Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Most Memorable Greatest Music Videos (55-31)

55. Fatboy Slim- Praise You (1999)
This video is very unique as you are shown street dance act who are performing for the public who are actually unaware that they are filming for a music video. The director and voluteers appear in the video doing the street dance which is quite bad and at a point in the music video the manager of the building they are peforming in comes and turns the music off. This video won 6 MTV awards in 2001. 

39. Pulp- Common People (1995)
The video to Pulp's 'Common People' is about a girl from a rich backround wants to be treated and be the same as working class people. This video showed Sadie Frost acting as the woman who wanted to be working class. 

38. Fatboy Slim- Weapon of Choice (2001) 
 

The video for 'Weapon of Choice' stars Christopher Walken as he performs a dance routine around his house, he is also propelled into the air where he continues to dance and fly. This makes the video memorable as it had never been done before in a music video. When Christopher was asked by Spike Jonez whether or not he wanted to be apart of this video he immediately agreed.

31. Eminem- Stan

 

Eminem's 'Stan' is an example of a video that completly follows the lyrics of the song to create a powerful story. The video is about an obbsessed fan of Eminem's who wants to be exactly like him, he writes him letters which Eminem does not reply to. This makes Stan angry and one night while his girlfriend is sneaking around his hideout he throws her in the boot of his car and drives of a bridge killing them both. Afterwards Eminem finally replies only to find out what Stan had done.

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