Okay but like one more thing about Payphone: Adam’s verses are about how he regrets how he treated someone and he needed to call them to tell them he’s sorry. wiz khalifa’s verse is about how people from his past who did him wrong are always trying to call him up and apologize because they just want a piece of his fame. Guys, they’re talking to each other. Like for real.
Long-ago, women (some, not all) used the tactic of rejecting a guy, to see if he'll give up so easily, as what can be described as half shit test and half an assessment on her part to see how much he is really interested in her. Now though, we live in an age where social standards have made it harassment if a man looks a woman for more 3 seconds. Then again, the alternative is you literally driving away from a guy who grabbed your ass and him clinging to the side of the vehicle.
I think the Gives You Hell MV is about a guy growing up and trying to be two things at once: his college age grunge self, and his future suburban family man life. This causes a disconnect between him and his girlfriend/future wife (which coincides with the song) which ultimately tears their relationship apart. He wants to have fun and be grungy, but also be the family man for his girlfriend. He's angry at her until they come to the conclusion that they need to meet in the middle and/or open up the relationship (hence the wife swap scene). Both women are supposed to be different facets of the same girl.
Wiz Kalifa wasn't even supposed to be in the video he just showed up, didn't realize they took his car and they just recorded him after he wondered off
I have a theory in regards to the music video where both of the main characters are played by the same singer. Haven't watched the original piece itself but based on what I can gather from your video, here's what I believe: The two men represent different phases of the man's life. The "bad neighbor" who hangs out with a group is a simply younger version of the singer, while the "good neighbor" who lives with his wife is an older form of the guy. The two are at odds since the older version dislikes looking back at his past self (perhaps caused by stupid mistakes he has made), while his past self sees his future self as a lame old man (nobody wants to see themselves get boring as they become old). This actually does tie into what the song is about because in the video, the future version of the performer states "When you see my face / hope it gives you hell" which, again, is most likely due to the fact that the past version of the man would not like to see himself grow out of the phase which he is in. I could go a lot more in depth but it's a RUclips comment. Hope you understand what the hell I am on about, Quinton.
You make sense, maybe the video is really about reflecting on the past. I always assumed the "gives you hell" video was about 2 guys that were ex lovers lol. I felt like that was implied. Maybe I'm wrong though.
Yeah, that definitivly weren't good examples for weird plots. Thriller e.g. was a spoof of typical horror tropes. Some of the most appreciated Guns and Roses videos would have worked a lot better.
To be fair tho, I think the surreal and cartoon quality some of these videos have is exactly what they are going for. From a filming standpoint music videos have some of the artsiest stuff I’ve seen.
Y'all remember "Save Rock and Roll" by Fall Out Boy? It's an entire album where there's a music video for every single song, and they all link together to tell one cohesive story. The band members get kidnapped, tortured, brainwashed, killed, you name it, all by this group that hates music or something? And they're all racing to protect this briefcase, which in the end, you never really figure out what's in it, but it's supposed to be viewer interpretation. It was silly and over the top, but I absolutely love it.
Michael Jackson had a vision when he started a project, everything was calculated to precision. He didn't need to 'look cool' he simply was. Smooth Criminal for example, there's a moment in the extended version where him and the dancers just 'feel the music' before it goes to the dance break. It has meaning, passion, soul. They were short films. These artists just want to look cool and get a reaction. Michael didn't need to, he knew that the reaction was inevitable, he just needed to tell the best story possible. And he always did. And that's why no one will ever compare.
Whip It by Devo Safety Dance by Men Without Hats Tainted Love by Soft Cell We Built This City by Starship Physical by Olivia Newton John Abracadabra by Steve Miller Band and, of course The Tide is High by Blondie. She's in her apartment . . . and it floods . . . and a Darth-Vader-lookin-thing is watching her . . . then she and her bandmates get on a rocket to dance with the alien. Yeah.
On my fifth birthday i was watching MJ Thriller on MTV and the part where he turns into a werewolf traumatized me so bad that ive never seen it until now just these clips in this video
The music video for “If It Gives You Hell” represents that during adulthood your “wild side” can torture you sometimes. Sometimes you really want to do bad things and finding a healthy way to live out your wild side can help you calm the battle between your two sides.
