Madison Beer throwing block party in "Melodies"

Madison Beer, a YouTube sensation, who was discovered by Justin Bieber, makes her musical debut with cutest music video of all time for her ridiculously catchy first single, "Melodies." If you haven't heard of Madison Beer yet, prepare yourself now because we have a very good feeling that we're going to be seeing a lot of her soon. Not only the up-tempo pop track she describes as fun and young, but the video for the track featuring her pop star mentor, pink balloons, dreamy boys, and all of our favorite things crammed into 4 minutes of super sweet fun.
Young up-and-comer Long Island native is got such a Millennial Cinderella story: Bieber discovered the fresh-faced now 14-year-old on Twitter just over a year ago when he came across Beer singing a cover of Etta James' "At Last." He tweeted the video out numerous times, and directed a few tweets to Carly Rae Jepsen, his last protege, and Bruno Mars, showing them how talented Beer was. So he instantly decided he wanted to make her a star. That time is here, and he's even appearing in her first ever video!
"I remember watching Justin's first video and now Justin is in my first video and it's just weird that I'm even saying that," Beer tells MTV News. The video begins of Bieber and his longtime pal Ryan Butler sitting on a couch listening to "Melodies." "You hear that Ryan? That's a smash. She's gonna be a star, trust me," Bieber says to Ryan who answers with, "I think I love her, bro." After a laugh, Bieber says, "hey, watch this." He signs a pair of purple headphones, sticks them in the box and adds a note that reads, "put these on, love Justin."
The megastar then signs a note and puts a set of headphones in a red box with a purple bow. Cut to the smiling and adorable Beer's opening the gift. And with her lucky gift from the Bieber, she is ready to start singing her song. Upon wearing those autographed bright purple headphones and red high-top Converses, she takes it to the streets, starts dancing through the neighborhood with friends, singing her song out loud, which attracts a crowd of followers and gets lost in her own little musical world, totally unaware that a sizable crowd of kids have begun to follow her Pied Piper-style, ending with an explosion of confetti and a potential love interest.

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Iggy Azalea is a showgirl in "Change Your Life"

Following her booming Bollywood outing in "Bounce," Iggy Azalea heads to Sin City, turns it up a few notches and is quirky charisma on full display in the stylish, sleek and very sexy cinematic video for her catchy new single, "Change Your Life," which features a guest appearance from her mentor T.I., and served as the second American and third international single taken from the 23-year-old Aussie rapper-model's forthcoming debut album, "The New Classic," which is expected to be released worldwide later this fall.
"The New Classic" is a record that's been long in the making and is a culmination of Azalea's hard to work and perseverance to take it from small-town Australia to the top of the global rap charts via Miami, Atlanta, Los Angeles and London. Always straight up and to the point, the lyrics of "Change Your Life" express some of the experiences that drive her passion and ambition. "I'm a new classic/upgrade your status," she raps. "From a standby to frequent flyer." Azalea admitted that "Change Your Life" is one of the most poppiest moments on the album (alongside "Bounce"). She even decided to sing for the first time on "Change Your Life" to give the track some extra shine and sizzle.
The rising star continues to display her penchant for provocative imagery. Inspired by the 1995's critically-panned Paul Verhoeven-directed cult classic movie "Showgirls," the video has all the makings of a movie and shows Azalea sassing up the scene with a non-stop parade of sexy looks and spitfire rhymes that perfectly amplify her unique brand of hip hop. The visuals opens up with Azalea in her Nevada back-yard bungalow, entered the fray with the blonde bombshell models several glamorous looks and exposes her breasts in the provocative garment as she lies on a springboard over a pool, beauty rest with a baby tiger and T.I. neglecting only a tie. She is later seen playing a hard night Vegas dancer surrounded by a bevy of platinum-wigged dancers, while T.I. acts as the club owner. After some passionate love making on the hood of his vintage Mercedes, she ends up taking his money and torching the vehicle before being dragged off in handcuffs. Viva Las Vegas!

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Ellie Goulding debut "How Long Will I Love You"

