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.
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.
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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.
Also, Mr. FEAR by SIAMÉS has a nice animation about an alien (?) and a human merging to make a larger alien (?).
Love it - it’s like if Zootopia was more honest about it’s seedy underbelly
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.
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.
Stuck in the sounds - Let’s Go also has a crazy video about an astronaut.
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
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
I have questions. I’m not sure what those questions are yet, but I definitely have some
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.
This is about aliens(?) and a warrior king.
I feel like I could suggest most of Salvatore Ganacci’s catalogue here, but I think Take Me To America is probably the winner. Join a determined Bosnian man on his quest to for a better TV signal
Wow, really loved this one. The unspoken rejection and then acceptance by his mother, the quest to infiltrate US conservatives to get into a position to
assassinatechange the transmission of brain rot seen in his country. And then to swim into oblivion a task well complete
So her music videos are a bit strange, but they’ve got nothing on the dozens or hundreds of random other videos (some of which are crazy long)
Telephone by Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce. The song is about not answering your phone in the club because you’re dancing. The video is about Beyonce breaking Gaga out of prison and then tracking down and murdering an ex boyfriend. It also has some top tier crazy Gaga costumes including a set of shades made of lit cigarettes. Good track if you like dance-pop as well!
I always liked Radiohead - Just.
Twenty One Pilots’ videos have ragged continuity from song to song, and tell a pretty out-there story. Example song: Twenty One Pilots - Nico and the Niners
man i love how thom looks like a preppie as much as he looks like a gangsta
Meteor worshipping cult you say
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven’s_Gate_(religious_group)
Their website is still up btw. Wild shit but a cool 90’s website. Pretty chilling though
Especially this
I love the video for Gung Ho
It’s like they spent a million euros on it but it still came out like a project by a media student.
The plot? Fuck knows. It starts with “3 days later” with zero context, then introduces half a dozen characters with even less context. Something about a detective? I dunno
The song itself absolutely fucking rocks which 100% makes up for the utter confusion though lol
