Music: New releases

YOUR LOVE

NICOLE SCHERZINGER

Hey guys, Scherzinger wants you really badly. She finds you so enticing, she'll do anything you want.

Of course, not "you" specifically, unless you happen to be the US singer's boyfriend, F1 racer Lewis Hamilton.

Anyway, this is another one of those videos of a girl writhing around on a beach looking sexy.

Girls on beaches is the best thing ever, but this particular girl doesn't really do it for me.

Ladies, you don't have to try so hard.

CRAZY STUPID LOVE

CHERYL COLE

The song sounds so sunny and bright - yet the video is set in a club.

It really doesn't work. At all.

The lyrics are about an ordinary girl falling in love with an ordinary guy in a very ordinary way. But in the video, British singer Cole prances around with all these clubbers looking very single indeed. Did I mention it doesn't work?

There is also a painfully lame rap by Tinie Tempah. Shut up with the superfluous raps already!

PILLS N POTIONS

NICKI MINAJ

Minaj has toned down her act quite a bit, to the point where she's bordering on boring. Here, the US rapper just plays sexy dress-up, putting on a number of different cleavage-bearing outfits while singing to her man, a heavily-tattooed fella who is apparently a bad boy. There is also some very bad CGI work, such as the silver stuff that comes out of her eyes like very weird tears. - Jason Johnson

This article was first published June 18, 2014.
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