FKA Twigs makes great music videos that also work as short films, and “Childlike Things” is no exception. On Thursday (March 27), she shared the high-concept visual accompaniment to the Eusexua highlight, which features North West, Jake Shane, and Clerks director Kevin Smith (!), who she attempts to impress with her contortionist-like dance moves.
The video is directed by Jordan Hemingway and written by Tony Award winner Jeremy O’Harris, who is a huge FKA Twigs fan. “No one in popular music is coming anywhere near twigs choreographically that’s a given,” he once wrote on X, “but thinking about the way she’s in many ways mainstreaming the ‘dance film’ with her contributions in the music video space make me excited for a new generation to research her influences.”
In a recent Instagram video, FKA Twigs explained how North West — Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter — ended up on the track: “It [needed] someone who has that tenacity, who has that strong point of view that you have when you’re 11,” she said. “Then I saw an interview with North West, and she was so confident. It suddenly occurred to me that I would’ve loved to have a friend like North who could speak up for themselves.”
She added, “I was like, ‘OK, it has to be North, she has to put her point of view on the song.’ She came and wrote about her faith, which I think is really powerful.”
The music video has changed a lot since the turn of the century. Labels are no longer spending millions of dollars to trap Michael and Janet Jackson in an anime-playing spaceship, and just as video killed the radio star, so, too, have YouTube and social media replaced MTV. But with lower budgets and less of a reliance on a corporate entity comes higher creativity and the ability for artists to release music videos on their own terms.
With the century a quarter of the way completed, let’s take a look back at 25 of the most inventive music videos since 2000, arranged chronologically.
Two notes: the 21st century technically didn’t begin until 2001, but come on; 2000 videos are allowed. Also, artists and bands were only eligible for one video. Same with directors, with one exception. With that out of the way, these are the videos that will still be remembered in the 22nd century.
“Untitled (How Does It Feel)” by D’Angelo
Directed by: Paul Hunter
“Untitled (How Does It Feel)” came out on New Year’s Day in 2000 (a present for surviving Y2K?), and honestly, the year may have peaked there. The video for the sultry track is an intimate one-shot that slowly admires D’Angelo’s impossibly sculpted body.
“I wanted him to bare his soul to the world,” director Paul Hunter said during a “Making The Video” interview. “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” came out during an era of flashy music videos, but it’s the lack of opulence that makes the strongest impression 25 years later.
“Stan” by Eminem
Directed by: Dr. Dre and Philip Atwell
One of the only music videos on this list with a Mubi listing, “Stan” plays out like a horror movie. Fittingly, Final Destination star Devon Sawa (not Macaulay Culkin) was cast as the titular character, whose name would later become a catch-all term for overly enthusiastic fans. In fact, Eminem doesn’t appear in the full-length video until past the two-minute mark; the pre-pencil-scratching intro is a disturbing argument between Sawa’s Stan and Dido as his pregnant girlfriend. It’s so effective at conveying the song’s dark tone that you can understand the story even with the video on mute.
“Since I Left You” by The Avalanches
Directed by: Rob Leggatt and Leigh Marling
The Avalanches have only released three albums since 2000. This is unacceptable for many reasons, not the least of which is because they’re really good at making music videos. “Since I Left You,” the title track from their cult-favorite debut album, is about a pair of unassuming miners who emerge from the black-and-white underground into a dance studio during an audition with two gorgeous female dancers. One of the miners, the Paul Walter Hauser-looking one, impresses the judges and the ladies with his unexpectedly lithe moves, while the other fails to embrace this rare moment of joy and fades back to monochrome. In less than five minutes, “Since I Left You” tells a better take-a-risk story than most two-hour movies.
“Weapon Of Choice” by Fatboy Slim
Directed by: Spike Jonze
To a younger, post-“Standing” generation, Christopher Walken is more meme than man. But that’s not giving him enough credit: The actor is an Oscar winner, plus a trained dancer. He showed off both talents on Saturday Night Live, which inspired director Spike Jonze to cast him for “Weapon Of Choice.” The video begins with Walken sitting in a hotel lobby chair before Fatboy Slim’s groove kicks in and he feels a primal urge to begin dancing. It’s an extraordinary physical performance from the Severance star as he makes full use of his surroundings. Fred Astaire, a hero of his, would be proud.
