Tacky? Cliche? How about awesome? "Blue Hawaii" grabs all sorts of random effects and set-ups — many of which are as '80s as the song — throws em into a digital blender and hits liquify.
DigitalMusicNews.com has posted Google's entire indie label contract for YouTube's new Free Service and Premium Service. It's 32 pages and it helps if you're a lawyer. But, there's lots of interesting stuff here, including payment rates and percentage shares and more...
She is a Goddess. Or, at least a Khaleesi. FKA Twigs reigns at the center of a moving work of art — if I was an jackass, I'd call it a Tableau Vivant — as director NABIL starts in close and then pulls out to show the monumental scale of her throne room.
Love stories and music videos collide in this ambitious short film for Jason Mraz. Essentially three music videos interconnected by a mix of fate, chance and cosmic interference.
Wax museums are lame. Unless you get to use a heatgun to melt that shit to the ground. Liars know how not to be lame, so while most of this video focuses on the behind-the-scenes process of getting their faces 3D-scanned and then made into wax replicas, there's a gory, yet colorful payoff at the end.
As you might imagine, Mary J. Blige isn't all that interested in having some scientisits study why she wants out her relationship. She's rolling up her suitcase and she's gone.
If you've been following the video follies of Capital Cities and Brewer then you know their collaboration can't possible just be a floating dock performance for the hottest Lake Havisu Spring Breakers ever. And it's not. It's something much more figurative. And the imagined party ends as quickly as a crying jag.
Can Robin Thicke ichat his way back into estranged wife Paula Patton's heart? Does looking battered and bruised and nude (from the waist up) in the video help the cause? What about the similarly naked woman that's here?
Such are the blurred lines in what's promised to be the opening salvo for new album Paula, which maybe you'll find to be the most romantic "I want her back" adventure since Lloyd Dobler held that Boombox aloft.
Desire comes from all shapes, sizes and ages. And despite what you probably learned from music videos, real sex isn't just for the young and lovely. And even the most nameless fuck might be rife with self-loathing, power and vulnerability.
Been wondering when the uncensored version of the Daniels x Zak Stoltz "Tongues" video would be unveiled? Here ya go... And, yes, it's totally NSFW...
So, enjoy — but not in public or at work —what starts as an homage to pulp horror flicks, or some random acid-soaked hippie/freak film and then builds into an epic battle between the clothed and unclothed.
Behold a light show that's simple and complex at the same time in this new Chris Cab video. Light bulbs descend from the ceiling and begin to undulate, at first matching the countours of the women below, but then creating increasingly complex and clever designs.
The previously shelved "Do What U Want" music video — directed by Terry "Wrecking Ball" Richardson and starring R. Kelly — has been making the media rounds. Page Six gets a vicious dig in via an unnamed source, "With the theme, ‘I’m going to do whatever I want with your body’? It was literally an ad for rape."
Yikes. TMZ has a snippet if you care to see... There's a lot of writhing.
Perhaps you've seen the mass hysteria about the end of YouTube with the impending blockade of all indie label content that's not signed-up for YouTube's apparently ready-to-roll music subscription service. Or maybe you haven't. And, either way, maybe you shouldn't worry too much. (Maybe you should go outside, actually. It's summer. There's things to do besides sitting at a computer.)
YouTube does plan to launch an advertising-free subscription tier build around music. They've signed deals with 95% of the labels that are on the service currently.
The big change in the deal is that YouTube will payout revenue at a flat rate, as opposed to the advertising shares which varied based on all sorts of things beyond the scope of anything simple.
Some independent labels haven't signed deals in protest of the terms.
As a result, YouTube has CONFIRMED that videos from those non-particpating labels will indeed be removed from the site, unless they're via a VEVO channel. The big names to throw around in this conversation are Adele and Arctic Monkeys and Radiohead, because you love them.
Confusing? You bet. Go read the Forbes the article. But, I'm confused for a different reason, which is why are they making this change NOW?
If this recent report is correct about how online video advertising is one of the fastest growing segment among all ad formats — second only to mobile, and well ahead of TV, radio, search and traditional display ads — and is expected to double in value over the next two years, then why would YouTube be seeking to break that model?
And why would they do it at a point where other players are catching up in terms of features and portability — where some of their key content providers like Maker.TV are launching their own players and sites so they don't need to split revenue and control with YouTube?
Is it possible that YouTube has done the homework and it's telling them that most people use the music side of their service as just an on-demand radio? And that video advertising growth for music videos is a bubble that will burst as soon as technology can tell us whether eyeballs are actually on that video, or if it's just playing the hits behind a bunch of other windows?
And if the video landscape does splinter with various competing (yet equal) players, can we finally stop obsessing over YouTube play counts?
Some of the immediate answers will come when the service launches — reportedly soon — but some of these other effects will come on the longtail. Should be an interesting ride...