I'd recommend watching David Bowie's "Jazzin for Blue Jean" from 1984 the full thing is an amazing tale about two characters (both played by Bowie) the entire thing is 20 minutes long and even gets a meta ending Summary Bowie number 1 wants to date a girl who likes bowie number 2. Bowie number1 then pretends to know bowie number 2 to impress her Eventually Bowie number 1 buys a ticket for one of bowie number 2's concerts and gives it to her bowie1 then breaks into bowie2's dressing room begging him to help him impress his girlfriend Bowie 2 goes out on stage and sings a song Then Bowie 1 and his girlfriend wait until everyone else has left the theatre Bowie 2 approaches bowie1 and his girlfriend He then impresses her and steals her from Bowie1 Then Bowie1 exits the theatre furious and talks to the video's director demanding that the video gets a happy ending and that he should get the girl The video then pans out with Bowie1 and the director arguing
I'm not ashamed to admit... thriller, at one point in my life, scared the shit out of me Edit: You should've taken a look at the 'Rock DJ' video by Robbie Williams. That video is the strangest one I've ever seen
Dude/lady, there's NO shame in admitting Thriller scared you. To this day, it scares me. It scared me when I was a little boy. How could it NOT scare you, at least a little? There's no shame in saying something scares you. It's ok, we've all got fears and things that scare us. There's also the "Land Of Confusion" video, which was just weird, but one of my favorite songs. There's the Foo Fighters, who've had pretty much every single one of their videos weird as hell, along with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Gorillaz, with every video they've ever made being weird, but the RHCP and Gorillaz are 2 of my favorite bands, so i don't mind the weirdness. It works, and they always make it work, that's part of how they're 2 of the best bands out there, another part is just the fact that they're awesome and talented.
It still scares me lol. It's been like 20+ years and I have YET to finish the full video without turning on the lights or looking behind me. The horror atmosphere and designs are just so on point for a nearly 40 year old MV, Oscar worthy really.
I love the arc that's told across two gorillaz songs, being feel good inc and then el Manana, and then the ain't it funny music vid by Danny brown. That one is a classic. Post malone's rockstar has a flames music video too.
My favorite music video is definitely I’m Going Slightly Mad. It’s delightfully odd, and Mercury did an amazing job with his acting, and somehow the lyrics ACTUALLY match the video
Apparently most film insurance companies won't cover music videos, so my theory is that they give them these cringey skits and convoluted plots so they can be technically counted as short films.
I scrolled all the way down here looking for someone talking about the Al TV shirt. (Me, I discovered Weird Al when Dr Demento did, because I'd already been listening to Dr Demento for years, because I'm old...)
Thriller and video is so transcendent that it was my now 5 year old daughter's first "favorite song", she would listen to it over and over and could do the zombie dance when she was 3
That one makes total sense though. It's a cartoon-styled segment where a store employee laments about musicians and the easy life they have compared to him, which is what the song was about too.
The song was inspired by a hardware store employee complaining about how easy being a musician seems. So the video's relation to the song only makes sense if you know the story behind it.
10:51 I think it's a metaphor It represents the internal turmoil between what the punk rocker boy wants to be and what his family and society want him to be Or maybe I'm just looking to deep into it i don't know
These are the best kinds of music videos. Nowadays the ones i've seen are just one guy sad about missing his ex girlfriend (his barely dressed girlfriend) and then showing up at her door while it's raining or something.
Artists trying to make their own Thriller is just sad. Nobody can make something on the same level as Thriller. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Artists should try to set themselves apart instead of being followers. That’s one of the many reasons why Michael is a legend, because he innovated and popularized so much in the music industry.
Re: the hostage situation in "Payphone," there was that period in the late 90s/early 2000s when music videos with overwhelming diegetic noise or other interruptions were very much the rage. Like the video to Will Smith's "Wild Wild West" where the song stops not once but twice (the second time for a full minute and a half) for dramatic sequences. The worst offender I ever saw, and I cannot remember artist or title now, was filmed entirely through the windshield of a car and consisted of the three guys in the car arguing up until they accidentally drove into a pond, whilst the song played on the car stereo EDIT: the car vid was "The F Word" by Babybird
Also, I was on pornhub the other day and one of the ads was for Danny phantom porn. So weird, it had Sam, Paulina, and the sister. Pretty weird considering the biggest draw would be Danny himself. As a young gal I would fantasize about him all the time
I recently saw a vid about songs that are about something entirely different to what everyone thinks, some of which are disturbing! Music vids can add an entirely new layer to songs, and thus even more meanings or plots, like the ones here!
I teach guitar lessons and I was teaching payphone to one of my students and I was using the music video to play along to and lemmie tell you I was not expecting all that...
The voiceovers for the guy hanging on to the car in the Stay The Night video were hilarious. Also I just wanted to say Quinton's videos get better with every upload.
