Episode 34: Music Videos
Liz talks about one of her favorite genres of media: music videos.
Show Notes:
Roof Beams’ live quarantine set: https://www.facebook.com/rurb.music/videos/3720598254680823/
Old Business: Will’s Homestar Patches.
MTV’s Making the Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSriKlS84n4
Pop-up Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km728FNBInA
Types of Music Videos:
THE STANDARD:
...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4
Old Music Videos that Don’t Make Any Damn Sense:
Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler: https://youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo
Hello by Lionel Richie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ILDFp5DGA
Last Christmas by WHAM!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI
Music Videos that Are Just Extant Movies Compressed and Remade by the Band:
Cute without the “E” (Cut from the Team) by Taking Back Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap0mqwvf7H0
The Kill by 30 Seconds to Mars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yvGCAvOAfM
Music Videos that Are Remakes of the Artist’s Previous Music Video:
Voices Carry by Til Tuesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To
Labrador by Aimee Mann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1cX-wgMdM
What’s my Age Again? by Blink-182: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7l5ZeVVoCA
She’s Out of Her Mind by Blink-182: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krpm0v_486k
THE DANCING Music Videos:
Chandelier by Sia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjPBrBU-™
Single Ladies by Beyonce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1EFMoRFvY
Call your Boyfriend by Robyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ImxY6hnfA
Lose Control by Missy Elliott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na7lIb09898
Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8
Rock DJ by Robbie Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnO3nijfYmU
Music Videos that Involve Heists:
The Reason by Hoobastank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV4DiAyExN0
Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9fLbfzCqWw
Music Videos that are Actually A Whole Movie:
Lemonade by Beyonce
Tommy by The Who
The Wall by Pink Floyd
Interstella 5555 by Daft Punk
Happy by Pharell (putting this here because he filmed 24 hours of footage for the same song)
Music Videos that Are Trying to Be A Short Film:
Telephone by Lady Gaga Featuring Beyonce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBsypHzF3U
Thriller by Michael Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
I'm Not Okay by My Chemical Romance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZTNgAs4Fc
Music Videos that Utilize the Genre to Show Art Things You Really Couldn’t Really Do In Another Medium:
Style by Taylor Swift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmadmM5cOk
Somebody that I Used to Know by Gotye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY
Take On Me by A-ha!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
Reptilia by The Strokes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8-tXG8KrWs
Elastic Heart by Sia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWZGAExj-es
The Sprawl II: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Arcade Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awHWColYQ90
because of the interactive video that used Flash (RIP): https://www.sprawl2.com/
Music Videos that are Literal:
The Scientist by Coldplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-RcX5DS5A
Riptide by Vance Joy: https://youtu.be/uJ_1HMAGb4k
Music Videos that Spatially Alter Your Understanding:
Right Right Now Now by the Beastie Boys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDQJdCIPv0
Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE
OK-Go Gets Their Own Category:
Here It Goes Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA
This Too Shall Pass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
Music Videos as Revenge:
Tunak Tunak Tun by Daler Mehndi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTIIMJ9tUc8
Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgjkth6BRRY
Music Videos as Parody of Itself:
Hopeless Wanderer by Mumford and Sons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId6PKlDXeU
(And all these by Weird Al!)
Amish Paradise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
Smells like Nirvana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY
Music Videos with Terrible CGI:
In the End by Linkin Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4
Bring Me to Life by Evanescence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxaaGgTQYM
Blue by Eiffel 65: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc
Miracles by Insane Clown Posse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyVx28R9-s
Live Music Videos:
Ready to Start by Arcade Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oI27uSzxNQ
Music Videos Liz Just Really Likes:
Maps by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIIxlgcuQRU
Bad Girls by MIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE
When the Party’s Over by Billie Eilish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbMwTqkKSps
Ghengis Khan by Miike Snow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E
Closer by Tegan and Sara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9NSMY8QiQ
Fell in Love with a Girl by the White Stripes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTH71AAxXmM
Music Videos I Don’t Like:
Float On by Modest Mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAud5O7Qqk
The full version of Unpretty by TLC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edUoRYnFsq0
A Category Will Pointed Out We Need: Music Videos where Celebrity Is a Main Draw:
Which could include Weapon of Choice and Hopeless Wanderer.
Also possibly You’re So Last Summer by Taking Back Sunday (infamously featuring Flavor Flav):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQE7gu4D1R4
We missed talking about:
The Most Recent Incredibly Significant Music Video:
This is America by Childish Gambino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY
Don’t worry, I made you a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXjt3l6BUSNhSEylE3CbSyoCON3bn_Qx
