The official music video for Röyksopp & Robyn’s ‘Monument’ directed by Max Vitali off the mini album ‘Do It Again.’
A kind of trippy, hypnotic exploration of inner and outer space – “This will be my monument; this will be a beacon when I’m gone.”
From Robyn: “We started writing Monument after playing around with a software that can stretch short bits of music into billions of years of sound. It made total sense to me that Max wanted to explore this floating feeling and mediation in the video.”
From Röyksopp: “There is light and darkness colliding in the new video for Monument.”
Great cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” by one of my current music obsessions, Jeb Havens.
Jeb sings with a great edge and clarity in his vocals; and he has an honest, open connection to what he’s singing about.
Notice his eye contact with the camera – not afraid to stay connected to his audience. And his transitions from one lyric to the next make sense as a storyteller. Very in the moment without being over the top or heavy-handed.
This video comes from his series of “Closet Covers” shot literally in his closet. I imagine the clothes help dampen outside noises for recording purposes, but it also seems personal and intimate being in his closet with him.
Oh – and he’s pretty easy on the eyes, too. I noticed that 🙂
Subscribe to his YouTube channel here and download his music on iTunes here.
Randy Report favorite (and 2-time Out Music Award winner) Matt Zarley shares this Whitney Houston tribute medley in his ongoing “Covered” series of music videos.
From Matt:
After several Whitney requests, I thought I’d start off with a tribute medley that my music director and I put together for my live shows, shortly after Whitney’s sudden death.
She was undoubtedly the biggest influence on me as a singer. She was the platinum standard… there will likely never be anyone better than she was in her prime.
See more from Matt’s “Covered” series here and here.
The video for this slow-burn, revenge ballad features Glee star Dianna Agron as a housewife onto her husband’s (played by Chris Messina) two-timing ways.
What follows are Agron’s backyard tears, liquor store run and finally burning the adulterous hubby’s suits – all while he’s traipsing with his girlfriend on the side in some dive hotel.
Nothing all that new, but paired with Smith’s powerful vocals, it just seems right.
I will say, though, that Smith could use some media training when it comes to promoting his music.
Take, for example, this line from an interview about his new album:
I’ve tried to be clever with this album, because it’s also important to me that my music reaches everybody. I’ve made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody – whether it’s a guy, a female or a goat – and everybody can relate to that.”
Really? A goat?
The gay guy has to mention relating to farm animals…?
Colbie Caillat looks to empower women with her latest music video that makes a simple comment on what women do to be liked.
Women of differing ages and races, including Colbie, begin the video completely glam. But as the song goes on, the women remove the make-up and lashes and hair extensions that create a facade for the rest of the world, so we end up seeing the women as they truly are. And in their nakedness, their joy shines.
Btw, I don’t think that the concept of changing our exterior to be popular applies to just women.
Put your make-up on Get your nails done Curl your hair Run the extra mile Keep it slim so they like you, do they like you?
Get your sexy on Don’t be shy, girl Take it off This is what you want, to belong, so they like you Do you like you?
You don’t have to try so hard You don’t have to, give it all away You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up You don’t have to change a single thing
You don’t have to try, try, try, try You don’t have to try, try, try, try You don’t have to try, try, try, try You don’t have to try Yooou don’t have to try
Get your shopping on, at the mall, max your credit cards You don’t have to choose, buy it all, so they like you Do they like you?
Wait a second, Why, should you care, what they think of you When you’re all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like you?
You don’t have to try so hard You don’t have to, give it all away You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up You don’t have to change a single thing
You don’t have to try so hard You don’t have to bend until you break You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up You don’t have to change a single thing
You don’t have to try, try, try, try You don’t have to try, try, try, try You don’t have to try You don’t have to try
Take your make-up off Let your hair down Take a breath Look into the mirror, at yourself Don’t you like you? Cause I like you
In advance of LeAnn Rimes’ upcoming greatest hits remix album, “Dance Like You Don’t Give a …” Greatest Hits Remixes (release date August 5th), we get an advance video of her worldwide hit, “How Do I Live” featuring Cahill Club.
Great song, great vocals and you can’t get any better than Cahill for a remix.
The album is currently available for pre-order on iTunes.
The long-awaited collaborative jazz album from Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, Cheek To Cheek, will be released on Streamline/Columbia/Interscope Records on Tuesday, September 23.
The first taste of this new music is the classic Cole Porter song, “Anything Goes”, available today on iTunes and other digital retailers.
An accompanying studio video featuring “Anything Goes” and footage from the recording sessions and moments during the making of Cheek to Cheek is currently available on YouTube and VEVO.
Cheek to Cheek represents a collaboration between two legendary musical artists spanning the generations to celebrate jazz music.