@@JuBeeZ106 Oh, trust me; I know that one too, but; thank you for reminding me. I know their song Walk. It's been one of my favorite songs of theirs. It's the one that where Dave Grohl, dresses like a nerdy office worker, dragging a guitar case with him, right? Great song, great video. Their songs know how to hype you up on something, and make you feel something. I mean; I was thinking about Walk while I was writing that comment about 2 years ago. It's one of the best songs they ever did, and definitely one of their best videos too. I'm surprised more people haven't really talked about it, and only thought about it, besides myself. But they're still one of my favorite bands. But Walk isn't my favorite song of theirs. But I do agree that Walk is definitely in the Top Ten Best Foo Fighters Songs, along with The Pretender, Learn To Fly, Everlong(I know I mentioned those 2 already, but I felt like saying it again), but honestly, every song of theirs could be an instant classic, no matter what, if you ask me...
Hell, music "videos" started with the advent of sound on film in the form of Vitaphone shorts in the 1920's. They are fascinating and sometimes bizarre.
“No one really understood it and that’s why it’s art”. Honestly, makes a lot more sense than the stupid meaningless bullshit they teach us in art philosophy class
Shelter was p fantastic. Also Porter Robinson confirmed to have the most patrician taste by personally requesting Megumi Kouno to do the art direction on that short.
One of my favorite bad music videos is Madonna's 'Material Girl.' The song states that Madonna is perfectly okay with dating someone who buys her stuff, but the character she plays in the video claims that she isn't the type of girl to be bought off with gifts.
As a kid I watched Rage every morning (kind of the Australian version of MTV) and I was OBSESSED with the video for Paradise by Coldplay, inexplicably focusing on a person in an elephant mascot suit
Hey, so... fun fact. Nena and Falco weren't one-hit wonders. At all. Like, ARGUABLY in the US they were, but they were both legitimately huge pop stars in Europe. Falco was still making music into the 2000s and essentially comes off as an ersatz Bowie, his stuff is actually really worth looking into.
Smooth Criminal had some great moments but also had a minute long scene where everyone stops dancing, the lights go off and they start moaning and/or clicking their finger and stamping their feet, while surrounding MJ. Like WTF? I mean there were kids in that music video too and they were watching him so...?
99 Red Balloons was written in English. It was written to be sung in English. There are several lines that only rhyme in English. This was their attempt to break into the American market. They only included a German version of the song (on the B side) so that people from their country could enjoy it too. And they remained kind of dubious about the fact that Americans loved this song _because_ they didn't understand what it was about. Because it might as well have been gibberish to them. It just sounded happy. It was a happy-sounding little ditty... about an accidental nuclear holocaust. Happy sound juxtaposed with _dark_ subject-matter. Something that was completely lost on its fans.
The German version was th original. From 1983. The English re-write onvolved a native English speaker crafting the English lyrics into a rhyming structure - it's not a word-for-word translation. Don't let the fact that there's a rhyme structure fool you into thinking the original is the English version lol Absolutely remarkable that the original version once released stateside did succeed. But the English version was already recorded for the UK market, so they got to double dip a bit on the success if that song. Plus where the original German version didn't chart in say the UK or Canada like it did in the USA the English version did hit #1 on Canada. I remember being a kid...didn't like the English version as much as the original which I had heard months before. Fun fact...the band really doesn't like the English version, they regret it
Since today is the 1 *year* anniversary of when you uploaded this video, I'm about to watch it again. EDITS- 10:59 A.M.: *finishes video 20 minutes later* 10:59 A.M. - 11:01 A.M.: This was the first time that I watched this video in 4 1/2 months. Out of all the music videos mentioned, "Thriller" is still the only one that I've seen.
gives you hell is about a man singing to his ex who wanted a "pickett fence love" and all that jazz and how much he hates her. so basically, the preppy guy is who his ex wanted him to be and the grungey band dude is who he actually is/is now. that's why theyre fighting if that makes sense.
When it comes to weird vids, Y Control by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs comes to mind. I remember watching that for the first time and being like "what??" But I kind of love it now because its just so weird and unexpected.
I wouldn't mind watching you break down more music videos because honestly there are so many that you would never run out of content lol. I love your take on the absurd.
Give you Hell was one of thw first Music Vids I saw on MTV (we didn't have the channel set for whatever reason when I was young) and it's really one of my favourite videos.... My interpretation is that both dudes are the "What if"-version of eachother i.e. maybe the guy had a band when he was younger and he was put to choose: A)His music career or B)His school/work life. And these are both him looking at what if I choose diffrently back then or his younger self thinking what his future will look like if he chooses either option....
“Can someone politely ask these criminals to wait til the Wiz Khalifa part of the song” had me crying laughing. PLEASE make more music video reviews this was such a good watch
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Okay but like one more thing about Payphone:
Adam’s verses are about how he regrets how he treated someone and he needed to call them to tell them he’s sorry.
wiz khalifa’s verse is about how people from his past who did him wrong are always trying to call him up and apologize because they just want a piece of his fame.
Guys, they’re talking to each other. Like for real.
