Best Music Videos of 2015

By Steven Gottlieb on December 30, 2015 @ 1:00pm PST | Comments (0)

I tend to put the Best of the Year list off to the last minute. Partially because I'm still traumatized by Beyonce releasing all those videos for her visual album at the end of of 2013, but mostly because music videos are like everything else these days: There's the top 1% in budget and impact — the videos that everyone has surely seen and will remember, aka the SNL worthy videos like Taylor Switft "Bad Blood" and Adele "Hello" — and then there's a practically endless list of other work in an alternate universe of unlimited niches. 

In truth you should just look at all the Best Of The Month lists of the past year and, depending on whether you're in the mood for big and bombastic, clever and cunning, or methodical and moody, you can pluck out the videos that perfectly strike your fancy. Shit. I bet if you randomly pick 25 videos from that group, you'd wind up with a perfectly fine list.

These are the 25 Best Music Videos of 2015. May it keep you busy through the New Year.

Best Music Videos of 2015

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