Category Archives: music video

Music Video of the Day: Easy Lover by Miley Cyrus (2025, dir by Miley Cyrus, Jacob Bixenman, and Brendan Walter)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Oh hey, it’s yet another behind-the-scenes style music video.  Look at all the effort that goes into shooting a Miley Cyrus video, everyone!

Oh well.  Even if I am a bit cynical about this video’s format, at least Miley’s improved as a performer over the past few years.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (1991, directed by Scott Kalvert)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Mark Wahlberg, the man once known as Marky Mark, is 54 years old today.  That’s the type of news that really makes you realize how quickly time passes.

Good Vibrations was Mark “Marky Mark” Wahlberg’s first MTV-promoted music video.  The woman in the video is model Traci Bingham, who later went on to appear on Baywatch.  Boxer Mickey Ward was brought in to show the 18 year-old Marky Mark how to convincingly throw a punch in the ring.  Years later, Wahlberg would play Mickey Ward in The Fighter.

I would love to be able to go back to 1991 and tell everyone that Marky Mark was destined to be an Oscar nominee.  They would be so shocked that they probably wouldn’t even flinch when I told them that, when Marky Mark turned 54, Donald Trump was serving his second nonconsecutive term as President.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Communication by The Power Station (1985, directed by Julian Caidan)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

The Power Station was one of the best supergroups of the 80s.  Made up of Robert Palmer, Chic’s Tony Thomas, and Duran Duran’s John and Andy Taylor, this group may have started as a whim (with Thomas and the Taylors specifically wanting to to do a cover of T. Rex’s Get It On) but it’s first record was such a hit that it led to the band going on tour and also singer Robert Palmer leaving the band to pursue his solo career.

Originally, the band wanted to have a rotating list of lead singers.  Palmer was recruited just to sing Communication but when Palmer also said he wanted to sing Get It On, it led to Thomas and the Taylors hiring him to sing on all the songs on the album.  After Palmer left, he was replaced by Michael Des Barres.

Communication was one of three music videos that The Power Station released for their debut album.  It was directed by Julian Caidan, who is better-known for his work as an editor.  Caidan went on to direct several music videos for Robert Palmer’s solo career and he also did the video for Iron Maiden’s Stranger in a Strange Land, which is about as far away from Robert Palmer as you can get.

Enjoy!

Brad’s Music Video of the Day – “Boondocks” by Little Big Town

Posted on by Bradley Crain

As a guy from Toad Suck, Arkansas, I’ve always loved this early breakout song from 2005 for the country group, Little Big Town. As the song says:

“I feel no shame, I’m proud of where I came from, I was born and raised in the boondocks.”

One of the group’s members, Phillip Sweet, is actually from Arkansas which makes it even “sweeter!” So if you’re proud of where you came from, no matter if it’s the biggest city or the most backwoods boondocks, sit back and enjoy this classic from Little Big Town!

Music Video of the Day: Only by Anthrax (1993, directed by Paul Elledge)

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Rocking with Anthrax!

This song is off of Anthrax’s sixth studio album, Sound of White Noise and it was one of their bigger hits from the John Bush era.  No less than James Hetfield referred to this as being a “perfect song.”  The video mixes surreal imagery with clips of the band playing.

If the man with the mirror looks familiar, that’s because he’s played by Frank Silva, who was also Killer Bob on Twin Peaks.  This was Silva’s only role outside of Twin Peaks.

Director Paul Elledge was a photographer who also directed videos  for Ministry.

Enjoy!