After reviewing 99 Souls "The Girl Is Mine", a mashup of this song and Brandy and Monica's "The Boy Is Mine", I had to review these music videos to see the complete difference. To be honest, when I heard this song I was shocked, this is very different to the clubbed up mashup. It's extremely R&B which we are used to from Destiny's Child, however it is not as nearly as catchy as the mashup by 99 Souls, they clearly have done a good job. Destiny's Child meet up for a coffee, as they talk about Kelly Rowland's love life and how the guy she is with isn't worthy of her, she attempts to defend herself in a verse all to herself, but Beyoncé and Michelle is having none of it.
Destiny's Child consisted of, at this time, Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. All three have a successful solo career in their own right, and they all, most recently, collaborated on a Michelle Williams' song. This song was written by Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Patrick "9th Wonder" Douthit, Sean Garrett,. Angela Beyince, Don Davis and Eddie Robinson. The song was initially written by Beyoncé Knowles and Michelle Williams for Kelly Rowland as a request for her to end her abusive relationship. This proves how strong a friendship these girls had.
The music video, directed by Bryan Barber has two different elements. The first is the girls chilling in Beyoncé's apartment watching TV. They are watching a Sex And The City inspired video starring themselves.
The girls arrive for coffee and Beyoncé confronts Kelly Rowland about her sadness which is due to the relationship Kelly Rowland is in. We see intercut scenes that show her boyfriend coming home late and them arguing.
Michelle Williams actually gets a solo part and scene, in which she sees the boyfriend in a shop with another girl.
This is the calling card and Kelly Rowland decides to leave her boyfriend, but not before tying him up on the balcony with a pair of handcuffs wearing next to nothing.
Overall a perfect music video. I love how the girls react to the different scenes that are being shown on the TV, as if they are watching it themselves. It's a different viewing experience that adds to this entire video, surprisingly. Although I'm not so keen on the song, give me 99 Souls' "The Girl Is Mine" mashup any day, the music video is pretty much flawless.
It's my birthday today, and what a way to start it off, finding a whole new duo that is currently exciting me, and being able to promote them as my New Release this week. I have not been this excited for a duo song since Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello collaborated on "I Know What You Did Last Summer". The Girl and The Dreamcatcher proves that Disney isn't who they are when it comes to their music. Catchy and meaningful, this duo is one to watch out for, with a spooky video to boot.
The Girl and The Dreamcatcher is currently my favourite duo. They have everything we want out of Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's "I Know What You Did Last Summer", yet them two probably won't be collaborating again, whereas this duo is an official group. I'm fully excited to see where their journey will take them, hopefully many brilliant songs like this one, an amazing album, and a global hit, because they definitely deserve recognition. The duo consists of The Girl, who is Dove Cameron, and The Dreamcatcher, who is Ryan McCartan. Dove Cameron is known for playing twins Liv and Maddie in a Disney show of the same name, Ryan McCartan also stars in the show as Diggie. Disney is hitting these stars here, there and everywhere, and hopefully these two will follow the footsteps of Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. Their first single was "Written In The Stars", and this song is their follow-up single. They also released two Christmas singles last year. Keep you're eyes open for these two, I'm calling it, they will be the next big stars, if not this year, it'll definitely happen next year. They just need more recognition.
The music video is pure brilliance, filled with Pretty Little Liars vibes as well as Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's "I Know What You Did Last Summer", the video pretty much starts with us all thinking it's going to be an amazing cover version. However the song is totally different.
A full narrative and performance piece, Dove Cameron visits the grave of Ryan McCartan, and drops a rose, which falls into his grave. His grave consists of a stage and I can just imagine him singing all day long to other dead people. Can I be buried in that graveyard in the future please? I want to hear his voice all day long, every day; but Dove Cameron has to be eventually buried there too so we can hear her amazing voice too, their harmonies are better than perfection.
The video continues and Dove Cameron envisions Ryan McCartan wherever she goes, she imagines him wherever she goes. It's his ghost or spirit coming back, wanting to see her, dance with her and obviously sing with her again.