Adam Lavine and Whiz Khalifa gay confirmed
Quinton is like a penny, you'll find him on the ground and cherish him forever.
And then lose him under the couch?
He's also worth nothing
Quinton is like a penny - the raw materials that constitute him are worth more separated and unprocessed.
Until I walk by a hotdog stand
And the only reason I keep him is because I always ignore him because I use dollars instead of adding up pennys.
"I won't take no for an answer" that's aged wonderfully
Big Lover like a fine wine, with a roofie
Long-ago, women (some, not all) used the tactic of rejecting a guy, to see if he'll give up so easily, as what can be described as half shit test and half an assessment on her part to see how much he is really interested in her. Now though, we live in an age where social standards have made it harassment if a man looks a woman for more 3 seconds. Then again, the alternative is you literally driving away from a guy who grabbed your ass and him clinging to the side of the vehicle.
Picky Psychology Student or maybe they didn't and they just relented eventually because they were intimidated or whatever and knew thems the breaks.
Picky Psychology Student who hurt you?
"I put 'psychology' in my user name, so I know what I'm talking about. Especially when it comes to people I don't know."
I think the Gives You Hell MV is about a guy growing up and trying to be two things at once: his college age grunge self, and his future suburban family man life. This causes a disconnect between him and his girlfriend/future wife (which coincides with the song) which ultimately tears their relationship apart. He wants to have fun and be grungy, but also be the family man for his girlfriend. He's angry at her until they come to the conclusion that they need to meet in the middle and/or open up the relationship (hence the wife swap scene). Both women are supposed to be different facets of the same girl.
Wiz Kalifa wasn't even supposed to be in the video he just showed up, didn't realize they took his car and they just recorded him after he wondered off
Jimmy Turner 😂😂😂😂
Wandered
I have a theory in regards to the music video where both of the main characters are played by the same singer. Haven't watched the original piece itself but based on what I can gather from your video, here's what I believe:
The two men represent different phases of the man's life. The "bad neighbor" who hangs out with a group is a simply younger version of the singer, while the "good neighbor" who lives with his wife is an older form of the guy. The two are at odds since the older version dislikes looking back at his past self (perhaps caused by stupid mistakes he has made), while his past self sees his future self as a lame old man (nobody wants to see themselves get boring as they become old). This actually does tie into what the song is about because in the video, the future version of the performer states "When you see my face / hope it gives you hell" which, again, is most likely due to the fact that the past version of the man would not like to see himself grow out of the phase which he is in.
I could go a lot more in depth but it's a RUclips comment. Hope you understand what the hell I am on about, Quinton.
I thought the same thing!
You make sense, maybe the video is really about reflecting on the past. I always assumed the "gives you hell" video was about 2 guys that were ex lovers lol. I felt like that was implied. Maybe I'm wrong though.
Again, never watched the original so maybe you're right.
Yeah, that definitivly weren't good examples for weird plots. Thriller e.g. was a spoof of typical horror tropes. Some of the most appreciated Guns and Roses videos would have worked a lot better.
i just thought his girl left him for a doctor or something
To be fair tho, I think the surreal and cartoon quality some of these videos have is exactly what they are going for. From a filming standpoint music videos have some of the artsiest stuff I’ve seen.
Exactly
Let's be fucking clear on one thing. 99 Red Balloons is amazing in every way imaginable.
Conner Reed it's fucking annoying
No, 99 luftbaloons is great
It’s a great song no matter what language you listen to it in.
@@everythingiseconomics9742 I see that you are a fellow man of German
Yes I too like a song about 99 red balloons being mistaken for missiles and causing a war but seriously I love it
_Africa by Toto_
DammitSinged It's gonna take a lot to take me...
to get a delicious medium pizza from pizza hut for only $14.99
I praise the rain in Afghanistan
DammitSinged WHY DO I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE
joe mcnoe lol exactly
What even happened in the video?
Girl's reading books
Guys on giant books are singing
Spear hits wall
The entire place lights on fire
What even?
Y'all remember "Save Rock and Roll" by Fall Out Boy? It's an entire album where there's a music video for every single song, and they all link together to tell one cohesive story. The band members get kidnapped, tortured, brainwashed, killed, you name it, all by this group that hates music or something? And they're all racing to protect this briefcase, which in the end, you never really figure out what's in it, but it's supposed to be viewer interpretation. It was silly and over the top, but I absolutely love it.
Michael Jackson had a vision when he started a project, everything was calculated to precision. He didn't need to 'look cool' he simply was. Smooth Criminal for example, there's a moment in the extended version where him and the dancers just 'feel the music' before it goes to the dance break. It has meaning, passion, soul. They were short films.
These artists just want to look cool and get a reaction. Michael didn't need to, he knew that the reaction was inevitable, he just needed to tell the best story possible. And he always did. And that's why no one will ever compare.
