Best Music Video Round 1H: "Girl in a Country Song" vs. "Fight the Power"

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"Girl in a Country Song" by Maddie & Tae (2014)
Nominated by Kat

The song resonated with listeners, many of whom have grown frustrated with the way women are sung about in country music’s current party phase, and the gender-reversing music video garnered more than 25m views. Even so, not all the guys that Maddie & Tae took to task were laughing along. Asked about the song by the Chicago Tribune last year, Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley got irritable: “All I’m gonna say about that is, I don’t know one girl who doesn’t want to be a girl in a country song,” he said. “That’s all I’m gonna say to you. That’s it.” -The Guardian

"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy (1989)
AV Club #37

Treated as a fanfare and greek chorus in Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing,” Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power” is a political rallying call as a music video. Lee staged the clip as a concert that evolves into a street protest, using Chuck D and Flavor Flav as visual anchors, then populating the crowds with references to civil rights figures both past and present. That sense of history places “Fight The Power” in a continuum, one that stretches way beyond the point of its release and it still seems vital and kinetic.