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Grant Singer

Sam Smith astonishes in this instant&nbsp;classic by Grant Singer, choreographed by Parris Goebel. Dragged into a video within a video, Smith ponders heartache and resentment between a troupe of shirtless dancers and a crash test robot.It’s easy to be wistful about a bygone era of shiny event videos. Enormous studio affairs, dripping in extravagance and stuffed with thrilling, superfluous set-pieces. You want Madonna giving a sermon on a swan gargoyle. Prince in his church bathtub. Bjork yelling from the back of a lorry. Next time you’re feeling nostalgic, spare a thought for Grant Singer - this is what he does. Think instead of <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2017/03/07/lorde-green-light-grant-singer/46601">Lorde stomping on top of an Uber</a>. Of the Weeknd <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/09/30/weeknd-ft-daft-punk-starboy-grant-singer/43885">storming through a house with a pink crucifix</a>. Or of Troye Sivan <a href="https://vimeo.com/251203610">strutting through a factory in a big silk cape</a>.This may be the second single from Smith’s upcoming project, but this video feels like a statement of intent. There is a parallel between this dance-driven video and My My My, Grant Singer’s earlier video for Troye Sivan. Sivan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/apr/06/troye-sivan-youtuber-singer-actor-fashion-queer-pride-laura-snapes">spoke glowingly</a> of his experience on My My My, an opportunity for to be visibly and unapologetically queer. Sam Smith already made a foray into the ballroom scene for Promises. But in this video, he is front and centre, fresh from lessons with Parris Goebel, the choreographer behind Justin Beiber’s internet-busting video for Sorry. You’ve never seen a mainstream, male songwriter vogue quite like this.

United States

Parris Goebel

Anonymous Content

Lark Creative

Guillermo Garza

Ricky Gausis

Dance

Trap

R&B, Soul

Sam Smith 'How Do You Sleep' by Grant Singer

Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep? (Official Video)

Grant Singer&#39;s latest video for The Weeknd gets more epic and enigmatic&nbsp;as it goes along.

Saul Germaine

Nina Soriano

Alexis Zabe

Page Buckner

Nate Gross

Exile Edit

Simon Bourne

Framestore

The Mill

David Lawson

The Weeknd 'Call Out My Name' by Grant Singer

The Weeknd - Call Out My Name (Official Video)

Grant Singer shows&nbsp;Camila Cabello hogging the limelight in two different formats - on home video and music video. &nbsp;

Somesuch

Jacob Swanhyam

Andre Chemetoff

Joseph Bennett

Nick Rondeau

Arcade Edit

Epic

Camilla Cabello 'Never Be The Same' by Grant Singer

Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same

In the bathroom, in the club, in the car, hanging out of the car, on top of the car.... Lorde is an intense and very restless presence in Grant Singer&#39;s LA-set video for Green Light.As a result this manages to be a highly cinematic rule-stretcher of a video, even though it is an essentially an artist performance from start to finish. A memorable showcase for&nbsp;Lorde&#39;s serious&nbsp;charisma, and fine example of Singer&#39;s growing mastery of the medium.

Steve Annis

Universal Music New Zealand

Lorde 'Green Light' by Grant Singer

Lorde - Green Light

Grant Singer eschews overt sexuality in favour of angst and arguments in this collaboration between Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik, which features on the soundtrack to the film 50 Shades Darker.Shot in the St. Pancras Rennaissance hotel in London, the video starts with Zayn being mobbed by paparazzi before ducking into the hotel to thrash out an argument with Taylor which results in some mild criminal damage. Moody, atmospheric lights and passionate colour choices lead the way in this striking visual.

