Megan Thee Stallion is not biting her tongue in the official music video for “Ungrateful”.
20.08.2022 - 01:57 / nme.com
M.I.A. has released an official music video for her single ‘Popular’, the most recent taste of her forthcoming album ‘MATA’.Directed by Arnaud Bresson (Kanye West, Beabadoobee), the ‘Popular’ music video sees M.I.A. direct her artificial doppelganger – referred to in a press release as an “influencer-bot-in-training” called M.A.I.
– in how to walk, talk, move, dance and inspire just like M.I.A. does.Watch it below:‘Popular’ was released on August 12 with the accompanying video following the next day. Coinciding with the single drop was the news of the artist’s forthcoming studio release, ‘MATA’, set to be her first album in six years.Though there’s still no official release date, M.I.A.
– aka Mathangi Arulpragasam – announced the upcoming sixth full-length effort back in May with the release of a new single ‘The One’.A snippet from an as-yet-unreleased M.I.A. song was then previewed in the final episode of season three of Netflix‘s Never Have I Ever.When announcing the follow-up to 2016’s ‘AIM’, M.I.A. said ‘MATA’ would be “kind of rebellious”.
“Everybody’s expecting me to put out that havoc,” she said, “Everyone’s expecting that, but it’s not, that’s not what it is.“It’s about the battle of the ego versus you finding yourself and you finding the spiritual leader… And that happened to me. Really I’m just here to share that.”In 2021, M.I.A. released her song ‘Babylon’ as an NFT (non-fungible token), having announced that April she’d be entering the NFT market to kick off her NFT GARAGE DANCE series.Two singles were released in 2020 through the ‘Paper Planes’ singer’s O H M N I site – ‘CTRL’ and ‘OHMNI 202091’, the latter song marking her first release in three years after 2017’s ‘POWA’.
.Megan Thee Stallion is not biting her tongue in the official music video for “Ungrateful”.
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Lourdes Leon, the 25-year-old daughter of pop icon Madonna, is making her own music.The songstress — under the stage moniker Lolahol — dropped her debut single, «Lock&Key,» on Wednesday.Leon released the quasi-ethereal club track along with a neo-goth music video featuring the songstress taking viewers on a dark, surreal odyssey across New York.The video presents a rich visual tapestry evoking complex philosophies over the nature of mortality and Leon sings among the mausoleums and tombs in an old cemetery, while also introducing elements of urban fantasy as she seemingly transforms into a water nymph frolicking in the breaking waves of Atlantic.With images of a scantily clad Leon driving around in an luxury car while physically covered with sparkling gems juxtaposed and intercut with images of her in graveyards and being driven around my a man in a skull mask, the video raises questions about the age-old debate over materialism and the intangibility of material things. After all, you can't take it with you, as they say.Also, Leon dances through pink-and-purple organza curtains while singing to a thumping beat, so it works on multiple levels.Leon, as Lolahol, released the new track under her own Chemical X label, and was produced by Eartheater, who also directed the video.Leon recently talked about her life as Madonna's daughter while speaking with Debi Mazar for last October. The topic came up when Mazer, a longtime friend of the 63-year-old singer, mentioned that Leon opted to pay for college and her apartment on her own.«We don’t get any handouts in my family.
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Lorde has returned with a serene new music video for her ‘Solar Power’ cut ‘Oceanic Feeling’, one year on from the album’s release.READ MORE: Lorde: “I feel like I can see my world and myself a lot clearer now”The singer made a rare appearance on her Instagram stories to announce the video, which was released earlier today (August 20). She said the clip — directed by herself and Joel Kefali — is the last video to come from ‘Solar Power’, following previously released clips for ‘Mood Ring’, ‘The Path’, ‘Fallen Fruit’, ‘Secrets From A Girl (Who’s Seen It All)’, ‘Leader Of A New Regime’ and the record’s title track.The video for ‘Oceanic Feeling’ is another nostalgic, summer-tinged visualiser, featuring Lorde and her brother against a backdrop of shimmering blue seas.
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BLACKPINK have shared a striking new teaser for the music video for their new single ‘Pink Venom’, ahead of its release later this week.The track will serve as the lead single for the K-pop girl group’s second album, ‘BORN PINK’, which is due out in September.The short teaser opens with dust blowing towards the camera, a sharp blade striking a swinging pendulum and a close-up of someone playing the traditional Korean instrument called a gayageum. The scenes then change to show rows of figures dressed in black satin hooded cloaks kneeling on the floor, pink glowing from beneath their hoods.As the clip ends, the four members of BLACKPINK – Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa – are seen in various shots, as the line “I bring the pain like” rings out.
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