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.
Murders. I don’t want to spoil any more than that because it has a twist.
Check out the claymation videos from Tool!
There is no video plot here. It’s just some guy having frankfurters thrown at him.
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
Everlong was pretty wild
https://youtu.be/Z3Pb3EJY5Qg?si=pMR5HFn4tJBZLmvB
For some reason this Shania Twain video is her on a future motorcycle running to herself from an evil iron giant
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)
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.
DyE
Probably one of the most memorable music videos of all time
CFCF Remix is 😍
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.
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
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.
The darkness - i believe in a thing called love.
Hes on an alien planet in a hot tub playing guitar and shooting lighting out of the guitar. Still a good song though.
She’s not gonna pick you up, Phil, she’s just stopping for the iguana.
Phil can’t dance, so maybe that is the reason why he’s being blatantly ignored by the pretty lady.
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
