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Residente and Bad Bunny, "Bellacoso" | Residente/YouTube

Residente and Bad Bunny, "Bellacoso" | Residente/YouTube

Still with the music videos? Hell yes, stillwith the music videos, just similar in 2017 and 2018. You know why? Considering people areyetpairing moving images with pleasurable sonic oscillations, and every bit long as that's true, we're going to stay on top of the all-time of the best. Likewise, "all-time music videos" is a somewhat valuable search phrase that, over the course of an entire yr, pays off with loads of clicks and, probably, some passive revenue from Google ads. But that's a side of the business I don't deal with, so maybe I should shut my mouth and make content. Anybody lives to serve the algorithms now, and so get on lath or become off the internet!

While the nature of online video product and consumption may take changed, what's stayed the same is enough of artists and directors continue to interact on music videos that deserve your attention. Here are the finest the medium has to offer, so bank check dorsum regularly (or every mean solar day, just make certain you close and reopen your browser!) to run into what's new.

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100. Missy Elliot, "Throw It Back"

Director: Daniel Russell
Release date: August 22
Why it's great: It's important to pay respects to a great creative person when she pays respects to herself. Missy gets on this list thank you to her fable status.

99. Ghostemane, "Gatteka"

Managing director: Thomas J Yagodinski
Release date: Nov xx
Why information technology's great: Want to scout a violent stop-motion video well-nigh the horrors of being turned into just another worker in the capitalist machine? Today is your lucky twenty-four hours!

98. Blood Orange, "Benzo"

Director: Devonté Hynes
Release date: July thirteen
Why it's great: Dev Hynes travels back in time to... pre-Revolution France? But with neon signs -- to play his singular music for a member of the upper classes, who volition virtually certainly wind upward under the guillotine if this is indeed a version of pre-Revolution France.

97. MØ, "Beautiful Wreck"

Director: Emma Rosenzweig
Release date: October ii
Why it's great: This video emulates a vintage performance art slice from Sweden; it'south making a statement of some kind, open up to interpretation, but at least one statement is that it's cool to pigment on other people.

96. Megan Thee Stallion ft. Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign, "Hot Daughter Summer"

Director: Munachi Osegbu
Release date: September 3
Why it'southward great: Look, later including 75 of the year's music videos, in that location was no point in not going for 100. Megan Thee Stallion earned a place not with the video, which is conventional if entertaining enough, but with the fact that she deserves to be recognized on all 2019 best of lists.

95. HELLRAZOR, "Landscaper"

Director: Steve Marucci
Release engagement: May 3
Why it'southward great: This music video is living proof that if you DM me with a video, there's a chance yous'll make it onto this list. Thanks, Hellrazor, for being active on Twitter. And for making a good music video, of course!

94. Charlie XCX & Christine and the Queens, "Gone"

Director: Colin Solal Cardo
Release date: July 17
Why it'southward great: People love Charlie XCX and Christine and the Queens, so why wouldn't people honey a video in which the two of them dance sensually with each other in the rain? It turns out: They would definitely dearest that.

93. Don Broco, "Activeness"

Manager: Benjamin Roberds
Release appointment: September 6
Why it'southward dandy: Aye, the parody of easily parodied genre tropes has become a parody of itself in the music video world, only that doesn't mean Don Broco tin can't take fun with this parody, which plays similar if Terminator were a public access motion picture.

92. Jennifer Vanilla, "Space Fourth dimension Motion"

Director: Jennifer Juniper Stratford
Release date: September 25
Why it's great: Yous don't demand million-dollar budgets or slick production to create a practiced music video, as Jennifer Vanilla proves with her cheesy, retro accessory to a pulsing trip the light fantastic toe beat.

91. Róisín Spud, "Narcissus"

Manager: November 21
Release engagement: Róisín White potato
Why information technology's great: A veteran of previous years' lists, Róisín Murphy understands the potential of light and flick tricks that felt fresh in the 1970s.

ninety. Hazel English, "Shaking"

Managing director: Erin S Murray
Release date: November 6
Why it's neat: Send yourself to the gratis loving, cult-heavy sunshine of 1960s Laurel Canyon, and y'all'll get the video for "Shaking." The lesson is you should never follow strangers -- especially attractive ones.

89. MINKA, "Dark"

Manager: Non listed
Release date: April x
Why it'south great: Full disclosure: The singer of Minka is what you might consider a friend of the writer, depending on how often yous accept to run into someone and how much you have to similar each other to be considered "friends." Simply if yous tin can't leverage your friendships to become yous the highly coveted 89th slot on a "best of" listing, are we really being true to the American Manner? Whether you believe information technology or not, this is the exact kind of video that earns a place on this list; information technology's not your standard "ring plays its instruments and/or lip syncs in front of a absurd background." The bar is not loftier, bands and artists and directors out there!

88. Hot Chip, "Hungry Daughter"

Director: Saman Kesh
Release appointment: April 4
Why it's not bad: You know that crazymaking feeling that happens when you lot have a song stuck in your caput all day? Well, what if information technology were really playing, and what if it really destroyed your relationship? Martin Starr and Milana Vayntraub star as the couple who have to find out.

87. Billie Eilish, "bad guy"

Director: Dave Meyers
Release engagement: March 29
Why information technology's great: Billie, baby! She was by far the world's coolest 17-yr-sometime in 2019, which means she was born after 9/eleven. And hither I am, toiling away on content, while she'south one of the land's biggest stars. Good for her, though, and for consistently working beyond her years in the video product game.

86. Brittany Howard, "Stay High"

Managing director: Kim Gehrig
Release engagement: July 16
Why it'southward neat: The Alabama Shakes frontwoman released her starting time solo album in 2019, and the accompanying video for "Stay Loftier" is a straightforward interpretation of a typical working-class American story filtered through the lip syncing antics of Terry Crews. You have to beloved information technology.

85. Preoccupations, "Compliance"

Director: Nicholas Brown and Evan Henderson
Release date: Jan 29
Why information technology'due south dandy: What if David Lynch made a brusque film about Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy? The result might exist something like this video for "Compliance," featuring a smoke-filled landscape and an industrial monster who happens to resemble a tree-like superhero, but with a band of burn down on its dorsum. The video doesn't try to bite off more than it can chew, and information technology's refreshing to see a focused vision that doesn't effort to explain itself to you over and over over again.

84. Warm Human, "Downward"

Director: Carol Brandt
Release appointment: February vii
Why information technology's groovy: Warm Human's chilly expression of low gets an equally chilly video from Brandt, who keeps the tones blue and never reveals whether yous're looking at the world upside-downwards or correct-side-upwards. The biblical imagery adds even more heft to the video, which isn't exactly uplifting, just which does feature an albino ophidian -- ever a smart motility.

