The Directors Bureau

Screw the usual highway reststop. Here's how it works in a music video:

• Every woman who stops at a roadside bar is unspeakably hot.
• The bar itself is just the right mix of vibey and dangerous.
• The jukebox is spot-on (duh)
• The singer can rock a pair of trousers like nobody's business
• Choreographer dance routines will break out
• The bartender will work his bottle like nobody's business
• There will be cameos (Haim, Jon "Napoleon Dynamite" Heder)
• And Napoleon Dynamite will, of course, walk off with the girl

Got it?

Life can be complicated and confusing, but there's options for escape... Dreams, drugs, skateboarding and a much more permanent solution. Director David Altobelli steers through the dreamscapes, searching for transcendence in a series of perfect metaphors for "Weightless"... 

Off goes the hair, on goes the bra and so Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield's gender-swap journey begins...

A honky tonk crowd greets him with uneasy stares that, of course, leads to outight brutality. But, there's an escape hatch of music, even if it's just in his mind...  Soaring choreography transports him from the on-the-floor pummeling to a place where his tormentors are nothing more that a dance troupe ushering him to heaven, which in this case is a catharctic climax on-stage with Arcade Fire.

Hopefully he's also up there rocking with Hedwig...

Never get married at a wedding chapel where the priest is cooler than you (or in Chromeo).

Yeah Yeah Yeahs and director Patrick Daughters have transcendently stopped time before — and the intro here proves they can easily repeat the same feat — but they have a different tool in mind to capture that spirit of release: The Empire State Building.