What were they thinking music videos.

[Nr1Humanoid]

I have always loved the song Holiday Road from Vacation, as it is so cheerful and fun, yet when I finally saw the music video it was completely cold and sterile, not fitting the song at all.

Ever felt that way about a music video?

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Billy Squier flat out told the director of the "Rock Me Tonight" video that people would draw the wrong conclusions about him from it but they insisted he do it anyway. It killed his career.

[Citizen Snips]

Both versions of Hammer's "Pumps and a Bump"

-The clean version had a bizarre Deon Sanders dream sequence framing it and had Hammer trying very hard to look "gangsta" in fresh off the rack clothes and doing elaborate choreography

-The "uncensored" version would seem to be closer to the right track, with dozens of fly honeys dancing around Hammer's pool...except it also featured a greased-up, speedo-wearing Hammer.

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Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" music video. Sure it was critically acclaimed and something different, but I bet after watching it many children went to their bed and cried, scared of those robotic sculptures.

And as it turned out, that one sculpture was indeed supposed to look like he, ahem, pleasures himself.

[Paul]

Many of Madonna's videos and songs are memorable.

Then, there's her American Life video which looks cheap and terrible:

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

As someone who has loved a lot of what Ariana Grande has done, “7 Rings” is a misfire in both the song and the video. It’s a privileged white girl rapping about the lavish things she can buy with with her money and then she dabbles in tons of cultural appropriation in the video.

Literally all of my gay friends love it, but she’s not fooling this one.

[DiBiase is Good]

Hello by Lionel Richie

It’s actually a pleasant love song but it’s forever tainted by that video.

So he’s a Teacher, stalking a pupil, and she’s blind.

[wildojinx]

Estranged by GNR. So first the cops raid Axl's mansion, then we see concert footage, then Axl has an out-of-body experience, then we see Axl about to leave the same mansion while his kids play in the front yard, then he walks down a flooded sunset strip, then he tries to kill himself by jumping off some oil tanker, and then Dolphins and the coast guard save his life. Can ANYONE comprehend what the story of that video was?

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This is the winner (loser?) here.

[Display Name]

May 5, 2019 9:05:03 GMT -5 @desertassassin said:

Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" music video. Sure it was critically acclaimed and something different, but I bet after watching it many children went to their bed and cried, scared of those robotic sculptures.

And as it turned out, that one sculpture was indeed supposed to look like he, ahem, pleasures himself.

I was one of those children. Scared the f*** out of me.

[Mozenrath]

May 5, 2019 16:54:06 GMT -5 @heyitsfriskeyagain said:

This is the winner (loser?) here.

I love/hate that the band even told the director that they don't do these kinds of music videos, that it was outside of their wheelhouse, but they got coaxed into it anyway. Then, the singer's girlfriend was being pissy on set and he had to try to work things out with her, while being sleeveless in freezing conditions for the whole shoot.

I also remember the keyboardist was apparently bitter about Beavis and Butthead making fun of this video so much, considering he felt MTV owed them more respect than that. Ah well.

[BorneAgain]

I like Jagger & Bowie but... good god.

[thirteen3]

I was introduced to Limp Bizkit's "My way" through the hype video for WM 17. I thought the song was bad ass along with that video, then I watched the official music video.



"The f*** is that shit?!" is what my 11-year old self said when he saw that. Stupid comedy shit doesn't even match the song.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

May 5, 2019 16:24:50 GMT -5 wildojinx said:

Estranged by GNR. So first the cops raid Axl's mansion, then we see concert footage, then Axl has an out-of-body experience, then we see Axl about to leave the same mansion while his kids play in the front yard, then he walks down a flooded sunset strip, then he tries to kill himself by jumping off some oil tanker, and then Dolphins and the coast guard save his life. Can ANYONE comprehend what the story of that video was?

Drugs were plentiful in the early 1990s.

[CeilingFan]

"Let The Music Play" by Shannon. I was expecting breakdancers, not.....that.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

That video where Shia LeBeouf dances erotically with an 11 year old girl

[Limity (BLM)]

Start Me Up, by Rolling Stones. I'm convinced that was a half assed sound check that got accidentally released as the finished product.

[James Fabiano]

No! Not the beach ball!

[Hit Girl]

Robbie Williams flaying himself in the bizarre "Rock DJ" video.

[FinalGwen]

The Michael Bay-directed video for Meat Loaf's 'Objects In The Rear View Mirror'. This isn't just a shot at Bay, because his other Bat 2 videos (Anything For Love and Rock And Roll Dreams) were actually really pretty good. But this one just seems... Very off.

The first verse which mentions the characters 'racing' and how one of them 'crashed and burned' isn't illustrated with the motorbike imagery that's gone through everything else Meat Loaf has done, but rather a light aircraft so they can have a big explosion. The second verse's haunting descriptions of how his father 'hit me again, and again, and again' is illustrated with them playing baseball and a bat swinging (Paradise By The Dashboard Light was the one with baseball metaphors, Michael, and they were better than this). And the 'beauty living on the edge of town' is displayed in all the wet-t-shirt sexy-carwash prism that Bay seems to see women through in general. Just a conceptual miss with every part of the song.