Swedish thrash metal vets Witchery carry on the All Hallows’ Eve vibe, Queen revive a News of the World gem for the album’s 40th anniversary with a cat-themed animation and a lost Freddie Mercury vocal take, Taylor Swift opts for polaroids and letters on her latest single from Reputation, Morrissey puts a kid in a shopping cart to spread a message about the “monarchy” and more, in the 44th week of the year’s Best Lyric Vids.

Morrissey – ‘I Wish You Lonely’

Taken from Moz’s forthcoming 11th LP, Low in High School, the aging croon rock curmedgeon takes on the monarchy and heroin with a little help from a goth synth backbone and a kid in a shopping cart holding up the digital message on display:

Queen – ‘All Dead, All Dead’

Originally sung by guitarist Brian May for 1977’s News of the World, about May’s dead cat, Queen puts out a 40th anniversary Easter egg here with both a dark comedy of a cat animation and a long lost Freddie Mercury vocal take supplementing May’s original:

Taylor Swift – ‘Call it What You Want’

Here we have another single from Swift’s forthcoming Reputation, cut from that redemptive cloth she so loves to tear from. Apparently it’s about some British actor dude named Joe Alwyn of whom Swift dated for over a year. But you don’t need to know that to get cathartic with her and this working handwritten letter and polaroid edit of a song and video:

Witchery – ‘Welcome, Night’

A little reminder preceding the following Christmas in November track below that we can still feel the Halloween creeping about these parts and that’s the way it should be. If there’s one thing these Swedish thrash metal vets do well, it’s bring on the night. Wait for the man made of shrapnel:

Gwen Stefani & Blake Shelton – ‘You Make it Feel Like Christmas’

Why Gwen Stefani is teaming up with Big Country ringer Blake Shelton is a bit of mystery, but it’s the third of November which means you have at least two months to buy a bunch of shit gifts and put them under your tree to the tune of this cheesy fake horn section of a mall Christmas feels skip: