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Solange "Lovers In The Parking Lot" (Solange, Peter J. Brant, Emily Kai Bock, dir.)

There's something magical about a music video breaking after-hours out at a Houston indoor Flea Market. But what makes this clip work is how the switch never gets flipped to transform the location into anything other than its drab reality: We never enter that typical MV fantasy, except that Solange is fabulously in the moment. 

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Passion Pit "Carried Away" (Brewer, Dir.)

Passion Pit - Carried Away

If you're gonna have subtitles in a music video you might as well have fun with them. And directing team Brewer certainly does that but only after sucking you into a dysfunctional and surreal, yet strangely real love/hate relationship between Michael Angelakos and actress Sophia Bush.