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NEWS: Hope For Haiti Relief Relief Telethon Fri, Jan 22

Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief will air live this Friday, January 22 @ 8pm ET/PD (7pm CT) with an unprecedented array of broadcast partners, including all the Viacom music video channels. ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, and CMT will all be airing the two-hour event, with PBS, TNT, Showtime, COMEDY CENTRAL, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health, Planet Green, and Canadian networks including CBC Television, CTV, Global Television, and MuchMusic all committed to airing it as well. The show will also be streamed YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN.com, Yahoo, Bing.com, BET.com, CNN.com, MTV.com, VH1.com, and Rhapsody and on mobile via Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and FloTV.

2009: Must Watch Videos

These are the videos that caught my eye while scanning over the 200+ music videos that were featured on Video Static this past year. These are the best, or my favorites, or the most creative, or the most important, or some combination of all that. Or not. Just watch em...

The Ten Must Watch Videos Of 2009, in a somewhat particular order:

READ MORE: Lady Gaga As Pitchwoman (by Dan Neil)

L.A. Times columnist Dan Neil writes,

"My vote for Advertisement of the Year 2009 is Lady Gaga's video "Bad Romance," a five-minute self-exploitation film that sells booze, high-end audio gear and stiletto heels as hard as it rocks."

Read Lady Gaga is using her pipes for pitches, as good a treatise on the collision between art and commerce that you'll find anywhere.

READ MORE: Exposed! Why Rockers Are Baring It All (WashPost.com)

 Have you gotten the feeling lately that there's a been a whole lotta NSFW music videos out there? Even here at Videostatic, where we try to keep things classy and respectable (that's partially why we use the royal "we"), we've had a wave of naked music videos, ranging from depictions of nude bikers on a journey back to the womb to gender-bending bohemian frivolity.