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24kGldn goes on a wild ride in Austin Peters' promo for 3,2,1.&nbsp;Reflecting on a relationship falling apart, the video presents a pastiche&nbsp;of hallucinatory performance vignettes, focusing on the artist's relationship with a mystery love interest, played by&nbsp;Charlotte Free.&nbsp;DoP&nbsp;Chris Probst matches the high-energy affair with plenty of fluid camerawork, and a spattering of intense visual effects adds a layer of absurdity to the concept.&nbsp;

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Columbia Records

Hip Hop

24kGoldn '3,2,1' by Austin Peters

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Drake needs to call&nbsp;in a big favour, to stop Khaled bugging him about making the video for POPSTAR.Cue an entertaining, deconstructed&nbsp;pop video staring Justin Bieber as Drake&nbsp;- which turns out to be JB's weird dream. Its top drawer stuff from Julien Lutz, a master of this craft. And Drake actually does a reasonable acting job in this one.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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DJ Khaled ft Drake 'POPSTAR' by Julien Lutz (pka Director X)

DJ Khaled ft. Drake - POPSTAR (Official Music Video - Starring Justin Bieber)

Disco goes futuristic in Daniel Russell's brilliant video for The Other Side.&nbsp;After having a smash hit with <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/05/17/justin-timberlake-cant-stop-feeling-mark-romanek/41397">Can't Stop The Feeling</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;which was produced for the film Trolls back in 2016 -&nbsp;Timberlake returns with a track for the sequel, joined by the multitalented SZA.&nbsp;Echoing the dripping excess of 90s music promos, the heavy use of&nbsp;fisheye lens and sprawling futuristic backdrops pays homage to the work of Hype Williams, whilst breaking out with a contemporary vibe of its own.DoP&nbsp;Chris Probst experiments with frame rates to create a glitchy yet intriguing performance in the middle of the video, which complements the frenetic and fun attitude throughout.&nbsp;David Courtemarche's art direction is superb, focusing almost exclusively on silver as a colour palette, and infusing each&nbsp;scene with futuristic textures and minimal clutter.Timberlake and SZA hit it out of the park with their performances, confident and in their element as they dance, jump and drop to the addictive beat.&nbsp;

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Justin Timberlake ft. SZA 'The Other Side' by Daniel Russell

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Rita Ora proves to be a master of disguise - and have more than a passing resemblance to J-Lo - in this video directed by the prolific Hannah Lux Davis that ponders the downside of fame.

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Rita Ora ft. 6lack 'Only Want You' by Hannah Lux Davis

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Ariana Grande 'Breathin' by Hannah Lux Davis

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After Blank Space,&nbsp;Bad Blood and Wildest Dreams, Joseph Kahn directs his fourth extravaganza for Taylor Swift. And this one for Out Of The Woods takes in several spectacular locations, as our heroine gets back to nature&nbsp;in a fantastical, dark(ish) Disney fantasy-style.Joseph has again hailed his star for being a real trouper on the arduous shoot&nbsp;- which involved filming in remote spots in&nbsp;New Zealand, using three helicopters.&nbsp;It&#39;s epic - although&nbsp;anyone hoping to find anything of the wit and fun of Blank Space are going to be&nbsp;disappointed.&nbsp;

<div style="padding-left:20px"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Taylor was so dedicated to making this video. I was wrapped in snow gear. She was in a dress. She suffered for her art. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OOTWMusicVideo?src=hash">#OOTWMusicVideo</a>&mdash; Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn) <a href="https://twitter.com/JosephKahn/status/683012253705043968">January 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Taylor Swift 'Out Of The Woods' by Joseph Kahn

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Rich Lee, the&nbsp;director of numerous&nbsp;Eminem videos&nbsp;including&nbsp;Rap God, The Monster and Not Afraid, shows he&#39;s mastered the action blockbuster with the video for Em&#39;s Phenomenal - a compendium of action film tropes, which also includes the near-obligatory cameo by John Malkovich.&nbsp;It&nbsp;follows a Bourne-style&nbsp;storyline, with Eminem waking up at a&nbsp;hospital,&nbsp;with no knowledge of who he is but with an incredible high jump,&nbsp;killer fighting skills, and what turns out to be an&nbsp;indestructible spinal column. What follows is&nbsp;a&nbsp;dense&nbsp;showcase of over-the-top&nbsp;VFX sequences with&nbsp;slow-mo fighting, car chases, free falling from helicopters, crashes through rooftops&nbsp;and of course,&nbsp;multiple&nbsp;explosions.And then there&#39;s Malkovich apearing in a rickshaw halfway through,&nbsp;lending some gravitas with his distinctive brand of smooth menace...&nbsp;

