This past weekend’s YouTube Music Awards presented an interesting conundrum for this column. The show labeled its performances as “live music videos,” and pulled in big-name directors to help put them together. But they were pretty much still performances, except with extra stuff going on. Unfortunately, the YouTube people made the mystifying decision to keep the individual performances from going up online, so it was practically a moot point. I couldn’t sit through that whole trainwreck, and I wouldn’t expect anyone else to do it, either. But there was one prominent exception, and it’s below, as are four regular (and very good) music videos.
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