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# Readers Poll 2012- Best Music Video – It's been a big year for music videos. A decade ago this industry was close to dying an undignified death---but not only because of YouTube's huge success. Video's had become bereft of inspiration, formulaic, they didn't aspire to art because they knew they were just adverts. Adverts that weren't even working. In fact, looking back, it's actually YouTube which turned out to be the humble music clip's saviour. In 2012 we saw the most clicked music video ever and an uncountable amount of the beloved unofficial DIY joy. Below are your top videos of the year, based on your feedback. Have fun while browsing through your picks and see you next year. **1. MIA -- Bad Girls**, directed by [Romain Gavras][1]{: target="_blank"} **Romain Gavras**' promo for **M.I.A**'s "Bad Girls" is part slick-ass car advert, part Saudi drag race---we like. It's M.I.A. so of course there's more than burning rubber and ghostridin' the whip, though---the video stands shoulder to shoulder with the [women to drive][2] movement. You voted the video the top of the list of this years's music video and although M.I.A. failed to releases her awaited full-length this year, this video ensured she was never far from our screens. This has much to do with M.I.A's go-to director Romain Gavras. After his success with music videos for the likes of **Justice**, **DJ Mehdi** or **Simian Mobile Disco** he turned ginger for "Born Free", directed a full feature entitled *Notre Jour Viendra* (German distribution anyone?) and, yup, succeeded with this hell of a music video above. Artist: M.I.A. Track: Bad Girls Album: 12″ Label: XL Recordings Director: Romain Gavras DoP: André Chémétoff Editor: Walter Mauriot Production Company: Iconoclast **2. Grimes -- Genesis**, directed by [Claire Boucher][3]{: target="_blank"} It's been a hell of a year for **Grimes**... The weird-haired artpop weirdo went from the hipster fringes (sorry... ) to being profiled in *The New York Times* and Vogue. This video, more of the former than the latter, comes in at #2. The track comes from Claire Boucher's 2012 record *Visions*, and the video features the cast of Mortal Kombat strutting down various landscapes---conjuring the imagery of films like *Mad Max*, *Blade Runner* or *The Fifth Element*. Artist: Grimes Track: Genesis Director: Claire Boucher DoP: Drew Bienemann Editor: Walter Mauriot Production Company:Sebastian Pardo & Lana Kim Album: Visions Label: 4AD/Arbutus **3. Flying Lotus -- Tiny Tortures**, directed by [David Lewandowski][4]{: target="_blank"} Imaginative and unique. Just as we acclimatise to **FlyLo**'s music here's the astonishing video. If for some reason you have been under a rock and haven't listened to his latest LP, *Until The Quiet Comes*, get to it. Check the director's homepage for an detailed music video production analysis. We haven't heard from **David Lewandowski** before, but I am more than sure that pretty soon he'll be signed at one of the major (still existing) production companies. Artist: Flying Lotus Track: Tiny Tortures Director: David Lewandowski DoP: Christian Sprenger Editor: -- Production Company: -- Album: Until The Quiet Comes Label: Warp **4. Le1f -- Wut**, directed by Sam Jones Shortly after **Frank Ocean**'s letter, everybody was abuzz because *apparently* we all had no idea queer artists existed </end sarcasm> Speaking of Hip-hop and queerness Here's **Le1f** 's dope video for "Wut". Wow. Wut. And what a nice surprise seeing **Khalif Diouf** aka Le1f with this **Sam Jones**-crafted music video above, voted #4 on eb.net top videos. Artist: Le1f Track: Wut Director: Sam Jones DoP: Sam Jones Editor: Sam Jones & Josh Koenig Production Company: Josh Koenig Album: Dark York Label: Greedhead Entertainment, Camp & Street **5. Scuba -- ne1butu**, directed by [James Harford][5]{: target="_blank"} I wanna dress like this and party like it's 1989. **Scuba**'s "Ne1butu" is a standout gem from his album Personality and something of an instant classic. You were certainly digging this colorful 90's-style music video. Watch the homage to 1990's **BBC** 2 show *Dance Energy* above. Artist: Scuba Track: ne1butu Director: James Harford Editor: Production Company: -- Album: 12″ Label: Hotflush Recordings We can't stop here: **6. Woodkid -- Iron**, directed by Yoann Lemoine **7. Björk -- Mutual Core**, Andrew Thomas Huang **8. Die Antwoord** -- I fink u freeky, directed by Roger Ballen & NINJA **9. Nosaj Thing -- Eclipse/Blue**, directed by Jason Chung & Dominic Tiberio **10. Mykki Blanco -- Wavvy**, directed by Francesco Carrozzini The 6th [prize][6]---a bag of New Order goodies---goes to **Jason Warren, **{::}**Mannheim, Germany.** *Your most outstanding record label of 2012 will be following on Thursday, December 27. Find [all poll results][7] in here.* [1]: http://www.somesuchandco.com/directors/romain-gavras/all-in/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_to_drive_movement [3]: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Claire-Boucher/234209756618164 [4]: http://dlew.me/ [5]: http://lemonademoney.tv/ [6]: http://www.electronicbeats.net/2012/12/01/readers-poll-your-best-of-2012/ "ElectronicBeats.net: Readers’ Poll – Your best of 2012" [7]: http://www.electronicbeats.net/tag/eb-readers-poll-2012/ "ElectronicBeats.net: EB Readers’ Poll 2012"