83. City Girls ft. Cardi B, "Twerk" (kind of NSFW)

Managing director: DAPS
Release date: January 16
Why it's great: "Should we maybe mix information technology up with some non-twerking shots?" "Admittedly not." There'due south a single-minded purity to this video that places it on a airplane above the myriad other videos featuring twerking -- when your mission is finding the earth's greatest twerker, yous have to be totally dedicated to your cause. And Miami's Metropolis Girls, with help from Cardi B, are certainly dedicated.

82. Rainbow Kitten Surprise, "It's Called: Freefall"

Director: Anthony Francisco Schepperd
Release date: January 28
Why it'southward groovy: Who doesn't love a depressing, oblique, animated short film? Manager and animator Schepperd blends abstract design with narrative storytelling in a shadow-filled globe to set up what appears to be an execution averted at the terminal 2d thank you to the intervention of a horse-hair covered hero. From there, the story evolves into a psychedelic fever dream featuring horsewhips, dragons, and devils -- non bad for 2-and-a-half minutes.

81. Normani, "Motivation"

Director: Dave Meyers and Daniel Russell
Release date: August xv
Why it'southward peachy: Who says music videos can't be fun? No one says that, that would exist insane! What a strange claim to make, and what a stilted, thoughtless way to begin a blurb! Apologies to the readers and to Normani, who knows her manner around a basketball court.

80. Regard, "Ride It"

Director: Meji Alabi
Release date: Oct 4
Why it's great: Kosovar DJ Regard takes a ride through seedy Eastern European nightlife, simply instead of participating in the vices he witnesses, he can't aid simply dance. Relatable!

79. Vicente García, "Ahí Ahí"

Managing director: Alan Del Rio Ortiz
Release date: May 16
Why information technology's great: Uncomplicated ideas executed well are rare in the music video world, but "Ahí Ahí" concerns itself with one matter only: Hooking upwards. The video chronicles a steamy nighttime with the perfect balance of humor and sensuality. The Rubik's cube! The spilled milk! All would unremarkably be out of place in your average makeout session, merely in the low calorie-free of "Ahí Ahí," they make sense.

78. 2 Chainz ft. Lil Wayne, E40, "2 Dollar Bill"

Managing director: Not listed
Release engagement: April 10
Why it's smashing: Like a two-dollar bill itself, an entertaining music video doesn't accept to "prove useful for everyday life" or "make sense." If Lil Wayne (it had to be Lil Wayne who suggested this) says, "Allow'south dress four men up in lederhosen and put them around a poker table, where they'll handclapping along with the beat," it'south smart to become with the flow. When 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne combine creative forces -- plus E40, let'southward not forget him! -- the outcome truly is rare.

77. DJ Shadow ft. De La Soul, "Rocket Fuel"

Director: Sam Pilling
Release date: November xiv
Why information technology'due south cracking: Everyone knows Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. What this video presupposes is… maybe they didn't? The prominent conspiracy theory that Stanley Kubrick directed the moon landing receives an added embellishment here in the form of creative differences between the ii actors playing Armstrong and Baldwin. By the time everything'south finished, no one has walked on the moon, and it makes you lot wonder what they actually did with all that so-called rocket fuel.

76. Matoma ft. MNEK & Kiana Ledé, "Bruised Not Broken"

Director: Jeff Desom & Carlos Lopez Estrada
Release engagement: July xviii
Why it'due south peachy: How many people arereallythat opposed to having fun with cannibalism? Lots of people, for good reason, because eating other humans should not be fun… unless you're making a boisterous music video almost the revenge victims exact on their butcher/murderer. Matoma, MNEK, and Kiana Ledé manage to control their previously severed limbs and inspire them to reassemble as the butcher perishes in his own freezer. Improve notice a good psychiatrist, because this is not the simply cannibalism-themed video on the listing.

75. Tim Heidecker, "When I Become Upwards"

Director: Not listed
Release date: April 23
Why it's great: Fans of Heidecker's comedy volition recognize some familiar themes in the video for the outset single off his new album: horror beats, meta-humour, role drone satire, and the deep discomfort of watching someone embarrass himself. By the terminal shot, y'all understand how speedily a label's budget can go eaten upwardly.

74. Baxter Dury, "Slumlord"

Director: Tom Haines
Release appointment: November 19
Why it's keen: The grimy aesthetic of the "Slumlord" video perhaps comes off as too literal, the sensibility too much in the realm of fashion shoot, simply what tin y'all await from the son of Blockheads frontman Ian Dury? Every bit long as Baxter Dury pillories the evil landowners who turn a profit from the horrendous living conditions of their below-code buildings, we're all for whatever aesthetic he chooses.

73. Richard Wright, "When I Desire"

Director: Dan Carr
Release date: December 8
Why it'south great: The description of this video claims, "We filmed Richard Wright every time he smoked marijuana from November seven, 2018 - October 22, 2019 -- cataloguing the furnishings it had on him over the grade of the year.

"We hope the story will exist easy to follow and the lesson volition speak for itself." You lot may doubt the veracity of that supposed methodology, but it's pretty articulate that the message is you should become high whenever and wherever you want.

72. Jehnny Beth, "I'yard the Man"

Director: Anthony Byrne
Release date: December 3
Why it's great: PEAKY BLINDERS Alarm! Cillian Murphy provides the voiceover poetry work in this video directed by Peaky creator Anthony Byrne, which is mostly simply a one-take shot of a trigger-happy woman who fucks with unprepared strangers earlier she writhes around on the physical. Beth and Byrne have given the world something it didn't know it needed, but definitely does!

71. Cardi B, "Press" (NSFW)

Director: Jora Frantzis
Release date: June 26
Why it'southward great: Cardi B knows better than most the power of sexual suggestion, and in this music video that technically passes digital media content guidelines, she pushes the limits of that proffer. Though you don't really see any nipples -- god forbid! -- it's probably non smart to watch this at work unless your work involves writing a listing of the year'due south best music videos, and fifty-fifty then you'll probably experience a bit uncomfortable with the stark images of sexuality meeting violence, Basic Instinct-style.

70. Knife Knights, "My Dreams Never Slumber" (kind of NSFW)

Director: Joe Garber
Release date: March iv
Why information technology'southward neat: As always, going to the YouTube comments is the best manner to feel worse about the people who alive and work in the globe and express joy simultaneously. The superlative comments for "My Dreams Never Sleep" are especially illuminating, as they reveal a subset of fans who especially enjoy the "Vaginal Vortex" depicted in this video. Beyond that, though, there's a trippy real-world-meets-animation expect that that'southward more Waking Life than Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and it perfectly matches the heady vibes of Pocketknife Knights' hypnotic beat.