Whip It by Devo
Safety Dance by Men Without Hats
Tainted Love by Soft Cell
We Built This City by Starship
Physical by Olivia Newton John
Abracadabra by Steve Miller Band
and, of course
The Tide is High by Blondie. She's in her apartment . . . and it floods . . . and a Darth-Vader-lookin-thing is watching her . . . then she and her bandmates get on a rocket to dance with the alien. Yeah.
Jefferson Airplane >>>> Starship
Abracadabra is a fucking masterpiece
Am I truly the only person in all these years who said Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Don’t Come Around Here? How is this even possible???
On my fifth birthday i was watching MJ Thriller on MTV and the part where he turns into a werewolf traumatized me so bad that ive never seen it until now just these clips in this video
The music video for “If It Gives You Hell” represents that during adulthood your “wild side” can torture you sometimes. Sometimes you really want to do bad things and finding a healthy way to live out your wild side can help you calm the battle between your two sides.
"sometimes I play this game, I pretend to be gay and watch a Madonna music video."-Quinton
I'd recommend watching David Bowie's "Jazzin for Blue Jean" from 1984 the full thing is an amazing tale about two characters (both played by Bowie) the entire thing is 20 minutes long and even gets a meta ending
Summary
Bowie number 1 wants to date a girl who likes bowie number 2. Bowie number1 then pretends to know bowie number 2 to impress her
Eventually Bowie number 1 buys a ticket for one of bowie number 2's concerts and gives it to her bowie1 then breaks into bowie2's dressing room begging him to help him impress his girlfriend
Bowie 2 goes out on stage and sings a song
Then Bowie 1 and his girlfriend wait until everyone else has left the theatre
Bowie 2 approaches bowie1 and his girlfriend
He then impresses her and steals her from Bowie1
Then Bowie1 exits the theatre furious and talks to the video's director demanding that the video gets a happy ending and that he should get the girl
The video then pans out with Bowie1 and the director arguing
Without a doubt, A WEIRD VIDEO. But It's Bowie and everything he did was gold.
I always keep ''Jazzin for Blue Jean'' in my heart.
three words, David Bowie's Blackstar
@@momopenguins7335 Blackstar is weird *and* sad. David Bowie knew that he was going to die.
it's also kinda terrifying
Wtf totally gonna watch this
My day just got better
The Narrator congrats?
C. Hocolate no one cares about your opinion, Hocolate.
The Narrator subscribe to racooneggs
The Narrator so did mine I love quinton and the bear body is amazing
@@truegamers5010 What is wrong with you?
Oh my God, that singing along with the Madonna video at the end!
I'm not ashamed to admit... thriller, at one point in my life, scared the shit out of me
Edit: You should've taken a look at the 'Rock DJ' video by Robbie Williams. That video is the strangest one I've ever seen
Dude/lady, there's NO shame in admitting Thriller scared you. To this day, it scares me. It scared me when I was a little boy. How could it NOT scare you, at least a little? There's no shame in saying something scares you. It's ok, we've all got fears and things that scare us. There's also the "Land Of Confusion" video, which was just weird, but one of my favorite songs. There's the Foo Fighters, who've had pretty much every single one of their videos weird as hell, along with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Gorillaz, with every video they've ever made being weird, but the RHCP and Gorillaz are 2 of my favorite bands, so i don't mind the weirdness. It works, and they always make it work, that's part of how they're 2 of the best bands out there, another part is just the fact that they're awesome and talented.
It still scares me lol. It's been like 20+ years and I have YET to finish the full video without turning on the lights or looking behind me. The horror atmosphere and designs are just so on point for a nearly 40 year old MV, Oscar worthy really.
There’s nothing to be ashamed of, I was little when I first saw it and it scared the shit outta me too
In my eyes, Radioactive is the strangest music video in existence. The lyrics have so little relevance the bizarre scene being displayed.
Crooked Mantis yeah I agree it makes no sense lol.
what about teddy bears fighting to the death in a arena owned by a Mexican cowboy doesn't link up to talks of being superhuman and rebelion
M rated muppets
What about "We can dance" by men with hats where they are at the renaissance fair
@@BMoney8600 The song is actually called "The Safety Dance". You just quoted one of the song's lyrics. 🤓
Madonna with short blonde hair, reminds me of billy idol.
MORE MORE MORE
Madonna with short blonde hair can get the pipe
I love the arc that's told across two gorillaz songs, being feel good inc and then el Manana, and then the ain't it funny music vid by Danny brown. That one is a classic. Post malone's rockstar has a flames music video too.
Thanks for the repeated Gaga cockteases... I really would’ve loved to hear you review “Telephone”.