The choreography scene is magical, The Girl and The Dreamcatcher shows us exactly what they've got, these two can dance, no doubt about that, and they prove themselves as credible dancers and singers as their emotion flows perfectly, I really would like to see these two live, it would be a show I wouldn't want to miss.
Overall a perfect song that has Eurovision vibes to it, can't we get them to represent the UK in this year's Eurovision? Especially since duos seem to do well in the competition, and this song is exactly what is doing well in the contest recently. The video is on point, perfect and although gives vibes of other things we may have watched, it doesn't matter, everything is a copy of everything no matter which way we look at things. Nothing's completely original even if we originally come up with the idea, with no inspiration. I can't wait to see where this group will go. The future is more than bright for these two.
Anya is my Thursday revisit, purely because I doubt she will appear on my blog again for some time. And what a cracking debut single from this girl! Catchy yet relaxing with a ghost at the wheel of the truck, Anya and her lover boy lye down sensually touching one another. Making me slightly jealous, I want that in my life, although I don't think I could put my life in the hands of a ghost though.
Anya, real name Anya Marian, looks like she won't be returning to the music industry for a while now, although I truly believe it's time for her to make a comeback, with the amount of Romanian stars making it big nowadays, especially the international successes of Inna and Alexandra Stan, Romanian artists should be jumping on the bandwagon, and push their music out there while Romanian dance songs are popular. Anya could be the next big thing, but only if she goes for it.
The music video is sweet and innocent, it was supposed to be the next big hit after "Mr Saxobeat" by Alexandra Stan, but it just didn't hit off. Anya just didn't become the star people was hoping her to become,
There's complete focus of lying in the back of this truck, which reminds me of the short scene in Inna's music video "Crazy Sexy Wild / Tu Si Eu".
There's not a lot to comment on, apart from the sweetness of this, although she is quite daring letting the truck drive itself whilst she goes and visits the boy in the back, as well as looking sexy on the front of the truck, although that is a bit more than daring, yet we all want to try this one day surely.
Overall, interesting, different, doesn't exactly go with the club vibes of the song, however it does relate to the song well.
After mentioning this song in a previous review, I just had to review this music video. This song is my jam in the club, only I much prefer the Iggy Azalea remix version. Along with many other songs, this is one of those that gets me right on to the dance floor. Tinashe shows off her incredible dance moves, whilst looks sexy in this perfect visual music video.
Tinashe, real name Tinashe Kachingwe, hasn't had many hits in the UK, however, believe it or not, this song is very popular in the club scene. Her biggest hit to date is a song she is featured on which is Snakehips' song "All My Friends" which also features Chance The Rapper. This song was written by Tinashe Kachingwe, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Magnus August Høiberg and Bleta Rhexa.
The music video, directed by Ben Mor, is visually perfect, I can't stop being shocked by how amazing this is, I just wish I was Tinashe in this video, or even just one of the backing dancers. I want to be 50ft. in the air in a shipping crate, dancing away!
The dancing is definitely a major talking point in this video, hell Tinashe is so showing off, but it is far from arrogant because that girl has got some moves. Credit for the choreographer in this video, totally. I love the All Hands On Deck dance, definitely one I will be pulling off in the clubs if this song ever gets played soon.
A few of the dance moves remind me of Justin Bieber's "Sorry", great dance moves, put in to a perfect dance sequence, which is then created into amazing choreography, which is then performed on point by Tinashe and her amazing backing dancers. This is pure awesomeness.
The setting of a shipping yard doesn't relate to the song, but I don't care, I am so into the video, engaged entirely and surprised by how these dance moves are performed to a point where no error can be found, this is just pure perfection and I cannot give this video a lesser rating. Perfect performance visual piece, one that makes me want to see Tinashe perform live.
