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Popular Belgian musician Stromae (aka Paul Van Haver) has a released a new video for his song “Carmen” which turns Twitter into a terrifying monster.

“Those fake smiles cut like a #. Watch yourself out there,” he says in the song. “Network friends and followers? No, no you’re just popular.”

It’s a reworking of “Habanera” from the opera Carmen, in which love is compared to a bird. He took that idea and made a version about Twitter.

The song is a commentary on how social media dominates our lives, and ironically he is promoting the new video on an Instagram account which he started a few weeks ago. It was directed by Sylvain Chomet, who worked on both “Triplets of Belleville” and “The Illusionist.”

“I’m not so radical about Twitter, but I think it’s sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life,” he told Time Out in an interview last year.

Stromae has a huge following in Europe and he is also popular with some world leaders, as both Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama apparently own copies of one of his albums.

Here’s another of his hits called “Formidable,” which you may be familiar with. In the video, he walks around the streets of Brussels pretending to be drunk.

Oh yeah, and some sweet jazz.

After a three year hiatus the fourth installment of Animator vs. Animation is here! If you've never seen the series checkout the prior videos below.

For the first time ever, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang we know and love from Charles Schulz's timeless "Peanuts" comic strip will be making their big-screen debut; like they've never been seen before in a CG-Animated Feature film in 3D.

Look for it in theaters in 2015.

Crafts Council shows us with this fascinating video that an ordinary ceramic pot can be transformed into a living animation. The people involved were able to bring this project to fruition by setting up the artwork on a computer and then adding it to the pottery with provided specifications.

In celebration of Thanksgiving, the world's most prominent search has posted this animated greeting on their home page.

Learn how the successful animated series, Simon's Cat, got it's start. Its creator talks about his early interest in drawing as a child, and how he gets his inspiration for the popular cartoons.

Animator, Cyriak Harris, gives us a look at his Halloween "costume" for this year. The video starts with him just staring at the lens, but he eventually morphs into something truly bizarre.

This beautiful high definition animation of the moon's rotation was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

British animator Simon Tofield's beloved cartoon cat returns to YouTube with the latest episode "Icecapade," or in Torfield's own words, "a festive feline's frosty fishing frolic."

Based on a short animation by video artist Nicolas Deveaux.

The Rings of the Earth
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Check out this satirical animation short explaining the U.S. electoral process in the style of Schoolhouse Rock! songs from the forthcoming FOX evening cartoon program Animation Domination High Definition (ADHD).

Atlanta-based animator Evan Seitz packed 26 memorable scenes from several generations of video games into a quick-paced, alphabet song-like montage and it is watchworthy.