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Jumpstar "We Did Alright" (Ciro Ayala, dir.)

House Music at it's finest! One of the summers big Ibiza house tracks, supported by BBC Radio 1 (Danny Howard) and Sander Van Doorn & Oliver Heldens. Featuring the vocals from legendary Chicago vocalist Ron Carroll.

We Did Alright is a music video directed by Ciro Ayala, featuring several Asian and Western fashion models in rotoscope-animation form, with a Japanese Retro flair.

Bear Hands "Agora" (Sami Jano, Steve Meierding, dir.)

Even though this is billed as an "Alternate Video," any video with song lyrics is really a lyric video — and this is a perfect example one that's  smart and ambitious. "Agora" starts by touring a cabinet of curiosities and pharmaceuticals before whipping around to show off the rest of the apartment. The real highlight, however, is the crazy Transformers stop-motion hallucinations outside the window. 

Remember kids: Only use prescription pills as intended. Unless you need to make a creative lyric video...

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Best Lyric VMA Winner: 5 Seconds Of Summer "Don't Wait" (Sophia Ray, dir.)

This 5 Seconds of Summer lyric video for "Don't Wait" recently won MTV VMA's inaugural Best Lyric Video thanks to over 78 million votes, thus proving that kids like to read and vote. Who knew?

The clip is essentially a Pop comic homage — splitting the difference, maybe, between Lichtenstein and Kirby — created in After Effects.

Arcade Fire "Leaks" Reflektor via YouTube with an Album Lyric Video

Here's a good idea on every level:

1) Almost every album leaks, so why not leak it yourself via YouTube? Especially if more kids listen to music through YouTube than any other service?

2) Why should lyric videos stop at just one song? Especially when your source material is the feature film Black Orpheus, thus providing ample material to take you through the whole album.

So, if you enjoyed the "Afterlife" lyric video, you should love this expanded version for Arcade Fire's entire new album, Reflektor...