I could've sworn I had already reviewed this music video, how the hell is my blog still going and I've never reviewed this video? Well it's time for me to correct this major problem. This is exactly why I like my Thursday Revisits, a perfect excuse to review past music videos that deserve to be a part of my blog. Katy Perry becomes a character in her own board game, which Snoop Dogg is playing. Later, Snoop Dogg joins the characters in the board game for a battle.
Katy Perry, real name Katheryn Hudson, hit big with this song, and it's accompanying music video is fire. The song hit number one in the UK and the US as well as many other countries. The featured star is Snoop Dogg, real name Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., who has had a major career as a rapper, jumping in and out of the charts. This song was an answer to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' song "Empire State of Mind". It was written by Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Benjamin Levin, Bonnie McKee and Calvin Broadus. It is an ode to the California state.
The video was directed by Mathew Cullen, and was inspired by the work by Will Cotton.who was the artistic director of the video. It takes inspiration from the Candyland boad game.
The board game for this music video is called Candyfornia, and also has an explanation stating "Face the Sugar Daddy's dice to free the Queens of Candyfornia" which sounds like some weird gay sex dream.
So much effort went into the making of this music video, like literally there is so much going on, so much to talk about, so much to see, every single minute detail is included, even the dice are real sugar.
Instead of looking at it in detail, I'm going to give the basics, since it is extremely developed. Katy Perry walks around the Candyfornia board game, coming across previous characters who fell at the hands of Snoop Dogg. She rescues them and collectively they defeat the Sugar Daddy.
Many scenes can be highlighted, such as the gummy bear who swears, I so hope he fell hard at the end. The gingerbread scene looked like fun, and the ending is pretty perfect, totally sexual and yet so awesome at the same time.
Overall, this is the sort of board game you want to be involved in, yet knowing it's not real. It transports everything you know about California girls and puts them in a Candy world. A perfect video for a brilliant song.
This is Slovenia's Entry into the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. Tinkara Kovač finally won the national selection process to become the representative for Slovenia. She made it through the Semi Finals and came 25th out of 26 countries in the Grand Final in 2014 with 9 points. This chilling music video shows Tinkara Kovač's powerful vocals, beautiful flute melodies and her lyrics translated into a gritty contemporary dance by two emotive dancers.
Tinkara Kovač has tried to represent her country in Eurovision three times before finally succeeding with her fourth attempt in 2014. To compete for Slovenia, contestants have to go through a national selection called Evrovizijska Melodija, usually shortened to EMA, which means Eurovision Melody in English. Tinkara Kovač has competed in the EMA contest in 1997, 1999 and 2001, before winning in 2014. Having released a number of singles and albums, as well as winning a few awards and performing with various stars, Tinkara Kovač is definitely a prolific singer and that definitely explains her amazing vocals. This song was written by Tinkara Kovač, Hannah Mancini and Tina Piš.
This music video was shot on Koper Harbour, on the Adriatic coast in Slovenia. It's chillingly beautiful, and serene.
A pure performance piece in both scenes, Tinkara Kovač looks stunning in both the outfits she wears, as she sings emphatically and emotionally to the song. She has amazing performance vibes that secludes the viewer into watching her and nothing else. Although very little energy, with some disappointing moves, she could engage the audience a tiny bit more.
The dancers totally overpower her. They are amazingly talented, grabbing the entire attention of the music video. The choreography is performed to perfection, and every minute detail is on point. These dancers make this music video.
However I am not so keen on them dancing in the murky water, not only does it look unappealing, but it doesn't relate to the song, they should've continued to dance where they originally were.
Overall, a great music video, that definitely helps to get the message across about the song. Although there are some slightly bad decisions made for the video, visually it works well.
Ever since Dove Cameron sung this song acoustically on Snapchat, which she later posted to twitter, I haven't been able to get her version out of my head. The clip is only ten seconds long, yet she has such an amazing technical voice that it stuns us all. I am hoping it's her next single release, but I think she was just singing it whilst she was on holiday. Destiny's Child's original is just as good though. Set in a hair salon, the girls from Destiny's Child sing about their problems whilst styling people's hair.
This song was released back when Destiny's Child were a four-piece band consisting of Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett. This group, as a four-piece, were at the height of their career, sending out chart hit after chart hit. Now split up, but still on good terms, Beyoncé has quickly became a worldwide star, which was unsurprising since she was the lead singer of this group. Kelly Rowland has always been in her footsteps, ever since this group was formed, and to this day she's not a household name, although she has tried. As for LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett, they too tried to become big artists, but it just didn't work out for them. The song charted at number six on the UK chart, but number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Kevin Briggs, Kandi Burruss, Beyoncé Knowles, LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson and Kelly Rowland.
