September 2012

Craig Lawrence "Lay It On The Line" (Chris Walters, dir.)

New York City pop-rock artist, Craig Lawrence, breaks out with his first single, “Lay it on the Line,” from his debut album, Shake the World, due out later this summer. Directed by Chris Walters (Sting, Bruce Springsteen, 50 Cent and Justin Bieber), the music video that accompanies the single has garnered 62,000 organic views. Recommended for fans of One Republic, Ryan Adams or Jason Mraz. 

The Stand In: Top 5 Lyric Videos

Fan made lyric videos seem to have been around as long as YouTube, but the professional, label-generated lyric video really took off (to me) a couple summers ago with the masterful font-designed clip for Cee-Lo's "F** You" It was just a place-holder for the official clip, but  it seems more memorable than the eventual (and fun) Matt Stawski directed "real" video.

By Doug Stern on September 14, 2012 @ 9:45am PDT

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