"... Everyone in the music industry, big or small, are trying really really hard to be Michael Jackson." 35 years and boy is that still true.
My favorite music video is definitely I’m Going Slightly Mad. It’s delightfully odd, and Mercury did an amazing job with his acting, and somehow the lyrics ACTUALLY match the video
Apparently most film insurance companies won't cover music videos, so my theory is that they give them these cringey skits and convoluted plots so they can be technically counted as short films.
literally every Gorillaz music video is kinda like this
Ye
Clint Eastwood and Sleeping Powder in particular.
Sirinterweb I’d say that Sarurnz Barz is really the only one as weird as these.
Well Clint Eastwood has a background story
Sirinterweb at least they are connected. That actually makes them more confusing.
I like your shirt. It was because of Al TV that I discovered Weird Al.
Moonbeam I know what you’re sayin’
I scrolled all the way down here looking for someone talking about the Al TV shirt.
(Me, I discovered Weird Al when Dr Demento did, because I'd already been listening to Dr Demento for years, because I'm old...)
Thriller and video is so transcendent that it was my now 5 year old daughter's first "favorite song", she would listen to it over and over and could do the zombie dance when she was 3
R Kelly - Trapped in the Closet
Who's R Kelly?
He's a man with a pee fetishes who believes he can flyyYYYYYYyyyyYYYYYyyyyyyyYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyYYYYYYYY....
Cucked in the closet
Danyal Mohammad - *I CANT BELIEVE ITS A MAN*
YES I COMPLETELY AGREE
Fall Out Boy's film The Youngblood Chronicles. I still don't know what is happening despite how many times I saw it in middle school.
*Begins to think about Money For Nothin by Dire Straits*
But some of that music video makes sense
That one makes total sense though. It's a cartoon-styled segment where a store employee laments about musicians and the easy life they have compared to him, which is what the song was about too.
Polygon people carrying shit unnaturally as some guy talks about working at Sears.
The song was inspired by a hardware store employee complaining about how easy being a musician seems. So the video's relation to the song only makes sense if you know the story behind it.
Enter Sandman by Metallica
Payphone is still more comprehensive than the zombies storyline from COD
3:48 hey, nice bumblebee collection
and cliffjumper
please, Quinton, we need a part 2
10:51 I think it's a metaphor
It represents the internal turmoil between what the punk rocker boy wants to be and what his family and society want him to be
Or maybe I'm just looking to deep into it i don't know
These are the best kinds of music videos. Nowadays the ones i've seen are just one guy sad about missing his ex girlfriend (his barely dressed girlfriend) and then showing up at her door while it's raining or something.
When is your next Fallen Titans coming out? I really enjoyed the last one.
now, actually
When is his next video coming out? I pretty much really enjoy basically all of his videos.
Just saw you on Nerd City. Nice
God, video killed the radio star still gives me a happy little feeling in my chest. Also, if you don't like rock me Amadeus you have no heart!
"Nobody understood it... and thats why its art."
Preach
Artists trying to make their own Thriller is just sad. Nobody can make something on the same level as Thriller. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Artists should try to set themselves apart instead of being followers. That’s one of the many reasons why Michael is a legend, because he innovated and popularized so much in the music industry.
Old MTV: Beavis and Butthead
New MTV: 2017 Resolutions for White Guys
What Happened?
r/lewronggeneration
Politics
Chubbs.
FROM THIS!
TO THIS!
Buzzfeed’s gay cousin.
Re: the hostage situation in "Payphone," there was that period in the late 90s/early 2000s when music videos with overwhelming diegetic noise or other interruptions were very much the rage. Like the video to Will Smith's "Wild Wild West" where the song stops not once but twice (the second time for a full minute and a half) for dramatic sequences. The worst offender I ever saw, and I cannot remember artist or title now, was filmed entirely through the windshield of a car and consisted of the three guys in the car arguing up until they accidentally drove into a pond, whilst the song played on the car stereo
EDIT: the car vid was "The F Word" by Babybird
Also, I was on pornhub the other day and one of the ads was for Danny phantom porn. So weird, it had Sam, Paulina, and the sister. Pretty weird considering the biggest draw would be Danny himself. As a young gal I would fantasize about him all the time
I'm glad to hear I wasn't the only one. That toon boy was fine to 10 year old me
Rule 36 everyone
uhhhh cool
Castle 34*
I'm guilty.
Can we all take a minute and go re-watch "Total Eclipse of the Heart" with this mindset?
And they shouldn't fence at night
Or they're gonna hurt the gymnasts
11:21 I was in serious danger of choking on my gum upon hearing that. Seriously that line is golden.
Weird and wonderful music videos are so fascinating, they have real layers to the weirdness.
