With the world in ruin: riots in England, numbers losing their integrity, Obama getting all those grey hairs. What to do? Well, just look to Japan, they may’ve been devastated by a tsunami and near nuclear meltdown, but that won’t stop them producing retina-popping music videos. All hail them.

There’s something about these two, something that gives them the X factor. Maybe it’s their matching bellies or the way that if you swapped their clothes around you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. They’re going to be big stars, maybe they could sit on Justin Bieber and do us all a favour.

On paper the idea sounds lamewad to the extremous: Billie Jean on a ukulele. But in practice James Hill here turns it into a slow beat piece of badass. And right after he’s finished his set, that ukulele in the top left hand corner’s going to get his mic turned on for 30mins of standup. [...]

It’s got dancing cats, it’s got Mario references. The problem with this video is that it’s too good. The 484-odd thousand people (and counting) who have viewed it so far are going to go off on a life-long crack binge and become those people whose face are all gums and their skeletal frames look like [...]

Reggie Watts busting a pretty fly sweater and singing a song about browness; playing around with a loop machine, his voice and the expectations of the crowd. He makes it look so damn easy, it makes you sick just watching his talented self.

With the advent of the internet, time wasting need never involve staring into space again. For we have the multitude of nutshots, faceplants, fails, memes, lulz, cats, dreaming dogs, double-rainbows and all the other junk that fills our lives while we should probably be doing something else. So just in case you hadn’t wasted enough [...]

Drop it like it’s hot. How she delivers these hilarious lines without screaming with laughter, that’s the real talent in this video. Just imagine the amazement if she went on one of these desperate talent shows and started spitting out these lyrics. Would love to see the judges faces when she started rhyming about how [...]

You’ve got some hot South Korean beauties? Check. You have an addictive catchy pop number that sticks in your head & beats humming Rebecca Black all day? Check. Looks like we’ve got a contender for pop song of the year. Thank God for the internet or this cute band may’ve passed us all by & [...]

Just because you’re a hardass marine fighting a grim war in the deserts of Afghanistan doesn’t mean you can’t lip synch an amazing performance of Britney Spears’ “Hold It Against Me”, which the woman herself has given her official shaved-head stamp of approval. They’ve got long careers as pop stars waiting for them when they [...]

The homoerotic tension runs high (don’t pretend you don’t love it) in this new video for Daft Punk’s track “Alive”, which also happens to be Emile Hirsch’s directorial debut. it stars Ace Norton and Frankie Levangie in (and out of) their best 80s clothes because, you know, the 80s were cool and everyone was younger [...]

Much to admire in this video. Some kick ass beats courtesy of Stanton Warriors intercut with some different styles of dancing from ballet, breakdance and 70s hippy disco. All spliced up with some fancy editing techniques that synchronise well with the accompanying track. One to sit back and savour. Then maybe play again, treat yourself.