The Music Videos Topic: Remember Those?

[canaanite2]

This is a thread for general music video discussion. For starters, can anyone explain to me the symbolism in Naughty Boys La La video? The hearts in the cooler. The elephant mask. The demon statue in the cave. I want to know what it's all supposed to mean!

[Jeebus Cripes]

^^^ Just watched it, and... I got nothin.' No clue WTF I just watched.

[roamyn]

I love the Backstreet Boys video for 'Everybody', but then again I'm biased.... it has Antonio Fargas in it. (Huggy Bear from 'Starsky & Hutch' - who Snoop Dog, was NOT a pump!)

Edited July 7, 2014 by roamyn

[canaanite2]

I was thinking that the LaLa video had something to do with the Krampus myth, but the elephant mask doesn't fit in with that. 

 

I'm all for gay rights, but I don't like Demi Lovato's Really Don't Care video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJGUbwVMBeA  It's very "look at me, I'm being edgy and subversive by supporting same-sex kissing and making out and drag queens." It's a dated concept within the context of the gay rights movement IMO and a tasteless closeup crotch shot does little to further the cause. 

[jellysalmon]

I've probably seen less than 10 music videos that came out in the last 5 years, but this one makes me think I need to watch more:

 

[Jeebus Cripes]

^^^ WTF did I just watch?! That was mental. LOL.

[Bort]

There's this homage to Clueless I saw recently that I found pretty impressive.

I think the Katy Perry video for "Birthday" is great, I didn't know she had it in her.

[Kromm]

I guess it's good to have famous friends if you are in the music biz.  They can help form your fictional band.

 

[GaT]

I like this song & video, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what the video is about. The band is driving the Japanese girl insane?

[GaT]

I like the 80s vibe of this video

[GaT]

This is a thread for general music video discussion. For starters, can anyone explain to me the symbolism in Naughty Boys La La video? The hearts in the cooler. The elephant mask. The demon statue in the cave. I want to know what it's all supposed to mean!

It's based on a Bolivian legend

[beadgirl]

 

I like this song & video, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what the video is about. The band is driving the Japanese girl insane?

I saw that video this morning and went to wikipedia, hoping for something to enlighten me.  According to the page for the song: "The band comments: 'The video is about a Japanese fan of the band who becomes delirious and has hallucinations of band members and our logo appearing unexpectedly in her daily life as a chef.'"

 

So you were close!

[Bunty]

I enjoy it when music videos tell a story like Thriller or this one.

 

Keith Whitley & Earl Thomas Conley - Brotherly Love

 

[BatmanBeatles]

What music videos do you find strange or terrifying?

 

To start off, I'd like to post Black Hole Sun by Sound Garden.

 

[BetterButter]

[spaceytraci1208]

http://youtu.be/sLCI7BtxIPA

I think there's gonna be a lot of 80's in this thread...

Edited August 6, 2014 by spaceytraci1208

[Jeebus Cripes]

^^^ OMG, that Grace Jones video is not right.

 

Love the song, I even like the video to a degree, but those teletubbies from hell creep me out.

 

This is just.... I feel like it needs a disclaimer; It's fucking DISTURBING.

[BatmanBeatles]

What Aphex Twin video isn't disturbing?

 

I find pigs creepy. There's something about them that I find unsettling. So I present this:

 

[Shannon L.]

Weird is easy! 

 

You Might Think by The Cars (I hated this video!)

 

 

Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel

 

[BetterButter]

[Jeebus Cripes]

^^^ WTF was that?

 

This one weirds me out in a Phantom of the Opera meets Eyes Wide Shut sort of way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-pP4VboBk

 

One of the best ever made, but it is undeniably creepy:

[canaanite2]

It's based on a Bolivian legend

 

Thank you GaT!! That was an interesting read. The monster in the cave sounds a lot like Pan. 

[AimingforYoko]

This one weirds me out in a Phantom of the Opera meets Eyes Wide Shut sort of way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-pP4VboBk

Directed by William Friedkin (Exorcist, French Connection, To Live and Die in LA)

[Jeebus Cripes]

^^^ Wow. Did not know that. 

 

OK, it can't get any weirder than this:

[Jeebus Cripes]

Visual feast:

[Shannon L.]

We went to a Kool and the Gang concert last night (so much fun!) and my daughter was asking about which songs they sang.  She didn't know the song "Misled" by the title and since I can't carry a tune in a bucket, I found the video for her.  Ummm.......

 

 

Edited August 9, 2014 by Shannon L.

