I sent it to a friend of mine, who laughed her ass off, she thanked me and asked if it were real. I had to tell her it wasn't, years later, she killed herself, but this cheered her up for a time.
I don't know if I'm remembering it wrong, but I think when the guy turned off the boombox and the striped-shirt guy hugged him, the striped-shirt guy also said something like "we got some b-boy moves too! there's b-boying too!" before he proceeds to "breakdance".
Assolutamente perfetta!" Grandiosa! Logicamente è tutto "meravigliosamente falso": il coreografo credo sia in realtà il produttore del video, i passanti occasionali " il personale degli studi di registrazione" e cosi via....
The RUclips generation will never understand how baffling and exhilarating it was to witness this bit of counterculture appear on cable television in 1998.
RUclips most fun videos were only possible thanks to this kind of disruptive culture that they started back then. Those were really fun times. Being different actually meant something not artificial.
Me and my dad used to dance around the living room to this when I was a kid. We'd really go for it too, proper going nuts. He passed away 3 days ago. And he requested this be one of his funeral songs because it's "our" song. I love you so fucking much dad. I'll miss you forever.
Imagine if you were in the crowd thinking what the hell am I seeing, then to look back and understand you just witnessed one of the greatest music videos of the 90’s
Making a fool of yourself in front of a crowd, not giving a F, not expecting any reward, just doing your thing. Being happy and proud. They have my respect.
Well... I think it was more like someone creating this videoclip called extras agency, choosed ppl looking like random muricans, asked for coming in a totally random clothes, gave them 100-200 bucks each and cd radio and said: you have 1hr to arrange joint performance looking like some randoms having a good time and dancing in front of onlookers. And that's it xD An open secret that most of nowadays yt vids with pranks, gold diggers etc. works like dat.
The story of the video is pretty amazing. Its deliberately made as a bit of a joke to look cheap. MTV originally rejected it for broadcast as they thought it wasn't professional TV standard. Then Norman Cook had to explain it was meant to be bad. The song took off, people thought the video was hilarious, and against the odds, it ended up winning the three awards at the 1999 MTV awards! When they were filming, someone was frantically running around getting legal permission from all the people in the background shots so it could be used.
I sincerely think this music video is one of the best of all time. I love flashy stuff too, but there’s just something about how sweet and real this video is that I love.
Absolutely. I first heard this song in 2009 while riding to a work appointment with a favorite coworker. It came on the radio and she squealed with delight, cranked it up and seat danced while we drove to the appointment. Now, 14 years later, I work from home but when it came on the radio the other day I remembered that afternoon and cranked up the volume and started dancing around my home office.
This was my Dads favourite song. He loved this silly film clip. It's the 3rd anniversary of his death today. Still gives me a giggle and makes me smile thinking of him on hard days like today. Peace and love to anyone missing someone. Rest in peace pops xxxxx
Nothing is more bitter sweet than nostalgia. What I would do to be young again watching this on MTV for the first time again. Cheers to anyone reading this in their 30's we lived good years in the 90s.
apparently this was filmed “guerrilla-style” (without the location owners’ permission), so nobody in the background knew what the hell was going on (except for Norman, obviously). so yes, all of the reactions are 100% genuine. they really just happened to witness a flash mob dancing to Fatboy Slim.
@@CJonesApple i highly doubt it considering at the beginning it sounds like they are actually playing it before it fades to the overlayed song, also 2:11
A flash mob is a flash mob. Cavemen formed a flash mob to dance during the middle of their dinosaur barbeque. Perhaps you mean “before the expression ‘flash mob’ was coined.”
A bit more about this clip. it looks incredibly basic, but they actually went out of their way to look bad. They picked really bad tracksuits and awkward clothes, and then purposely did bad dancing. There was an earlier version of the clip with the crowds faces blurred out, because they hadn't sorted the permissions from the crowd. It was shot in guerilla style, so the camera wasn't obvious to the people there. The main dancer is director Spike Jonze, in rather ordinary glasses and a shirt. Norman Cook is in the crowd and appears at the end, but he's edited out in this version. Spike Jonze loves elaborate practical jokes so this is was his style. Roman Coppola worked on it, brother of Jonze's wife at the time, Sofia Coppola.
