The 18th K-pop single by Psy and was an international sensation. Possibly the most recognisable dance move (second only to the moonwalk and maybe the nae nae).

World leaders hailed it as “A force for world peace” - Ban Ki Moon, ex-UN Secretary General.

A guy who gets his car radio stolen becomes depressed and adopts mental problems. He starts to shave his whole head and in the end commits suicide. 

Produced in 2013, this video is amongst their (twenty one pilots) most popular with 131 million views on Youtube. The first half of the video had to be recorded on the first try, because if they mess up, he has no hair to shave off.

Afterwards, he goes on to a stage of concert. There are loads of people. Half of them are split up from left to right. There’s a lane in the middle. They are all completely frozen for a few seconds. And when the beat drops, they all jump syncing to the song’s beat like in an actual concert. This inspired me to shave my own head.

Genre: Soul

British Singer Adele works together with producer Greg Kurstin to release “Hello”, the lead single of her third studio album “25”. “Hello” is a piano ballad with soul influences, and contains lyrics that links to moods of nostalgia and regret.

The concept of the MV focuses on a recently broken-up woman (Adele) calling a younger version of herself. Several cuts of  Adele’s past is shown, mainly a man who has assumably broken up with her. Adele occasionally lip-syncs to the song. Colour correction has been made to the video so it gives the viewer kind of an “old” feel, emphasising upon something in the past. I like this video because it gives me a kind of sad and emotional feel, and this is a part of the reality in life where we have ups and downs. This video is quite realistic to me.

“Hello” earned 27.7 million views on Youtube in 24 hours, breaking the Vevo Record previously held by Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”. It also broke the record for the shortest time to reach 100 million views, previously held by Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball”, and took only 88 days for the MV to reach a billion views.

“Hello” topped the charts in almost every country, including the UK. It is recognized as Adele’s second UK number-one single, the first being “Someone Like You” (2011). By the end of 2015, it had sold 12.3 million units globally and was the 7th best selling single of the year.

Directed by Steve Russell

Released in 2012

Kodaline is an Irish Pop-Rock Band and was released in 2012. The music video starts off in a working place. A young and beautiful lady is sorting papers out. An unusual weird looking man with an uncommon face comes in the room to print documents. The young lady looks back and screams as she’s frightened by the man printing. She realises he’s human and that he works there hence she calms down. A montage of colleagues bullying the ‘ugly’ adult commences. As well as montages of the main going through everyday chores. But one day the mean co-workers starts to harass the woman that screamed at the start of the music video. But the main protects her which results in both of them getting closer. The Music Video follows the sad lyrics and tone of the song. 

Artist- Bruno Mars

Title- 24k

Released- October 6 2016

Genre- Dance

I like the music video because of the artist himself - one of my favorite artists - and because of the camera shots, the music itself, etc. The music was spectacular because of the background singers too. The music had a unique aroma and it gives me that “Bruno Mars” feel.

Date released: April 17, 2012

Genre - Pop rock, hip hop

Being in existence for 23 years now, the band has many albums one being ‘Overexposed’ that the song ‘Payphone’ is in. The American band, Maroon 5 published this song which has more than 300 million views as it’s 2nd song in the album. Featuring Wiz khalifa, he helped with the chronology of the song. The song was released on April the 17th and was composed to be a pop rock or hip hop song. 

The denotative plot of the song starts off by having the main character, dressed up in very demolished clothes, old and burnt due to the fire and is at a payphone calling someone. However, it then cuts as a flashback and is about the main character working, but suddenly his working space gets robbed by armed thieves. The protagonist then runs and saves, what believes to be his crush grabbing her hands and running outside. Running further away, the protagonist gets chased by the police and the rest of the song is about him leaving the girl and a safe place and driving a car escaping the police while they’re in pursuit. The song ends back at the same place at the payphone.

I like this song’s music video because of it’s sync and groove that correlates with the visuals and audio. The extra sound effects or foley: police sirens, gun shot noises add realism to the music video. The fact that it’s realistic makes the viewer or audience feel like they are really in that situation with the protagonist.

“Payphone” has a unique music video due to its plot line that matches perfectly to the music and that what makes it special is its realism.

