I mean music videos that have nothing to do with the music and mostly just do their own thing and tell their own story.
An example –
Basement Jaxx’s Red Alert seems to be about a meteor-worshiping cult awaiting the arrival of their rocky messiah in some unsuspecting greasy spoon cafe in the middle of nowhere.
Once the meteor crashes into Earth, everyone gets horribly mutated and convulses to the strange rays exhibited by the meteor. The infection seems to be localized entirely within the cafe. The End.
Edit: Please link to a video, or at least summarize the plot.
Edit2: Please actually link to a video, or tell me why the video plot is cool. Come on, it’s just 30 seconds of your time.
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice : Random guy dances through an empty hotel for no particular reason
Murders. I don’t want to spoil any more than that because it has a twist.
Come now, DJ Snake Turn Down for What makes no sense but is amazing.
That’s a lot of fun. I’m gonna go with: guy gets infected with a restless virus that makes body parts indestructible. Transmission is spread through breaking floors and body slamming people. Once it exhausts its hosts it lives on that guys dick. 10/10
'twas directed by the guys behind Everything Everywhere All At Once
A lot of movie directors start with commercials and music videos. It is training for making long videos by making a lot of short ones.
Dating myself a bit, but Men Without Hats " Safety Dance" is a clear indicator of how much cocaine was consumed in the 80s.
Hah, that music video is genuinely a pretty accurate depiction of your average England village’s May Day celebrations. I went to one this year, got drunk watching old men skipping about while wearing bells, kids tying up a pole with ribbon, folk band (minus the fabulous Mike Edmonds as seen is this video) playing fiddle and more, sitting around on a bunch of straw bales, and cuddled a goat kid while my dog obsessed over a Shetland pony until my partner told us to go home.
You're dating yourself? That doesn't seem healthy.
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Lone Digger by Caravan Palace. It’s about a murder-brawl at an animal strip club.
Love it - it’s like if Zootopia was more honest about it’s seedy underbelly
Also, Mr. FEAR by SIAMÉS has a nice animation about an alien (?) and a human merging to make a larger alien (?).
Lotta 90’s stuff comes to mind:
Primus - Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver
Not 90’s but:
DJ Shadow/Run the Jewels -Nobody Speak
First ones that come to mind.
That RTJ video is one of the few I’ve loved since it released.
Then, I discovered Kendrick Lamar had made a video for Alright. Wow.
- I didn’t see it until 2018.
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Probably one of the most memorable music videos of all time
CFCF Remix is 😍
Ugh I caught this at the exact wrong time once and had the worst existential dread for the whole god damned day
I like music videos as a genre. Anyone know if there’s a good community/reddit sub/yt channel for them?
!musicvideos@lemmy.world exists, but isn’t active. I also have my community !musicsync@lemmy.blahaj.zone but that’s a particular niche that I’m not sure if anyone else is interested in, haha. I wish there was somewhere better to discuss music videos but I haven’t found such a place either.
That isn’t even, imo, the weirdest Basement Jaxxs video - I’d give that crown to Where’s Your Head At
However, I think the HK Slap is also incredibly weird.
Everlong was pretty wild
When a strip tease goes just a bit too far.
This actually gave me nightmares as a child and I was only recently brave enough to watch it again after finding a behind-the-scenes on it on YouTube to squash my fears
I’ve never seen it before but after your comment had to check it out.
That was unexpected.
Check out the claymation videos from Tool!
People punch animals. Animals helpless. Man save animals by breaking into houses with his shoe car.
Half boy, half motorbike. Travels the world to meet the half girl, half jetski.
Really anything from this guy
Salvatore is great! I’ve watched every single video he made I could find on YouTube. Step-Grandma and Take Me to America are amazing as well.
I have questions. I’m not sure what those questions are yet, but I definitely have some
I do not know about the weirdest, but Quiet Riot’s The Wild and The Young video is pretty out there.
The government bans and confiscates all music, and locks up musicians with their instruments and outfits in an underground bunker, where the musicians “cunningly” use these resources to sing in protest, but wait it’s actually a premonition for something that hasn’t happened yet and time loops itself. Pretty cool
Portugal. The Man’s video for All Your Light is freaking weird. Complete with human heads in shopping bags, trailer parks, and what I think are aliens.
That’s pretty cool. Music definitely different than the video.
A girl sees mortality and decay in everything she encounters, and it makes her sick. Rather than continue to reject it, she accelerates the cycle and is hit with a holy accepting light after fulfilling her carnivorous destiny. She and her brother also might have been a vampires all along.