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Eminem 'Phenomenal' by Rich Lee 

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After&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/11/12/taylor-swift-blank-space-joseph-kahn" target="_blank">Blank Space</a>,&nbsp;Joseph Kahn is back to nurturing Taylor Swift&#39;s vengeful side once again in this&nbsp;action-film genre hodgepodge of epic proportions&nbsp;for her latest track&nbsp;Bad Blood. Featuring a jawdropping collection&nbsp;of fierce females of the&nbsp;fashion, TV&nbsp;and pop-music industries (including Lena Dunham, Ellie Goulding,&nbsp;Cara Delevingne, and loads more)&nbsp;the video is set up like an extended trailer introducing many familiar faces&nbsp;and the personas they created for themselves.&nbsp;The first sequence has Swift and Selena Gomez in an office somewhere in London&nbsp;kicking butt and getting their hands on a mysterious&nbsp;briefcase.&nbsp;Gomez&#39;s character Arsyn is quickly established as Swift&#39;s nemesis when she betrays her, grabbing the briefcase and kicking&nbsp;her out of a window. Now that the bad blood has set in, Swift crews up at her Mission Impossible-style headquarters, races&nbsp;Tron-like&nbsp;motorcycles with Jessica Alba&nbsp;and sets out into post-apocalyptic London&nbsp;with her action-babes crew, which look like&nbsp;The&nbsp;Expendables&nbsp;except, y&#39;know, leaner&nbsp;and wearing stilettos.This all culminates with a face-off between her crew and Selena&#39;s, with a&nbsp;rather hilarious&nbsp;finale as the&nbsp;two women simultaneously slap each other. Really makes us wonder how the rest of the scene would have played out...

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Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar 'Bad Blood' by Joseph Kahn

Taylor Swift - Bad Blood ft. Kendrick Lamar

Shot using infra-red converted digital cameras and beautifully styled by Bernhard Willhelm (Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood), AlexandLiane deliver this tribal, post-apocalyptic promo for Hercules &amp; Love Affair&#39;s Do You Feel The Same?Boasting a unique look throughout, the visually-stimulating video features&nbsp;a performance from choreographer and&nbsp;contemporary dancer Josh Johnson from the Forsythe Company (formally the Frankfurt Ballet).

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Hercules And Love Affair 'Do You Feel The Same?' by AlexandLiane

Hercules & Love Affair - "Do You Feel The Same?" (Official Video)

Just as he was about to deliver his keynote speech at the first MusicVidFest in London on Monday, Joseph Kahn discovered that his latest video for Taylor Swift had leaked onto the internet,&nbsp;a day ahead of schedule. Several hours later, Joseph could&nbsp;only be distracted from his white-hot Twitter feed when&nbsp;he realised he was the guy they were talking about on stage at the UKMVAs at the beginning of the presentation of the Icon Award.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;It&#39;s no surprise that Joseph&#39;s video for&nbsp;Blank Space broke the internet a bit on Monday, as few music videos have done before without resorting to explicit content. It presents a glorious fantasy of Taylor in her princess&#39;s castle - actually&nbsp;Oheka Castle and Woolworth Mansion in New York State - falling for her prince. The setting is sumptuous, the guy is drop-dead gorgeous... and then comes the surprise.&nbsp;Taylor turns nasty. In fact, not just nasty. She&#39;s mad. She&#39;s evil. An irrational green-eyed jealous monster who destroys her fairytale piece by piece, and his car, and his clothes. This big pop video is driven by&nbsp;the sarcastic edge of&nbsp;Blank Space, addressing her complicated&nbsp;love life, and the gossip. And Joseph does a typically masterful job seamlessly combining the glamour with the sarcasm and creating a &#39;bad Taylor&#39; that is so over the top, so knowing, you feel she&#39;s still lovely underneath.At his keynote speech Joseph made much of his belief that the role of the video director was &#39;at the spearhead&#39; of the marketing of the artist. That the job was not all about getting supportive comments from other directors from the Vimeo community, but&nbsp;was actually&nbsp;ll about what the artist (and their record company)&nbsp;want to project about themselves. This is a very good example of what he is talking about.Could have been very tricky, turning Taylor Swift into a bad, mad girl. But&nbsp;this is both an artistic statement and&nbsp;irresistable entertainment.&nbsp;