69. Lizzo, "Juice"

Director: Quinn Wilson
Release appointment: January 4
Why it's great: The lighthearted parody has admittedly been done to death in music videos, but sometimes all it takes is a specially energetic song, a charismatic performer, and frequent cuts betwixt scenes to make the form feel fresh. That's the case with Lizzo's "Juice," which is part exercise video, function infomercial, function belatedly-night talk show, part lotion commercial, all to convince you that you should probably exist drinking the aforementioned juice every bit Lizzo.

68. Pearl and the Oysters, "Dear Potion"

Manager: Blair Tramel
Release date: October 28
Why it'south nifty: Call up when technology was "adept" and "fun"? It's a deceptive bit of nostalgia, but when you run into stop-move characters getting on AIM, playing MarioKart, and making out, information technology'due south easy to convince yourself that those actually were the days, if merely nosotros could render to them. Merely nosotros tin can't!

67. Lindemann, "Ach And then Gern" (NSFW)

Manager: Zoran Bihac
Release engagement: December 26
Why it'southward nifty: Lindemann and Rammstein are on a coil with their antifacist output this twelvemonth, which I'd feel better most if Due east Germany weren't descending into a familiar brand of Nazi-loving historical revisionism. At least he'due south doing something, including taking what expect like very real slaps to the face.

66. Coldplay, "Daddy"

Director: Åsa Lucander
Release date: November xx
Why it'south peachy: OK, it'south a pretty good troll from Coldplay to release a vocal called "Daddy," and on top of it recruit Aardman Animation (Wallace & Gromit) to create the music video. Now the much-maligned popular group and lead singer Chris Martin don't accept to bargain with online criticism e'er again! They've outfoxed us all.

65. Alex Cameron, "Marlon Brando"

Director: Jemima Kirke
Release date: March 17
Why it'south smashing: The brusque-movie take on a music video oftentimes risks coming off every bit pretentious or overwrought, merely Alex Cameron is too self-aware for pretense. Like the 2017 anthology on which "Marlon Brando" appears, the Jemima Kirke-directed video skewers the kind of narcissistic creative person Cameron parodies -- and his songs are so good information technology's tough to ignore the videos.

64. Jungle, "Casio"

Manager: Josh Lloyd-Watson & Charlie Di Placido
Release date: Jan 15
Why it'southward bang-up: As the laid-back trip the light fantastic toe tendency takes over music videos, it'southward increasingly hard for a choreographed routine to stand up out. But "Casio" embraces what appears to be a relaxed vibe and produces a complex and energetic dance choreographed by one of the band's members (and the pb dancer in the video). The result is a hypnotic quality that matches the low-cardinal beats of "Casio," and you lot'll be lulled into a pleasant trance past fourth dimension you get to the request for Julia to telephone call.

63. Joywave, "Obsession"

Director: Laura Gorun, Cooper Roussel and Dimitri Basil
Release engagement: August 22
Why information technology'due south great: Everyone loves a expert motion picture parody, right? What about dozens of movie parodies smashed together in the class of title cards? Rochester natives Joywave did exactly that, shooting on Rochester stalwart (pre-bankruptcy, of course) Kodak's flick to mimic the warmth and depth these false classics would likely emanate.

62. Safia, "Resolution"

Manager: George Thomson & Lukas Schrank
Release date: May ix
Why it'south dandy: If you make a music video starring a Mongolian sumo wrestler, in that location's a good hazard you're making this list, and that's exactly what Safia did, so here we are. Tuvshinjargal Bum-Erdene is a young wrestler attempting to challenge the ban on women competing in sumo professionally, and she's already risen upward the ranks of the amateur circuit. Non simply is it a compelling story, but it's a proficient reminder that even in the days of Western media supersaturation, there are a most infinite number of perspectives that go missing in the glut of content.

61. James Blake, "I'll Come Also"

Director: Matt Meech (editing BBC Earth footage)
Release date: December xix
Why it'south swell: James Blake's second masterpiece of editing relies on BBC Earth footage (you know, all the Planet Earth stuff), edited expertly into anthropomorphic narrative by Matt Meech. While in some instances information technology'southward comforting to know that not all animals share humans' destructive emotions, hither you desire to believe these birds have a run across-cute from a rom-com on their hands.

60. Chris Liebing & Charlotte de Witte, "Liquid Slow"

Director: Nogari
Release date: Oct 4
Why it's great: Have y'all always participated in a trip the light fantastic toe-off… to the DEATH? That'south the premise of this collaboration between CLR founder Liebing and Belgian up-and-comer de Witte, which features a couple with no other choice but to dance for their lives. Well, only i of them has to dance, in the sweaty Sao Paolo basements where y'all'd likely hear songs like "Liquid Slow" thumping until 5am. Information technology'southward sweaty and unnerving, with stylish lighting reminiscent of a Tom Ford picture show.

59. FKA Twigs, "Cellophane"

Managing director: Andrew Thomas Huang
Release date: April 24
Why it'due south bang-up: Pole dancing is usually designed to stimulate fantasies, only FKA Twigs turns it into a scene out of a fantasy novel. The video also provides an opportunity for the old backup dancer to testify off her insane athleticism -- it'due south presumably not easy on the shoulders and core to pull of a pole trip the light fantastic routine this challenging for virtually two minutes direct.

58. Meg Myers, "Running Up That Hill"

Manager: Jo Roy
Release engagement: June 27
Why it'south great: For a video that makes use of child labor, this sure doesn't await or audio all that evil. And information technology's not, actually, because kids beloved coloring, and 2,130 of them put their little hands to practiced utilise by giving what could have been conventional animation a refreshing, well, childlike quality. Not a bad interpretation of a vocal whose original video has enough of its own iconic imagery to contend with.

57. Pharmakon, "Devour" (NSFW)

Manager: Jacqueline Castel
Release date: September 26
Why it'south smashing: A lot of flesh devouring happens in Pharmakon'due south video, which plays a bit like it's on the wall of the room you didn't mean to enter in PS1. What's happening here? It'south like a Carolee Schneemann piece meets industrial depravity, and yet tenuous that description may sound, it'southward exactly the kind of clarification that lands Pharmakon a place on this list!

56. EOB, "Brasil"

Managing director: Andrew Donoho
Release date: Dec 5
Why it's great: Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien volition release his first solo anthology in 2020, under the EOB (those are his initials) moniker, and if the first "single" is whatever indication, it'll probably exist good! If you similar Radiohead, y'all will definitely like Radiohead's guitarist, who packs an 8-infinitesimal sci-fi story into the video for a lilting acoustic song that turns into a thumping electronic beat.

