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It’s Royal Wedding weekend! As with any wedding, the music selection shouldn’t be taken lightly. So with that in mind, we’ve put together a playlist that we think would really get the ceremony kickin! Here’s what the Prince & Princess should be grindin’ to at the royal reception, cause even royalty can bust a move [...]

Odds are you’re familiar with the classic Neil Young song ‘Old Man’, from his best selling 1972 album ‘Harvest’. Well, nearly 40 years later, a band has been given the OK from ol’ Neil to sample the famous track. Although sampling has become pretty standard practice in popular music, this is actually the first time [...]

Journey down the rabbit hole on a trip through the latest Jessie J music video ‘Nobody’s Perfect’. The Alice In Wonderland flavoured clip features some truly wacky costumes and set designs. Oh, and did we mention explosions? You can’t lose with explosions. Right, Michael Bay? Music Video: Jessie J – Nobody’s Perfect What do you [...]

Britney Spears’s video for “Till the World Ends” was released today…and it’s awesome. In a throwback to her “Slave 4 U” video, “Till the World Ends” features BritBrit and a crowd of her most attractive friends hanging out and gyrating at an underground “Apocalypse” party. You know the old song and dance – there’s a [...]

A departure from her candy-land bubblegum videos of the past, Katy Perry goes out-of-this-world for her E.T. video. Directed by Floria Sigismondi, known for her work with shock-rocker Marilyn Manson and Icelandic oddball Bjork, E.T. is all about the dark graphic images, extreme costumes, and the strange Discovery Channel-esque footage of wild animals. Even stranger [...]

One night, in a dark car body shop, Keri Hilson and Chris Brown met for a dance-rendezvous. There were lots of blue neon lights flashing and it was really sweaty in there. They were dancing a perfectly choreographed routine when they suddenly realized that a camera was recording them. This video has finally surfaced and [...]

The Far East Movement might be in the market for a new name. After the success of their smash hit club anthem “Like A G6,” The Movement have taken the north, south, east and west by storm. MetroLyrics has an exclusive look behind the scenes of their new video “If I Was You (OMG)” featuring Snoop [...]

Only a week prior to the devastation in Japan, The Black Eyed Peas wrapped up their Lost In Translation themed music video for “Just Can’t Get Enough” – a fast-paced trip featuring the group members ridin’ solo through the country’s famous lights. The video is a beautiful ode to Japan’s bustling city life, and opens [...]

Just like all of you, we here at the MetroLyrics Blog love St. Patrick’s Day! So naturally, we thought we’d put a few songs together to get you off on the right foot this St. Patty’s Day and celebrate Irish style! Green Day – Basket Case On this green day, here’s some Green Day! The [...]

Calling all Beliebers & Country music lovers: we never thought the two worlds would collide, but the Biebs and Country superstars Rascall Flatts have released a music video for their new collaboration “That Should Be Me.” The behind-the-scenes, documentary-style video of JB and RF performing together premiered over the weekend, and Bieber excitedly tweeted the [...]

The Foo Fighters have released a cool new video for their latest single ‘Rope’, off their upcoming album Wasting Light, due out April 12th. Fun fact: The song ‘Rope’ was recorded entirely on analog tape in Dave Grohl’s garage and no computers or software were used in the production. The band takes their lo-fi approach [...]

It make sense for a seriously buzzworthy band like The National to team up with John Slattery from the seriously buzzworthy TV show Mad Men to make a seriously buzzworthy video for the song “Conversation 16.” If you still aren’t familiar with The National, you should know they’ve been making records since 2001, but are [...]

Fresh off the smash hit success of her debut song ‘Whip My Hair’, Willow Smith is back with a brand new single and music video, ’21st Century Girl’. ’21st Century Girl’ is a club shaker of a track. Set in the desert, the video opens with a bit of witchcraft, when a traveling witch(?) brings [...]

Here’s the brand new video for Usher’s recent smash hit dance anthem, “More.” Watch it below. Just a word of advice: You might want to make some room around your computer ’cause this thing is gonna make you want to dance. Usher – “More” Music Video 5

The music video for J.Lo’s brand new hit “On The Floor,” featuring Pitbull, dropped to the web today. As you might expect for a song like “On The Floor,” the video is essentially a massive dance party, inside of a massive club. Even at the age of 41, J.Lo clearly still knows how to work [...]

With Inception references aplenty, Lil’ Wayne’s new video for “6 Foot, 7 Foot” premiered today. Featuring a sample of Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) and produced by “A Milli” hitmaker Bangladesh, it’s the first single off his anticipated release Tha Carter IV, which is pushing for a March release. It looks like Lil’ Wayne’s “dream [...]

Indie rock band The Strokes have released a music video for their newest single “Under Cover of Darkness” off their upcoming album Angles. In the event that you’ve been living under a rock, you should know that this is kind of big news, as it is the band’s first album since ’06 The video follows [...]

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Christina Aguilera has been through a bit of a rough stretch. First it was her sudden divorce, then it was the underwhelming success of her film “Burlesque,” then she booted the national anthem at the Super Bowl, then she fell down on stage at the Grammys, [...]

We were expecting a lot from Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” video for a number of reasons, but mainly ’cause every single video from Lady Gaga so far has made for great water-cooler talk. After finally watching “Born This Way” this morning, we’re proud to report that it does not buck the trend. The “Born [...]

The video for Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Skylar Grey’s hit song “I Need A Doctor” is here. The 7 plus minute clip begins with Dr. Dre reflecting on his past, interspersed with scenes of his early rap days. You’ll probably notice the clips of Dre hanging with Tupac and fellow NWA alum, the late Eazy-E. [...]