Hannah Turnbull-Walter

Denna Cartamkhoob

Sally Llewellyn

Thomas Elgood

Chris Kelly

Eira Wyn Jones

Thomas English

Neil Blakesley

Alex Gibbon

Alison Dominitz

Nick Ellis

Verity May Lane

Louise Constad

Darren Evans

Gary Arthurs

Sasha Robertson

Ari Tomasettig

ZAYN & Taylor Swift 'I Don’t Wanna Live Forever' by Grant Singer

ZAYN, Taylor Swift - I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)

The Weeknd and Grant Singer collaborate again for stylish neo-noir short film &#39;M A N I A&#39;.Beginning with an incredible shot of a black panther before roaring into a supercar-laden drive through the mountains and eventually arriving at a club, this is a sprawling, grand and incredibly sinister piece of film. And after spending a little over six of its 12-minute runtime setting up this cool, brooding atmosphere, it suddenly reaches in incredibly bloody narrative peak.Steeped full of metaphorical imagery and looking fantastic, this is a neo-noir style short that doesn&#39;t have the high-octane shock factor that False Alarm&nbsp;had, but it still manages to push all the same buttons.More of an album trailer than a music video, the songs from The Weeknd&#39;s &#39;Starboy&#39; album cut in and out of the action with some excellent (blood-soaked) performance visuals.

R&B, Urban

The Weeknd 'M A N I A' by Grant Singer

The Weeknd - M A N I A

The Weeknd kills&nbsp;his former self - smashing his previous accolades and cutting off his infamous Basquiat&nbsp;locks -&nbsp;in what must be the slickest, neon-tinged video of the year so far, directed by long-term collaborator&nbsp;Grant Singer.It&#39;s&nbsp;a bold way to go about things. But&nbsp;Starboy - the newfangled&nbsp;version of the singer - seems like the audacious&nbsp;type, showing up at his record company in a leather jacket and&nbsp;wearing a&nbsp;diamond-incrusted cross necklace, he literally suffocates his former self before wielding&nbsp;a massive&nbsp;radiant, neon-pink cross and destroying&nbsp;all past symbols of his&nbsp;success.&nbsp;Then he walks along his car collection&nbsp;in his garage and settles on a&nbsp;McLaren,&nbsp;stealing off into the night with a panther by his side. As you do. I guess there&#39;s no room for two&nbsp;Abęls in this town.&nbsp;

Julien LeMaitre

The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk 'Starboy' by Grant Singer

The Weeknd - Starboy ft. Daft Punk

Grant Singer&#39;s video for Phantogram&#39;s You Don&#39;t Get Me High Anymore&nbsp;is a dark, passionate desert-set&nbsp;affair. With visceral close-ups of gel moulds being sliced, and the destruction of buildings from the inside out, it&#39;s anything but gentle. Combine that imagery with the impending doom of a gigantic wave,&nbsp;motorbike stunts, BDSM and a rich, saturated colourscape of fierce reds and blues, and you&#39;ve got something in front of you that becomes difficult to define.The title is so incendiary in itself, and Grant Singer has undoubtedly taken his cue from that. And its a territory that he&#39;s familiar with - the thrillseekers&nbsp;who break the mould, smash the monotony, but pay some kind of price in the process.&nbsp;It all feels uncomfortable, self destructive and confusingly sexy.

Jona Ward

Ranch Hand Entertainment

Phantogram 'You Don’t Get Me High Anymore' by Grant Singer

Phantogram - You Don’t Get Me High Anymore

Grant Singer and The Weeknd keep things cryptic in their&nbsp;third&nbsp;collaboration,&nbsp;Tell Your Friends. What we can be sure of is that&nbsp;the Canadian rapper is up to no good.For one, the video starts with him alone in the desert&nbsp;burying -&nbsp;what appears&nbsp;to be -&nbsp;himself&nbsp;alive in a very shallow grave. But he isn&#39;t alone at all, turning around&nbsp;and spotting the mysterious man&nbsp;who set him in fire in his previous video for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/07/29/weeknd-cant-feel-my-face-grant-singer" target="_blank">Can&#39;t Feel My Face</a>. It takes him little time to exact his&nbsp;unflinching revenge...

Canada

Nathan Scherrer

freenjoy

Pat Scola

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Contemporary R&B

The Weeknd 'Tell Your Friends' by Grant Singer

The Weeknd - Tell Your Friends

The Weeknd puts on a fierce performance in this video directed by Grant Singer, for the&nbsp;funky track Can&#39;t Feel My Face. But fiece turns fiery when a guy in the audience hurls a lighter at the stage...

Johnathan Sela

Brook Linder

Tyce Diorio

Nathan Schrerrer

Bryan Smaller

Brewster Parsons

The Weeknd 'Can't Feel My Face' by Grant Singer

The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face

Director&nbsp;Grant Singer&#39;s&nbsp;quirky, wickedly&nbsp;unsettling style is pushed to the fore in this brilliantly freaky&nbsp;video for the remixed track Burial, written by&nbsp;Yogi feat. Pusha T and remixed by&nbsp;Skrillex,&nbsp;Moody Good and&nbsp;TrollPhace. And it all starts when&nbsp;a clan of rubber-masked contortionist pop-n-locking gangsters enter a barbershop where Pusha T sits getting his hair fixed....&nbsp;Pusha T keeps his cool while the gang smash up the shop - and then he walks to the car to pull his own face off... revealing&nbsp;his true identity as basketball player Dennis Rodman. And then the fun really starts as the contortion clan look for a confrontation with big Dennis&nbsp;after they&#39;ve finished setting an&nbsp;ATM on fire.Rodman&#39;s having none of it however, committing&nbsp;his own act of vengeful arson. You really do have to watch those flammable materials...&nbsp;

Danny Hiele

Alec Contestabile

Nina McNeely

Hip Hop

Yogi & Skrillex ft. Pusha T, Moody Good, TrollPhace 'Burial' by Grant Singer

Yogi & Skrillex - Burial (feat. Pusha T, Moody Good, TrollPhace) [Official Video]

Grant Singer&#39;s latest video for Foxygen is a showcase for the unquestionable charisma&nbsp;of lead singer Sam France, and his major Seventitude.Okay that&#39;s not actually a word. But the Sam (also an actor) channels a little bit of all the great 70s rock frontmen - and shows that big shoulder jackets were around way before the 80s - while going about his normal&nbsp;West Coast social business in the video for Coulda Been My Love. Which itself could&#39;ve been written by Todd &#39;The God&#39; Rundgren...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Charlie Corella

Riff Raff Films

Djay Brawner

Frank Mobilio

Steve Doyle

Dan Finlayson

Sara Bevilaqua

Lexi Klyela

Company 3

Carlos Laszlo

Egg & Chips

Jagjaguwar

Anthem Films

Indie Rock

Foxygen 'Coulda Been My Love' by Grant Singer

Foxygen-'Coulda-Been-My-Love'-by-Grant-Singer

Taken from his forthcoming double set Pom Pom, Ariel Pink joins forces with Grant Singer for this strange outing to a shopping mall in Singer&#39;s promo for Put Your Number In My Phone.Pushing a scary-looking Bane-like character around in a wheelchair, the oddly-dressed Pink delivers a lovely deadpan performance...

Los Compadres

Ryan Curtis

Sarah Boardman

Lindsay Rogers

Brook Linder,

Nathan Pena

4AD Records

Samuel Strang

Kevin Kloecker

Indie

Ariel Pink 'Put Your Number In My Phone' by Grant Singer

Ariel-Pink-'Put-Your-Number-In-My-Phone'-by-Grant-Singer

Grant Singer directs Foxygen&#39;s quirky performance&nbsp;promo for How Can You Really &ndash; taking us from the unorthodox stage of the office to a more fitting neon-lit warehouse. Lead singer Sam France&#39;s energy levels never drop throughout.

John Edwards Curtis

Lisa Madonna

Trevor Durtschi

Foxygen 'How Can You Really' by Grant Singer

Foxygen-'How-Can-You-Really'-by-Grant-Singer

A marvellous video by Grant Singer for Sky Ferreira&#39;s I Blame Myself, deconstructing a drama set in the hood.

Sky Ferreira 'I Blame Myself' by Grant Singer

Sky Ferreira - I Blame Myself

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