Straight To Video

I have been writing this weekly video-countdown column for almost exactly eight years. (Here's my first stab at it; Trash Talk had that week's #1…

On Monday night, at its increasingly irrelevant VMA gala, MTV named Taylor Swift's "You Need To Calm Down" as its Video Of The Year. Which,…

In a world where the new Missy Elliott video and the new J Balvin/Bad Bunny video both exist, this list already feels painfully obsolete. But…

I would now like to call the world's attention to the moment where Normani bounces a basketball off of her ass. This occurs right around…

Björk is one of history's all-time great music-video artists, but I am very ready for her to finally leave the "trippy alien screensaver" period of…

I am not going to put a Chris Brown music video on this list. And even if Chris Brown weren't a loathsome human being, his…

Our resident music video expert Tom Breihan is away on vacation so you've got me, Ryan, filling in for him this time around. Don't worry,…

Today, we at Stereogum bid a fond and tearful farewell to Gabriela Tully Claymore. For the past four and a half years, Gabriela has been…

This column didn't run last week, since it was the 4th Of July weekend and everyone was off. As a result, this week's edition is…

We are now about halfway into 2019, and nobody has made a better music video than the one for Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy." I honestly…

We need to talk about Taylor Swift's "You Need To Calm Down." Because that video is something. The video doubles down on the most objectionable…

This space is where I might ordinarily draw your attention to something like Martin Scorsese's new Bob Dylan documentary, currently streaming on Netflix. But that…

Are you aware that Kenny Beats, quite possibly the most exciting rap producer currently working, has a biweekly YouTube series called The Cave? I was…

Scientists should really look into "Unbelievable," the new video from second-tier American boy band Why Don't We, a video that very nearly made this list.

Along with the new album that nobody liked, DJ Khaled released an insane seven music videos this past week. All of them are showy and…