55. Flying Lotus ft. Denzel Back-scratch, "Black Balloons Reprise"

Director: Jack Begert
Release appointment: December 3
Why it's great: Dissimilar the more outlandish visuals typical of Flying Lotus' recent work, "Black Balloons Reprise" sets up like a straightforward rap video. Then the shrooms boot in, creating a subtly surreal globe that fucks with your perception simply enough to keep you wondering what the hell is going on.

54. Mass Gothic, "How I Honey You"

Manager: Evan Fellers + Krystal Kristina
Release date: Apr 9
Why information technology's great: Director Evan Fellers says he used photogrammetry -- loosely, a process for turning two-dimensional images into 3D shapes -- to create the off-kilter realism of "How I Beloved You," which tracks a glowing red ball as information technology traverses a mutating landscape. At points a depression-fi domicile video, at others a course in digital filmmaking techniques, the hybridized world captures the emotional confusion of the song.

53. Solange, "Almeda"

Director: Solange Knowles
Release date: March vii
Why it's slap-up: Solange, after three years in the… elevator, hitting Jay Z?... is finally dorsum with her hotly anticipated When I Get Domicile, the follow-up to 2016's A Seat at the Table. With the anthology comes an accompanying video project directed by Solange herself. "Almeda" takes elements of fashion shoots, fine art films, and modern trip the light fantastic toe to create an eclectically iconic mood slice that reflects the sensibilities of the vocalist's interpretation of R&B. Like her popular queen sister, Solange has the ability to make her functioning stick with yous.

52. Rive, "Filles"

Director: TEMPLE CACHÉ, animated past Oriane Rondeau
Release date: February 7
Why it's great: Simplicity executed smartly always receives attention on this, the most important of all music video lists! Oriane Rondeau's cut-out animation highlights the wide variety of filles depicted throughout fine art history, most of whom weren't given much of a voice by the artists doing the depicting. Rive, a Brussels-based duo, puts all the images against a unproblematic backdrop that gradually expands to include more than time and space, consuming the blackness that bars the video at its outset.

51. Strangers on a Airplane, "All My Life" (kind of NSFW)

Managing director: Lisa Mann
Release appointment: Apr 24
Why information technology's great: I have one word for you lot: Plastics. The domestic industrialized life defined past rampant consumerism finds itself wrapped and trapped in plastics of all sorts in the video for "All My Life," and it'due south pretty lamentable when your entire life is covered in plastic, right?! This is what we're doing to the earth, people! Take you lot heard this one before?? Yeah? You don't care? At least we'll have enough of music to play during the next hurricane, I suppose.

50. HAIM, "Now I'm in It"

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Release date: Oct 30
Why it'south great: P.T. Anderson's recent piece of work for sister-trio HAIM presents itself as stripped-downward, elegant filmmaking; it's hard to phone call any of these videos bad, but they often tend toward the tiresome. Not so with "At present I'thou in It," which sees Anderson use his tracking shots to do narrative work rather than but bear witness the Haims singing.

49. Chris Farren, "Search 4 Me"

Director: Clay Tatum
Release engagement: August xiii
Why it's cracking: If you happen to exist a musical artist who wants to go on this list, for whatever reason, you'll give yourself a huge leg up if you brand fun of net culture. Every day the content creators on this website do exactly that, but we have no outlet because we are the cyberspace. So here's a hearty "give thanks y'all" to Chris Farren, inventor of #resistcat, a viral sensation who doubles as a cautionary tale of the vicissitudes internet fame brings. Bonus points for appearances from the likes of Laura Jane Grace and Jeff Rosenstock, and a truly terrible interview prove at the top.

48. Mitski, "A Pearl"

Director: Saad Moosajee and Art Campsite, with Danae Gosset
Release date: January 31
Why it'south neat: The animators at Art Camp took a three-dimensional approach to Mitski's "A Pearl," depicting a frantic chase scene that looks like a depression-fueled version of "Temple Run." Information technology's a boundless, disorienting ride, one that races through a spinning house and drops the lone figure into a huge ocean. It'southward lonely out there in the blithe universe.

47. Xiu Xiu, "Pumpkin Assail on Mommy and Daddy"

Director: Angela Seo and Anna Lian Tes
Release engagement: January 15
Why information technology's great: Xiu Xiu delivered a few post-modernish fine art films to back-trail the album Daughter With Basket of Fruit, released February 8. The videos, which accompany each track -- or Act, equally the title cards tell yous -- are more Matthew Barney than, say, Superorganism (last yr's champion of thematically linked videos), simply if yous similar your chords dissonant, your videos filled with vaguely ominous images, and your celery stuffed in someone else's rima oris, "Pumpkin Assail on Mommy and Daddy" is for you.

46. Oh Sees, "Gholü" (NSFW)

Director: Leo Nicholson
Release date: September 18
Why it's great: When I was a child, we called San Francisco rockers Oh Sees "Thee Oh Sees," and we didn't complain about it once! The absurdly prolific group blasts through two minutes of icky claymation cannibalism in a work of art that volition challenge your sense of propriety and what makes a video "good" -- as long you don't get super grossed out at the whole "disgusting claymation cannibalism" matter and can watch the total runtime.

45. Alicia Keys ft. Miguel, "Show Me Honey"

Managing director: Cara Stricker
Release engagement: September 17
Why it'south neat: Slow-motion, loftier-definition water effects complement the wearisome-jam vibe of "Testify Me Love" in what Keys chooses to call a "Sonic Visual Installation." You're gratuitous to call it a music video, and while the unproblematic staging probably doesn't crave any star power, Michael B. Jordan and Zoe Saldana show up just in case.

44. The Claypool Lennon Delirium, "Blood and Rockets: Movement I, Saga of Jack Parsons - Move II, Besides the Moon"

Director: Rich Ragsdale
Release date: Feb 6
Why information technology'south great: What a title! Approximately once per year, for no reason at all, I wonder, "What's Les Claypool up to these days?" The answer is: Making psychedelic narrative ballads with Sean Lennon. That'south cool, glad he's nevertheless working. This song and video tell the story of Jack Parsons, a fascinating rocket scientist who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was a follower of Thelema, the occult-inspired religion created past Aleister Crowley. The visuals fittingly capture the psychedelic vibe of the vocal and Parsons' wild life.