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Taylor Swift 'Blank Space' by Joseph Kahn

Taylor Swift - Blank Space

Sharp as a razor and driven by Olly Murs&#39; excellent, good-humoured performance, Jonathan Lia&#39;s slick promo for Wrapped Up employs some conveyor-belt action to mess with the viewer&#39;s perception - choreographed by Ryan Heffington.

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Olly Murs ft Travis McCoy 'Wrapped Up' by Jonathan Lia

Olly Murs - Wrapped Up (Official Video) ft. Travie McCoy

Taken from her new Britney Jean album, Joseph Kahn reveals a softer side to Britney Spears than of late, in his promo for her ballad Perfume.Although &nbsp;initially portrayed as a vulnerable lover, Britney shows a cunning side as she marks her territory by&nbsp;dousing&nbsp;herself in perfume so that her rival will smell it on her boyfriend...

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RCA Records

Britney Spears 'Perfume' by Joseph Kahn

Britney Spears - Perfume

Okay this is not just a video for The Chicharones and their catchy summery track Hi Hey Hello, directed with typical verve by Joseph Kahn. It&rsquo;s really a way for megacorp Samsung to promote the numerous features in their Galaxy S4 smartphone, via an innovative music video-centric digital ad campaign, out of Leo Burnett and A52.Set on the campus of UCLA, it&rsquo;s all about the likeable college boy who uses the S4&prime;s various features (including Air View, Dual Shot, Group Play, Drama Shot and Sound &amp; Shot) in pursuit of his dream girl.In other words, the evolution of the branded music video&hellip;

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The Chicharones/Samsung ‘Hi Hey Hello’ by Joseph Kahn

Following a five year break, US pop rockers Matchbox Twenty return with new single She's So Mean and a Rich Lee-directed video - subject to a daily teaser campaign on Twitter pre-release.
In the promo a manic woman does her best to disrupt the band's performance - knocking over mic stands, grabbing guitars and setting the drums on fire... 

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Matchbox Twenty 'She's So Mean' by Rich Lee

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Six days in preparation - rehearsing those moves was quite a task - and a one day shoot in an empty warehouse in LA, Joseph Kahn delivers a very modern promo for the muscular Poison with Ms Scherzinger giving her all as 'Klark Kent' and subsequent superhero...

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Nicole Scherzinger’s Poison by Joseph Kahn

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Joining Marshall (on what is now clearly a return to form) on this red hot Joseph Kahn-directed promo for Love The Way You Lie, is Rihanna herself and celebrated actors Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox.
Fox and Monaghan act out the lust and the hate in a dramatic volatile relationship, intercut with Eminem spitting out the rhymes and Rihanna smouldering in her knickers and jacket combo.

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Eminem’s Love The Way You Lie feat. Rihanna by Joseph Kahn

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From his Recovery album (June 18th), Eminem teams up with Rich Lee for this cinematic promo to accompany first single Not Afraid. 
Nice photography from Chris Probst and all very run of the mill Eminem - until he turns into Superman zooming around the metropolis...

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Eminem’s Not Afraid by Rich Lee

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Signed to Interscope last year under the watchful eye of Will.I.Am, Kelis is back with the hot Acapella with an equally hot video from Rankin &amp; Chris.