I felt so old when Quentin had to explain what an Oldsmobile was
I was so confused. I expect guys with beards to know more about cars
13:15 - Note from June 2020: insert footage of police arresting shopkeepers while letting looters run away here (numerous clips to choose from)
almost surprised you didnt mention bruce willis in the gorillaz music video
Mavis Beacon Not weird enough
The red Oldsmobile joke went right over my head at first, since I already knew what the company was.
I recently saw a vid about songs that are about something entirely different to what everyone thinks, some of which are disturbing! Music vids can add an entirely new layer to songs, and thus even more meanings or plots, like the ones here!
Your comment on the "gives you hell" mv possibly having twins/clones be the MCs... somehow gives me Twin Snakes vibes
I loved the singing, well put together Mr Quinton
Adding the dialogue to the dodgy guy holding the car was the best thing Ive seen/heard in so long. Thank you for that.
I teach guitar lessons and I was teaching payphone to one of my students and I was using the music video to play along to and lemmie tell you I was not expecting all that...
"ok so hear me out.... there's this one episode of Danny Phantom...."
One of my favourites is definitely Coffee and TV by Blur.
The voiceovers for the guy hanging on to the car in the Stay The Night video were hilarious. Also I just wanted to say Quinton's videos get better with every upload.
Man, I wish you had talked about a Foo Fighters video in this. Those guys legit have some of the weirdest, funniest music videos ever
Like Learn To Fly, Everlong, and pretty much EVERY one of their videos? Yeah, trust me, dude I know, and I agree.
@@JuBeeZ106 Oh, trust me; I know that one too, but; thank you for reminding me. I know their song Walk. It's been one of my favorite songs of theirs. It's the one that where Dave Grohl, dresses like a nerdy office worker, dragging a guitar case with him, right? Great song, great video. Their songs know how to hype you up on something, and make you feel something. I mean; I was thinking about Walk while I was writing that comment about 2 years ago. It's one of the best songs they ever did, and definitely one of their best videos too. I'm surprised more people haven't really talked about it, and only thought about it, besides myself. But they're still one of my favorite bands. But Walk isn't my favorite song of theirs. But I do agree that Walk is definitely in the Top Ten Best Foo Fighters Songs, along with The Pretender, Learn To Fly, Everlong(I know I mentioned those 2 already, but I felt like saying it again), but honestly, every song of theirs could be an instant classic, no matter what, if you ask me...
Hell, music "videos" started with the advent of sound on film in the form of Vitaphone shorts in the 1920's. They are fascinating and sometimes bizarre.
“Hurricane” by 30 Seconds to Mars. BDSM randomness, beautiful cinematography, just all around weird video. All of their videos are like this.
I literally just came back to this video because Gives You Hell is stuck in my head
3:37 This would make a good senior yearbook quote
Hey I really liked the longer-introduction format of the video, added a lot of context I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Great work Quinten!
The trial by Pink Floyd. Not really a music video it’s in the movie, The Wall. But damn the animation is amazing but very trippy.
You're quickly becoming my favourite youtuber
“No one really understood it and that’s why it’s art”. Honestly, makes a lot more sense than the stupid meaningless bullshit they teach us in art philosophy class
I never really questioned the music video for “Gives You Hell”. Mostly because 12 year old me was OBSESSED with Tyson Ritter and I got to see DOUBLE.
* Looks at video title *
*Slowly thinks about shelter by Porter Robinson*
Justin Y. Fucking answer me, 73 times, I have counted and you are practically everywhere I go.
I want a yes or no answer...
Are
You
Me?
*begins to sob*
I’ve seen 5 of your comments today on 5 different videos. ALL of which being completely different subjects, please.. just leave me alone..
*slowly thinks of Ghost by Mystery Skulls*
*Both of them*
Shelter was p fantastic. Also Porter Robinson confirmed to have the most patrician taste by personally requesting Megumi Kouno to do the art direction on that short.
“Sometimes I like to play this game where I pretend to be gay”
-quinton reviews, 2018
You should look at low budget homemade Metal music videos. Nothing is funnier than that
DO ANOTHER ONE PLEASE I LITERALLY LOVE THIS
you should make a series out of this:D this was so fun!
One of my favorite bad music videos is Madonna's 'Material Girl.' The song states that Madonna is perfectly okay with dating someone who buys her stuff, but the character she plays in the video claims that she isn't the type of girl to be bought off with gifts.
The song is satire. Madonna is pretty woke.
"Hey, I feel like you're sending out some mixed signals."
*tries to get him off the hood of her car*
I lost it.
As a kid I watched Rage every morning (kind of the Australian version of MTV) and I was OBSESSED with the video for Paradise by Coldplay, inexplicably focusing on a person in an elephant mascot suit
I saw "Gives you hell" and I was like "OOOOOOOOFFFFF" I used to love that song as a tween
Hey, so... fun fact. Nena and Falco weren't one-hit wonders. At all.