“Clint Eastwood” by Gorillaz
Directed by: Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland
How did a bunch of cartoon characters — with vocals from the guy from Blur — become one of the biggest rock bands of the 2000s? The video for “Clint Eastwood” is a big reason why. It’s a forward-thinking mix of distinctive 2D characters in complex 3D environments. Plus, a bunch of gorillas do the “Thriller” dance, which is fun.
“I have a big issue with over-acting and over-animation, so I would play it the other way — I’d under-animate everything. Make it as simple but as cool as possible,” co-director Pete Candeland told Animation Obsessive. “It started to become a signature for Gorillaz.”
“Pagan Poetry” by Björk
Directed by: Nick Knight
It’s not immediately obvious what’s happening in the “Pagan Poetry” video. But then you realize: It’s abstracted footage of Bjork, shot by the Icelandic singer herself, in the throes of passion. We also see pearls being sewn into skin with needles. In the video’s second half, as she grapples with the conflict between sexual vs. emotional fulfillment, Bjork wears a wedding dress that’s literally attached to her body.
“She approached me with the idea,” director Nick Knight explained. “She wanted to show her sexuality.” The music video was banned from MTV and to this day, it’s still not available on YouTube.
“Fell In Love With A Girl” by The White Stripes
Directed by: Michel Gondry
It was tough to pick only one video from ever-imaginative director Michel Gondry, but it has to be the one with the Legos — even though the brand wanted nothing to do with The White Stripes (and not because of the siblings vs. married couple myth). “Lego the company refused to endorse the video or help us,” the Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind filmmaker explained. “We had to pay for every single box we used, because they thought the music of the White Stripes was not matching their image.” It was money well spent on a video that, like Legos themselves, appeals to kids and adults alike.
“Work It” by Missy Elliott
Directed by: Dave Meyers and Missy Elliott
The “Work It” music video is one iconic moment after another. The bees. The backwards footage to match the accidentally reversed hook. The tributes to Aaliyah and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. The tracksuits. The dancing little girl. But most iconic of all is the connection between the legend Missy herself and “Work It” co-director Dave Dave Meyers.
“When I was living it, it was just that I was having fun. Each video was like, ‘Oh Missy, let’s pull your head off, oh Missy let’s do this,’” he shared. “It was just sort of a riff session between artists, what they were about at that time and how I was able to respond to that.”
“Hey Ya!” by Outkast
Directed by: Bryan Barber
Pure joy. How else to describe “Hey Ya!”? The music video for the wedding reception staple pays homage to The Beatles making their US television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show some 40 years earlier. André 3000 had never seen the footage before, but after watching it a half a dozen times, he pitched a tweak on the concept to director Bryan Barber: “Let’s make it seem like the Americans invaded England.” Dre portrayed all eight members of The Love Below, Klumps-style, meaning he had to perform the song roughly two dozen times during the shoot. But the studio audience made up of over 100 screaming female extras kept the energy up. Their energy is palpable enough to make you want to shake it like a Polaroid picture.
“Get Back” by Ludacris
Directed by: Spike Jonze
The big arms in Ludacris’ “Get Back” music video are so iconic, he brought them out of the storage to throw out the first pitch at an Atlanta Braves game in 2024. What do the Popeye-esque limbs mean, though? I’ll answer that question with another question: Does it matter? The inherent comedy of “arms… but big” is reason enough, and Ludacris and director Spike Jonze fully embrace the absurdity. Sometimes bigger really is better.
“Helena” by My Chemical Romance
Directed by: Marc Webb
I’ve been to enough Emo Nights to see the effect My Chemical Romance’s “Helena” music video had on a generation of Hot Topic-raised misfits. There will always be at least one person (usually the one with the most eyeshadow) who will dance along with the dead lady tip-toeing down the church aisle.
The video, which was choreographed by the legendary Michael Rooney (“Praise You,” “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head,” the dance scene from 500 Days Of Summer), plays out like an old-school Hollywood musical. There’s even umbrellas being twirled, a la Singin’ In The Rain. “Helena” is a morbid delight, a song about death that makes you glad to be alive.
