TODAY'S TOP 10 VIRAL VIDEOS - Top 10 Music Videos of 2012!
1. PSY, GANGMAN STYLE - The Korean auteur conquered the world with his "dress classy, dance cheesy" aesthetic, blurring the line between parody and celebration.
2. NICKI MINAJ and CASIE, THE BOYS - Minaj dances through her personal pastel Sesame Street fantasy, does her glitch-blink sex-robot routine and shows off her collection of expensive wigs.
3. KANYE WEST, MERCY - A Kubrick-esque video set in a black and white parking garage. A bit of a tribute to Michael Jackson.
4. TANLINES, ALL OF ME - The musical answer to The Walking Dead. Set in a future post-apocolypse bunker full of senior citizens.
5. PUSSY RIOT, PUNK PRAYER - Song to protest the Russian church's collusions with Putin. A shocking and scary video to watch.
6. BEN FOLDS FIVE, FRAGGLE ROCK - Nerdist’s Chris Hardwick and actress Anna Kendrick also appear in the video but the real stars are Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red and Uncle Traveling Matt.
7. MIA, BAD GIRLS - Blending the most stereotypical aspects of American and Middle Eastern culture into one common picture, this video can be enjoyed at face value.
8. JACK WHITE SIXTEEN, SALTINES - That kind of jarring and relentlessly energetic scene is the kind of thing that makes Jack White so fascinating. You never know what he’ll do next.
9. GRIMES, OBLIVION - In this beautifully shot clip, director Emily Kai Block places Grimes’ Claire Boucher and her dancy electro-pop within the seemingly opposite world of violent, masculine sports and physicality.
10. GRIZZLY BEAR, YET AGAIN - Following the strange post-practice plight of an ice skater, this video is remarkable for its portrayal of a beautiful and graceful routine followed immediately by a painfully awkward plod in ice skates on unfrozen ground.