Like, ARGUABLY in the US they were, but they were both legitimately huge pop stars in Europe. Falco was still making music into the 2000s and essentially comes off as an ersatz Bowie, his stuff is actually really worth looking into.
Thriller wasn't as good as Smooth Criminal. Both the video AND the song.
Smooth Criminal had some great moments but also had a minute long scene where everyone stops dancing, the lights go off and they start moaning and/or clicking their finger and stamping their feet, while surrounding MJ. Like WTF? I mean there were kids in that music video too and they were watching him so...?
Picky Psychology Student, ever read the full story behind the molestation accusation? That'll fuck up your view on MJ forever.
Like how the part that you see in the video is actually of a greater narrative?
Smooth criminal came out 5 years after thriller
andres gonzalez navarro so?
That Bumblebee collection... I can see you're a man of wealth and taste.
Today when i was walking from School to home I was thinking about that Michael Jackson song.
I don't know what it is. But that 4 minute intro was so well researched and so well edited that it just made me love you even more! Thank you Quinton
99 Red Balloons was written in English. It was written to be sung in English. There are several lines that only rhyme in English. This was their attempt to break into the American market. They only included a German version of the song (on the B side) so that people from their country could enjoy it too. And they remained kind of dubious about the fact that Americans loved this song _because_ they didn't understand what it was about. Because it might as well have been gibberish to them. It just sounded happy. It was a happy-sounding little ditty... about an accidental nuclear holocaust. Happy sound juxtaposed with _dark_ subject-matter. Something that was completely lost on its fans.
The German version was th original. From 1983. The English re-write onvolved a native English speaker crafting the English lyrics into a rhyming structure - it's not a word-for-word translation. Don't let the fact that there's a rhyme structure fool you into thinking the original is the English version lol
Absolutely remarkable that the original version once released stateside did succeed. But the English version was already recorded for the UK market, so they got to double dip a bit on the success if that song. Plus where the original German version didn't chart in say the UK or Canada like it did in the USA the English version did hit #1 on Canada. I remember being a kid...didn't like the English version as much as the original which I had heard months before.
Fun fact...the band really doesn't like the English version, they regret it
Since today is the 1 *year* anniversary of when you uploaded this video, I'm about to watch it again.
EDITS- 10:59 A.M.: *finishes video 20 minutes later*
10:59 A.M. - 11:01 A.M.: This was the first time that I watched this video in 4 1/2 months. Out of all the music videos mentioned, "Thriller" is still the only one that I've seen.
"Could someone politely ask these criminals to wait for the wiz khalifa part of the song?" Thank you, sir.
today i feel inspired to put together a clipshow of quinton being a closet madonna fan all these years
gives you hell is about a man singing to his ex who wanted a "pickett fence love" and all that jazz and how much he hates her. so basically, the preppy guy is who his ex wanted him to be and the grungey band dude is who he actually is/is now. that's why theyre fighting if that makes sense.
artschoolwannabe But in the video, the wives switched. What does that mean for the song?
KandyElmo not really sure.
When it comes to weird vids, Y Control by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs comes to mind. I remember watching that for the first time and being like "what??" But I kind of love it now because its just so weird and unexpected.
What's the music that starts playing around 14:52? It sounds a little g-funky ish, and I'd really like to know the name of it!
Darude sandstorm.
I wouldn't mind watching you break down more music videos because honestly there are so many that you would never run out of content lol. I love your take on the absurd.
"She's either a prostitute or Madonna herself.... It's always hard to tell which one she's trying to go for"
I'm not sure either. Nowadays, I'm sure it's just Madonna herself, as she's way too old to be playing a prostitute.
Seeing thriller in IMAX 3D for the house with a clock in its walls was amazing
There was an MTV ad on this video...
Give you Hell was one of thw first Music Vids I saw on MTV (we didn't have the channel set for whatever reason when I was young) and it's really one of my favourite videos....
My interpretation is that both dudes are the "What if"-version of eachother i.e. maybe the guy had a band when he was younger and he was put to choose: A)His music career or B)His school/work life. And these are both him looking at what if I choose diffrently back then or his younger self thinking what his future will look like if he chooses either option....
Makes sense to me dude. I still kinda like Gives You Hell, although it's not as good as their other 2 songs.
If you want music videos with confusing plots then I recommend kpop and jpop music videos!
Oh, I love Like A Prayer! You can interpret it in so many ways!
It makes me happier knowing that someone spends this much time thinking about the same shit that I do
“Can someone politely ask these criminals to wait til the Wiz Khalifa part of the song” had me crying laughing. PLEASE make more music video reviews this was such a good watch