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An extensively choreographed “It Gets Better” music video — set to Lady Gaga‘s “Hair” — gained steam Friday after the mega pop star gave it her seal of approval on Twitter.

This is so AMAZING tinyurl.com/7jd638s #HairMusicVideo you guys did such an amazing job for #ItGetsBetter. The Choreo! I died!

— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) January 27, 2012

The clip hit YouTube on Thursday, but the making of the video has been well documented on Facebook since August thanks to the project’s mastermind Colton Boettcher, who routinely posted updates on the CeeJbee Productions’ Facebook page.

The It Gets Better Project is an online campaign aimed at providing supportive messages for LGBT high school students who are facing discrimination and bullying. Since launching in 2010, It Gets Better has gained support from celebrities, athletes, the tech world and everyday people alike.

SEE ALSO: San Francisco Giants Are First MLB Team To Say “It Gets Better”

Boettcher teamed up with the LGBT community in Madison, Wis., and the It Gets Better Project to create the music video that looks like it came directly out of an episode of Glee.

“I want to let you know that it does get better,” Boettcher says at the end of the video. “We made this video in response to the number of suicides of gay kids in high school. … I’m gay and number of other people in this music video are also gay and we’re OK. We love our life.”

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Bonus: Google Chrome’s “It Gets Better” Video

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This “It Gets Better” video from the Google Chrome team aired during an episode of Glee in May 2011.

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It was only a matter of time until wild man/dancing fiend Nathan Barnatt got his silly groove on in another bad ass video.

This time ’round, Barnatt dances to a remix by Freaks of Yelle’s “Comme un Enfant,” which is apparently French for “Dancing Like a Crazy Person in a Turtleneck.”

Say what you will of his odd style, but Barnatt has tremendous physical control over his body and a unique eye for choreography. These videos are hard to make and even harder still to dance, so major props to Barnatt who shows off some serious moves. Barnatt is joined by some celebrity dance partners including iJustine, TJ Miller and even Yelle herself.

Barnatt got his start as a comedian known for outlandish stunts and an aggressively strange persona. Most of these stunts (such as climbing up the walls at a gaming expo) were done as one of Barnatt’s many characters. He’s appeared as “Keith Apicary” on Gametrailers.com and ScrewAttack as well as appearances on Funny or Die.

For all of his comedy training, Barnatt gained the most viral traction (and became Internet famous) for his series of dancing videos in which Barnatt choreographs and dances more-or-less solo through an entire song. His videos were seen so many times that Skittles actually commissioned the fancy-dancing funny-man to create a commercial featuring Barnatt.

Take a look at the above video and let us know what you think: Is this Barnatt’s greatest dance video or is the best yet to come?

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Barnatt seems to be smitten with the French DJ scene.

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We’ve seen some interesting and unique music videos in our time, but we’ve never seen one composed of 288,000 jelly beans … until now.

Singer/songwriter Kina Grannis and music video director Greg Jardin decided to do something unique with Grannis’s new music video “In Your Arms.” From start to finish, the video features dozens of moving scenes made entirely of jelly beans. As Jardin explains in a behind-the-scenes video, the idea was inspired by jelly bean art, which replicates famous photographs and paintings using nothing but Jelly Belly candies.

Of course, a still picture made out of jelly beans is completely different than making a moving music video out of them, especially when you’re inserting a human being into most of the scenes. The team created frame after painstaking frame and shot them in what is essentially a stop-motion music video. Grannis would then lay down on a piece of glass above the frame in odd but precise positions to get the scene just right. They even made a plaster mold of her entire body at one point in order to make a jelly bean version of her body.

The entire process took more than a year to complete, but the result is the music video you see above. The video hasn’t even been out for 24 hours, but it’s already garnered more than 4,000 likes on YouTube, and that number continues to grow.

“One of the toughest things about working on the video was that we could put in an eight hour day of work and come away with not even one second of the video completed,” Grannis tells Mashable. “Psychologically, that can really mess with you! On the upside, we did get to see what we created at the end of every day. It was those tiny rewards that kept us going.”

Grannis first garnered mainstream attention through social media, specifically through her song “Gotta Digg,” which quickly zoomed to the top of the social news website Digg (this was back when the site was relevant). She then won a contest where her music video “Message From Your Heart” was featured during a Super Bowl commercial. Grannis also happens to be the winner of one of our recent YouTube Cover Song Face-Offs, specifically for her rendition (with Imaginary Friend) of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks.”

Check out the music video above. If you want more of Grannis, we’ve included a few of her videos in the gallery below.

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A look behind-the-scenes at how the jelly bean music video was made

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The very baby bump that set the record for most tweets sent per second — a whopping 8,868 — is buzzing across the Internet again. Beyoncé’s latest video “Countdown,” released Thursday night, prominently features the artist’s pregnant belly.

The video starts with a nod to movie star Audrey Hepburn, with Beyoncé done up in a 1960s mod look. The diva places her unique stamp on the track when she turns sideways, revealing just how far along she is in her pregnancy. The video presents Beyoncé as simultaneously classic (in fashion sensibility) and unconventional (in behavior).

Beyoncé has a knack for creating viral videos. Searching for “Single Ladies” on YouTube yields no less than 23,500 results, including everything from parodies to how-tos of her dance anthem.

What do you think of Beyoncé’s decision to show off her pregnancy? Let us know what you think in the comments.

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