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      <p>It&rsquo;s been a big year for music videos. A decade ago this industry was close to dying an undignified death&mdash;but not only because of YouTube&rsquo;s huge success. Video&rsquo;s had become bereft of inspiration, formulaic, they didn&rsquo;t aspire to art because they knew they were just adverts. Adverts that weren&rsquo;t even working. In fact, looking back, it&rsquo;s actually YouTube which turned out to be the humble music clip&rsquo;s saviour. In 2012 we saw the most clicked music video ever and an uncountable amount of the beloved unofficial DIY joy. Below are your top videos of the year, based on your feedback. Have fun while browsing through your picks and see you next year.</p><p><strong>1. MIA &ndash; Bad Girls</strong>, directed by <a href="http://www.somesuchandco.com/directors/romain-gavras/all-in/" target="_blank">Romain Gavras</a></p><p><strong>Romain Gavras</strong>&rsquo; promo for <strong>M.I.A</strong>&rsquo;s &ldquo;Bad Girls&rdquo; is part slick-ass car advert, part Saudi drag race&mdash;we like. It&rsquo;s M.I.A. so of course there&rsquo;s more than burning rubber and ghostridin&rsquo; the whip, though&mdash;the video stands shoulder to shoulder with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_to_drive_movement">women to drive</a> movement. You voted the video the top of the list of this years&rsquo;s music video and although M.I.A. failed to releases her awaited full-length this year, this video ensured she was never far from our screens. This has much to do with M.I.A&rsquo;s go-to director&nbsp;Romain Gavras. After his&nbsp;success with music videos for the likes of <strong>Justice</strong>, <strong>DJ Mehdi</strong> or&nbsp;<strong>Simian Mobile Disco</strong> he turned ginger for &ldquo;Born Free&rdquo;, directed a full feature entitled <em>Notre Jour Viendra</em> (German distribution anyone?) and, yup, succeeded with this hell of a music video above.</p><p>Artist: M.I.A.<br>
      Track: Bad Girls<br>
      Album: 12&Prime;<br>
      Label: XL Recordings<br>
      Director: Romain Gavras<br>
      DoP: Andr&eacute; Ch&eacute;m&eacute;toff<br>
      Editor: Walter Mauriot<br>
      Production Company: Iconoclast</p><p><strong>2. Grimes &ndash; Genesis</strong>, directed by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Claire-Boucher/234209756618164" target="_blank">Claire Boucher</a></p><p>It&rsquo;s been a hell of a year for <strong>Grimes</strong>&hellip; The weird-haired artpop weirdo went from the hipster fringes (sorry&hellip; ) to being profiled in <em>The New York Times</em> and <em>Vogue. </em>This video, more of the former than the latter, comes in at #2. The track comes from Claire Boucher&rsquo;s 2012 record <em>Visions</em>, and the video &nbsp;features the cast of Mortal Kombat strutting down various&nbsp;landscapes&mdash;conjuring the imagery of films like <em>Mad Max</em>, <em>Blade Runner</em> or <em>The Fifth Element</em>.</p><p>Artist: Grimes<br>
      Track: Genesis<br>
      Director: Claire Boucher<br>
      DoP: Drew Bienemann<br>
      Editor: Walter Mauriot<br>
      Production Company:Sebastian Pardo &amp; Lana Kim<br>
      Album: Visions<br>
      Label: 4AD/Arbutus</p><p><strong>3. Flying Lotus &ndash; Tiny Tortures</strong>, directed by <a href="http://dlew.me/" target="_blank">David Lewandowski</a></p><p>Imaginative and unique. Just as we acclimatise to&nbsp;<strong>FlyLo</strong>&rsquo;s&nbsp;music here&rsquo;s the astonishing video. If for some reason you have been under a rock and haven&rsquo;t listened to his latest LP, <em>Until The Quiet Comes</em>, get to it. Check the director&rsquo;s homepage for an detailed music video production analysis. We haven&rsquo;t heard from&nbsp;<strong>David Lewandowski</strong> before, but I am more than sure that pretty soon he&rsquo;ll be signed at one of the major (still existing) production companies.</p><p>Artist: Flying Lotus<br>
      Track: Tiny Tortures<br>
      Director: David Lewandowski<br>
      DoP: Christian Sprenger<br>
      Editor: &ndash;<br>
      Production Company: &ndash;<br>
      Album: Until The Quiet Comes<br>
      Label: Warp</p><p><strong>4. Le1f &ndash; Wut</strong>, directed by Sam Jones</p><p>Shortly after <strong>Frank Ocean</strong>&rsquo;s letter, everybody was abuzz because <em>apparently</em> we all had no idea queer artists existed &lt;/end sarcasm&gt;&nbsp;<del>Speaking of Hip-hop and queerness</del>&nbsp;Here&rsquo;s <strong>Le1f</strong> &lsquo;s dope video for &ldquo;Wut&rdquo;. Wow. Wut. And what a nice surprise seeing <strong>Khalif Diouf</strong> aka&nbsp;Le1f with this <strong>Sam Jones</strong>-crafted music video above, voted #4 on eb.net top videos.</p><p>Artist: Le1f<br>
      Track: Wut<br>
      Director: Sam Jones<br>
      DoP: Sam Jones<br>
      Editor: Sam Jones &amp; Josh Koenig<br>
      Production Company: Josh Koenig<br>
      Album: Dark York<br>
      Label: Greedhead Entertainment, Camp &amp; Street</p><p><strong>5. Scuba &ndash; ne1butu</strong>, directed by <a href="http://lemonademoney.tv/" target="_blank">James Harford</a></p><p>I wanna dress like this and party like it&rsquo;s 1989. <strong>Scuba</strong>&lsquo;s &ldquo;Ne1butu&rdquo; is a standout gem from his album <em>Personality </em>and something of an instant classic. You were certainly digging this colorful&nbsp;90&rsquo;s-style music video. Watch the&nbsp;homage to 1990&rsquo;s <strong>BBC</strong> 2 show <em>Dance Energy</em> above.</p><p>Artist: Scuba<br>
      Track: ne1butu<br>
      Director: James Harford<br>
      Editor:<br>
      Production Company: &ndash;<br>
      Album: 12&Prime;<br>
      Label: Hotflush Recordings<br>
      We can&rsquo;t stop here:</p><p><strong>6.&nbsp;Woodkid &ndash; Iron</strong>, directed by Yoann Lemoine</p><p><strong>7.&nbsp;Bj&ouml;rk &ndash; Mutual Core</strong>, Andrew Thomas Huang</p><p><strong>8.&nbsp;Die Antwoord</strong> &ndash; I fink u freeky, directed by Roger Ballen &amp; NINJA</p><p><strong>9.&nbsp;Nosaj Thing &ndash; Eclipse/Blue</strong>, directed by Jason Chung &amp; Dominic Tiberio</p><p><strong>10. Mykki Blanco &ndash; Wavvy</strong>, directed by Francesco Carrozzini</p><p>The 6th&nbsp;<a title="ElectronicBeats.net: Readers&rsquo; Poll &ndash;&nbsp;Your best of 2012" href="http://www.electronicbeats.net/2012/12/01/readers-poll-your-best-of-2012/">prize</a>&mdash;a&nbsp;bag of New Order goodies&mdash;goes to&nbsp;<strong>Jason Warren,&nbsp;</strong><strong>Mannheim, Germany.</strong></p><p><em>Your&nbsp;most outstanding record label&nbsp;of 2012 will be following on Thursday, December 27. Find&nbsp;<a title="ElectronicBeats.net: EB Readers&rsquo; Poll 2012" href="http://www.electronicbeats.net/tag/eb-readers-poll-2012/">all poll results</a>&nbsp;in here.</em></p>
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**1. MIA -- Bad Girls**, directed by [Romain Gavras][1]{: target="_blank"} . **Romain Gavras**' promo for **M.I.A**'s "Bad Girls" is part slick-ass car advert, part Saudi drag race---we like. It's M.I.A. so of course there's more than burning rubber and ghostridin' the whip, though---the video s...