[BatmanBeatles]

^^^ Wow. Did not know that. 

 

OK, it can't get any weirder than this:

I bet I know how much it cost to make this video.

[GaT]

This song has become a total earworm for me, the video is a little weird, but damn, I can't stop listening to the song. "I Blame Myself" by Sky Ferreira

[dougfir]

Had no idea William Friedkin directed that Laura Branigan video.

 

Keeping with the spooky '80s theme (it helps that Tom Petty is already kinda creepy):

[MichelleAK]

I think all of Pet Shop Boys' videos for the Very album were kind of strange, but this was probably the weirdest:

 

 

[Jeebus Cripes]

^^^ That was nutters. 

 

[BatmanBeatles]

This thread isn't complete without Bjork.

 

[zbornak]

May I present Kate Bush and her rollerskating dunces?

 

[spaceytraci1208]

I submit R.E.M's "Losing My Religion", solely for the scene where the guy is sticking his fingers in the fallen angel's wound; that has always disturbed me. I'm all in for Michael Stipe's dancing though :)

[Jeebus Cripes]

May I present Kate Bush and her rollerskating dunces?

 

WTF?! Another Kate Bush video that creeped me out was "Running Up That Hill." It starts out normal enough with her dancing, but that weird crap with the cutout faces pasted on people as they march by is wrong.

 

 

I submit R.E.M's "Losing My Religion", solely for the scene where the guy is sticking his fingers in the fallen angel's wound; that has always disturbed me. I'm all in for Michael Stipe's dancing though :)

 

That scene used to wig me out so badly when I was a kid! I loved that song, and the video was cool right until that effing scene, man. I'm still not OK seeing that.

[spaceytraci1208]

We went to a Kool and the Gang concert last night (so much fun!) and my daughter was asking about which songs they sang.  She didn't know the song "Misled" by the title and since I can't carry a tune in a bucket, I found the video for her.  Ummm.......

 

 

Never saw this one...reminds me of Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me"...wonder if they had the same director?

[InDueTime]

This Herbie Hancock video freaked me the hell out when I first saw it.

 

Here are a couple of weird ones from Daft Punk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoPplpBPQxQ

[Sun-Bun]

When I was going through my young Goth chick phase, I found it both alluring and frightening to see a paranoid David Bowie being chased around Manhattan by a pissy Trent Reznor:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gPVrFIP0CMs

Edited September 2, 2014 by Sun-Bun

[Jeebus Cripes]

Speaking of Bowie, this freaks me out to the point where I won't watch it:

[Rick Kitchen]

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga have an album coming out September 19 called "Cheek to Cheek".  Tony compared Lady Gaga to Ella Fitzgerald.

 

Here's one of the songs from the album.  I like it.

 

[Rick Kitchen]

 

Here are a couple of weird ones from Daft Punk.

 

I think you can say that about any Daft Punk video.  :D

[PrincessLuceval]

Lou Reed's No Money Down. Robot stripping skin off - eeek!

 

[BatmanBeatles]

I think you can say that about any Daft Punk video.  :D

I don't think Get Lucky or Lose Yourself To Dance are weird.

[BizBuzz]

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga have an album coming out September 19 called "Cheek to Cheek".  Tony compared Lady Gaga to Ella Fitzgerald.

 

Here's one of the songs from the album.  I like it.

 

Oh my.  In my wildest dreams I would never put those two together.

[Rick Kitchen]

Tony enjoys working with current artists.  He has a duet with Amy Winehouse, among others.

[spaceytraci1208]

In the weird category, is Garth Brooks as "Chris Gaines". Although the whole "Chris Gaines" persona never took off, it did produce this gorgeous song:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbbeD6-WzjI

Edited September 25, 2014 by spaceytraci1208

[Rick Kitchen]

I really like this song, but the video is a little strange especially since the singer is the blonde girl, not the Asian girl.

 

[BatmanBeatles]

Not only is this song stuck in my head, but the video makes me want to eat something with a lot of frosting.

 

[Rick Kitchen]

I love that that the title of Meghan Trainor's EP is ... "Title".

[GaT]

I really like this song, but the video is a little strange especially since the singer is the blonde girl, not the Asian girl.

 

Actually, It's not the blonde girl either. You only see (barely) the singer for a few seconds when the Asian girl imagines she's at the bands concert. The blonde girl plays the cello (but you never actually see her play it in the video). The singer is Jess Glynne  who isn't a member of the group & is just guesting on the song. It seems really strange to me that you never really see her, even though she's in the video..