The title "Wrecking Ball" turned out to be prophetic: This Miley Cyrus video likely obliterated your memory of so many big videos this month — we're talking huge stars like Eminem and Katy Perry — and robbed the oxygen from many other videos that otherwise might have gotten huge. That said, Ylvis is approaching the 100 million mark, so clearly there was still time for other nonsense.
These are the Best Music Videos of September 2013, organized in a playlist that veers from hip-hop to pop to punk and lots more. I placed the more familiar ones in the middle, assuming that you video junkies have probably already had your fill of the pop titans.
Note: Some of these are not safe for work, and the Oneohtrix Point Never video was apparently banned from YouTube, so you'll need to click that link directly (if you dare).
BEST MUSIC VIDEOS OF SEPTEMBER 2013
- Dizzee Rascal "I Don't Need A Reason" (Emile Sornin, dir.)
- MGMT "Cool Song No. 2" (Isaiah Seret, dir.)
- Franz Ferdinand "Evil Eye" (Diane Martel, dir.)
- Eminem "Berzerk" (Syndrome, dir.)
- Danny Brown "Dip" (Rollo Jackson, dir.)
- Pup "Reservoir" (Chandler Levack, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, dir.)
- Superchunk "Staying Home" (Taiyo Kimura, dir.)
- Solange "Lovers In The Parking Lot" (Solange, Peter J. Brant, Emily Kai Bock, dir.)
- Wilkinson "Afterglow" (Remy Cayuela, dir.)
- Dillon Francis "Without You" (Mister Whitmore and Devon Gibbs, dir.)
- The Cataracs "Big Dipper" (Colin Tilley, dir.)
- Sky Ferreira "You're Not The One" (Grant Singer, dir.)
- Charli XCX "Superlove" (Ryan Andrews, dir.)
- Arcade Fire "Just A Reflektor" (Anton Corbijn, dir.)
- Dizzee Rascal "Something Really Bad" (Henry Schofield, dir.)
- Vali f/ Wiz Khalifa "Dimes" (Paul Coy Allen, dir.)
- Ariana Grande "Baby I" (Ryan Pallotta, dir.)
- Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball" (Terry Richardson, dir.)
- Katy Perry "Roar" (Grady Hall, Mark Kudsi, dir.)
- Ylvs "The Fox"
- Hedley "Anything (Explicit)" (John Poliquin, dir.)
- Capital Cities "Kangaroo Court" (Carlos Lopez Estrada, Sebu Simonian, Ryan Merchant, dir.)
- Holy Ghost "Okay" (Ben Fries, dir.)
- Toro Y Moi "Rose Quartz" (Lauren Gregory, dir.)
- Ardeem "Save You" (Cosmic Joke, dir.)
- They Might Be Giants "You're On Fire" (Hoku & Adam, dir.)
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis "White Walls" (Ryan Lewis, dir. Macklemore, co-dir.)
- Rone "Let's Go" (Julien Carot, dir.)
- Korn "Never Never" (Giovanni Bucci, dir.)
- In the Valley Below "Peaches" (Jon Donovic, dir.)
- Oneohtrix Point Never "Still Life (Betamale) NSFW / Viewer Discretion" (Jon Rafman, dir.)
- J.Cole "Crooked Smile" (Sheldon Candis, dir.)
- The Weeknd "Pretty" [NSFW] (Sam Pilling, dir.)