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Track: Bad Girls Album: 12″ Label: XL Recordings Director: Romain Gavras DoP: André Chémétoff Editor: Walter Mauriot Production Company: Iconoclast **2. Grimes -- Genesis**, directed by [Claire Boucher][3]{: target="_blank"} . It's been a hell of a year for **Grimes**... The w...

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Artist: Grimes Track: Genesis Director: Claire Boucher DoP: Drew Bienemann Editor: Walter Mauriot Production Company:Sebastian Pardo & Lana Kim Album: Visions Label: 4AD/Arbutus **3. Flying Lotus -- Tiny Tortures**, directed by [David Lewandowski][4]{: target="_blank"} ...

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Wut. And what a nice surprise seeing **Khalif Diouf** aka Le1f with this **Sam Jones**-crafted music video above, voted #4 on eb.net top videos. Artist: Le1f Track: Wut Director: Sam Jones DoP: Sam Jones Editor: Sam Jones & Josh Koenig Production Company: Josh Koenig Al...

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Artist: Scuba Track: ne1butu Director: James Harford Editor: Production Company: -- Album: 12″ Label: Hotflush Recordings We can't stop here: **6. Woodkid -- Iron**, directed by Yoann Lemoine **7. Björk -- Mutual Core**, Andrew Thomas Huang **8. Die Antwoord...