“Only” by Nine Inch Nails
Directed by: David Fincher
David Fincher was one of the most in-demand music video directors of the late 1980s. But once he started making full-length features, he would only return to his former profession occasionally. One of those times was the highly-digital music video for “Only,” which Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor called “a technical exercise.” You can understand why the guy who made The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button might be interested. It was Reznor and Atticus Ross’ first time working with Fincher, but not their last: they composed the chilling scores for The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and Gone Girl.
“Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” by Beyoncé
Directed by: Jake Nava
By 2008, Total Request Live — once the epicenter of music videos — was fading in influence, so much so that in September of that year, MTV announced that the show had been canceled. But TRL had one more ace up its sleeve: On October 13, exactly one month before the finale, Beyoncé premiered the music videos for “If I Were A Boy” and “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It).” The former was meant to be the main attraction, but it’s the latter — a “down-south” spin on a Fosse and Verdon routine — that became a cultural sensation.
Not everyone can be as technically precise in their choreography as Beyoncé, but one of the keys to the music video’s virality is its accessibility. “Certain movements, anyone can do — anyone can move their hand back and forth,” one of Beyonce’s backup dancers, Ebony Williams, theorized in an oral history. “That is what people are searching for.”
“Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
One of pop’s most visual-minded artists, Lady Gaga has multiple music videos that could have made the cut, including (speaking of Beyoncé) the cinematic “Telephone” and the proactively autobiographical “Marry The Night.” But let’s give it to her best song: “Bad Romance.”
Gaga emerges from a pod in a futuristic bathhouse, struts in impossibly expensive shoes, and poses in bed next to a recently charred skeleton while wearing a pyrotechnic bra. The high-concept video is directed by future The Hunger Games filmmaker Francis Lawrence, who enjoyed collaborating with Lady Gaga “because it’s always fun to work on videos with artists who love the art form, and she loves the art form and she was down.” Gaga’s music videos continue to be an event to this day.
“Lotus Flower” by Radiohead
Directed by: Garth Jennings
“I’m never confident about how I look, but I’m always into being shocking and visually interesting,” Thom Yorke once said. It’s this dynamic — an awkward attraction to the spotlight — that makes the music video for The King Of Limbs cut “Lotus Flower” so riveting to watch. The Radiohead frontman admitted that he felt “deeply uncomfortable” with having to flail about, comparing it to “paparazzi footage of me naked or something. It was f*cked up.” But that was also the appeal: “If it’s a risk, that’s probably a good thing.”
“Yonkers” by Tyler The Creator
Directed by: Tyler The Creator
The hype around Odd Future was never higher than it was during a three-month span in 2011, when Frank Ocean released Nostalgia, Ultra in February, followed by Tyler The Creator’s Goblin in May. Both are considered classics, but only one features a music video involving a cockroach being ingested.
Tyler had a succinct concept in mind for “Yonkers,” his grimy breakout single: “I’m sitting on a chair rapping, I’m playing with a bug, I eat it, I throw it up, my eyes go black, and I hang myself.” He’s the first to admit that there’s no deeper meaning to the video; Tyler did it because it looked “really cool” and knew that it would get him attention. He was right on both accounts.
“Oblivion” by Grimes
Directed by: Grimes and Emily Kai Bock
Grimes has lived many lives in her 37 years on Earth (and possibly other planets, too). But let’s focus on her most acclaimed era, when she sounded like an android who was programmed to make chillingly good electro-pop. Yet the music video for “Oblivion” is exceedingly… human.
Shot in a single weekend, co-director Emily Kai Bock keeps Grimes’ attention on the camera “against a typically male crowd,” which makes her appear to be the “most [dominant] thing in the frame while at the same time surrounded by men twice her size.” A fitting choice for someone at her (creative) peak.
