Commissioner

Danny Lockwood

Savanah Leaf has given contemporary relevance&nbsp;to&nbsp;Marvin Gaye's What's Going On in her powerful music video for the 1971 classic.In the description under the video on YouTube she writes: “We shot ‘What’s Going On' in Detroit and Flint Michigan, we wanted a place that resonates with the song and the history of Motown, while also remaining relevant to the sociopolitical issues in the music video."The music video took four days to shoot, but I travelled to Michigan a couple weeks early to find the right people. It was very important for us to find real people that resonated with the stories, rather than casting actors. We wanted the history of the song and the communities we filmed in to come through in our video."For example, Steve Smith, who plays the blind man in our music video, actually worked for Motown when ‘What’s Going On’ was originally recorded. The church we filmed in was one of the first establishments to set up a water station for the Flint community - they would hand out clean water and raise awareness on the ongoing crisis within the community."In addition to Steve Smith, we had the opportunity to feature other influential community figures in our music video, including Karen Weaver, the mayor of Flint, and pivotal activists that have been involved in the Flint Water Crisis for many years. One such activist in our music video is named Ariana Hawk, who, along with her young son, was featured on the cover of Time Magazine during the height of the water crisis. She ended up moving from Flint, only to return in order to continue the fight for her community. To this day, the Flint Water Crisis has yet to be resolved, and Ariana continues to be a strong activist in the movement."The point is that this is a historic song for an important moment in history, and what’s beautiful is that it’s message is timeless and universal. It’s about human emotions, human relationships, and a coming together. My hope is that our music video will remind people to continue asking the question Marvin Gaye asked in 1971.”&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;</div>

United States

Savanah Leaf

Danielle Hinde

Rich Hutchins

Jason Cole

Doomsday Entertainment

Ari Tomasettig

Dan de Winter

Soul

Motown

Marvin Gaye 'What's Going On' by Savanah Leaf

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Official Video 2019)

Katy Perry is the unhappy Marie Antoinette in a version of the ancien regime with celphones in Isaac Rentz&#39;s lighthearted romp for Hey Hey Hey.Can Joan of Arc (also Katy, nice to see her back with dark hair) save her from a terrible fate with the horrible old Sun King? Well, not exactly... &nbsp;

Isaac Rentz

Nina Miller

Hound Content

Isaac Rice

Missy Galanida

Shawn Kim

Fernanda Guerrero

Jennifer Kennedy

Beau Leon

Framestore

Flawless Post

Marisa Garner Associates

Katy Perry 'Hey Hey Hey' by Isaac Rentz

Katy Perry - Hey Hey Hey (Official)

Whether or not it&#39;s all about Katy Perry&#39;s &#39;feud&#39; with Taylor Swift, and its release deliberately timed to draw attention away from the news of a new Swift album, one thing can&#39;t be questioned: Dave Meyers&#39; video for Swish Swish is a cameo-filled blockbuster, and a hoot.And even people who don&#39;t know anything about basketball can watch it.&nbsp;&bull; Cast explained in <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katy-perry-swish-swish-video-celebrity-cameos_uk_599ea64be4b0821444c0fb7d" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a> &nbsp;

Dave Meyers

Nathan Scherrer

Jennifer Heath

freenjoy

Ben Piety

Scott Cunningham

Justin Dragonas

Todd Sarsfield

Strange Invention

RodeoFX

Timber

Mirada

GloriaFX

Les Umberger

740 Sound

Dave Dean

Daniel Russell

Deji LaRay

Chad Ritterbach

Johnny Wujek

Katy Perry ft Nicki Minaj 'Swish Swish' by Dave Meyers

Katy Perry - Swish Swish (Official) ft. Nicki Minaj

After a quiet spell Sing J Lee steps up to the mark again in&nbsp;music videos with a real statement for Halsey. And&nbsp;it&#39;s&nbsp;just for starters.The video for Now Or Never is a blockbuster - a big, cinematic fantasy&nbsp;action thriller with blue-haired Halsey falling&nbsp;for a rival gang member during a turf war of heavily armed kids&nbsp;in a dangerous near-future LA.&nbsp;Everything leads inexorably to a gripping and very violent climax, and it&#39;s expertly&nbsp;helmed by Lee, in his first big&nbsp;Stateside music video. And this happens to be&nbsp;just the first half of the story. As Halsey escapes to cut her blue locks and recover from the trauma, we suspect there will be&nbsp;further twists in the tale.It&#39;s beautifully shot by&nbsp;Kristof&nbsp;Brandl, and as well as the two for Halsey, Sing J Lee has also worked with the DoP in a video shot in Shanghai for Tchami that comes out shortly. With another video for Raye in pre-production, Lee is well and truly back - all guns blazing.

