She’s the bookies’ favourite to scoop the Mercury Music Prize for “Lungs”, is a key member of the new wave of female talent sweeping the UK’s music scene and now Florence Welch, of Florence And The Machine, has control of the YouTube homepage in her role as the final guest editor in our series of takeovers to mark the return of premium music videos.







Getting things rolling with Beyonce’s unforgettable “Single Ladies”, Florence explains: “I think there have been a lot of interpretations of this dance. I’ve done one that my friend then posted on YouTube… but nothing compares to the original.”



Next up is Spiritualized’s “You Lie, You Cheat”. The coming together of Jason Pierce, Jake Chapman and a film budget was always going to make for essential viewing, and as it is you will never see a better documentary of the interior, exterior and surrounding pavement of a tower block.




“Liars are one of my favourite live bands,” says Florence of her next selection, “Plaster Casts Of Everything”. “At one point I think that Karen O gets projected onto Angus, but I don’t know. I have been looking at this video loads to see if I can see, maybe you will.” If you do, drop her a line at her channel.




Wrapping up proceedings with Arcade Fire’s “Neighbourhood”, Florence leaves us with a perfectly polite: “Thank you for having me, YouTube.” With manners like that, she can come again. Enjoy her selections and join us in wishing Florence And The Machine the best of luck for tomorrow evening, when the winner of the Mercury Music Prize 2009 will be announced.



Have fun,


Jamie Dolling, Community Editor, YouTube UK, recently watched “Chartjackers”.