“Wyclef Jean” by Young Thug
Directed by: Ryan Staake
Ryan Staake’s first idea for the “Wyclef Jean” music video was to have Young Thug light $10,000 on fire. The concept was discarded when the rapper’s label objected, but in a way, it’s exactly what happened. Young Thug never showed up to the set of the video; the only time he even appears is self-shot footage of him eating a single Cheeto. This required Staake to get creative, so he turned “Wyclef Jean” into a Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse-style meta-narrative “where we talk about the video itself in the video,” he explained. “We talk about what a disaster production was.” Staake (and a bunch of models and kids dressed as cops) turned a debacle into a spectacle.
“This Is America” by Childish Gambino
Directed by: Hiro Murai
Released at the same time as Childish Gambino’s season-best performance on Saturday Night Live, the “This Is America” music video remains shocking seven years later. A spiritual-sounding intro is interrupted by Gambino taking out a gun in a cavernous warehouse and unceremoniously firing a bullet into the back of a guitar player’s head. Shot on film, the music video tackles gun control, racism, and systemic violence. It’s heavy stuff.
But what keeps it from being overwhelmingly bleak is the technical skill involved, and what director Hiro Murai described as “Looney Tunes logic” to the brutality. Childish Gambino wanted “This Is America” (which started as a Drake diss track) to “feel like a moment.” He succeeded.
“Pienso En Tu Mirá” by Rosalía
Directed by: Nicolás Méndez
“Pienso En Tu Mirá” blurs the line between music video and short film. It begins with an unbroken shot of a flamenco dancer ornament dangling on the rearview mirror of a vehicle as it crashes into a wall; later, Rosalía is decorated with jewelry and gets surrounded by a group of men threatening her with guns, knives, and baseball bats. “Pienso en tu mirá, tu mirá clavá es una bala en el pecho,” she sings (which roughly translates to “I think of your gaze, your gaze nailed like a bullet in the chest”) as we see blood soak through once-clean shirts. It’s startling imagery that matches the song’s tale of “toxic love.”
“Lucid Dreams” by Juice WRLD
Directed by: Cole Bennett
Lyrical Lemonade founder Cole Bennett is one of rap’s foremost music video directors, and “Lucid Dreams” is his magnum opus. It’s a dream-like visual abstraction of Juice WRLD’s vivid lyrics about a breakup. There’s a melancholy that hangs heavy over the video, but you can also sense the trust between the late rapper and a fellow artist. “My creative expression is very important to me,” Bennett, who has worked with everyone from J. Cole to Eminem to Doechii, said. “It’s what keeps me happy, motivated, and inspired.”
“Now I’m In It” by Haim
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
If there’s one thing Haim loves, it’s working with Paul Thomas Anderson. If there’s two things, it’s working with Paul Thomas Anderson and walking in their music videos. “Now I’m In It,” a video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (!) which finds a bleary-eyed Danielle Haim in a depressive haze that’s only briefly broken when she’s walking (!!) alongside her sisters Este and Alana, has both. Walking is “cheap, quick, and cinematic,” according to the Phantom Thread filmmaker. Alana: “I will be walking in music videos ’til the day I die.”
“Cellophane” by FKA Twigs
Directed by: Andrew Thomas Huang
A year before the “Cellophane” music video was released, FKA Twigs revealed that she had laparoscopic surgery to remove six fibroid tumors from her uterus. “I started to doubt if my body would ever feel the same again,” she shared on Instagram, adding, “My confidence as a woman was knocked.” The singer accompanied the post with a video of herself practicing pole dancing, something she feared she would never be able to do again. “Cellophane,” a song about unrequited, publicly scorned affection, takes those feelings of vulnerability and turns them into a surreal masterpiece about attempting to attain perfection, and feeling like you’ve failed. All you can do is get up and try again.
“Forever” by Charli XCX
Directed by: Charli XCX
In the early months of the pandemic, Charli XCX wanted to make a music video for “Forever,” the lead single from her overlooked album How I’m Feeling Now. But, with the world in lockdown, a traditional promo wasn’t possible. Instead, Charli reached out to her fans for videos of cherished memories, sentimental objects, and pets. Especially pets. Over 6,000 people submitted footage, which were pieced together for the crowdsourced music video. It was a moment of connection during a time when we needed it the most.