43. The Gotobeds, "2:15"

Manager: Tom "TFP" Payne
Release date: May 7
Why it's great: In the two minutes you lot spend watching this video, yous'll be bombarded by more shape-shifting images than a Dali painting, simply that's mostly because you're looking at the aforementioned Dali painting for ii minutes, whereas with the magic of animation and flick, information technology's possible to view many more images in the same fourth dimension span. Isn't media education great? Point being: This is a fun video for a fun song.

42. James Massiah, "Natural Built-in Killers (Ride for Me)" (NSFW)

Manager: Ian Pons Jewell
Release date: September 4
Why it's slap-up: Peel-melting oestrus is a powerful theme, as Camus would tell you if he weren't expressionless one time and for all, because we only get one take chances at life, he continues to insist from beyond the grave. Director Ian Pons Jewell captures the despair and the aloofness rut can cause -- sometimes information technology's besides hot to clothing dress. Sometimes it'southward so hot yous literally melt into a roof. James Massiah gets it.

41. Zalagasper, "Signals"

Director: Luka Šantl (animation by Luka Šantl and Tatjana Kotnik)
Release engagement: October 25
Why it's great: Slovenia's representatives at Eurovision 2019 know how to slow jam, combining their laid-back lounge music with alternately straightforward and trippy animation in the video for "Signals." Every bit a wolf and a couple traverse the screen, sky and land are constantly inverted -- it's difficult to read other people'due south signals, it would seem.

twoscore. Anna Meredith, "Paramour"

Director: Ewan Jones Morris
Release date: July 10
Why it's slap-up: Yes, of course a music video shot from a motherfucking LEGO TRAIN will make it on the list. "Paramour" adapts the single-take choreography mastered by OK Go and adds a playful element: Legos. Because Legos are toys. That's what makes them playful. Whoever spent what looks like a lot of time building this train set, promise it was worth it! At least y'all're finally getting the recognition you deserve.

39. Editors, "Barricades" (The Blanck Mass recording)

Director: Hi-Sim
Release engagement: March 25
Why it's great: Have yous ever wondered what would happen if MC Escher-designed machines were actually built and put into use before they began malfunctioning? No? Seriously? This isn't a mutual recurring nightmare? Animation studio Hi-Sim created a world of estimator-generated devices that perform repetitive, pointless tasks. It'south hypnotic plenty at the beginning, just one time small errors are introduced into the functioning of the machines, everything starts to break downward. The fragility of systems are always exposed by human error. In all likelihood, this video won't make more than people self-aware of their fallibility, but it sure is fun to look at!

38. Mattiel, "Je Ne Me Connais Pas"

Director: Jason Travis
Release date: May 15
Why information technology's slap-up: Mattiel's gender-fluid video plays with stereotypes of masculinity, envisioning a world of a tank-height-wearing, beer-drinking, cigarette-smoking dude who lives to picket 4 women become about their daily lives wearing goose egg merely underwear. It plays like a perverse Gap advertisement, an artful probable derived at least in office from Mattiel'due south groundwork in corporate design: The symmetry and color palette play off the Instagram-curated lives many people envy, but this doesn't wait very desirable for anyone.

37. Lauren Ruth Ward, "Valhalla"

Managing director: Alli Coates
Release date: January 18
Why it'due south bully: What if stereotypical masculinity were… Not stereotypical masculinity? That's the premise of Lauren Ruth Ward'due south "Valhalla" video, which begins with a women-only poker game of increasingly high stakes. You'll be sold when the trio of elderly men dressed in lingerie enter the flick, and if not, there'south the badass weightlifting scene, in which Ward kisses her biceps and practices radical self-acceptance/typical male person hubris earlier a snake wraps around her head. It's weird and irreverent in all the right places -- particularly the final shot, which never strays from Ward's face.

36. Rammstein, "Ausländer" (NSFW)

Director: Jörn Heitmann
Release date: May 28
Why information technology'due south great: Rammstein in the by has faced accusations that they're sympathetic to Nazism, but their new videos (see beneath) evidence the disdain they have for the destructive chauvinism of Western Europe. They're on a history-lesson rampage, which is exactly what you want from the legendary NDH rockers, who aren't into the kinds of revisionist history that plague most of the credo of resurgent far right movements. German language colonialism in the "Ausländer" video is seen for what it was: a roughshod, embarrassing stain Western European history carried out past racist, exploitative, and power-hungry men who left carnage in their wake. On Twitter at that place's recently been a proliferation of calls for anyone and anybody to "larn history," then maybe nosotros all should get started past watching this video, since it's the 21st century and nosotros might every bit well brand Rammstein our history professors. Probably not at work, though, considering of the partial nudity and all that.

35. Gesaffelstein & Pharrell, "Smash Off"

Director: Warren Fu
Release date: Apr xiv
Why information technology's great: France hasn't produced an electronic music artist as big as Gesaffelstein since… Justice, Daft Punk, and many others. OK, this is ane genre at which the French excel. Teaming up with a shiny-eyed Pharrell, Gesaffelstein invokes the night spirit of Justice in "Blast Off," which features unique lighting design to enhance the futuristic vibe. It too turns bodysuits into a kind of optical illusion, which is always a proficient look.

34. Pearl City, "Friends"

Manager: Grandmas
Release date: July 18
Why it's great: Two friends hanging out, eating cotton processed, drinking Stella deuce-deuces, and watching women's bodybuilding competitions? Sounds a lot similar high school! It portrays kind of aimless absurdity any inspired music video achieves, but it still has tons of heart to combat the emptiness.

33. Black Marble, "Private Show"

Director: Ben Joyner
Release date: October iii
Why information technology'south smashing: A music video that was just a supercut of bull-riding cowboys would likely notice itself near the height of the heap of peachy music videos of 2019, only unfortunately Black Marble decided to sprinkle in other shots of a rural American rodeo/canton fair/carnival. The obvious sadness in the midst of what'south supposed to be a joyful scene captures a item kind of isolation among a oversupply that's reminiscent of many online communities. Hope anybody'southward enjoying the cover ring, at to the lowest degree!

32. Tierra Whack, "Unemployed"

Director: Cat Solen
Release date: Apr 10
Why it'southward neat: I regret to inform you that the fantastically bizarre Tierra Whack is at information technology again. The outsider artist of the rap world takes every music video every bit an opportunity to push button the limits of the bizarre, and in "Unemployed," that takes the form of anthropomorphized, ruthlessly butchered potatoes. The giant, Jabba the Hutt tuber might be the most disturbing prototype, but the sound of french fries "drowning" every bit they cook in grease offers a glimpse of the dark sense of humour Tierra Whack effortlessly embraces.