Ellie Goulding sweetly caresses our eardrums once again with a suitably sorrowful music video for her brilliant new ballad, "How Long Will I Love You," which features on the official soundtrack of the new British romantic comedy movie, "About Time." The science fiction film revolving around time travel where a young man tries to change his past to have a better future. Written and directed by Richard Curtis (well-known "Love Actually"), and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy. The film has already released in the UK last Wednesday and is scheduled to be released in the US on November 1st.
The simple proclamation of undying love is Goulding's delicate cover of The Waterboy's classic gem, "How Long Will I Love You," that originally appeared on their 1990 album, "Room to Roam." The lyrics have also a simple playground rhyme quality to them: "How long will I love you/ As long as stars are above you/ Longer if I can/ How long will I need you / As long as the seasons need to/ Follow their plan." The song's vulnerability is further heightened when these words are coupled with the almost music box-like fragility of the instrumental.
It's funny how Goulding's vocal styling isn't all that different in a mellow tune like "How Long Will I Love You" than it sounds in one of her heavier hitters like "Burn." Switching so effortlessly from soft to loud and back again and that's definitely not an easy feat to pull off. Standing in stark contrast with past club bangers like "I Need Your Love," and "Lights," Goulding's new music video for "How Long Will I Love You," is a lovely piano ballad that's tender and gentle enough to be included on the "About Time" soundtrack.
Serves as the perfect backdrop for a video that promotes both the song and film, the Mike Sharpe-directed video finds the 26-year-old British songbird looking sincerely into the camera, staring wistfully through a window, walking alone by a beach, staring off into a gray horizon and contemplating life in a beach side cottage interspersed with bittersweet montage of excerpts from "About Time." The "Burn" singer eventually walks down to the water with an appropriately wistful look on her face. The accompanying video is simple and short, but super duper sweet and heartfelt. Much like the song itself.

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Eminem reaches back to earlier days in 'Berzerk'

Eminem flexes in front of a super-sized boombox with Kendrick Lamar, Rick Rubin, Kid Rock in a clever VHS-inspired promo for his celebrate old-school hip-hop tune, "Berzerk," the first single from Eminem's upcoming eighth studio album "The Marshall Mathers LP 2," which is due out on November 5th, and making it a sequel of sorts to 2000's "The Marshall Mathers LP." Of course, The 40-year-old inimitable and unmistakably rapper has released several albums since then, including his last effort, 2010's "Recovery," but hasn't managed to capture his former glory.
Marshall Mathers returns in rabid, pop-hook-baiting form. With both Dr. Dre and Rick Rubin on board, the song "Berzerk," promises to "take it back to straight hip-hop / and start it from scratch." Fittingly, this metal-rap rant has an old-school feel that evokes the late Eighties and especially samples Billy Squier's "The Stroke", as well as the Beastie Boys' "The New Style" and "Fight for Your Right," both songs taken from their 1986 debut album "Licensed to Ill," which Rubin had also produced. The punchy, guitar-and-beats driven song starts with a blast of static, hard guitar and Eminem roaring out of the gate sounding like the long-lost, fourth Beastie Boy.
Eminem delivers the lyrics with his familiar staccato flow, winding circles around the beat and building up to the hook, in which he declares, "Life's too short to not go for broke." The word 'bezerk' is used to describe a person who is acting in a wild rage or in an uncontrolled and irrational manner. It derives from the Old Norse word berserkr meaning "bear shirt" and was used for Germanic warriors who had the reputed habit of wearing a kind of shirt made from the pelt of a bear during battle. According to Old Norse literature these bezerkers were fierce warriors, who fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury.
The Detroit native reaches back to earlier days for the song's new video, which was filmed in Eminem's hometown Detroit, Michigan and directed by Syndrome, as Eminem raps "Let's take it back to straight hip-hop and start it from scratch," in front of a super-sized boombox to celebrate old-school hip-hop, with shoutouts to new-school labelmate Kendrick Lamar, triple-entendre punch lines and a mob-chant chorus. Eminem also sports vintage Detroit Pistons gear amidst snippets of found footage, short clips of backyard wrestling as well as short clips of the official music video of Billy Squier's "The Stroke." It's nice to see Eminem publicly tip his cap to the Beasties since they undoubtedly paved the way for him, and seems he's having plenty of fun after his "Recovery."

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Miley Cyrus swings around the "Wrecking Ball"

Miley Cyrus strips down while lamenting how hard she's been wrecked by love in the just-released video for the heartbroken counterpoint "Wrecking Ball," that is sad and raunchy. The singer, who is best known for twerking as of late, momentarily offering fans a more vulnerable side with tearful eyes as she sings of lost love in a very passionate manner before returning to her raunchy ways. The 20-year-old singer's video has one clear message: "Don't you ever say I just walked away/ I will always want you."
This big emotional breakup ballad was released as a promotional single from Cyrus' upcoming "Bangerz" album. Cyrus penned the synth-driven track with Canadian composer Stephan Moccio. "I can't live a lie, running for my life/ I will always want you." Love on the rocks? The lyrics seem directed at her on-again-off-again love with fiancé, actor Liam Hemsworth. With its stark close-up shots of Cyrus weepily delivering lyrics about love's destructive properties, "Wrecking Ball" seems also to be the singer's attempt to prove she's not just a controversy magnet.
A barely clothed Cyrus sports a a cut-off white tank top and panties with maroon laced boots in Terry Richardson-directed video, which begins with a somber Cyrus standing in front of a completely white backdrop and crying while performing the song. For a second, the viewer may forget about the tongue contorting, outrageously dressed twerker she's been lately. But it's not long before the "We Can't Stop" singer returns to her raunchy maneuvers, even while crooning about love loss. "I came in like a wrecking ball/ I never hit so hard in love," she sings while appearing in a cut-off white tank top and panties with maroon laced boots and holding a sledgehammer. "All I wanted was to break your walls/ All you ever did was wreck me/ Yea you wreck me."
The clip then sees Cyrus proceeds to ride a wrecking ball like a swing in her white cotton attire before ditching the clothes altogether and free flowing in the air in her birthday suit. "I came in like a wrecking ball/ I never hit so hard in love," Cyrus croons. Her sexual innuendos are visible throughout the video as Cyrus rides the wrecking ball like it's a sex swing and licks her sledge hammer in a move that can't be anything but sexual. Cyrus' tearful ballad paints a different picture - one of a heartbroken young woman trying to find a way back from a devastating ending of what she thought was true love. Cyrus wasn't kidding when she said she can't stop!