“Squabble Up” by Kendrick Lamar
Directed by: Calmatic
You don’t have to be from Los Angeles — Compton, specifically — to appreciate the “Squabble Up” music video, but it sure helps. Kendrick Lamar packs the video for the GNX highlight with IYKYK references to his home city, including a 105 Freeway exit sign and scraper bikes, and a nod to Black cinema classics Menace II Society and Do The Right Thing. His humor shows up, too: The Drake-trolling rapper, who stays straight-faced the entire time, reads from a book entitled How To Be More Like Kendrick For Dummies (lesson one: make more videos as good as this one). There’s no throwaway lyric in “Squabble Up,” and every shot in the music video has a purpose, too. All killer, no filler.
Last week, Keshateased, “JUST TURNED IN MY ALBUM… TO MYSELF . @kesharecords.” Last July 4, Kesha dropped “Joyride,” her first single on her own label, Kesha Records. She has plans for next Independence Day, too: Today (March 27), Kesha announced a new album, . (also known as Period), set for July 4. She also unveiled the T-Pain collaboration “Yippee-Ki-Yay.”
A press release describes the project as “an unapologetic, unfiltered declaration of artistic freedom and fearless authenticity” and “a raw, daring, and intensely personal sonic journey, a defiant act of self-expression that refuses to adhere to expectations or play it safe.”
“This is the first album I’m making where I’m 100% in control of everything. It feels like it’s my first album. It feels divine; it feels like it stands for a lot. It’s really beautiful, and I cannot wait to share it. It’s maybe the most beautiful time of my entire life! I am so excited I got to work with the people I did and capture this moment in time, and put it onto something other people can listen to. It’s been deeply life-changing and profound to make this album, but it’s also the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. If you thought Animal was fun, just f*cking wait.”
Listen to “Yippee-Ki-Yay” above and find the . album art and tracklist below.
Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney: name another talk show where the guests include Michael Keaton, Joan Baez, and Quinta Brunson; there’s music from Cypress Hill and the Kims (Gordon and Deal); and Richard Kind, the man, the myth, the legend, is the announcer. You simply can’t!
This week’s episode featured the live TV debut of Mannequin Pussy, who performed the title track from I Got Heaven, one of the best albums of 2024.
“You will hear music such that has never poured through your airwaves!” host John Mulaney said about the band during his monologue, according to Stereogum. “That’s right. There are many milestones in human culture. There’s the invention of the printing press, the Armory Show of 1913, and tonight we bring you the television debut of Mannequin Pussy. It’s the best. It’s the best. Mannequin Pussy plays loud rock music, and their name is fun to say.”
He continued, “Our studio has been flooded with telegrams all week because of these youngsters and the excitement has reached all corners of the globe. We even received this wire today. I was very excited: ‘Ahem, me and Michelle are watching along with the rest of the world. Long live Mannequin Pussy. Yours, Barack Obama.’”
You can watch Mannequin Pussy on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaneyhere. It’s a true rock star performance.
Chappell Roan hasn’t gone on Amy Poehler’s podcast yet, but she did just swing by Call Her Daddy. Aside from revealing that she has been dating somebody for half a year and is “very in love,” she also answered some questions in a rapid-fire round.
When asked for her dream collaborator, her answer was SZA. (“F*ck, that would be good,” host Alex Cooper rightly responded.) SZA, it turns out, is very much on board: Sharing the clip on her Instagram Story yesterday (March 26), SZA wrote, “actually didn’t believe this quote when I saw it written til I saw it come out her mouth jus now CAUSE DEAD ASS SAME [crying emoji] pls we must.”
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to SZA fans, as she has frequently expressed her admiration for Roan since her rise to fame. (As one fan put it, SZA is “the #1 Chappell stan.”) In June 2024, SZA commented on one of Roan’s videos, “Ugh your incredible.” That August, SZA shared a video of Roan performing and wrote, “She makes me wanna keep making new music n art forever.” When Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” reached 1 billion streams on Spotify, SZA commented on Roan’s post noting the achievement, “Yeeaaaa!!!! Never been more proud to contribute 500 streams.”
It was five years ago today (March 27) that Dua Lipa released delirious dance-floor epic Future Nostalgia, the Grammy-winning album with four top-10 hits. To mark the occasion, Lipa shared a loving Instagram post about one of the best pop albums of the 2020s.