31. Jenny Hval, "Accident"

Manager: Zia Anger
Release date: September nine
Why information technology'south neat: Norwegian artist, vocalist, and author Jenny Hval approaches all her work with self-sensation and a strong political sense of self that rails against traditional ability structures. You can see those qualities on display in "Accident," which takes a supposed accident of birth and turns information technology into a meditation on life, motherhood, and making music videos. Sure, it takes a certain kind of person to go wild for Hval'southward work, but that sure kind of person is the 1 in charge of this list.

thirty. Gary Clark, Jr., "This State"

Director: Savanah Leafage
Release date: January ten
Why it's corking: The imagery of Gary Clark, Jr.'s "This Land" evokes all kinds of unpleasant feelings about contemporary America and the rotten, simulated promises on which it was founded. Information technology doesn't take an expert to decipher what lighting the Confederate flag on fire ways, only this video actively engages with a social and political mural littered with exaggeration, blunt rhetoric, and lack of subtlety. Sometimes yous just gotta burn the flag to make a point.

29. James BKS ft. Q-Tip, Idris Elba, and Lilliputian Simz

Manager: Stevie Gee and Essie May
Release appointment: November xv
Why it'southward dandy: Idris Elba's rap career might be most notable for the fact that it's non completely embarrassing. He'due south on a track with Q-Tip! That counts for a lot! The ambitious mixed-animation medium for this James BKS video takes a celestial approach to the African heritage constantly under attack by forces like gentrification and generally shitty Western hegemony. It'south both cosmic and grounded, inviting listeners and viewers to remember the somewhat distant roots of modernistic society as it plunges into the future.

28. Gideon Irving, "Woke Upward Looking"

Director: Ewen Wright and Raky Sastri
Release date: June 25
Why information technology's peachy: A unmarried-take shoot that's mirrored in the final version creates the bizarre TikTok-y visual aesthetic in "Woke Up Looking," which is fittingly a complaining near how much goddamn fourth dimension we spend on our phones. Information technology'south a tired refrain, yes, but the attending to detail and planning required to shoot such an arresting, still simple, video without the utilise of computer effects or green screens earns Irving a spot on the list you're reading on your robots.

27. Björk, "Tabula Rasa"

Manager: Tobias Gremmler
Release date: May 10
Why it's great: Björk hasn't lost an ounce of daring in her fourth decade making music, and her facilities in the visual arts take kept step. In "Tabula Rasa," director Tobias Gremmler says the song's lyrics inspired him to create the psychedelic, lyric-visualizer-mode delineation of a world in which Björk'due south fluid transformation from plant to human and everything in betwixt "embodies the utopian concept of a harmonious coexistence betwixt nature and human based on empathy." Go on in listen that the word "utopia" comes from the Greek for "no place," merely the video is mesmerizing nonetheless.

26. Tyler the Creator, "EARFQUAKE"

Director: Tyler the Creator
Release appointment: May 17
Why information technology'due south great: "You're wonderful to gaze at." You tin can always rely on Tyler the Creator to try something interesting, regardless of whether or not you find his ongoing artistic experimentation appealing. Black-ish'southward Tracee Ellis Ross stars every bit a more often than not incompetent host of a public access prove who implores Tyler not to smoke. Don't fume! Simply don't do it! After some visuals with strong Swayze vibes, Tyler smokes, if you didn't already gauge that.

25. Hether, "When U Loved Me"

Manager: Alex Lill
Release engagement: November 8
Why it'southward keen: There simply are not enough pregnant women (prosthetically created or otherwise) in music videos, and, tragically, there are even fewer meaning women spiraling down poles in music videos. Hether works to correct this lack of representation in a sultry video that blends mundane scenes with surreal action, all filtered through an Instagram-inspired lens that adds a simulated vintage sheen to everything.

24. The Chemic Brothers, "We've Got to Endeavor"

Managing director: Ninian Doff
Release date: March viii
Why it's great: Thirty years into their career as large beat out innovators, The Chemical Brothers keep to experiment, apparent in the first singles off their April 2019 album No Geography. The accompanying videos have matched that ambition. While their other entry on this list takes reward of the Gondry brothers' earth-distorting photographic camera trickery, "Nosotros've Got to Try" tells a elementary narrative story: What happens when y'all train a dog to be an astronaut. It'southward a funny concept, just it contains a surprising amount of pathos and an catastrophe that will have you on the edge of your seat.

23. Juicy J ft. Kevin Gates and Lil Skies, "Allow Me Run across"

Director: Joe Weil
Release date: February fifteen
Why it's great: Reframing the naked egotism of the Silicon Valley milieu in terms of a rap video gives Juicy J the chance to reinterpret all the greed and self-promotion of tech leaders in a humorous, albeit still critical, calorie-free. Juicy J is a Steve Jobs-like character who makes piles of money and touts his ain genius earlier jealous collaborators get the competition, like Kevin Gates. Manager Joe Weil and Juicy J bear witness that the smartly executed parody remains an effective music video format.

22. Sivan Talmor, "Lamentable Middle"

Director: Karni & Saul
Release date: January 19
Why it'south great: The directorial duo Karni & Saul create a layered multimedia backdrop for Sivan Talmor'due south anxious song, blending blitheness, photography, and film to rail a figure making her style through a three-dimensional landscape. It plays almost like a video game, like a side-scrolling Mario entered a desolate 21st century town and had to make his way out. Unfortunately, this game isn't existent, because even this vision of reality is less haunting than actual reality!

21. Marika Hackman, "Hand Solo" (peradventure NSFW?)

Director: Sam Bailey
Release date: September 26
Why it'due south groovy: Marika Hackman, singer/songwriter/creator of erotic fencing music videos, is back with an unabashed ode to masturbation. But why be abashed well-nigh it? Everyone does it! The sheer volume of everyday items that represent ballocks is plenty to earn "Hand Solo" a identify on this list, but shoving a dildo into the Pentagon really takes the video to another level.

xx. Galantis, "Holy H2o"

Director: Jason Lester
Release date: September 27
Why it's cracking: Anyone who's seen Water Lilies knows that synchronized swimming should exist captured on movie more ofttimes. Apparently Galantis accept seen Water Lilies, considering this is the more fun, less coming-of-historic period-tale-of-sexual-enkindling version of information technology! Synchronized swimming and EDM are the perfect match, it turns out.

nineteen. Residente and Bad Bunny, "Bellacoso"

Managing director: Grégory Ohrel
Release date: July 26
Why it'southward great: Proof that the supposedly standard music video doesn't have to exist standard, "Bellacoso" adds dashes of surreality to every brightly colored, energetic scene. Residente and Bad Bunny promised to release this song and video if the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, resigned in the face up of massive pop protests. And he did! He resigned! This video and song came out the day afterwards, which likewise definitively proves that the hope of a new track tin can event governmental modify. That's a lot of proving for 1 video.

eighteen. Rammstein, "Deutschland" (kind of NSFW)

Director: Specter Berlin
Release appointment: March 28
Why it's great: Rammstein, the but German language metal ring that penetrated the mainstream American high school pupil fan market thanks to 1997's "Du Hast," are back with an epic song and video that covers, oh, the entire history of Germany. Starting with the Germanic tribes' battles with the Romans -- including the notorious Battle of the Teutoburg Forest -- the narrative tracks the personified character "Germania" up to modern history. And yes, that includes, you know, that really bad time between 1933 and 1945. Otherwise known as the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Non every video on this list will put you in a adept mood, and no one ever said they all would.

