Black Dog

The performance never ends for pop legend Kylie Minogue. She saunters off the video set, but she never stops vamping for the cameras, be it a street surveillance cam or a stolen iPhone. Director Christian Larsen keeps up with Minogue's quick pace, even when she hops into a Porsche and then a motorcycle, heading into Chinatown for a rendezvous that's clearly headed toward something explosive. --> watch "Timebomb"

America's sweetheart, Katy Perry, opens her newest video discovering her man is cheating on her (sorry, no Aldous Snow cameo). Like Private Benjamin before her, our heroine decides that signing up for the military is the logical next step. Even though her journey starts with a semi GI Jane-ish haircut, Katy's training never looks as grimy or vicious as what Demi had to put up with.

Some Sunset Boulevard film noir, the vibe of a Calvin Klein Obsession commercial, the Lana Del Rey cast of characters, and some Esther Williams. And it's gorgous. --> watch "Blue Jeans"

Directing collective Shynola is most known for their animated work on clips by artists like Radiohead and Junior Senior. In this new verion of Coldplay's "Paradise," they keep it live action and grimy. Sure, the little girl star of the clip is impossibly cute, but she is caught up in a narrative that mixes in (un)healthy doses of Don You Go Roun Roun to Re Ro style Brit gangster menace.

Katy Perry is old, rich and totally unsatisfied. This video for "The One I Love" plays like an old Hollywood flick about doomed lovers, framed out with Perry as an elderly woman who thinks back with remorse about a love affair that wasn't meant to be. Her younger, wilder days provide most of the action, allowing Perry to act as a sort of Joan Jett means Zoey Deschanel free spirit in a hot and heavy and creatively tumultous relationship with actor Diego Luna.

And all UK pop star Pixie Lott wants do is dance, dance, dance in this sleek and sexy minimalist video. --> watch "What Do You Take Me For"

Pixie Lott f/ Pusha T"What Do You Take Me For" (Mercury)Declan Whitebloom, director | Helen Potter, producer | Black Dog Films, production co | Tat Radcliffe, DP | Caroline Story, production designer | Sheryl Murakami, choreographer | Svana Gisla, Jill Hammer, exec. producer | Tom Bird, commissioner

It's an old Hollywood masquerade ball that starts ethereal, but steadily evolves into a bachanalian rager before climaxing in ethereal bliss for Florence And The Machine. --> watch "Shake It Out"