The best music-related video this week may have been something that didn't have any music. I'm talking about Hannibal Buress consuming Justin Bieber's soul. There are days when I want to turn this entire column into a tribute to Buress, who is not a musician in any way. (Proof.) Nevertheless, there were a bunch of good music videos this week, and there was one great one. Check out our picks below.
5. TOPS - "Driverless Passenger" (Dir. Jason Harvey)
There aren't too many videos where, when you're watching, you genuinely have no idea what's going to happen next. This is one of those.
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4. Brandon Flowers - "Can't Deny My Love" (Dir. Robert Schober)
I don't know why Flowers insists on setting so many of his videos in the Old West (or maybe Old Massachusetts in this case), but I'm not going to deny a prime slice of '80s spooktacular silliness like this.
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3. Jamie xx - "Loud Places" (Feat. Romy Madley Croft) (Dir. Simon Halsall & Jean-Baptiste Fugger)
London is a very pretty city, and did you know the xx could gleam cubes like that? I sure didn't.
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2. Sia - "Big Girls Cry" (Dir. Sia & Daniel Askill)
Is anyone else worried about this kid? I'm starting to worry about this kid.
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1. Kendrick Lamar - "King Kunta" (Dir. Director X)
I might have to write a whole Week In Rap column about this one video, so I don't want to go on too long about it here. But what a great display of an embattled local culture. (As I understand it, that swap meet where Kendrick raps on the roof is about to become a Wal-Mart.) And more than any of the actual songs that Kendrick has done with Dr. Dre, what a great Dr. Dre tribute. I wish I understood why the aspect ration makes it look like someone was holding an iPhone vertically, though.
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