duet partner, The Weeknd, about feeling the pressure between your hips. This song finds Grande pairing up with The Weeknd as they trade verses about keeping the girl happy by loving her harder.

Grande kept things simple in "Love Me Harder," as opposed to the intergalactic extravaganza that was "Break Free." Here, the sole focus was Grande, as she struck a number of sexy poses throughout the sexyvideo, which was shot in mid-October by Hannah Lux Davis, who explained: "Our visuals are really about this tug of war of just loving harder and the compromise of giving in and needing more and wanting more." The clip opens with dramatic lightning in a sky boiling over with orange clouds. Things get very steamy very quickly and very intense.
Throughout the clip, Grande and The Weeknd, born Abel Tesfaye, withstand earth, wind and water, symbolizing what one would do for love. Most of the video is Grande writhes around on a sandy floor, while singing for her video-love to lover her harder in order to keep her affection. The Weeknd walks nonchalantly through an indoor rain storm, and eventually, Grande and the Canadian singer will get together to sing back-to-back, ultimately illustrating what the song is about - being unable to face the wants and needs of a relationship. Their voices meshed together beautifully and their chemistry was simply off the charts!

Tinashe Teams With A$AP Rocky For "Pretend"

With a Top 25 hit already under her belt, R&B and pop's latest sweetheart Tinashe keeps the momentum going with a cinematic video for her Detail-produced effort, "Pretend," featuring a guest verse from Harlem based rapper A$AP Rocky. Serves as the second single from Tinashe's upcoming long-awaited debut album, "Aquarius," out next Tuesday, The track is a much warmer ballad, a bit of a departure from the her earlier club-oriented single, and more in line with her mixtape work.
In an interview with Rap-Up, Tinashe talked about the concept behind the song, "The song with Rocky is definitely kind of a contemporary-sounding song, it doesn't really sound like a lot of other songs on the radio, but it's a midtempo feel and it's kinda minimalistic in the track." And when speaking about the songs meaning, she said "'Pretend' is basically about when you're in a relationship and instead of dealing with the stuff that you deal with in a relationship, you don't want to do that. You're just going to pretend that everything is fine. I think a lot of people can relate."
Directed by Jodeb and shot in Los Angeles, the dark and mysterious video bringing to light experiences the average person can relate to in relationships, but often ignore the real issues of why strenuous problems are occurring or pretending. The clip follows Tinashe going through the motions and living an unhappy life with her boyfriend who is cheating on her at a strip club. She still thinks about her high-school crush, Rocky and she randomly sees him after a long time, Tinashe finally realizes it's time to stop "pretending" and abandon the man that doesn't really make her happy.
Picturesque landscapes serve as the backdrop for Tinashe's beautiful, though kind of emo, as she sets out to exact her revenge with some help from Rocky, who pulls out the classic Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors to "rescue" the 21-year-old chanteuse from her pretend relationship. Tinashe's voice builds up to an emotional cry in the chorus, which finds her praising the concept of a love that never ends while Rocky raps after confronting her cheating lover. Both artists giving each other deep, longing stares as they navigate their relationship with one another, and provides some breath-taking sweeping landscapes.

Jhené Aiko details just a few of "The Pressure"

A week before her debut album "Souled Out" arrives in stores, Jhené Aiko debuts the video for her single "The Pressure." From red carpets to raising a child, the L.A. songstress illustrates the challenges and stressful woes of being in a relationship amidst raising a child and fulfilling the duties as an artist in the Childish Gambino and Calmatic-directed clip. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter rocks blonde dreads in the vignettes, which feature a cameo from her real daughter Namiko.
Backed by a guitar-tinged, hip-hop production containing synths, metallic slaps and a shaky beat "The Pressure," is a PBR&B song that thematically revolves around Aiko's stress of finishing her debut album. During her first verse Aiko maintains her cool exhaling deeply, however during the song's lyrics become sharper, Aiko becomes flat-out dismissive. The lyric "I don't wanna see you go, but I don't have time to solve this/ And you don't have the right" as Aiko reflecting on the difficulty and stress she experienced while putting the finishing touches on "Souled Out."
Falling in line with the title and the song's lyrics, the video reflects just a few of the pressures that Aiko feels in her complex life both her personal and professional life as a pop star. The video starts around a dimly lit Aiko, as the camera rolls through a series of vignettes, the scenes consist of the singer drinking beer and eating pizza with her friends, flaring paparazzi bulbs, in her living room, trying to write more syrupy, slinky ballads while her daughter Namiko tugs on her blonde dreads, as well as all dressed up at a red carpet event.
She briefly finds serenity before a panorama of full moons before we're back in the thick of it: dating. Aiko sits on a leather couch enjoying an herbal refreshment with her beau, whose lost in the depths of his iPad - playing Candy Crush, presumably. Aiko is understandably salty; she shifts uncomfortably in her seat, a woman scorned. The scenes then begin to tick up tension, with friends fighting, lovers leaving and Aiko sending her child off to celebrate a birthday without her, this is followed by Aiko fading out.