MUSIC VIDEOS: March New Releases, The Month Of Spring
It'll officially be spring on March 20th and I've never been so excited for warmer weather in my life. Being as uncoordinated as I am, winter just about kills me every time with it's slick ice, and cold everything. Currently here in Utah I've been enjoying all the seasons in one day (you might think I'm joking but oh gurl it's so real it hurts). I hope this list get's you through the last of winter and here's to one month closer to Summer!☀️
#1) Marian Hill - Down
Marian Hill is an American songwriting duo from Philadelphia consisting of production artist Jeremy Lloyd and vocalist Samantha Gongol. FUN FACT: Their name comes from two characters, Marian Paroo and Harold Hill, from the musical The Music Man. At first I didn't think much of this video (hold up a second before you start judgin' ✋) but the more the video progressed the more I loved it. It also didn't help that I read a comment by someone saying they were disappointed in the video (y tho.) "Down" debuted at number one on the Billboard Top TV Commercials chart in January 2017. Check it out and comment below your thoughts about it! ✌️
#2) Bruno Mars - That's What I Like
Yas, Bruno. That's what I like.......in a music video! Not only did Jonathon Lia direct this music video but Bruno Mars himself also directed it. The song was released as the album's (24K Magic) second single on January 30, 2017. "That's What I Like" was co-written by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Johnathan Yip, Ray Romulus, Jeremy Reeves and Ray McCullough II. Gotta give credit where it's due. Its production was handled by the former three under their alias, Shampoo Press & Curl, along with co-production by latter four as The Stereotypes. Eric "E-Panda" Hernandez played the live drums, while Mars, Fauntleroy and Lawrence served as the recording's background vocalists. The song debuted at number 79 at the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue week of December 10, 2016. It has since peaked at number 3. You go gurl! 👊
#3) Lorde - Green Light
Praise the Lorde 🙏 Sorry, sorry. It was too good not to say. Anywho, back to the music video.
"Green Light" was released on 3 March 2017 through Universal Music New Zealand as the lead single from her upcoming sophomore album, Melodrama (2017). The song was written by Lorde, Jack Antonoff and Joel Little, and produced by Lorde, Antonoff and Frank Dukes. Prior to the song's release, Lorde teased the song on her Twitter account, saying the "Green Light" would be "different, and kinda unexpected. Complex and funny and sad and joyous and it'll make you DANCE." In a Beats 1 interview with Zane Lowe, she also said: "The song is really about those moments kind of immediately after your life changes and about all the silly little things that you gravitate towards. I say, 'She thinks you love the beach, you're such a liar.' What the f!@#, she thinks you like the beach?! You don't like the beach! It's those little stupid things. It sounds so happy and then the lyrics are so intense obviously. And I realized I was like, 'how come this thing is coming out so joyous sounding?' And I realized this is that drunk girl at the party dancing around crying about her ex-boyfriend who everyone thinks is a mess. That's her tonight and tomorrow she starts to rebuild. And that's the song for me." Lorde gives so much towards her songs and music videos and the greatest thing is that her passion shows! I hope you enjoyed this music video as much as I did. So much creativity and talent.
#4) Katy Perry - Chained to the Rhythm
KATY!!! I LOVE YOU GURL! Okay, it's safe now. Fan girl moment is over. "Chained to the Rhythm" features vocals from Jamaican singer Skip Marley, who co-wrote the track with Perry, Sia Furler and its producers Max Martin and Ali Payami. Capitol Records released the track on February 10, 2017 as a digital download. Mathew Cullen directed its music video, which was released on February 21, 2017, and features Perry in an amusement park called "Oblivia". The special effects aren't that amazing but I think it adds to the video. For her fifth studio album, Perry said she wanted to make "purposeful pop", which was implemented into the track "Chained to the Rhythm". Skip Marley told Billboard that he and Perry made the song together after she heard his track "Lions" and wanted to collaborate with him. After the two spoke in January 2017, he "delivered the message that I had to deliver" while recording the track, describing it as "one of unification and love".
#5) Bea Miller - song like you
I've been loving Bea Millers new music lately. She puts so much emotion not only into her songs but also in her music videos. Her new project is a song collection that will be released in three chapters over the course of the year and culminate in a full album in November. It starts with the first phase, Chapter One: Blue. The theme: keeping it real. Time magazine interviews Bea about "song like you" and this is what she had to say: "I had somebody in my life who wasn’t good for me. I was constantly torn between needing to move on and not being able to accept that I needed to move on. One morning it just clicked. I was sitting on the train going to the studio in New York, and I started writing down good things that eventually escalate into things that are not so great. Like a wave that eventually becomes a hurricane, or a lullaby that you can’t even hear because the baby’s crying.I feel like "song like you" is not only the beginning of this release, but the beginning of this entire story—this entire part of my life." Click here for the entire article.
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