“5 YEARS OF FUTURE NOSTALGIA ~ doesn’t even feel real!!!!” she wrote. “Thank you for the memories that I have to last me a lifetime ~ keeping me dancing all around the world. grateful beyond words and thanking my lucky stars every day for music and the power that it has over me and the ability it has had time and time again to connect us all no matter where we are on this floating rock!!!!”
Lipa, who shared a bunch of photos from the Future Nostalgia era (including one that’s simply of her yoga-toned backside), also revealed that to “celebrate this massive milestone,” she’s releasing a new version of “Physical” with Troye Sivan at midnight tonight. It’s the same remix that was intentionally leaked by a fan following a show in Melbourne, Australia. “It always felt like it needed an occasion and this feels like it’s the perfect time,” Lipa added.
You can read the Instagram post here. Also, listen to Future Nostalgia! It’s really good.
For over a year now, Ed Sheeran has been teasing that his next album will be titled Play. Now, he’s come right out and confirmed it.
Sheeran was on The Tonight Show yesterday (March 26), and he confirmed Play as the title and explained to Jimmy Fallon:
“When I was like 18, I had an idea for ten albums, and it was Plus, Multiply, Divide, Subtract, Equals, and then Play, Pause, Rewind, Fast-Forward, Stop. So I’ve always had — I wanted to do ten. I’m kind of a bit obsessed with Tarantino, and I heard he was doing ten films, and he’s got his side projects like Grindhouse and sh*t. So I’m like, I want to do my 10 and, every now and then, do a side project here and then.”
Fallon then asked if Sheeran will actually stop making albums after Stop, and Sheeran joked, “I kind of want to make an album for the whole of my life where you put, like, different songs on, and then it’s in your will that comes out the day you die, and it’s called Eject.”
After a laugh from Fallon and the audience, Sheeran continued, “I’m not joking. Imagine when [Paul] McCartney passes away, and there’s a record that he’s made that there’s a song from when he’s 16, there’s a song from when he’s 20, there’s a song from when he’s 30. It’d be fascinating.”
Elsewhere on the show, Sheeran performed some of a new song called “Old Phone” and busted out the loop pedal to demonstrate how he constructs a one-man “Shape Of You” arrangement live.
Check out clips from Sheeran’s Fallon appearance above.
Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. After stumble after stumble, the month of March is ending strong with a pretty solid drop list this week. Some notable highlights include a new silhouette from New Balance, a few high-profile collaborations via Adidas and Bad Bunny, and Italian luxury brand Stone Island and New Balance, with a second chance for Jordan heads to catch the AJ-1 Obsidian.
If we had to name any brand the winner of the week, it’s New Balance, which takes up nearly half of this list. If you follow SNX every week, you’re well aware that we’ve spent the whole year asking where the hell the brand is as — aside from a couple of noteworthy collaborations — the brand has been uncharacteristically quiet. Looks like they were just waiting for spring to roll in.
But enough previewing, let’s dive into this week’s best sneaker drops and where to find them.
Air Max Day has and to celebrate the annual sneaker holiday, Nike is giving us a… Donkey Kong-themed Air Max 1? Nobody asked for this, and yet, we kind of love it! It’s not just the nostalgia for Donkey Kong Country either, this is simply a great design that doesn’t require any prior knowledge of Nintendo history to enjoy.
The sneaker features a mesh upper with hairy brown suede overlays, a bright banana-colored midsole, and a polygonal Swoosh to really drive home the nostalgia.
The Nike Air Max 1 Big Head Origins is out now for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
New Balance has a new silhouette! The 471 takes vintage ‘70s design cues and modernizes them for a low-profile runner that looks vintage, but feels modern, and a comfortable modern feel is what you want out of a runner.
The 471 sports a lightweight mesh upper with premium hairy suede overlays, a large leather N logo, leather accents, and a herringbone tread pattern. As much as we are hyped for this release, we’re waiting for the day this new silhouette gets the premium MADE in USA or MADE in UK treatment.
The New Balance 471 Timberwolf is out now for a retail price of $99.99. Pick up a pair at New Balance.
