And there were plenty more voices involved in this year’s videos - people who had their own singular visions and who made those visions intertwine with music in fun and fascinating ways. He’s made darkness work as pop, which is not easy to do.īut Singer didn’t have the best video of the year. And with his videos for the Weeknd, he’s turned evil and chaos and self-destructive urges into these seductive widescreen things. Everything in his Pink videos seemed somehow wrong, in all these compelling ways that you couldn’t quite parse. With Ariel Pink, he worked up a sticky, Kubrickian sense of transgression. He started out the year working with Ariel Pink, and he ended it working with the Weeknd. So Grant Singer is both the greatest director of this age and the greatest beneficiary of it. (And when the artist and the director are one and the same, they’re just that much more symbiotic.)
These artists are figuring out that these directors understand their visions and aesthetics, that their music and these people’s visual sensibilities just make sense together. Instead, the big story was the partnerships we’ve seen forming between musicians and directors: Colin Tilley and Kendrick Lamar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Joanna Newsom, Bob Gallagher and Girl Band, Allie Avital and Autre Ne Veut, FKA twigs and FKA twigs, Grimes and Grimes. This year, thanks to an unlikely alliance with a fast-rising pop star, he’s completely eclipsed both of them.īut then, Singer wasn’t the big story this year. Last year, Singer was sneaking up behind Nabil and Murai. This year’s MVP is Grant Singer, who also did well on last year’s list and who has four videos on this year’s countdown. This year, the two of them together only have one appearance on the list. Nabil and Murai had four videos apiece on last year’s list. Last year, the list was dominated by Nabil and Hiro Murai, both of them in a knife-fight to determine who the best music-video director in the world was. Back in the ’90s, when cable networks were starting to find excuses not to show music videos anymore, we still saw these great directors who were using music videos like playgrounds: Spike Jonze, Hype Williams, Michel Gondry. For the past decade, music videos have mostly lived online, far away from the cable networks that once nurtured the art form.
When I put this list together last year, the big story was the emergence of auteurs in the online era of the music video. Tame Impala – “The Less I Know The Better” Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone”ġ. + “Oh My Darling (Don’t Meow)” (Just Blaze Remix)ħ. Meow the Jewels – “All Meow Life” (Nick Hook Remix) Eso buscamos con nuestra selección de los Mejores Videoclips Internacionales de 2015. Mientras algunos (Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Madonna, Taylor Swift, etc.) siguen cantando a cámara y le dan de comer a su ego, otros eligen contar una historia, darle otra vida a una canción o simplemente desarrollar una buena idea.
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