Watching music videos for hours

[Corpsey]

Spent a whole day last weekend with some mates watching music videos on YouTube, drinking Guinness and doing mushrooms.

It's a real throwback to my teenage years watching MTV Base and Kerrang round a friend's house. (Except I was tripping a bit.)

There are a lot of good videos out there too - or at least visually striking videos. We were mostly sticking to ones by the megastars like Beyonce, Kanye, Stormzy et al.

Would be interested in your submissions for best music videos, esp but not exclusively contemporary, to watch on my big tv when I'm blitzed.

 

[Corpsey]

This won't be a good example but I have to record that while high on mushrooms and feeling very sentimental about life this video got me right in the feeling things



Then you've got something like this that (on psychedelics, on a TV) looks amazing - although I'm not a big fan of this song



This looks like it has the budget of a Hollywood studio behind it

 

[Corpsey]

I will say it's weird spending that long watching music videos, all these airbrushed beautiful people existing in some sort of portnetous world of high art, flowing fabrics... I guess this is specifically the Beyonce/jay-z/Kanye crowd I'm thinking of.

 

[versh]

This one of Spike Jonze's is good,

 

[versh]

 

[Corpsey]

A few weeks ago me and a mate watched a lot of old music videos by Shalamar, Cameo etc. Those videos are very charming and so low budget (the music is amazing ofc)

 

[Corpsey]

Just five dudes strutting around LA in pristine suits

 

[boxedjoy]

charmingly scrappy

 

[Corpsey]

It struck me on this day that the videos can be so seductive that it's sometimes hard to clock just how lacklustre the music is

 

[Corpsey]

The weird thing is because MTV no longer exists and I stream music off Spotify mostly I basically completely forgot music videos were still just as important as they used to be - if not more so.

 

[woops]

this is my recent favourite, nothing intelligent to say about it just really like the song production and video and how short it is

 

[boxedjoy]

I hate the trend for "event" music videos where they break up the song and visuals for some spoken word nonsense to advance the "plot" along. Just do all that stuff at the start and finish, or just not at all, please.

 

[woops]

I hate the trend for "event" music videos where they break up the song and visuals for some spoken word nonsense to advance the "plot" along. Just do all that stuff at the start and finish, or just not at all, please.

i don't mind that personally, the example that springs to mind is that video for justin timberlake what goes around comes around, i think that works quite well as a little drama that heightens the mood of the different sections of the song

 

[woops]

@boxedjoy any opinion on that thing they used to do inserting a preview of the next single part way through the video? that used to happen a lot

 

[boxedjoy]

I don't mind that but mostly because I associate it with Missy Elliott who invented performance art

 

[woops]

I don't mind that but mostly because I associate it with Missy Elliott who invented performance art

she may not have invented it but she defined it. she made Lady Gaga's raw meat dress possible

 

[shakahislop]

I hate the trend for "event" music videos where they break up the song and visuals for some spoken word nonsense to advance the "plot" along. Just do all that stuff at the start and finish, or just not at all, please.

Yes like in 'Barbie Girl’, it really disrupts the flow of the song

 

[woops]

Yes like in 'Barbie Girl’, it really disrupts the flow of the song

looking forward to your re-edit of this track

 

[boxedjoy]

Tinashe does music videos really well I think - the budgets are obviously limited but the creativity and her star presence are so captivating

 

[versh]