17. James Blake, "Can't Believe the Mode We Flow"

Director: Frank Lebon
Release date: August 7
Why information technology's peachy: "Can't Believe the Way We Flow" is a masterclass in editing, as director/editor Frank Lebon manages to describe a stunningly high percentage of the human experience in just nether v minutes. Honestly, that's all you really need, it doesn't take lxxx years to empathize what life has to offer. A highlight, though, is human contact, and the images that come together to course a slowed-downward kiss or outstretched paw against a frenetic background actually achieve a measure out of profundity. And that'southward not easy to practice on YouTube!

16. Plastic, "U Gonna Beloved It"

Director: Dawid Krępski
Release appointment: May 17
Why it's corking: The vaporwave influences are strong in Dawid Krępski's frenetic video for "U Gonna Love It," the latest from longtime Smoothen trip the light fantastic toe-stone-creative person duo Plastic. The early 2010s cyberspace aesthetic, which repurposed images from another era and combined them with "bad" blueprint, still paints a pretty accurate picture of our current world. At that place's so much content! Too much to process! It's worth remembering some choice lyrics/advice from the song: If you accept it also seriously information technology seems to be untrue.

15. CupcakKe, "Squidward Olfactory organ" (NSFW)

Director: Logan Fields
Release engagement: February 21
Why it'south great: The raunchy, give-no-fucks manner on which CupcakKe has congenital her career does not have any time off in this SpongeBob SquarePants riff on, well, male genitalia. "His dick'south smaller than my toes," CupcakKe informs the states right off the bat, and you tin see pretty easily how Squidward's nose enters the picture show. The video echoes the vocal's cool condone for family-friendly television, featuring CupcakKe in a mermaid suit and comedian John Early fishing with a dildo as allurement. It may fall into the "non for everyone" category, but you have to admire the brazenness and humour CupcakKe brings to her music.

xiv. Cautious Clay, "Erase"

Director: Haoyan of America
Release date: September 13
Why it's great: I of these days nosotros'll have no more use for words and will be able to express the full range of homo thought and emotion entirely in emoji. Unfortunately, nosotros're nevertheless trapped in the night age of written words on the internet, which ways I have to practice the difficult but important work of informing you that Cautious Clay, in tandem with Haoyan of America (who also fabricated an appearance on final yr's list thanks to Crumb's "Locket"), have given us a glimpse of a cute future filled with emoji instead of cumbersome words.

13. TNGHT, "Gimme Summn"

Director: Cole Kush
Release engagement: November nineteen
Why it's groovy: Cole Kush's unsettling animation is nigh to make another appearance on this list, and you take my personal guarantee that you will feel only as unsettled. Canadian-Scottish duo TNGHT turned to Kush to create bizarro-world versions of themselves traversing a hellish 3D calculator-generated landscape that resembles a twisted video game. The discomfort matches the relentless pounding of the bass backing a dissonant, percussive synth line and repetitive vocals. You want to look abroad but can't. You lot desire to turn off the vocal, merely find yourself nodding forth.

12. Mac DeMarco, "Hither Comes the Cowboy"

Director: Cole Kush
Release engagement: May x
Why it's great: Weird Canadian Mac DeMarco makes a weird music video for a weird song, none of which have much to practice with cowboys except for the fact that the lyrics consist entirely of DeMarco repeating, "Here comes the cowboy" over and over. It's fitting, then, that Kush -- who's done work for Tim Heidecker and JASH-affiliated comedians (JASH is owned by Thrillist'south parent company, Group Nine Media, but we never run across each other) -- created an alienSims-esque world that features all kinds of weird characters who look unsettlingly tactile as they display . The cowboy is coming, and now he'southward gone out to sea, trapped in a kind of dentist chair that will behave him to unknown climes.

11. The Chemical Brothers, "Gotta Proceed On"

Director: Michel and Olivier Gondry
Release engagement: February six
Why it's great: The Gondrys accept done it again! Fresh off the release of their truly bizarre series of branded videos for Park MGM, all of which clock in at 30 seconds including credits, the surrealist brothers turned back to music videos (Michel made his marker on the genre with The White Stripes' iconic "The Hardest Push to Push button"), and the effect is a subtly creepy vision of a dance party, minus the advertising. A restrained use of special furnishings makes what appears to exist a straightforward scene of dancers filling a dark room seem slightly off… until everything devolves into globular clusters. Information technology's the perfect visual hook needed for The Chemical Brothers' catchy beat.

10. The Killers, "Country of the Free"

Director: Spike Lee
Release appointment: January 14
Why it's great: Well, hither we are in 2019 and The Killers and Spike Lee have joined forces; and then, aye, it would take a grand clumsy papers in an intro-level expressive culture class to trace the origins and implications of this collaboration. Nevertheless! The Killers write adept pop songs, and Fasten Lee is one of the most talented directors alive, and then they can have at it. Lee, who'due south been chronicling America's racist legacy for more three decades now, depicts the current American condition at its unvarnished worst by focusing on the humanitarian crunch at the border with Mexico. As with his 2018 film BlacKkKlansman, Lee mixes cinematic flair with video captured via phone to give a dignified impact and a visceral immediacy to the weather immigrants face. It all culminates in the chaotic, trigger-happy attempt to foreclose thousands of people from looking for a better life in America. "Land of the Gratuitous," indeed.

9. PUP, "Free at Last"

Director: PUP and Jeremy and also Amanda
Release date: February 27
Why it's peachy: DIY encompass songs and DIY instructional videos boss the YouTube landscape, offer any random person the promise that perhaps they'll exist "discovered," or that their beauty tips will turn them into a star. PUP enlists the aid of fans to combine the two formats into 1 mega-video, with some creatively bad editing trickery thrown in for good measure. It's homemade in the all-time manner possible -- just like the sick solo at the end.

