Maybe it's due to the extra Leap Day, but there were a ridiculous amount of really good videos for February.
So, with only a bit more hemming/hawing, here are the 24 best videos from February 2012 presented as a playlist — that you can embed or watch like it's a video show — and as individual links below if you'd like to see the video credits and/or read capsule reviews by me and fellow Vstatic writer Doug Stern.
Please use the comments section to add everything I missed, or to take umbrage with my taste (or to point out that only jackasses use words like "umbrage").
FEBRUARY 2012: BEST MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE MONTH
- Yuksek "Off the Wall" (Romain Segaud, dir.)
- M.I.A. "Bad Girls" (Romain Gavras, dir.)
- Jay-Z + Kanye West "Niggas In Paris" (Kanye West, dir.)
- Gorillaz/Andre 3000/J. Murphy "DoYaThing" (Jamie Hewlett, dir.)
- Miike Snow "Paddling Out" (Andreas Nilsson, dir.)
- Beni "Someone Just Like You" (Jared Eberhardt, dir.)
- Skrillex "Bangarang" (Tony T. Datis, dir.)
- Cypress Hill x Rusko "Roll It, Light It" (Jodeb, dir.)
- Odd Future "Rella" (Wolf Haley, dir.)
- Rise Against "Ballad Of Hollis Brown" (Nico Sabenorio, dir.)
- The Maine "Misery" (Daniel Gomes, dir.)
- The Shins "Simple Song" (Daniels, dir.)
- Islands "Hallways" (Lex Halaby & Toben Seymour, dir.)
- Of Monsters And Men "Little Talks" (WEWEREMONKEYS, dir.)
- Wilco (f/ Popeye) "Dawned On Me" (Darren Romanelli, dir.)
- Gotye "Easy Way Out" (Darcy Prendergast, dir.)
- OK Go "Needing/Getting" (Brian L. Perkins & Damian Kulash, dir.)
- Madonna "Give Me All Your Luvin" (Megaforce, dir.)
- De La Soul presents "Must B The Music" (Matt Stawski, dir.)
- David Guetta f/ Nicki Minaj "Turn Me On" (Sanji, dir.)
- Lil Wayne f/ Bruno Mars "Mirror" (Antoine Fuqua, dir.)
- Jason Mraz "I Won't Give Up" (Mark Pellington, dir.)
- Cults "You Know What I Mean" (Isaiah Seret, dir.)
- Bon Iver "Towers" (NABIL, dir.)