You know the running joke about how most superstar DJs can't really dance themselves? Alesso tries to dispel that myth here by playing into the "typical American high school nerd" storyline — with a twist.
Twiddling knobs and pushing faders just ain't cuttin' it anymore.
Take some Stevie Nicks, add a touch of disco, let the ladies of Haim lord over some beautiful landscapes and the end result is a song/video that can even make a wild animal stop in its tracks.
Welcome to a very dangerous ballet where our heroine finds herself under fire from all directions. Luckily, she has moves that would make even Neo jealous.
Look, this song will be played at weddings from now until eternity, so why shouldn't Ed Sheeran beat everyone to the punch and show you how graceful that first dance could look? And the fact that this is an intricate routine that's just begging for real couple to try and replicate at their weddings means that this could go very viral. Or, at least, serve as a great audition for Dancing With The Stars.
Finding a creative way to pull off the movie clip job is one of the tougher music video tasks — how to make a video when you need a healthy percentage of movie footage in order to keep the the movie $tudio happy? Rather than come up with some forced mechanism to scatter that footage, Director Emil Nava instead inserts The Vamps into the same Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day world that new movie Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and casts the movie's starlet, Bella Thorne, to star in it.
Many nights out end in regret, but here we see a potential way to either literaly swim away to a better place, or drown those sorrows with more than drinking.
Ed Sheeran's dance phase shows no signs of relenting — except instead of letting a puppet strut its stuff, the moves are ceded to a Phillip Chbeeb who lets the rhythm move him through his day and to some unexpected heights.
Maybe you heard "Sing" with its Pharrell hook and its borderline dance beat and wondered how Ed Sheeran could exist in that world without becoming a cartoon character. Well, you were close: Sheerann has become a puppet to explore this flyer side of his personality, where he can model a pair of Beats, hit a strip club and basically get jiggy with it (but with a knowing wink).