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WATCH IT: Sugarland "Stuck Like Glue" (Declan Whitebloom, dir.)

Sugarland singer Jennifer Nettles manages to make stalking look downright adorable in this unexpected clip directed by Declan Whitebloom. What starts as a seemingly normal crush gets more and more creepy as Nettles and her partner-in-crime Kristian Bush enact a slapstick plan to make sure he knows just how much she loves him. --> watch "Stuck Like Glue"

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WATCH IT: Jessie James "My Cowboy"

A classroom of cowboy students spring to attention (so to speak) when the cleverly engineered country/rock/pop starlet Jessie James wanders in to give them a lesson on how to ride her like a bronco. So to speak. Director Collin Tilley captures her every curve on camera, making for a kind of inverse of the Britny Fox "Girlschool" video. (And yes, Van Halen "Hot For Teacher" remains untouchable, as it should, in the Hot For Teacher video genre). --> watch "My Cowboy"

IN DEPTH: The Rapture "Whoo! Alright - Yeah... Uh-Huh"

There's only way to shoot a party video and ensure it looks like an actual party. That's right, you gotta throw a real, honest to goodness party. Diretcor Ben Dickinson — newly signed to Black Dog Films — and The Rapture do exactly that in the insanely fun clip for the insanely titled track "Whoo! Alright — Yeah... Uh Huh" Part tribute to a blighted, yet up-and-coming, hip Brooklyn neighborhood and part celebration of School House Rock animation, this video succeeds on nearly every level.