Demi Lovato recently released the music video for her power ballad "Stone Cold", which finds her crooning about lost love in a Revenant-like polar landscape. But a good chunk of the video also includes a sweater-clad Demi submerged in a bathtub, because as many other music videos have proved, the most hardcore emoting must be done underwater. What is it that makes a bath the perfect location for pop divas' most intense emotional moments? Is it the comforting embrace of a porcelain basin, or all that soapy water perfect for masking your mascara-streaked tears? Below, seven more music videos that make excellent use of the tub as a vessel for renewal, reflection, and mental breakdowns.
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6. "Shake It Off" by Mariah Carey
Nine years before Taylor Swift would release 1989, "Shake It Off" was the name of an inspirational Mariah Carey song. Essentially a more upbeat version of "Me, Myself and I", Carey starts off in a rose petal-filled bathtub, singing about the end of a relationship and how she's going to recover. She does, of course, and that process includes packing up her Louis Vuitton, sliding on some blue eye shadow, and waving good-bye to the haters in a red convertible.
Here's the complete top 7:
1. "Me, Myself & I", Beyoncé
2. "Hands to Myself", Selena Gomez
3. "Everytime", Britney Spears
4. "Stay", Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko
5. "Fuckin' Perfect", Pink
6. "Shake It Off", Mariah Carey
7. "Marry the Night", by Lady Gaga
(excerpt from Cosmopolitan)
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