The video, directed by Darren Grant, was set inside a beauty salon and was a tribute to Beyoncé Knowles' mother Tina.
A pure performance piece, with more focus on dancing and singing than actually styling people's hair. Although we all would love Beyoncé to style our hair, she'd probably end up singing and forgetting all about our hair style.
The opening is interesting in a robotic way, leading into the music video, it shows Beyoncé's love interest asking to borrow her keys, but she's had enough of him asking her for everything. This is a direct link to the song, which in turn connects the music video.
As per usual the girls are on form with their dancing, totally focused and the choreography is performed to perfection.
However this entire video seems way more dated than what it is, considering other videos released at the same time. There's not a lot going on in the video, and nothing that stands out apart from the opening. It just comes off a little bland, and considering the song is so catchy, the music video fails to live up to the beats and melody.
"One Dance" by Drake makes its 13th consecutive week at number one in the UK, and still no music video as of yet, so Chart Mondays is open to the Top 10 once again. Two videos have officially been released for this song, the first one was entitled "First Listen" which includes cast members of the animation movie that this song is the soundtrack to, entitled "Trolls". This is the second one and the official music video. I was kind of expecting the former video, as I thought that was the official video, guess I was wrong. Luckily I don't have to name all the stars in that video, and can save that for another day when I feel like reviewing it, if I ever do. This video is a pure performance piece, Justin Timberlake still looks young, less sexy more classy. This has definitely become the new Pharrell Williams' "Happy", only less annoying and less of a chart success.
Justin Timberlake, is practically one of the biggest male solo singers in the world. He performed this song during the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, and has managed to get this song spread globally on a massive scale. A household name indeed. This song has definitely turned into Pharrell Williams' "Happy" and the music video isn't so different either. The song was written by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Shellback.
The video was directed by Mark Romanek. The video has a feel-good element to it, and inspires everyday people to go out and have a good day.
Revitalising motivation and energy, Justin Timberlake turns his song into this year's "Happy", with a similar tune, a similar visual, a similar idea and just as bad dance moves.
The latter becomes a main problem since it is a choreography style that is totally dated. Even my choreographer, when I was young and in a dance troupe, came up with much better ideas. Justin Timberlake is supposed to be an amazing dancer, but his arms are flimsy and his moves have no rhythm, and yet he is in-sync with the backing dancers because their arms are flimsy and they have no rhythm.
This both works and doesn't, it's something we've seen a few times already, it's nothing new, not much of an advertisement for the film "Trolls" and no correlation to the animation, apart from them appearing in a TV store on TVs. This just isn't as engaging as we all expected it to be.
All day I've had Fifth Harmony's "All In My Head (Flex)" all in my head, literally the catchy tune had embedded itself inside my mind, definitely stuck in my head. It was because the girls performed the song on the Grand Finale of The Voice Australia which I wrote an article on for CelebMix. As I've already reviewed "All In My Head (Flex)", I thought I'd review this song, as it is one of my favourites. Fifth Harmony elegantly display their natural performance style in this Write On Me music video, for the promotional single.
Fifth Harmony are a five-piece american girl group, consisting of Lauren Jauregui, Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane Hansen, Normani Kordei and Camila Cabello. They formed on The X Factor US, and have gone from strength to strength as they release more and more songs. Worldwide domination is definitely on the cards for this group, but with stiff competition in other countries, it is slightly difficult. This ballad song strips back the club melodies and gives us their perfect voices. Technically great, this song is one of the best on their new album '7/27'. The song was written by Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (Kygo), Priscilla Renea and Simon Wilcox.
Directed by Sam Lecca, this music video is a simple performance-piece, stripped back and classy. Although I usually don't like black and white videos, this one pulls it off.
I love the writing elements that is worked throughout, and it must've been a nightmare trying to edit in the finger clicks or finger snaps.
The girls are relaxed, looking elegantly sexy as they sing this very classy song. The video is a perfect performance piece, and it's so nice to see the girls in their natural element.
This is what they do, when they're on stage, when they're being themselves, when they're dancing freestyle. Perfect performance video! However a narrative would've been perfect for this song, they totally missed out on a good opportunity.
