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Music Video Monday: P. Moses

Today’s Music Video Monday is fired up, ready to go!

When she’s not busy speaking truth to power, activist P. Moses spends her time dropping sick beats. For the Memphis rapper, marching for Black Lives Matter and cutting hip hop anthems are all a part of the same work of waking up the sleeping populace. Her latest, “We Rockin We Ain’t Stoppin” dropped late last month. The video includes footage of last summer’s BLM protests downtown, and serves as a rousing call to action in troubled times.

Music Video Monday: P. Moses

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Music Video Monday: Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars

Today’s Music Video Monday also happens to be one of the biggest hits of the decade. 

In the six months since “Uptown Funk” was released by British mega-producer Mark Ronson and Hawaiian sensation Bruno Mars, it has spent 14 weeks as number one on the American Billboard sales charts, 7 weeks atop the British charts, has set records for the number of streams in a week, and has won Single Of The Year at the Brit Awards. It’s one of those seemingly rare moments when market success and artistic success converge. You can read all about its recording at Royal Studios with Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell in this Flyer story from February. The video is simple, energetic, and awesome. 

Music Video Monday: Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars

It was also the first song recorded in Memphis to hit number one since Memphis disc jockey Rick Dees’ novelty record “Disco Duck” topped the charts for one week in October, 1976. So as an added Music Video Monday bonus, here’s Dees and Duck live on The Midnight Special. 

Music Video Monday: Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars (2)

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Music Video Monday: Vending Machine World Premiere

On today’s Music Video Monday, we’ve got the world premiere of “White Squared Potato” from Robby Grant’s ongoing music video project for his new Vending Machine album Let The Little Things Go. Director Andrew Trent Fleming takes us on a chase through space in a rickety, retrofuture rocket. 

“When Robby asked me to make a video for his new Vending Machine EP, I knew I wanted to do something off the wall,” says Fleming. “I wanted to do something I’d never done in a music video before (space setting, 3D graphics) and make it silly but a little dark. I also wanted to make a small joke about the plethora of locals (myself included) who shoehorn some iconic Memphis landmark into videos in which they don’t make any sense.”

Music Video Monday: Vending Machine World Premere

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Music Video Monday: Stephen Chopek

Stephen Chopek recently moved to Memphis from his native New Jersey, and found a niche playing drums for both John Paul Keith and the guitarist’s project with Amy LaVere, Motel Mirrors. But Chopek also does his own thing, and “Systematic Collapse” is the first single from his new EP, Things Moving. 

Chopek shot this video, using footage he shot while on the road, including scenes from Seattle, Washington, New Haven Connecticut, Rutherford, New Jersey, and Memphis. “I was touring a lot last year, and wanted to capture the moments between traveling and performing,” he says. “Most of the action in the video takes place at night, which is when I had time to get out and explore my surroundings”.

Chopek says the song is about the interconnected set of crises that defines our world today, but all is not doom and gloom. “The juxtaposition of a dancing horse, who also spins records, provides some comic relief for a song about a world in need of repair,” he says. 

Music Video Monday: Stephen Chopek

How did Chopek’s music video come to be featured on Music Video Monday? He emailed me at cmccoy@memphisflyer.com! If you have a video you’d like to see here, that’s what you should do!