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When most individuals consider Scotland, they image males in kilts and parades of bagpipers enjoying, however there is so much greater than that to Scottish music. While 20-somethings have been earnestly debating the intersectional politics of Beyoncé movies, some number of their youthful counterparts have been trawling the internet wilds, fixating on children with face tattoos eating Xanax like popcorn and setting issues on fireplace.

We’ve watched Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s romance unfold in chapters, from the giddy courtship immortalized on their early duet Loopy in Love” to the brand new dad and mom’ kitchen tryst in a sequel, Drunk in Love,” to the separate albums of adultery and reconciliation, Lemonade” and four:forty four.” Forty years in the past, it was the again story as a lot as the hits that made Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours” a basic — two couples unraveling within the studio whereas the fifth wheel confronts his wife’s infidelity.

Clad in a white, tight-cropped wig that resembles Sia’s signature coif, Ziegler stepped in for 3 of the movies from the set, most notably Chandelier,” a clip with over 1.5 billion YouTube views, which tracks her as she dances via a dilapidated condo, breathing life into the drab and mundane environment around her – and making a star out of its absent singer.

The thought, Charli instructed BBC Radio 1 , was to reverse conventional music video gender roles, making dudes do all the sexy things that girls normally do in videos.” Whip-sensible, thought-scary, and fun as hell – not to mention providing followers with sufficient GIFs to last a Twitter lifetime – Boys” set the Web into mayhem, and left it with a message.

There is no good purpose Pop 2” should dangle together — the various sounds, the different artists, the way the songs often warp considerably to accommodate the totally different artists’ completely different kinds — except that on the heart of all of it is Charli XCX.

Upon first pay attention, I am not fairly sure that I know what’s occurring in IU’s Palette” — a music sung nearly entirely in Korean — solely that I find it irresistible. There are a number of phrases in English (hot pink,” pajamas,” lipstick”), nevertheless it’s the chorus that reveals one thing recognizable: I prefer it, I’m 25,” she sings breathily above a cool bass line that sounds extra R.&B. than something.

Tyler, the Creator had a vision: ‘I am sitting on a chair rapping, I’m taking part in with a bug, I eat it, I throw it up, my eyes go black, and I dangle myself.’ That was his remedy,” defined director Anthony Mandler (Beyoncé’s Get Me Bodied,” Rihanna’s Man Down”) in a 2011 interview Mandler, along with director of images Luis Panch” Perez, gave Tyler the steerage and tools he wanted to self-direct the black-and-white, tilt-shifted video for Yonkers.” Within the breakout clip, Tyler does precisely what he outlined: He sits in a chair, lets a large cockroach crawl over his arms, appears to take a bite, pukes, blacks out his eyes, and hangs himself.