I have been writing this weekly video-countdown column for almost exactly eight years. (Here's my first stab at it ; Trash Talk had that week's #1 video.) I inherited the column from my friend an...
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On Monday night, at its increasingly irrelevant VMA gala, MTV named Taylor Swift's "You Need To Calm Down " as its Video Of The Year. Which, I mean, come on. My position on Taylor Swift is a matt...
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In a world where the new Missy Elliott video and the new J Balvin/Bad Bunny video both exist, this list already feels painfully obsolete. But we go Thursday to Thursday in this bitch, so this w...
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I would now like to call the world's attention to the moment where Normani bounces a basketball off of her ass. This occurs right around the 1:54 mark of the new "Motivation" video , and it is ho...
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Björk is one of history's all-time great music-video artists, but I am very ready for her to finally leave the "trippy alien screensaver" period of her journey. So no "Losss " on this week's lis...
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I am not going to put a Chris Brown music video on this list. And even if Chris Brown weren't a loathsome human being, his video for "No Guidance" probably wound't be good enough to be on this li...
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Our resident music video expert Tom Breihan is away on vacation so you've got me, Ryan, filling in for him this time around. Don't worry, he will be back soon. Until then, this week's picks are b...
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Today, we at Stereogum bid a fond and tearful farewell to Gabriela Tully Claymore. For the past four and a half years, Gabriela has been an absolutely crucial part of this website. Frankly, I hav...
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This column didn't run last week, since it was the 4th Of July weekend and everyone was off. As a result, this week's edition is absolutely killer -- so killer, in fact, that a Rosalía video alm...
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We are now about halfway into 2019, and nobody has made a better music video than the one for Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy ." I honestly don't think anyone will. This week's picks are below.
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We need to talk about Taylor Swift's "You Need To Calm Down ." Because that video is something. The video doubles down on the most objectionable part of the song, which is the way Taylor conflate...
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This space is where I might ordinarily draw your attention to something like Martin Scorsese's new Bob Dylan documentary, currently streaming on Netflix. But that motherfucker is two and a half h...
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New Music, Music News
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Scientists should really look into "Unbelievable ," the new video from second-tier American boy band Why Don't We, a video that very nearly made this list. If tornados are being caused by groups ...
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Along with the new album that nobody liked, DJ Khaled released an insane seven music videos this past week. All of them are showy and expensive, and I thought about including a few of them on thi...
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I am writing this week's column in the immediate aftermath of Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus' frivolous, delightful, generally unnecessary "Old Town Road " video, and it got me thinking. "Old Town...
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The first part of Of Mics And Men , the four-hour Wu-Tang Clan documentary, airs on Showtime this weekend. I am ready. This week's picks are below.
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The most exciting music-on-video experience I had this week didn't come from a music video. It came from something that someone shot on a cell phone. It's from the first of the Bikini Kill reunio...
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Everyone is mad at Taylor Swift today! Again! But as a hopeless defender, allow me to use this space to say a couple of things about "ME! " and its ridiculous accompanying video. First off, ever...
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Homecoming exists now. That is all. This week's picks are below.
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I didn't do the last two installments of this column because I was on vacation. So I'd like to thank my colleagues, Gabriela Tully Claymore and Ryan Leas, for filling in for me. And I would like ...
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Tom Breihan, our in-house video aficionado, is still on vacation. Lucky him! So instead you get me, Ryan, writing about videos this Friday. Your regularly scheduled programming will return next w...
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Hi bich, this is Gabriela Tully Claymore subbing for Tom Breihan. Unfortunately, Sky Ferreira did not release a video along with her new single, "Downhill Lullaby," because you know I would proba...
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This week, Spike Jonze, arguably the greatest music-video director of all time, directed Karen O and Danger Mouse's Colbert performance . This sounds like an absurd and pretentious thing to do, a...
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Best non-music-video music-on-video moment of the week: The scene in Triple Frontier where semi-pro MMA fighter Garret Hedlund walks to the cage while Pantera's "Walk" plays, on some Rob Van Dam ...
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The first music video that I can remember loving with my entire heart was Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal." Jackson gave the hat that he wore in the "Smooth Criminal" video to a little Austral...
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The Jonas Brothers and the New Kids On The Block both have reunion videos out today. We are living in our own collective past. This week's picks are below.
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Apparently, we're still doing stuff like this . We're still taking beloved old scraps of kids' culture, degrading them, and acting like this whole act is in any way subversive. This whole approac...
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The big music video from this past week, the one that seemed custom-designed to drive conversation, was Ariana Grande's "break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored ." It sucks. The video is an over...
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New Music, Music News
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Did you guys know that the motherfucking Hobbs & Shaw trailer was out? Because the motherfucking Hobbs & Shaw trailer is out. That doesn't have anything to do with music videos, but I just thoug...
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New Music, Music News
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I don't rank late-night performances in this space, but this week, there were a couple of exceptional ones that demand to be mentioned. First, there's Sharon Van Etten unleashing her full soul-wr...
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We all have our blind spots, and up until this week, one of mine was Sleaford Mods. But thanks to the "Kebab Spider " video, I now know that Sleaford Mods are fucking hilarious. I'd probably like...
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It has been almost a month since I published one of these. Fortunately, people pretty much stop putting out music videos in December. That entire artform just took a four-week nap. But there were...
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This past week, the music-video OG Romain Gavras -- the man who directed M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls," Justice's "Stress," Jamie xx's "Gosh," DJ Mehdi's "Signatune," and a whole lot of other really great...
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It just barely missed this week's list, but I'd like to take a moment for Young Thug's clip for the Lil Baby/Gunna collab "Chanel ." I would like to thank this video for returning terrible Xena-e...
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Their new video is not on this week's list, but I'd just like to include a special open letter to the Chainsmokers and Kelsea Ballerini: You made a video where you're tortured motocross stunt dr...
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New Music, Music News
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This was a great week for music videos. Consider: Enormous lovable dork Shawn Mendes straight-up remade Lost In Translation with himself in the Bill Murray role, a commendably ridiculous thing t...
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