This song randomly played on my phone as I have it on my iTunes as part of a compilation CD. It is probably one of my favourite songs, and was definitely stuck in my head all day. The song on my phone, however is a remix version, which definitely sounds better overall. Anya looks sexy and provocative in this flaunty music video, attempting to lure in the gorgeous model that is in the video. I wouldn't mind a piece of that!
Anya, real name Anya Marian, is a Romanian artist, this is her biggest hit to date, with it being very popular in clubs across the world. Her single "Celebrate" is also popular. She has an extensive collection on iTunes and it looks like she has recently released a single. She is one of many Romanian artists attempting to break into the music industry, and only the best of them make it. Yet, I'm sure she can do it with this voice. She just has to keep batting out tune after tune and she will get exactly where she needs to be. I have every faith in Anya, I know she can become a mainstream success.
The music video isn't much. It's very simple and it's clearly low budget, and yet we don't need fancy settings, we don't need a lot of hype, we don't need amazing extras. All we need is this beautiful singer and her very sexy model friend.
It links in perfectly with the song which is about fooling her for the day, letting a guy into her heart, or into her bed. I know that feeling, it's probably why the song connects with me a lot. I've had a lot of guys fool me in the past, and I do end up letting them. I just want a few more to fool me before I'm completely finished.
The video is good, nothing amazing, but nothing too simple. Would've totally liked to have seen the guy with his shirt off, I know he takes it off, but we only see his back, slightly disappointing, but I guess it's all part of the video in fooling us. Making us want something we can't have. Anya proves she is a little tease with this great music video.
It's Monday, so that means I look at the UK chart top 10, and with Shawn Mendes at number one with "Stitches" after knocking off Justin Bieber's "Love Myself", I haven't got much choice for Chart Mondays. Only two options were available, and so I went with this one as I haven't heard the song or seen the video. Tinashe looks like a spoilt princess high on the top of a building looking out on the cityscape, while she's pretty and perfect, her friends are all down below getting wasted whilst queuing for a club with Chance The Rapper.
Snakehips are an electronic duo consisting of Oliver Lee and James Carter. They previously released a single with Sinead Harnett called "Days With You". They are up and coming and this single has scored their first UK top 10 single. I can't wait to see where they will go next, the journey for Snakehips has only just started! Collaborating with Tinashe, real name Tinashe Kachingwe, is probably one of the most versatile vocalists in the music industry at the moment, some of her songs I love "All Hands On Deck" for one, and then others I'm not as into. I think she is going to be one to watch this year, for sure. As for Chance The Rapper, real name Chancelor Bennett has had bits of fame over here in the UK, but it's only on featured singles, with this one being his highest charting single to date. Personally I don't think he has a chance as a credible charting rapper, like what's with the name, for starters? We all used to laugh at the terrible stage name whenever Justin Bieber's "Confident" appeared on the music channels. And I'm sure this song charting so highly won't help him all that much in becoming a success. Maybe that's all he wants though. The song was written by Snakehips, Cass Lowe and Chance The Rapper.
The video was directed by Mister Whitmore. The video is not as exciting as I was hoping it would be.
The start is engaging, it makes you wonder what is at the top of the steps, and yes there's a beautiful cityscape and Tinashe is sitting prettily at the top, but it wasn't anything amazing.
The camera man continues to act quite drunk throughout the video as it moves in funny ways. It must have drank the other half of the bottle that Chance The Rapper was drinking in the line. The camera man gets even worse towards the end. It really looks like Tinashe is the only sober one.
I love seeing young love, many couples are kissing, and yet it makes me feel needy. I remember those days, I haven't had many of them, but one or two is enough to make me dream of the next one. Maybe I'll get lucky on my birthday, or maybe I won't.
Overall a compact music video if you consider all the stupid camera angles used throughout and the motions. Tinashe looks good, yet she looks like she's looking down on people who go out and drink, or queue to get into clubs. Chance The Rapper is just drunk, easy to relate but nothing worth watching. The queue and the bouncer is interesting, and yet the queue doesn't move either. There really isn't a lot to like about this video.
