April 2013

Best Of The Month

Best Music Videos of April 2013

Just in case you're new around here:

  1. If it was covered on Video Static during April, it was considered for this list. Same will be true for anything we cover in May, regardless of when the video was released.
  2. We are Genre Agnostic. The fact so much of April's list is Dance is either a coincidence, or a sign that we are fully into another disco age. But, Genre does play a part, since as the Rules state: A great pop video does not make a great alternative video does not make a great rap video.
  3. No. The list of this month's best music videos is not presented in any specific "best to least best" order. #1 is not necessarily the best, or my favorite. Case in point, that Haerts video which comes last here is one of my personal faves, but it has a nice uplift that makes it feel like the perfect closer. Think of it like a mixtape.
  4. The playlist is hosted via YouTube, which means the totally fantastic, yet totally NSFW Is Tropical video couldn't be included. As a make good, I listed it first.
  5. And remember: This is all very subjective.
  6. Click the individual links below for credits, write-ups nd other good stuff. Or just watch the embedded playlist:
Watch It

Secret "Yoohoo" (Hong Won Ki, dir.)

시크릿 (SECRET) - YooHoo M/V

And you thought GIlligan's Island would forever be the cheeriest and cheesiest depiction of being shipwrecked*? Meet K-Pop girl group Secret, who overacting their way around an island that's depicted with a grade that pushes the colors so bright you might go blind. 

*I personally think it's Lost, but I'm apparently in the minority.

Watch It

Ray J "I Hit It First" (J.R. Saint, dir.)

Ray J - I Hit It First ft. Bobby Brackins

Let's get the easy joke out of the way: Yes, this is the second best video Ray J has made "with" Kim Kardashian.

Those quotes around "with" are because Kim isn't in the video — not a surprise, for many reasons — and because Ray insists isn't about his ex-girlfriend Kim. Even though the song lyrics directly track with their story, and the lead character looks and live a whole lot like her. 

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