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Broken Bells is the new collaborative project between James Mercer, mastermind behind The Shins, and Danger Mouse, AKA the guy who made The Grey Album as well as one half of Gnarls Barkley.

Broken Bells' self-titled album, due out in March, promises a tantalizing combination of Mercer's innate feel for pop melody and Danger Mouse's mastery of all varieties of atmospherics and studio trickery.

Directed by Sophie Muller (Beyonce's "Deja Vu," Kings Of Leon's "Use Somebody"), "High Road," is the first video (and single) to come from Broken Bells, and it is anything to go by, the project could be as compelling, visually, as it is sonically.

Whether you think Muller's "High Road" vid is a subtle nod to French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's legendary traffic sequence from Weekend (what up, film school!) or just a literal rendering of the song's haunting, imagery-heavy lyrics, it's a humdinger just the same.

In "High Road," Mercer and Danger Mouse walk a not-so lonely road, full of crashed cars, abandoned kids, firemen and a horse (!), much like the experiences of the song's narrator.

Broken Bells' self-titled album is due out March 9th.

Tags Beyonce, Broken Bells, Danger Mouse, Gnarls Barkley, Kings of Leon, Sophie Muller, The Shins, video

Shakira's equal parts step-dancing soldier, Jamaican dancehall diva, and classical Thai dancer (with Lady Liberty leanings) in her brand-new video, "Give It Up To Me," directed by Sophie Muller, produced by Timbaland, and featuring Lil Wayne. You won't get the supernatural otherworldly occurrences of her "She Wolf" video, but you will get a healthy dose of pelvic thrusts.

Watch Shakira's "Give It Up To Me" video, off her upcoming She Wolf album, now.

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Tags Shakira, Sophie Muller, Timbaland, video

Oh, Pink. Only happy when it rains. I gotta say, there are two different ways to deal with wedding day heartbreak. There's the Katy Perry way, as seen in "Hot 'N' Cold" (all choreographed dancing, and runaway-groom chasing) and there's the Pink way, as seen in this video for "I Don't Believe You," the sixth single from Funhouse.

In this impressionistic clip, directed by legendary music vid auteur Sophie Muller (Blur's "Song 2," No Doubt's "Don't Speak"), Pink is trapped inside of an old movie, set in an empty church where love once blossomed. Well, needless to say, love don't live here anymore; and there's lotsa running around, crying and staring into mirrors to prove it.

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Tags Blur, Katy Perry, No Doubt, Pink, Sophie Muller, video

If a smoky-eyed, bed-headed, Brigitte Bardot-inspired Duffy in her new "Stepping Stone" video (not to be confused with the classic 1966 Monkees hit, "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone)" reminds you a lil of Gwen Stefani luxuriating gorgeously yet pensively in bed in her "4 in the Morning" video, it's because Sophie Muller (Gwen's go-to director) lensed Duffy's latest clip too.

Watch the throaty, soulful songbird rue her wrong turns and wash them down with a wholesome glass of milk -- precisely why she's the anti-Winehouse, because you KNOW Amy'd chase her bad-day blues away with a couple of eight balls and a case and a half of Alize. It's only sad because it's true.

PS: That graffed-up tunnel Duffy's walking through that says "Scary" in big, huge letters? It's in the Shoreditch section of London, and it's by artist Eine. Definitely check it out if you go. It's unreal.

Tags Amy Winehouse, Duffy, Gwen Stefani, Sophie Muller, The Monkees

In her new video, "Better In Time," emotional hemophiliac Leona Lewis has apparently recovered from the open wounds that spewed so much potentially hazardous love all over the place in her breakthrough debut, "Bleeding Love."

Director Sophie Muller -- she's responsible for nearly all of Gwen Stefani's videos (Muller favors a lot of couture eveningwear, major mansions, black and white elements, and soft lighting -- case in point, Gwen's "Early Winter," "4 In the Morning," and "Cool" videos so watch for that) -- is part of the reason Leona looks so luxe in "Better In Time." Good genes and a more healthy perspective on break-ups also help.

Tags Celebrity, Gwen Stefani, Leona Lewis, Music, Sophie Muller, video, Videos