Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money

Stereogum recaps:

Take a deep breath and savor the moment. We’re going to have a very short time before the parents’ groups of the world start loudly freaking the fuck out over Rihanna’s new video for “Bitch Better Have My Money,” so we need to appreciate every moment that that isn’t happening. Rihanna shared a preview of the video a few days ago, promising nudity and language and violence. She wasn’t kidding. The clip features Rihanna and a couple of friends kidnapping a rich lady and holding her for ransom, and it ends with a naked Rihanna, covered in blood, smoking weed while sitting in a trunk full of cash.

Sia - Big Girls Cry

Via Billboard:

The third part of Sia’s video trilogy with “Dance Moms” star Maddie Ziegler has landed and - just like her controversial promo for “Elastic Heart,” which also featured actor Shia LaBeouf and drew criticism for its provocative content– it’s a powerful and visually striking piece of film. The difference this time around is that 12-year-old Maddie Ziegler performs alone, straight to camera with only her face and shoulders in view for the majority of the clip, which is filmed in front of a stark black backdrop. At one point, the pre-teen dancer’s body is hoisted into the air by another pair of hands and the video takes on a disturbing air as we watch her legs frantically struggle to break free. Thankfully, Ziegler – wearing her now trademark skin-colored body suit and blonde bob wig - breaks free and falls to the ground where she resumes her distinctively animalistic and frenzied routine.

Over 4M views in one day.

FKA Twigs - Glass & Patron

Via Pitchfork:

FKA twigs has shared the video for "Glass & Patron", which she directed herself as part of the YouTube Music Awards. It begins with Twigs giving birth to a bunch of dancers, which gives way to "the most epic vogue battle of all time," according to a press release. "Glass & Patron", co-written and co-produced by Boots, was previously featured in FKA twigs' Google Glass ad. It's going to be included on a new FKA twigs EP to be released later this year.

600K views in one day.

Pussy Riot - I Can't Breathe

From their clip description:

Pussy Riot's first song in English is dedicated to Eric Garner and the words he repeated eleven times before his death. This song is for Eric and for all those from Russia to America and around the globe who suffer from state terror - killed, choked, perished because of war and state sponsored violence of all kinds - for political prisoners and those on the streets fighting for change. We stand in solidarity. Pussy Riot's Masha and Nadya are being buried alive in the Russian riot police uniforms that are worn during the violent clashes of police and the protesters fighting for change in Russia. A pack of "Russian Spring" brand cigarettes is on the ground at the beginning. "Russian Spring" is a term used by those who are in love with Russia's aggressive militant actions in Ukraine, and the cigarettes are a real thing.

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FKA Twigs - Pendulum

Via Stereogum:

FKA twigs is maybe the most reliably great music-video artist currently working; her clips for the LP1 tracks “Two Weeks” and “Video Girl” were among last year’s best. Twigs’ new clip for her woozy, beautiful “Pendulum” is the first she’s ever made for herself, and she knows what the fuck she’s doing. As with so many of her videos, this one draws heavily on her training as a dancer. It shows her tied up and suspended from ceilings in ways that look deeply uncomfortable, projecting sexual vulnerability and power in equal measures.

I often go back to 2013's Water Me, which is still a favorite. As with that track, this new one evokes Massive Attack for me.

OK Go - I Won't Let You Down

Via the Telegraph:

OK Go have released their latest ambitious music video and their second to be taken from their forthcoming album Hungry Ghosts. Fans will be glad to know that the band perform another dance routine. But it is one rather more large-scale than the treadmill dance routine they performed for their 2006 Grammy-winning video for Here It Goes Again. This time the Chicago four-piece are on board motorised unicycles for a routine performed with colourful umbrellas and hundreds of performers. Earlier this year the released The Writing's on the Wall - a mind-bending single shot film which saw the band walk through a series of optical illusions.

Michael Jackson - A Place With No Name

Via Stereogum:

A video for Michael Jackson’s “A Place With No Name” from his posthumous album XSCAPE has been released by his estate and label, Epic Records. It premiered on Twitter and was simultaneously broadcast in Times Square in New York. The video was previewed before its release on [last night's] episode of So You Think You Can Dance, which was Jackson-themed. It was directed by Samuel Bayer, who has directed videos for Nirvana and the Rolling Stones and serves as an homage to Jackson’s 1991 video for “In The Closet” and features outtakes and repurposed footage from that video.

Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

Fiona Apple - Hot Knife

A new video for last year's track. 400K views in two days.