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Jay-Z's fifth single from The Blueprint 3 brings Sam Brown back to promos - he's now usually occupied making ads - to make a compelling, bold and beautiful take on the hip-hop video.Packed with stunning imagery, and intriguing characters, it's essentially a series of seemingly disconnected portraits and setpieces. And the video has been the subject of a huge amount of web conjecture, based around its apparently references to Freemasonry and the Illuminati.If anything this is Sam making a point of putting some of the dyed-in-the-wool conventions of the hip-hop video aside, and moving on - his take on the theme of the song.It's his best for a long time - with a brilliant edit by Amanda James.Sam Brown on making the video for Jay-Z's On To The Next One"I was very much into things that capture the music but don't exactly relate to each other. I think that's a more interesting way of working. At this stage, I'm not interested in a conventional narrative or doing a straight performance video."The imagery is quite unusual, and people have read things into it. I didn't realize that there have been all these stupid rumours of Jay-Z being in some occult sect. I had no idea."It was the sound itself that got me into the dark stuff. The song has a harsh repetitive sample, the first time I heard it I thought it was like a song going backwards - like the ones that get interpreted as demonic messages. The song sounds so oppressive and that's what I wanted - something dark, oppressive and brutal."The song is about progress, about not getting stuck doing the same thing, and hip-hop can be oddly conservative, with conventions that are very rarely broken. Jay-Z has been more openminded, looking outside hip-hop for inspiration. So the video is really about being a funeral for clichéd rap imagery."You have to destroy one thing in order to create another. Before you can bring in something new. Did Jay-Z get that Well, he gave me the brief, and I showed him a lot of images, but didn't really get to explain my thinking. He really let me get on with it."We shot at Coyote Studios in LA for two days with two cameras. No big sets or complicated lighting. The 4:3 format is a reaction to that as well. The characters don't do much and, like the clown-type guy, have a pent-up brooding presence - again, the track is like that. The fluid seeping into objects is like a whitewashing of things, before you can start again."We did get the car from Jaguar - I'm pretty new to the world of product placement. But it's the fifth video off the album and the budget was relatively tiny. And it was part of it for me: I'm going to get this and I'm going to destroy it."When you get a big opportunity like this, then why not push it a bit And people were receptive. Jay-Z loved the edit, and only really wanted one thing changed. Amanda [James at Final Cut] absolutely killed it. I told her I wanted it to be brutal and she nailed it. I didn't really want anything to happen in it - people don't do much. But what they do, Amanda captured it."

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JAY-Z - On To The Next One ft. Swizz Beatz

Don't be fooled by the LA setting. This video is as Irish as a flame-haired colleen sipping a pint of the black stuff on the banks of the Liffey. While listening to U2.
Clever Dublin-based directing team D.A.D.D.Y. - that's Mike Ahean and Enda Loughman - directed the new video for big Eire export The Script, then editing legend Tony Kearns cut it in his own back yard. It was even commissioned by a chap named O'Keefe.
And after the rooftop performance and the literal narrative, the shattering time-slice payoff comes as quite a surprise.

D.A.D.D.Y. on making the video for The Script's Talk You Down
"We were asked by The Script and Sony to write an idea for Talk You Down as they liked an idea we had for a previous video. We sent it off and thought no more of it, and hunched back over our computers in our cold studio, but just after Christmas they decided to go with it.
"It was our first promo with a 'bigger budget', and therefore to keep it real - i.e. ensure there was lots of pressure and nobody made any money - we threw everything into the mix from shooting on 35mm in LA to stunt driven car crashes to wire-work.
"The two night shoot was pretty intense, especially the first night when we shot the performance and the stunt sequences, and managed to almost squash a band member and total the hero car we needed for the next night.
"The Script boys were as sound as three pounds and were up for everything and seemed to enjoy the whole experience. We did too. In our day off we even managed to squeeze in a few hours shooting hand guns while on segways, got to be featured extras in the new season of Heroes and meet Cher.
"Back in cold Dublin, we edited with 'The Colonel' - Mr. Tony Kearns - and posted in Screen Scene. Props are due to Mike in Sony and especially Mary our producer who 'talked us down' on many occasions over the shoot.

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Joseph Kahn's new video for the hugely-chutzpahed Ms Gaga pushes all the important, sexed-up buttons with JK's customary aplomb.
But what really marks this out is probably the least subtle piece of product placement in the history of music videos. It's virtually genius in its awe-inspiring brazenness.
Presumably this where its all heading - with the boy dancers having to do their stuff, and hold the booze. I'm just about ready for a large one myself.

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