Saturday Summary

If you feel like the music world has been moving fast lately, no need to panic! The team at The Groovy Moo is here to update you on this week's highlights and what you may have missed, all clean, sparkly, and in one place.

Starting off strong, Taylor Swift dropped the first music video off her new album The Life of a Showgirl (click here for the full showgirl rundown). Watching the fate of Ophelia transports us back to a Shakespearean era immediately, with this beautiful painting of Taylor as Ophelia. From there, the video pirouettes into a dazzling showgirl spectacle, featuring rhinestones, feathers, precision chorus lines, the Eras Tour dancers (LIKE KAM!), and a set of our dreams. The lighting shifts from the softness of oil painting to marquee glare, stitching tragedy language to theatre language in a single breath. Taylor, of course, pulls off both styles with glamour and grace; it’s a deliberate duality and a smart era handoff that invites analysis and community choreography. We give this video a 100.

Next, Midnight Til Morning released their debut EP, and that same day, we got a music video for “Heart On Fire.” This black and white clip is full of attitude, charisma, close-ups, and the classic Midnight Til Morning fun we love from the band. Whether it is Mason’s grin, Zach’s guitar bounce, Connor’s wink, Shane’s flip, or moments of them goofing in the background, the video shows why the Midnighters love their music. The monochrome choice foregrounds performance chemistry over color styling, which suits a track that marries a rock backbone to a pop top-line. Releasing the video the same day as the EP and then kicking off their first tour in Orlando creates a tidy debut triangle: record, visual, stage that turns streaming spikes into bodies in rooms.

Finally, fans of 5 Seconds of Summer can stop asking about the “NOT OK” video, as this week saw the first music video from their upcoming album, Everyone’s a Star. The pink limo is back, Luke’s spikes are here to stay, Michael’s red hair is as vibrant as ever, and pop punk is back. The makeup looks are wild, and Luke’s shoulder pads make us want to bring back old fashion trends, but the video isn’t just about style. Calum’s scene with the apple and giant head underlines that fame comes with a cost. Ashton smashing the “buy your own star” booth is the thesis shot, commodified aspiration, literally shattered. We also see our longtime friend, the 5 Sauce, as Sister Hemmings leads the other nuns into temptation and Calum bites the apple, camp meets cautionary fable, plus a cheeky “boyband Jesus” auditions poster easter egg before Michael tears into that solo. Overall, the boys are serving looks and telling the story of the era in neon, symbols, and shred.

Next, we have new music from Maisie Peters with her songs “Audrey Hepburn” and “You You You.” “Audrey Hepburn” is a slow, beautiful, and reflective love song that builds into a lyrical miniature that frames modern tenderness in classic iconography, while “You You You” is more heartbreaking. The chorus hurts us to our core, “What if

everything I do is full of you?” It’s pretty melodies with precision lines, the kind of caption-core writing you’ll see everywhere because it lands where the secrets live.

Then, in a twist nobody was expecting, we got the collab we never knew we needed, JISOO × ZAYN, “Eyes Closed.” The music video is super sci-fi, futuristic, chrome, neon, liminal corridors, while the track is upbeat with sad lyrics, our favorite emotional contradiction, and nothing less than what we could ask of this duo. “the past can’t hurt us if we don’t look,” “i don’t care what anybody says just kiss me,” “you look like trouble but it could be good, i’ve been the same kind of misunderstood.” JISOO’s crystalline top and ZAYN’s smoky mid make a clean call and response, and the whole thing reads as future-pop with a bruise. Overall, this is a track we’re sure to have on repeat for a long time.

We can’t wait to see what next week brings! Until then, hydrate, charge your AirPods, and keep the glitter handy.