Best Music Videos of All Time
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- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsChristopher WalkenA businessman, overhearing the song on the maid's radio, takes to dancing in the hotel lobby.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsRafael EdholmGeorge MichaelScott BenoitFor George Michael's song Freedom '90, he does not appear in the music video. Instead, five female models and five male models lip sync the lyrics to the song.
- DirectorJonas ÅkerlundStarsThe ProdigyTeresa MayThe video shows some rampant adventures on the night London from the first person view. In the full version of the clip, called the Most Controversial Version, there are all kinds of antisocial behaviors, such as drinking hard liquor and drunk driving, taking cocaine, attacking people, violence, vandalism, heroin use, a scene in which Car shoot down a man, a female striptease without censorship, and at the end of the clip the main character is engaged in sex with the same stripper.
- DirectorTom KuntzMike MaguireStarsBurr DeBenningMichelle WittonPromotional music video from the debut album of the Australian band The Avalanches, "Since I Left You" (2000), with a surreal staging for a more surreal song.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsWeezerTom BosleyTony MaxwellMusic video for the song "Buddy Holly" by the American rock band Weezer, written by Rivers Cuomo. It was released as the second single from the band's debut album Weezer (The Blue Album) in 1994.
- DirectorBusta RhymesHype WilliamsStarsBusta RhymesSpliff StarrBusta Rhymes performs in the music video "Gimme Some More" from the album "E.L.E." recorded for Flipmode and Elektra Records. The absurdist music video features Busta Rhymes singing into a fish-eye lens while in several costumes including a boxer, cowboy, monster, and a police officer.
- DirectorJake NavaStarsBeyoncéAshley EverettEbony WilliamsA promotional dance video for Beyoncé's 2008 hit single "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)."
- DirectorJoy DivisionStarsJoy DivisionIan CurtisPeter HookThe music video for Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
- DirectorHiro MuraiStarsDonald GloverCalvin C. WinbushKenneth BeckOfficial music video for "This Is America" by Childish Gambino.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsJamiroquaiJay KayA promotional video for Jamiroquai's 1996 single "Virtual Insanity."
- DirectorKevin GodleyStarsDamon AlbarnBlurGraham Coxon
- DirectorPaul HunterStarsChristina AguileraMissy ElliottLil' KimThe music video for "Lady Marmalade", made to promote the song as well as the film Moulin Rouge! (2001).
- DirectorMarc WebbStarsMy Chemical RomanceNick DragoAngelique HennessyMy Chemical Romance performs in the music video "Helena" from the album "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" recorded for Reprise and Warner Music Records. Gerard Way and the band are in a church performing during the funeral of a woman named 'Helena'. Other mourners dance in front of the casket.
- DirectorPhilip G. AtwellDr. DreStarsEminemDidoDevon SawaA music video for Eminem's song "Stan".
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsBjörkMusic video for Björk's song Human Behaviour. A woman in a cabin in the woods, a hunter, a bear, a moth and other forest creatures' lives intersect in surreal and unpredictable ways.
- DirectorToni BasilDavid ByrneStarsDavid ByrneTalking HeadsDavid Byrne of the band Talking Heads lip-syncs and sporadically dances to the 1980 single "Once In a Lifetime".
- DirectorAdam YauchStarsBeastie BoysJoey GarfieldAdam HorovitzMusic video for the Beastie Boys's 1998 single "Intergalactic". The music video begins with a large robotic craft headed to earth. The Beastie Boys perform while wearing white construction hats and white outfits and the robot dances.
- DirectorRebecca BlakeStarsMonique MannenWendy MelvoinPrinceMusic video for "Kiss" by Prince.
- DirectorDamian KulashOK GoTrish SieStarsOK GoDan KonopkaDamian KulashThe music video of the song is an elaborate performance of the band dancing on treadmills in a single continuous take. Choreographed by Trish Sie and directed by Sie and the band, it took a total of seventeen attempts to complete the video. As in the band's video for "A Million Ways", Tim Nordwind lip-syncs the lead vocals instead of Damian Kulash, following the format from the dance choreographed for the song "C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips", which Tim sings. The video debuted on YouTube on July 31, 2006. As of March 2010, it had been viewed over 50 million times, but the video was taken down and reposted and now currently has over 41 million views.
- DirectorKevin KerslakeStarsNirvanaKurt CobainDave GrohlA music video for Nirvana's song 'In Bloom'.
- DirectorJohn KricfalusiStarsBjörkIn both live-action and animated selves, Björk sings about wanting to meet already that perfect lover, while interacting with Jimmy the Idiot Boy and other Kricfalusi's creations.
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsFoo FightersDave GrohlTaylor HawkinsThe music video for the Foo Fighters' "Everlong."