New music videos for every #mood
New music videos for every #mood
BY : LIZ RAISS
This week, our music video roundup has a track and accompanying visual for every mood. Colorful, subdued, bouncy, grimy, disco, whatever: it was a great week for powerful imagery and strong tunes. Smooth camerawork, expert lyricists, and high key style are the themes to look out for. Scroll through some of our favorites, below.
KING PRINCESS - MAKE MY BED
Directed by Mikey Alfred
For “Make My Bed,” a sentimental little song with choral underpinnings, Illegal Civ’s Mikey Alfred films King Princess, asleep and awake, in a moodily lit bedroom. King Princess sings about family and loneliness, her voice teased out, over sparse piano. It’s the kind of video that will make you sad for memories you never made, and it’s so worth watching.
MURA MASA FT. OCTAVIAN - MOVE ME
Directed by Yoni Lappin
Mura Masa has another bop on his hands with “Move Me” featuring Octavian, who, shirtless under a checkered shearling coat and a backwards hat, stars in the track’s accompanying video. The camera swings and oscillates around Octavian in a series of extremely London moving portraits, over the song’s infectious, grimy afropop.
CHAKA KHAN - LIKE SUGAR
directed by Kim Gehrig
Chaka Khan’s bouncy “Like Sugar” gets a vivid, delightful visual courtesy of director Kim Gehrig. The song’s disco goodness is matched by the video’s style (which, since everything is cyclical, is wholly modern). It has the kind of exuberance and movement you just need going into the weekend.
KOJEY RADICAL - WATER
directed by MosPopularHuman
The video for Kojey Radical’s “Water” opens with a spoken word poem about resisting the white gaze and colonialist influences and standards. The rest of the visual is a powerful paean that showcases not just Radical’s verbal acuity but his dancing prowess and sick style (that beret and embellished coat combo is iconic). “Water” has all the makings of a legendary video you’ll come back to again and again.
KAMASI WASHINGTON - STREETFIGHTER MAS
directed by AG Rojas
The video for “Street Fighter Mas” is an integral, powerful accompaniment to Kamasi Washington’s already epic track. This short film casts Kamasi Washington as the film’s hero on the eve of an epic battle, and is so visually lush and engaging you’ll wish it was a feature film. Definitely insert coin to continue.