Sing J Lee

Laure Salgon

Partizan Darkroom

Laura Jones

Kristof Brandl

Ryan Beck

Final Cut

Houmam Abdallah

Targa Sahyoun

Astralwerks

Halsey 'Now Or Never' by Sing J Lee

Halsey-'Now-Or-Never'-by-Sing-J-Lee

Mathew Cullen and Katy Perry explore the intrinsically flawed ideals of the nuclear family in this CGI-heavy theme park clip for Chained To The Rhythm.Employing the retro-futurism aesthetic and running with it full pelt into Katy Perry&#39;s standard pastel-pink&nbsp;and blue&nbsp;colour palette, exploring a trip to an all-American 50s-style theme park where the squeaky-clean fun and prosperity takes a disturbing turn.&nbsp;By the end, in a highly melodramatic reaction shot, that is all too clear to Katy.&nbsp;So on one level the video&nbsp;can be read as a&nbsp;metaphor for the worryingly herd-like behaviour that&#39;s a by-product of our self-obsessed, fun-seeking&nbsp;modern culture. On another it&#39;s just a fun, CGI-laden trip into a quasi-Disney dystopia with incredible costumes and production design - and you&#39;d never expect anything less from a Katy Perry video, right? Both ways, it&#39;s another impressive achievement by Mathew Cullen.

Mathew Cullen

Rob Newman

Javier Jimenez

Tommy Labuda

Katy Perry 'Chained To The Rhythm' by Mathew Cullen

Katy Perry - Chained To The Rhythm (Official) ft. Skip Marley

Capital Cities and Remy Cayuela disrupt the streets of LA with the language of dance.Beginning, as so many stories do, in an underwhelming party, it quickly breaks out into something much more fantastic. Following a girl who dances her way through the streets of LA, the fantastic choreography is based on the lyrics seen visually using American Sign Language, making this an incredibly clever lyric video, in a way.Having to plan meticulously every shot, combined with a downtown LA shoot on the weekend of Halloween is an impressive undertaking that Remy appears to have taken in his stride, making a cinematic, multi-layered dance film.

Rémy Cayuela

Daniel Kent

Brooke McDaniel

Jeff Bierman

Denna Thomsen

Michael Beaudry

Ernie Gilbert

Jordy Scheinberg

Tess O'Melia

Colin Wyatt

Park Village

Indie pop

Capital Cities 'Vowels' by Remy Cayuela

Capital Cities - Vowels

Paul Gore proves nothing can hold Katy Perry back in this gorgeous, simple visual metaphor.Dragging a parachute through epic cinematic landscapes, Perry proves that she can turn the negative aspects of her life into positives by utilising them to soar above the earth. It&#39;s a simple narrative but the colours and locations used make for a beautiful visual, it&#39;s certainly slick and polished still, but in more of a raw and cinematic way. It&#39;s certainly a left turn from Perry&#39;s previous high-gloss, cartoonish pop aesthetic complete with a cavalcade of dancers. Having her completely&nbsp;solo in this clip proves to be a powerful and effective visual choice.

Paul Gore

Matthew Ayriss

Katy Perry 'Rise' by Paul Gore

Katy Perry - Rise

Malia James and Troye Sivan have teamed up again for Wild.&nbsp;A great mix of mini DV home video style candid footage and cinematic performance, this video explores the light, fun and exciting moments of being young, falling in love and doing what the hell you want.It&#39;s a solid, fun pop video that isn&#39;t afraid to represent love in the LGBT community in a beautiful, carefree way. The video doesn&#39;t set out to make a great statement about love, it just tells some stories about how it&#39;s normal and exciting to be young and in love with someone, anyone, regardless of gender, race or sexuality&nbsp;- which is the greatest statement of all.

Malia James

Taylor Vandegrift

Cineaste Films

Adam Rodness

Jon Reed

Sing Howe Yam

Rachelle Scarfo

Toyo Tsuchiya

Kim Timbol

Ricky Boudreau

Chris Roebuck

Cut + Run

Las Bandas Be Brave

EMI Australia

Caitlin Wright

Troye Sivan ft Alessia Cara 'Wild' by Malia James

Troye-Sivan-Ft-Alessia-Cara-'Wild-(remix)'-by-Malia-James

Malia James captures the intimacy of Youth&nbsp;for Australian actor, Youtuber and singer-songwriter Troye Sivan.This is Sivan&#39;s&nbsp;first full-on pop video since his groundbreaking <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdXNNveYOfU" target="_blank">Blue Neighbourhood trilogy</a> which chronicled the burgeoning love affair between two young male friends.

Australia

Austin Barbera

Brandeaux Tourville

Eli Born

Billy Coleman

Nico Guidote

Jill Bencsits

Tamaryn

Rasheeda Ameera

Forrest Borrie

Derek Hansen

Capitol Records

Troye Sivan 'Youth' by Malia James

Troye-Sivan-'Youth'-by-Malia-James

Tim Mattia&#39;s deftly-constructed drama with Halsey as a Polaroid-wielding schoolgirl double-dating with her mother with the most eligible son/father partnership in town, always threatens to spring a surprise. But when it happens, it still feels provocative.