8. Niggling Big, "SKIBIDI (Romantic version)"

Director: Alina Pasok, Iliya Prusikin
Release appointment: March 18
Why it'southward peachy: Holy shit, what is happening here?!?! This is a bit of an apology inclusion for having missed the original "Skibidi" video last year, which obviously started a viral dance trend in Russia -- they have an ironic and absurd sense of humor over at that place, just like us! In many means, however, the romantic version of "Skibidi" far surpasses the original, since information technology features a centaur, a dragon, a man standing on a surfing horse, a reference to the screaming cowboy from 2017'south Kirin J Callinan video for "Big Enough," and a Godzilla hybrid babe. What more can you ask for?

7. Nas, "Cops Shot the Child" (kind of NSFW)

Director: Rohan Blair-Mangat
Release date: Jan vii
Why it'south great: If yous noticed this list has an abundance of social-justice-themed videos, congratulations: You can spot the painfully obvious. Nas' collaboration with Kanye Westward, Nasir, mostly elicited critical ho-hums, merely there are a few highlights from the album, with "Cops Shot the Kid" being one of them. The video pulls no punches, using both bodily footage and a fictionalized narrative to smoothen another lite on police force violence, which continues to disrupt and destroy lives despite the increased public sensation of it. Nas has always been a promoter of equality and justice, and it's overnice to meet he hasn't lost his border.

6. Benny Blanco, Calvin Harris, and Miguel, "I Constitute Yous/Nilda's Story"

Manager: Jake Schreier
Release date: January 4
Why it's bang-up: The original video for Benny Blanco's "I Constitute You" is a semi-ironic take on the process of making a cool music video, which would have been but fine were it non for the fact that it featured Lil Dicky, thus automatically disqualifying it from inclusion on the list of 2018's best videos. Suffice to say that in 2019, it looks like everyone'due south taking the dire state of the state/world a little more seriously, as emblematized in Nilda's story. Miguel'southward toned-down version of the song is an inspired interpretation, and the video punches yous in the gut without slipping into sentimentality. Humanizing otherwise abstruse political arguments always paints a more than complicated picture, and the fact that Nilda's escape from gang violence, separation from her son, subsequent detention, and legal limbo aren't unique should add much-needed context to headlines you come across flashing across your various screens every twenty-four hour period.

v. A$AP Rocky, "Kids Turned Out Fine"

Manager: Dexter Navy
Release date: February half dozen
Why it's bully: A$AP Rocky has become one of the reliably interesting music video creators in the business concern, with "Kids Turned Out Fine" falling somewhere between the mortiferous serious social commentary of "Gunz N Butter" and the drug-fueled trippiness of "A$AP Forever," both from 2018. The combination of photography and animation bolster the surreal feeling of "Kids Turned Out Fine," a melancholy assessment of commonsensical child-rearing. What begins equally a lord's day-drenched, nostalgic depiction of youth rapidly turns into a hallucinogenic escape in which everyone winds upwards as a crash-test dummy. What does "turned out fine" actually hateful, anyway???

4. Billie Eilish, "you should encounter me in a crown"

Managing director: Takashi Murakami
Release date: April 17
Why it'southward slap-up: Billie Eilish is anime! Await at all the great music videos coming out of Nippon! How volition America compete in the global music video economy given the new reality? This is a serious consequence that needs to be addressed at the highest levels of government. Superflat pioneer and globally renowned artist Takashi Murakami teams upwards with the 17-year-erstwhile wunderkind to draw Eilish every bit the anime hero she practically is in existent life.

3. Powder, "New Tribe"

Director: Ac-bu
Release date: January 23
Why it's cracking: Now THIS is how you make a memorable music video. Japanese animation team Ac-bu -- who created a meme with their 2011 video "Galo Sengen" and contribute to the popular anime Pop Team Epic -- take a elementary resignation letter and commodify the shit out of it in this delightfully bizarre mix of nearly every kind of animation conceivable. The surreal narrative of production and efficiency captures both the pulsating beat of Pulverisation'south sample and the inhumanity of modern working life. Hand in that resignation alphabetic character and go dance, or but watch more than AC-bu videos, like this absolutely insane commercial for Domino's.

two. Emiko Shibamura, "Akindo Fighter"

Managing director: Michael Laburt and Daniel Merlot
Release engagement: Feb 19
Why information technology'southward great: Where to begin?! How about with Emiko'south business relationship of how she decided to brand this music video: "It was an ordinary day before EMIKO had a vision of a spirit of a white dragon that insisted she wing to Hollywood and film a music video. The vision was then profound that she followed her spirit fauna to the United States and invited her white dragon to perform forth with her. The globe had never seen annihilation like it." Own't that the truth! In a world increasingly dominated by algorithms, recommendation tools, and media consolidation, all of which create repeat chambers of conventional wisdom and like-minded voices, information technology'southward a glass of h2o in the desert to meet a 65-twelvemonth-old Japanese rapper move to Los Angeles to make a music video with a white dragon because she had a fucking vision. Don't yous wish y'all had visions of white spirit dragons powerful plenty to modify your life?

Emiko Shibamura'southward website describes her equally "a visionary, self-assistance celebrity, 60-three-year-sometime rapper [she'south now 65], acclaimed entrepreneur and already has her ticket to the moon." Is she telling the truth? Who knows! Will she go to the moon? Hopefully! As for her self-help and entrepreneurial life, she is "the first amateur of Hitori Saito, Japan's No.1 taxpayer-man of affairs," which should impress you even if y'all're not sure what makes a taxpayer-businessman number one. In example you're wondering, she met Hitori Saito "when she was an 18-year-old finger-pressure level therapy student." There'southward a feature-length profile to be written virtually Emiko Shibamura, simply alas, here in that location's only space for a blurb. Oh, right, the video: It'southward simply as delightful equally you'd expect a vision-based dragon music vid to exist.

1. Lil Nas Ten ft. Billy Ray Cyrus, "Old Town Road (Remix)"

Managing director: Calmatic
Release appointment: May 17
Why it'due south smashing: In that location's no point denying it: Lil Nas Ten endemic 2019. This advisedly curated list would lose all the brownie and respect it's worked years to obtain were it to pass up the official "Former Town Route" music video its rightful place atop the pile, especially after the Yeehaw Agenda has already co-opted your kids. Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus ham information technology up -- outlaw style! -- with some celebrity assist from Chris Rock and Vince Staples, showing just what a cultural phenomenon this Nicki Minaj fan account operator's interpretation of a Nine Inch Nails instrumental has become. "Former Town Road" is an unstoppable strength. Giddyup.

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