I like it because it remind me great time I hang out with my best ‘friend’.Moreover, this song give me different view of looking different sort of thing in peculiar or specific way. As you can see in this music video , taeyang half naked and wearing a black knit hat sings at a dark empty place alone.

Although , this was what the Mv give me and my friends.However,some people think this MV is how tae yang move on new chapter of his life after he break out with his girlfriend.The true meaning of this music video is even though we break out , I still always care about you no matter what happen and I always there ready for you.

Directed by Chris Marrs Piliero

Artist - All Time Low

Released - 12 Jan 2015

Genre - Pop, Punk, Alternative

Album - Future Hearts

I like the music video because it has an unpredictable plot twist at the end of this video. Also, we can tell that in order to make the music video, they had to put extra efforts in it in terms of makeup and having the special effects of bloody hands and faces. Without those things, it will be less interesting and attractive as they are important to make the video looked realistic. 

I also love the way that they include all the members of the band in it by showing their performance for this song in a narrow street. Then, they have a scene when they actually included dialogue which the audience can hear what they’re talking about before continue singing starting with a screaming part. Though the lyrics of the song doesn’t seem to be related with the music video, the music can still get along with the storyline.  

Title-Treat you better

Released-12 Jul 2016

Genre-Pop

Song Writer-Shawn mendes, Teddy Geiger and Scott Harris

I like this music video because it says that not every couple are happy. Instead the boyfriend always uses violent toward his girlfriend to get what he wants. It reminds me of the abuse that I got from my dad.

Director of Photography: Carlos Reyes

1st AC: Alejandro Villegas

Steadicam Operator: Lewis Reif

Released on Dec 8, 2015

Genre: Future Bass

This song/track is in their EP “Pink Cloud” by swedish EDM producers Pegboard Nerds in 2015 (all of the profits went to cancer research).  Why I like the song is that is a remastered version of the song, they added a different 2nd drop, which is future bass, but now it is a dubstep drop, which changes the mood at it. And the video changed its mood when it drops. The video is about an emoji (a person wearing a helmet of a emoji) during his days, a different emotion every day.

Genre: Pop, Punk, Rock 

Album: Upside Down

What I like about this music video is that it's simplistic and shows that you don’t need much to actually create one. Even though they are signed by a record label (Equal Vision Records), most of the footage is shot by the band themselves and in my opinion fits with what the song is trying to portray. 

The song shows the band’s adventure and experiences as they venture out and try “something new”. This includes some of them facing their fears head on while others are doing things they have dreamed about doing. Through this they perform in places you wouldn’t normally expect a band to play (Underwater, Bouncy House). 

In my opinion this really sends the message on how life is short and you need to go out there and experience new things and face your fears. 

It also includes all the band members and shows each members fear (goal for one member) and them having interaction or trying it. The band looks like they are having fun and you can tell by their reactions in the video. 

Another small thing I like is that a few members from another band helped with the writing process of the song. The band that helped was All Time Low and is one of the bands I listen to mainly because both bands have a similar music style. 

Artist = Avicii (Tim Bergling)

Released = 22nd of May 2015

Genre = Progressive house

The "Waiting For Love" music video follows an old man chasing the vision of a woman that he loves a long way across a country. Using a picture and memories of her at his bedside before he presumably got very sick and nearly died, the man wakes up and goes on an epic journey in an electric powered wheelchair across rolling countryside, mountainous terrain and long stretches of road. 

His chair breaks down at one point and requires repairs and he is stopped by a fallen tree branch that prevents his moving any further only to get aided and escorted to his final destination by a rather rowdy motorcycle gang. He eventually makes it to his love with a big party going on in the streets for him.

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One of my favourite aspect of the music video, were the two main characters. The two of them had strong cohesive characterisation, which role-played very well with the main message of the story. The idea of the old man traveling across the country, finding the love of his life, was profoundly an interesting way of conveying the message “Waiting For Love”, which I thought was brilliant. It’s simple to understand, yet executed smoothly. 

Artist - Marshmello 

Title - Alone

Released - 2/7/2016

Genre - Trap

Label - Monstercat

Album: The Intro

Released: 2015

Genre: Pop music

I like it because it says something about peter pan :) It reminds me of my good times

https://youtu.be/58TBZnvyGwQ