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Madonna sizzling live performance of "Vogue"

Madonna has released a sizzling live performance of "Vogue" from her recent 'MDNA World Tour,' and to get us whipped into a frenzy, the Material Matriarch let slip this performance of "Vogue" from the show. The footage was unveiled ahead of her 'MDNA Tour' DVD, which is out tomorrow, September 10th. The show was originally aired on US network EPIX in June this year. While album sales were tepid, MDNA was the most successful tour of 2012 and helped make the 55-year-old 'Like a Virgin' hitmaker the highest-paid celebrity of the year.
"Vogue," the lead single from Madonna's Dick Tracy-inspired 1990 soundtrack album, "I'm Breathless," was arguably one of her crowning artistic achievements (both song-wise and video-wise), one of the biggest all-time house music hits (spending three weeks atop the U.S. pop charts), and her second proper U.S. maxi-single release. It became the world's best-selling single of 1990, selling over six million copies. The Queen of Pop was inspired by vogue dancers and choreographers Jose and Luis Xtravaganza from the Harlem "House Ball" community, the origin of the dance Vogue, and they introduced "Vogueing" to her at the New York City club "Sound Factory."
"Vogue" is an upbeat dance-pop and house song. Noted to contain influences of deep house, it is a contemporary track which followed the trends of dance music in the 1990s; nevertheless, it has strong influences of 70s disco within its composition. Lyrically, the song is about enjoying oneself on the dance floor no matter who one is, and it contains a theme of escapism. Later on, the song has a rap/spoken section, in which Madonna names numerous "golden era" Hollywood celebrities. This new video, the first glimpse is all the proof you'll ever need that Her Madgesty's still reigns supreme!
The brand new remix video for Madonna's "Vogue" featuring incredible outtakes and sequences that have remained hidden from the public for the last 21 years. The original clip, which was directed by longtime Madonna collaborator David Fincher before he went on to make Hollywood blockbusters, was released in 1990 in support of the singer's "I'm Breathless" album. The new video, set to what is called the "World of Color" remix and features outtakes and extra footage not shown in the original including a playful Madonna wore a reinvented cone bra designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier, chewing on her hair piece, getting her makeup touched up, and breaking into fits of laughter in between takes. Madonna is still in vogue!

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Viennie V turns up the heat in "5 Alarm"

Vietnamese-American singing sensation Viennie V released the music video for her latest single, "5 Alarm" to YouTube on Thursday. The dark clip shows Viennie tearing up an abandoned firehouse with some party people. Viennie is a fresh new rising pop singer hails from Southern California. With a sultry new Pop Rock sound, intensified by strong vocals, she has garnered many views on YouTube with her past music videos and "5 Alarm" is looking to do the same type of damage.
Viennie's debut album "Nightmare or Dream" is already proving to be an over night sensation, as her first two music video singles "Thinking of You" and "Nightmare or Dream" ended up finishing No.5 and No.8 on the YouTube music charts in 2011. In addition, Viennie's official YouTube page also received acclaim as the No.1 most popular Music Channel of the Week. The combined music videos have surpassed a staggering 2.4 million views, with a huge amount of positive feedback. Although she hasn’t toured in Asia, her songs dealing with love, relationships, and heartbreak have been a huge hit at venues throughout the United States.
Written by herself, Viennie's latest single is a grimy, EDM-inflected track. Over stuttering synthesizers, she reaches out to the fire marshals for all the hot and heavy action on dance floor. "I'm calling in a five alarm," Viennie sings with power on the fiery club track. A fresh new artist has stepped on to the pop scene as she signed with Aurora Records Inc. Could this young Diva be the first Asian-American singer-songwriter and dancer female to make it to the top of the pop charts? So far so good, as both of Viennie's singles hit the top of the YouTube Music Charts when they were released.
Directed by Tani Ikeda, the dark clip for "5 Alarm" shows Viennie heating up with a group of party people hit up an abandoned firehouse to dance the night away. Things end up getting too hot with all the sensual choreography going on that Viennie sets off the sprinklers. Like Britney Spears' "I'm a Slave 4 U" video, the group cools down after tearing the place up. With this current heatwave the U.S. is experiencing, "5 Alarm" couldn't have come at a better time.

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