Featured Transparent actress Trace Lysette struts her stuff through an LA evening fantasia, while Shins mainman James Mercer does his performance from home.
As befits a song called "Nightlight" there's just a glimmer a light in the otherwise dark reality that we find in this epic music video return by Silversun Pickups. Las Vegas. Boardwalk Empire actress Meg Steedle comes closest to the heart of darkness here, navigating a nightmare filled with sex, death, revenge, paranoia and all the other charms of Las Vegas that don't get mentioned in the ad campaigns.
Unless you're also on your nth cup of Lean and stoned out of your gourd, there's just no way your "Tuesday" is anywhere near as odd as what greets ILoveMakonnen and an extra sleepy Drake at the club.
How far would you go for fame and success as a top model? Are you up for literally remolding your body? How about eating your competition — and, yes, that would be also be literally. So goes the ugly business of beauty in this whirling new Foster The People video.
Author Bret Easton Ellis seems to have caught the music video bug, but instead of just narrating the action, he's now writing it.
Dum Dum Girls "Are You OK" is more short story and art film, than traditional music video, dispensing narrative for something that starts intriguing and ratchets up the tension to full-on disturbing.
Stick with the 11 minutes runtime — which I know is an eon for an online music video — since otherwise you'll miss out on the slow dance with the straight razor.
Michael K. Williams aka Chalky White aka Omar aka bad motherfucker kicks an enormous amount of ass in a video that starts off like a Breaking Bad episode, but then blossoms into something much weirder, yet equally affecting and amazing.
Skylar Grey is back from the grave — or at least a nearby lake — thereby mucking up a couple's delicate charade of a relationship. It's not I Spit On Your Grave, but that kind of menace is rippling just beneath the surface.
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.
