Spankin’ New Video: Kylie Minogue Keeps Poppin’ & Lockin’

Kylie Minogue is a music business anomily. It’s hard to imagine she had no substantial hit in the 90s and that almost 15 years after her first hit, “Locomotion,” (a very mild hit we should add) she’d come back to the State-side, in 2001, with “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.” It turned out to be another mild hit and then she disappeared. Or so it seemed.

Minogue kept releasing great pop albums in 2003 and 2007 , toured the world, stayed relevant within the pop world working with Bloodyshy & Avant (Britney Spears’s “Toxic”), Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane), Cutfather (Pussycat Doll’s “I Hate This Part”), Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, Sia, and Kesha producer), and Stuart Price (Madonna). With all this Kylie’s following seems to increase even if her June release Aphrodite is nowhere in Billboards Top 200 albums after only 3 months.

The album is on it’s 2nd single “Get Outta My Way” with a video premiere and it’s quite the piece of Pop art. It features the singer performing choreography that has her poppin’ and lockin’ while laying on a graphic grid with shirtless dancers picking-up and placing chairs around her. The end sequence has her looking like a superhero-lioness of sorts with a herd of gay cubs surrounding her. Fantastic, if you ask us.

It’s quite the eye-candy. Whether it becomes a pop-radio hit doesn’t seem to matter anymore. Did it ever?

Maroon 5’s “Misery”

It’s been three years since Maroon 5 released their Police/Sting inspired sophomore album It Won’t Be Soon Before Long. Now, “Misery”, the first single from their upcoming album Hands All Over (due out September 2010) has a video.

The record sounds very Maroon 5 but we like it. Never mind that the bridge (1:55) sounds almost identical to the bridge on “This Love” (2:02).

As always, the proof of a dope video is in two things: 1) Does it make you love the record more? 2) Do you watch it through to the end? In this case, the answer to both those questions is…yes.

There’s something about the shots of Adam Levine falling that makes you want to see more of it.

Plus, Adam Levine sporting a pompadour? We’re not complaining.

Hello, My Name Is: Javiera Mena

The window for game-changing artists is so tiny that it seems that only every 5 years we get to see the game change in some way, Kanye for Hip-Hop, Lady GaGa for Pop.

Latin music is probably twice as hard to change as Latin radio is very fixed in format and sound.

We might be crazy to think that Chilean artist Javier Mena can change it, but with the caliber of the first single off her album Mena, there’s a chance. We can hope.

Synths. Melody, on point. Electro-pop perfection. Don’t mind the long instrumental bridge.

If you haven’t met Javiera Mena yet. Well, let her make an indelible first impression.

Listen here:

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The window for game-changing artists is so tiny that it seems that only every 5 years we get to see the game change in some way, Kanye for Hip-Hop, Lady GaGa for Pop.

Latin music is probably twice as hard to change as Latin radio is very fixed in format and sound.

We might be crazy to think that Chilean artist Javier Mena can change it. With the caliber of the first single from her album Mena, there’s a big chance. We can hope.

Synths. Melody, on point. Electro-pop perfection. Don’t mind the long instrumental bridge.

If you haven’t met Javiera Mena yet. Well, let her make an indelible first impression.

Listen here:

Lady GaGa And Gossip Girl Meet For The First Time

The fall of 2008 held two parallel pop phenomenons: Gossip Girl and Lady GaGa.

Gossip Girl had just premiered their second season, and even though viewership had fallen 7% from a measly, 3.65 million viewers from the pilot episode, they were everywhere. You couldn’t escape the show.

Lady GaGa was just really beginning to work a buzz, because at that point, her single “Just Dance” wasn’t sellable without an album. It was right after the album release that support began to build for her first number 1 single.

In this clip, music supervision company, Chop Shop, seamlessly placed “Paparazzi” into one of the first scenes of Gossip Girl’s second season.

We remember watching this episode. Little did we know that weeks later we would fall in love with this song while giving Lady GaGa’s album a chance.

Not for nothing, but that kiss is totally bawse.

Check the placement out:

Enrique Iglesias and First Love

Enrique Iglesias isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think, “Artistic vision.” For the most part he’s been a latin radio darling and that’s all he’ll ever be. Essentially, he has a career sprinkled with some really good songs.

His latest album is due out this summer and the marketing plan is to have a Pop and Latin Pop single simultaneously out at the same time. “I Like It” features Pitbull and it’s supposed to be in Jersey Shore soundtrack. Why? Who knows? “Cuando Me Enamoro” is the Latin Pop single and is already Top 10 in the latin charts. It’s deserving since it is a simple and sweet pop song featuring a latin music living legend, Juan Luis Guerra.

We always say that a video goes a long way in making anyone love a song. The new video for “Cuando Me Enamoro” just tugs at your heart strings. It depicts several kids in an elementary school dealing with crushes. Totally made us think about our first crush…those were the days.

The video features Ana Ortiz, from Ugly Betty, and it’s quite beautiful. We like.

Check it out: