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The 12 Best Literal Music Videos

The literal video trend took off way back in 2008—that's like 18 Internet years ago. But it hasn't stopped being funny. The latest entry was a parody of Smashing Pumpkin's "Today" featuring a great Burning Man reference. But to be one of the 10 Best Literal Music Videos of All Time, you've gotta have an even-more-ridiculous music video to start with than Billy Corgan as the ice-cream man.  read more

The Ten Best Animated Music Videos

These days, the music video is an essential part of promoting a single. And sure, you could just have your band shuffle around in front of a green screen, but there’s also a ton of creative potential in a band’s willingness to take a chance and couple their song with some original animation. Here are ten of the best of those pairings....  read more

Eleven Songs That Soundtrack Paste Staffers' Olympic Figure Skating Dreams

When it comes to the Olympics...  read more

A-ha Hangs It Up After 25 Years

You may not have known they were still around, but chances are you still get “Take On Me” stuck in your head every once in a while. A-ha, the Norwegian band responsible for ridiculously catchy synth-pop songs of the ’80s, are bidding farewell after a 25-year stretch....  read more

Seven Brilliant, Terrible and Brilliantly Terrible Metal Covers of Pop Songs

Your average metal band usually has wildly different musical sensibilities from top 40 radio pop (and that goes double for said average metal band's fans). But is there really any good reason for that other than genre segregation that forbids metal fans from rubbing their leather-clad elbows with bubblegum popsters? That question may remain unanswered for now, but some metal acts are bridging the divide with covers of pop tracks that range from excellent to execrable. Let's take a look, and see how they stack up against the originals....  read more