Here is a rough list of my favorite music videos for 2018. It was complied fairly casually, so I may well have forgotten something. As for the order, the top three are definitely my three absolute favorites of the year; from 4 on down, the order is more or less arbitrary.<\/p>\n
Tierra Whack, “Whack World” (Thibaut Duverneix)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Childish Gambino, “This is America” (Hiro Murai)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Janelle Monae, “Dirty Computer” (the entire 46-minute “emotion picture,” directed by Andrew Donoho and others; also the individual videos, such as “Make Me Feel,” directed by Alan Ferguson)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Taylor Swift, “Delicate” (Joseph Kahn)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Anthony Roth Costanzo, “Liquid Days” (Mark Romanek)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Billie Eilish, “when the party’s over” (Carlos Lopez Estrada)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Moses Sumney, “Quarrel” (Allie Avital & Moses Sumney)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Sophie, “Faceshopping” (Aaron Chan & Sophie)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Vince Staples, “FUN!” (Calmatic)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Mitski, “Washing Machine Heart” (Zia Anger)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
The Carters, “Apeshit” (Ricky Saiz)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Cardi B., “Money” (Jora Frantzis)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Clams Casino, “Healing” (Timothy Saccenti)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Flasher, “Material” (Nick Roney)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Jay Rock, “King’s Dead” (The Little Homies)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Kendrick Lamar & SZA, “All the Stars” (Dave Meyers & the Little Homies)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Brockhampton, “1997 Diana” (Kevin Abstract)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Noname, “Blaxploitation” (Alex Lill)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
The Weeknd, “Call Out My Name” (Grant Singer)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Troy Sivan, “My My My” (Grant Singer)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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