Weirdest Plot Premise to a Music Video?

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 · 44 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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

https://youtu.be/HMUDVMiITOU

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 1y

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 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 1y

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 · 36 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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 pts · 1y

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.

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 7 pts · 1y

::: spoiler You're dating yourself? That doesn't seem healthy. /s :::

Mr_Blott@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y

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je_skirata@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Lone Digger by Caravan Palace. It's about a murder-brawl at an animal strip club.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UbQgXeY_zi4

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y

Love it - it's like if Zootopia was more honest about it's seedy underbelly

je_skirata@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1y

Also, Mr. FEAR by SIAMÉS has a nice animation about an alien (?) and a human merging to make a larger alien (?).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EKLWC93nvAU

ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 · 5 pts · 1y

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.

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y

!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.

GraniteM@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (3 replies)

DyE

Fantasy

KuroiKaze@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Probably one of the most memorable music videos of all time

poo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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Lemjukes@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Ugh I caught this at the exact wrong time once and had the worst existential dread for the whole god damned day

xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y

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 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Robbie Williams - Rock DJ

When a strip tease goes just a bit too far.

poo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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Tot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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

That was unexpected.

lars@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y

The daddy of my babies doing a striptease?!? The first 2:55 of this video could have made my life so much better. God, he’s beautiful.

chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Everlong was pretty wild

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Check out the claymation videos from Tool!

toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Example

wispydust@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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 pts · 1y

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.

ReCursing@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

How about, what size shoe was he driving?

ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 pts · 1y

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.

Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y

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

NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Meteor worshipping cult you say

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

Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

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

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 pts · 1y

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

KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 pts · 1y

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

fubo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

Quazatron@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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

TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Frankie Sinatra by The Avalanches

Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Steambreather

ReCursing@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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!

GorGor@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

ReCursing@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 1y

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

Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

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

Amanduh@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

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.

ofk12@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

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

Skua@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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

sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

His music is not my thing but goddamn does he make some awesome videos.

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Wow, really loved this one. The unspoken rejection and then acceptance by his mother, the quest to infiltrate US conservatives to get into a position to ~~assassinate~~ change the transmission of brain rot seen in his country. And then to swim into oblivion a task well complete

Mr_Blott@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y

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ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

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

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

boaratio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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

RubberElectrons@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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

bebopnbones@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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

DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

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

AceTKen@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Data - Don't Sing

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

poo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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daddy32@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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.

reddig33@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

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

grgrs@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

https://youtu.be/EvSjYYep3t4

Hot Chip - I feel better

Sci Fi boy band battle.

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Those lazer eyes came out of nowhere!

grgrs@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y

Yea, I love the sharp turn.

Metju@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Dance Devil Dance

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

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Any one of the Lorn videos.

RubberElectrons@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

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.

frank@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

So her music videos are a bit strange, but they've got nothing on the dozens or hundreds of random other videos (some of which are crazy long)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QpleqACHXzU

Volkditty@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Nick Lutsko - All Shook Up

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

Volkditty@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I think it's a metaphor.

PetteriPano@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Nekrogoblikon - No one survives..