July 2014

Rise Against "I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore" (Nico Sabenorio, dir.)

You'd be correct if you perceive the purpose of this new Rise Against video to be more about drawing attention to the mass amounts of world conflict, than about selling records. "I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore" has the band teaming again with documentary filmmaker Nico Sabenorio — who also directed their "Hollis Brown" video — to show violence at home, abroad and on varying levels of destructive impact.

Pharrell Williams f/ Miley Cyrus "Come Get It Bae" (Luis Cerveró, dir.)

It's likely impossible for Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus to make a video that's not sexy on some level — we're talking about the people responsible for "Blurred Lines" and "We Can't Stop," respectively — but "Come Get It Bae" is more like a high-energy version of John Legend's "You And I" video, celebrating all the many "flavors" of women with a perfect edit and a even a little handheld Bolex

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