Tim Mattia

Andrew Lerios

London Alley

Brandon Bonfiglio

Luga Podesta

Dustin Lane

Jen Kennedy

Aubrey Woodiwiss

OB Management

Halsey 'Colors' by Tim Mattia

Halsey-'Colors'-by-Tim-Mattia

New American pop star Halsey&#39;s anthemic track New Americana is a futuristic&nbsp;thriller&nbsp;about counter-culture insurgency in post apocalyptic America, with&nbsp;Halsey as its leader. It&#39;s also a combination of action, thrills and beautiful imagery, under the direction of Jodeb.Shot in lush&nbsp;Hawaii, the video stages a raid on the insurgency&#39;s hideout by a gun-toting SWAT team, where Halsey is captured&nbsp;- and dragged back to the village - to face a horrible&nbsp;fate, in front of cowering villagers. But will they succeed in freeing themselves?&nbsp;&nbsp;As the singer explains in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PbSdhvtdos" target="_blank">BTS</a>&nbsp;video, in the video&nbsp;her &#39;New Americans&#39; are concerned with&nbsp;issues of social justice and are&nbsp;united by&nbsp;post-racial,&nbsp;liberal and&nbsp;egalitarian&nbsp;ideologies, embracing the idea of a better future. And the message will prevail&nbsp;in the end...

Jodeb

Angela Gregory

Vision Film Co

Kate Arizmendi

Geoff McLean

Halsey 'New Americana' by Jodeb

Emil Nava

Lanette Phillips

Ne-Yo ft Juicy J 'She Knows' by Emil Nava

Ne-Yo - She Knows ft. Juicy J

Crooked Cynics direct this emotional and captivating story for &#39;Unbreakable&#39;, the new single from British singer-songwriter Jamie Scott.Beautifully shot by Eric Wycoff, it follows a young girl and her grandfather as they try to make sense of a world after a painful bereavement.

United Kingdom

Crooked Cynics

Thom Fennessey

Collaboration Factory

Cody Boesen

Eric Wycoff

Robin Nixon

Sheena Gao

Charlie Tucker

Virgin EMI

Jamie Scott 'Unbreakable' by Crooked Cynics

Jamie-Scott-'Unbreakable'-by-Crooked-Cynics

Marc Klasfeld and Danny Lockwood hire the worst party entertainers imaginable in their zany promo for Katy Perry&#39;s Birthday.Perry ditches her usual glam persona to impersonate five different characters including a clueless animal trainer, a scary clown, a dizzy princess and a fairly lewd geriatric dancer. Its all good, clean mayhem - coinfirming that of all the top pop divas, Katy is the one with the chops for comedy.

Marc Klasfeld

Rockhard

Dawn Rose

Joseph Robbins

Richard Alarcon

Nicole Acacio

Tony Gardner

Katy Perry 'Birthday' by Marc Klasfeld & Danny Lockwood

Katy Perry - Birthday (Official)

A very stylish and grown-up&nbsp;Katy Perry crouches down in the snow, releases an owl, gets hit by a vintage car and winesses a flaming bed in Brent Bonacorso&#39;s visual feast for her next single Unconditionally.&nbsp;With these set pieces acting as&nbsp;metaphors for unconditional love, the glossy, expensive-looking shoot is one part Dangerous Liasons, one part Rabbit In Your Headlights, several parts&nbsp;out and out fantasy...

Brent Bonacorso

Passion Pictures

Jess Bell

Dan Scott-Croxford

Magdalena Gorka

Sam Tidman

Katy Perry 'Unconditionally' by Brent Bonacorso

Katy Perry - Unconditionally (Official)

Human nature and the animal kingdom collide in Carol Lopez-Estrada&#39;s marvellous video for Capital Cities&#39; Kangaroo Court, in which, if the real jungle was an urban jungle, the zebra would be persona non grata.So one particular&nbsp;zebra gets himself into the top club in town - Kangaroo Court - by disguising himself as a horse. And everything goes swimmingly&nbsp;until his identity is discovered, and then... well, the law (of the jungle) must take its course.Another fine piece of work&nbsp;by Carlos, and great work from the makeup team. Did anyone spot&nbsp;any kangaroos?

Carlos Lopez-Estrada

Kimberly Stuckwisch

Joe Saurez

Andrea Edmondson

Morgan Susser

Clint Moran

Natasha Kutrovacz

Erika Frank

Tyler Jenson

Hunter Schmidt

Capital Cities 'Kangaroo Court' by Carlos Lopez-Estrada

Capital Cities - Kangaroo Court (Official)

Shot in Iceland for that early winter feeling, Hiro Murai&#39;s promo for David Guetta&#39;s She Wolf is a very natural affair with a naked woman, a bunch of scary hunters and a pack of wolves (they could be huskies) roaming the beautiful but desolate landscape.Then the chorus hits and all digital hell breaks loose with some cool explosions, eruptions and general mayhem punctuating the action to very dramatic effect...&nbsp;

Hiro Murai

Larkin Seiple

Mandy Brown

David Guetta ft Sia 'She Wolf' by Hiro Murai

David-Guetta-ft-Sia-'She-Wolf'-by-Hiro-Murai

Shot at the Marine Corps base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside California, Katy Perry kicks ass in Ben Mor's action promo for new single Part Of Me. 
In stark contrast to her bubble-gum image of California Gurls, Mor captures Perry (lensed by District 9 DP Trent Opaloch) in her hard-as-nails role surrounded by yer actual active-duty Marines...

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Katy Perry 'Part Of Me' by Ben Mor

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