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Weirdest Plot Premise to a Music Video? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice : Random guy dances through an empty hotel for no particular reason

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Data - Don't Sing

Murders. I don't want to spoil any more than that because it has a twist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Michael Jackson's Speed Demon is ultra weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Group Sounds - Temporarily In Love

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1I1NQuMP-8w

It's...an experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you should check this out too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CKOAQDsbg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That is absolutely amazing, I love it! I really hope Gaga has seen this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nekrogoblikon - No one survives..

Goblin gets bullied at the office.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Foo Fighter's Everlong

"When I get mad, my hand gets huge."

Honorable mention to Ludacris' Get Back for also using the big arm thing (though the video matches the song in this case)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've always been puzzled by the Stabbing Westward video Shame. It features a fairly disturbing plot of a woman and her boyfriend who escaped from an insane asylum. However, the portions where the band is playing are completely contrary to the "plot" of the video and almost comical.

https://youtu.be/CsxaoXHe9Xc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Salvatore Ganacci - Horse

People punch animals. Animals helpless. Man save animals by breaking into houses with his shoe car.

Salvatore Ganacci - Boycycle

Half boy, half motorbike. Travels the world to meet the half girl, half jetski.

Really anything from this guy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have questions. I'm not sure what those questions are yet, but I definitely have some

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

More fan made, but the combo is killer: mukinabaht with nature will have unintended consequences. Boards of Canada with a trippy french animation, the two feel made for each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIY0c_OmcOY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

It's visual commentary on society itself, as well as how fucked this system we've all built is to both our inner & outer nature.

Are these media systems self-sustaining? Aren't apples the symbol of knowledge? Or will our inner animalism escape, in spite of the processed knowledge, given even the slightest chance?

Might be reading into it too much, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

https://youtu.be/PZbkF-15ObM

This is about aliens(?) and a warrior king.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Stuck in the sounds - Let's Go also has a crazy video about an astronaut.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Dance Devil Dance

Well... It's difficult to even say wtf is going on there 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnGYaqjW-A

Einstürzende Neubauten - Sabrina, maybe not the weirdest, but weird enough to have stuck with me for the past 20 years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This isn't that weird but a wolf and a bear are investigating another planet and come across these sexy pixies only for them to turn into robots that attempt to harvest their organs once they've all had a mad night on the booze.

Les Savy Fav - What Would Wolves Do

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Any one of the Lorn videos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Steambreather

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Arsonists get all the girls - shoeshine for Neptune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY1L8lY8qUg

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Meteor worshipping cult you say

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Their website is still up btw. Wild shit but a cool 90's website. Pretty chilling though

https://www.heavensgate.com/

Especially this

https://www.heavensgate.com/misc/letter.htm

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

https://youtu.be/tKjZuykKY1I

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

https://youtu.be/LvHsLdYXfaY

It's kind of a surprise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Blockhead - The Music Scene

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like music videos as a genre. Anyone know if there's a good community/reddit sub/yt channel for them?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

[email protected] exists, but isn't active. I also have my community [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

She's not gonna pick you up, Phil, she's just stopping for the iguana.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Phil can't dance, so maybe that is the reason why he's being blatantly ignored by the pretty lady.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Rubber Johnny - Aphex Twin

edit: or really any of his videos

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My vote is for Windowlicker. Wicked satire of “horny ho” videos saturating the market at the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I was afraid noone is going to mention this!

But note that it is Chris Cunningham, who is a twisted brain behind these.

Another classic: Come to Daddy

The video opens with an old woman (played by Coral Lorne) walking a dog in a grimy, industrial setting. The dog urinates on an abandoned television lying on the pavement, causing it to sputter unexpectedly into life, and a distorted and warping headshot of Richard D. James chants the lyrics. This unleashes a spirit, accompanied by a gang of small children, all of whom bear James' grinning face and who appear to inhabit the abandoned buildings

See also: Monkey Drummer and of course Windowlicker, with its ridiculous 4 (?) minute intro.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Frankie Sinatra by The Avalanches

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