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

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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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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 42 points 4 weeks ago

Come now, DJ Snake Turn Down for What makes no sense but is amazing.

https://youtu.be/HMUDVMiITOU

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 4 weeks ago

'twas directed by the guys behind Everything Everywhere All At Once

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 34 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Dating myself a bit, but Men Without Hats " Safety Dance" is a clear indicator of how much cocaine was consumed in the 80s.

https://youtu.be/nM4okRvCg2g

[-] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 points 4 weeks ago

Link for the other 96% of folks that get an error

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1p_BvaHsgGg

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

You're dating yourself? That doesn't seem healthy.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Lotta 90's stuff comes to mind:

Garbage - Special

Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

Not 90's but:

Gorillaz -Dare

DJ Shadow/Run the Jewels -Nobody Speak

First ones that come to mind.

[-] eightpix@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago

DyE

Fantasy

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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Interstellar_1 6 points 4 weeks ago

!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.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago

That isn't even, imo, the weirdest Basement Jaxxs video - I'd give that crown to Where's Your Head At

https://youtu.be/5rAOyh7YmEc

However, I think the HK Slap is also incredibly weird.

https://youtu.be/kucefQ6sYbo

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Robbie Williams - Rock DJ

When a strip tease goes just a bit too far.

[-] poo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Tot@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I've never seen it before but after your comment had to check it out.

That was unexpected.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Check out the claymation videos from Tool!

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Example

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Everlong was pretty wild

[-] wispydust@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 4 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.

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[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I do not know about the weirdest, but Quiet Riot’s The Wild and The Young video is pretty out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP2KhfQ8Pm8

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[-] ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

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.

https://youtu.be/UJgVEnbwguk

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 5 points 4 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.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

man i love how thom looks like a preppie as much as he looks like a gangsta

[-] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 4 points 4 weeks ago

Meteor worshipping cult you say

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

[-] TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Frankie Sinatra by The Avalanches

[-] poo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Rubber Johnny - Aphex Twin

edit: or really any of his videos

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 3 points 4 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.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 3 points 4 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

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Any one of the Lorn videos.

[-] ofk12@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 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

[-] bebopnbones@lemmy.world 3 points 4 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

[-] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

https://youtu.be/PZbkF-15ObM?si=NYywD6MJD4m9ni1b

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

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 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

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 3 points 4 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?si=GEucLdCgmFU1sp_4

[-] Volkditty@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Nick Lutsko - All Shook Up

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

There is no video plot here. It's just some guy having frankfurters thrown at him.

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[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

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!

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[-] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Nekrogoblikon - No one survives..

Goblin gets bullied at the office.

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