New Balance has just dropped its latest seasonal collection and the piece that deserves all of your attention is this 992. This sneaker features premium construction with a multi-fabric upper consisting of mesh underlays, hairy suede overlays, and leather accents in a moonrock colorway with tonal accents.
It’s simply one of New Balance’s very best silhouettes in classic NB colors — a no-brainer pick if you’re a fan of the brand.
The New Balance Made in USA 992 Moonrock is set to drop on March 27th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $199.99. Pick up a pair at New Balance.
Stone Island x New Balance 998
Stone Island
Price:$285
If you’re more of a fan of New Balance’s collaborations than the brand’s core line, this collaboration with Italian streetwear luxury brand Stone Island is for you. But this collab isn’t just notable for linking up with Stone Island, it also features NB’s Made in USA construction, offering the ultimate luxury take on the brand.
The Stone Island 998 features design details inspired by the brand’s Raso Gommato fabric and sports a cotton canvas upper dipped in a rubberized polyurethane coating with satin-weave detailing. Rounding out the design is the Italian brand’s logo at the tongue, and classic NB branding at the heel.
The Stone Island x New Balance 998 is set to drop on March 27th for a retail price of $285. Pick up a pair at the Stone Island webstore.
If you missed out on the initial re-release of the legendary AJ-1 Obsidian, you’ve got a second chance this week! There isn’t much to say here, this is a classic Jordan 1 with a full-grain leather build and a colorway that nods to MJ’s alma mater. It’s not the most exciting release of the week, but owning a pair would seriously level-up your wardrobe and street fashion cred.
The Nike Air Jordan 1 Low Obsidian is set to drop on March 29th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Nike has teamed up with LA-based streetwear brand UNDEFEATED for an upgraded take on the Spiridon. The Phantom sports a lightweight mesh upper, full length Air Zoom cushioning, reflective piping for enhanced visibility, and subtle UNDEFEATED branding.
This runner is ideal for people looking for a pair of shoes that looks even better than it feels. Which is a rarity when it comes to running shoes.
The UNDEFEATED x Air Zoom Spiridon Phantom is set to drop on March 29th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Bad Bunny x Adidas Ballerina
GOAT
Price: $120
Bad Bunny’s Adidas collaborations have reflected his career perfectly. His initial releases were flashy and experimental, featuring designs out of left-field that helped to show just how different a voice and personality he was. Now, at the height of his career, there is an understated confidence to his work and that shows in this latest Adidas collaboration.
The Ballerina perfectly echoes Benito’s latest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, and features a sleek design made from premium suede with bungee chord laces and a form-fitting shape. Benito’s latest album serves as a tribute to dance culture, and this silhouette was originally designed for Taekwondo martial artists, which is its own sort of dance!
We love this one, easily our favorite Bad Bunny Adidas collab of the year.
The Bad Bunny x Adidas Ballerina is set to drop on March 29th for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair via the Adidas CONFIRMED app, and select Adidas stockists.
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PinkPantheress laid relatively low in 2024 and so far in 2025, too (aside from popping up on a Shygirl song and a Jack Harlow/Doja Cat video). At the start of the year, though, she teased a comeback by sharing some studio photos and writing, “oh we are soooo back #2025 i missed y’all [heart emojis] thanks for waiting on me [single tear emoji].”
Now, it’s official: Today (March 26), PinkPantheress announced a new mixtape, her first release since her 2023 album Heaven Knows, with a trailer.
The video, uploaded to YouTube with the title “Official Mixtape Trailer,” starts with an establishing shot of PinkPantheress sitting on a red, worn leather couch, on the front lawn of a stately building, as she cuts things out of a magazine. Then, somebody who looks just like her interrupts, asking, “Can we get a picture?” PinkPantheress then notices three additional doppelgangers. Pinkpantheress, confused, goes to take the photo before one of the lookalikes’ old-school ringtone goes off. They scramble to figure out whose it is before PinkPantheress clears her throat and they take the picture, thus ending the video.
The YouTube description also reads, “how many pinkpantheress’ can you identify in this video. we are out with the old era and in with the new one. I’m so excited for all you to feel fanciful in a few months time, it’s only a stone throw away x.”
Check out the trailer above.
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