11 Best New Music Videos That Aren't Zoom Calls

You like music videos, but somehow you don’t like screen captures of Zoom calls? Must be nice… I’ve got you covered with these few visions of beauty that have escaped the grasp of these Mad Max times of ours. Enjoy them before our lives become somehow… even more hellish?

Why-Axis - Bloodstain

Directed by Tara O’Callaghan

Look, I like a high-concept music videos as much as the next guy. You want to tell me the story of aliens that can only communicate through nosebleeds or whatever? I’m in. But just a warning, I’ll never like it as much as footage of cool people partying. Cool people partying, I raise my hat to you.

Charli XCX - claws

Directed by Charli XCX and Charlotte Rutherford

I’m like: “Why not?” Charli XCX has more fun during lockdown than I have on a good day.

Chloe X Halle - Do it

Directed by C Prinz

Song : Dope. Choreography : Dope. Beat : Dope. I give this video an overall grade of Dope +. I would appreciate an “Oops! All Berries” version of this video with nothing but footage from that weird mirror cube.

aYia - Easy

Directed by Salomon Ligthelm

This video by the Icelandic alternative pop trio aYia is somewhere between 2001: A Space Odyssey and Enter the Void. There’s also some Inception thrown in for good measure, which should keep you entertained until Tenet inevitably comes out straight to VOD.

strongboi - honey thighs

Directed by Hush Moss & Jascha Müller-Guthof

This is me, if I was the big wig owner of a major record label :

“Hey strongboi, you guys are freaks. I dig. I’ll give you a million dollars cash in exchange for your soul.”

Bobby Cannavale would play me in the movie of their life.

Future - Tycoon

Directed by Danny Clinch

I thought I was good at social distancing, and then I saw Future was living in the desert like some sort of lizard with cool shades. Well played, sir.

Jessy Lanza - Face

Directed by Winston H. Case

Cool lights + Jessy Lanza…

You had me at cool lights.

Disclosure - ENERGY

Directed by Glenn Michael & Christo (Kid. Studio)

This wasn’t the sex ed I deserved, but hey… It’s the sex ed I got.

박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Like This

Directed by 박혜진 Park Hye Jin

I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but if you’re going to make a music video with your iPhone, this is the way to do it. I mean…

Mariah the Scientist - RIP

Directed by Mariah the Scientist

Oh sure, but when I try to film a music video where I’m showing off my curves in a skimpy bikini, suddenly I’m “scaring people away from the beach”. smdh.

Rosalía - TKN [ft. Travis Scott]

Directed by Nicolás Méndez aka CANADA

Shut up and watch this.