I’ve cried watching this a couple times before, there’s just something that gets to me in how silly yet completely serious they dance in front of everyone
For me it's the fact that they all look like they could be perfect strangers, ordinary people. And yet they all come together to dance in syn. Not extremely well, but that's not the point.
This song means so much to me, it was played at my fathers funeral and I can’t tel you how happy I am every time I hear it, just thinking back about all of the good time we had together
I remember watching this on MTV back in the day and being like "who are these people and why are they so enthusiastic and yet dancing so weirdly". Many years later, now I know. Its not about how you dance. Its about the joy OF BEING ALIVE AND AMONG OTHERS YOU TRUST LOVE AND ENJOY BEING WITH. Thanks Fatboy!
Love that everything about this video screams 90's and yet is absolutely timeless. Brings me back to when MTV still played music and I was a kid and started to actually sort out my own taste in music.
I was deep in the trenches of a ballet company when this video came out. A lot of us looked down on the video in a very snooty way, claiming it was not "real" dancing. Nowadays I realize.. this is EXACTLY how dance is supposed to be!
it looks awkward because this is all a prank, they just showed up and started making a music video in front of this theater because they thought it would be a good concept for a film but obviously they look nervous and like they're making things up because this was really a one and done thing- they are being kicked out like the guy shutting the music off.
the 6 piano notes/chords that make up the melody of this song feel perfect. This is a perfect song to symbolize the end of an era in your life. graduating HS/college, moving out of a living space, a friend moving away, etc.
after all these years, this still cracks me up. this is probably one of the best music videos of the 90's. this won 3 vmas from mtv vma in 1999. initially i thought this was scripted, like the "background audiences" were paid actors. this was actually for real, they didn't even bother to get any permission from the theater's owner to do this cult like dance in front of that place lmfao.
Best music video ever. It is so bad that is is beyond so good. It is so awesome. So spectacular. So sublime that you will tear up and wish Spike put you in the music video and you have this epic claim to fame of being in this video for this incredible song.
best music video ever made. Nobody cares how they look or what others think of them, just free, having fun, and being stupid. Pure innocence. The guy who doesn't understand why they are enjoying themselves who shuts down the music is a prime example of people who aren't comfortable in their own skin. I think it's brilliant. There's a message behind the video in my opinion.
That guy who shuts music was the manager of the cinema the interaction between the director of the Video (the guy leading the dance) went on a lot longer as he explains what they're up to and I think hence the jump hug
This is an actual flash mob before there were flash mobs. Search RUclips for the documentary on this video. The guy who cuts off the music is the movie theater manager. This was filmed in one take, and then they left.
Absolutely brilliant. This is the pinnacle of human freedom from chains of anxiety that modern life brings about. (I think flash mobs existed throughout the '80s?)
@@LDacic No, there were no flash mobs in the 80s. They weren't really a thing before people starting having cell phones with cameras. Or maybe there were flash mobs and the only people who knew about them were the eye witnesses and everyone just thought they were crazy.
@@letshugandlove324 Well, probably yes and no. He found that guy dancing to Rockafella skank and contacted Norman about doing a video clip for it. They were already part way through shooting the video for Rockafella so they ended up using the guy (Richard I believe his name was) for Praise You. EDIT: That was Spike Jonze, he used a pseudonym. lol.
I love amateurish stuff like this. Not only the video is low budget their dancing is not very professional too, like you said. If it was "better" it wouldn't be as iconic and I don't think so many people would remember this to this day
BAJAX BAJAX I concur with both you and Vitorio Pedrelli 🙌🏻😄 According to Wikipedia, the cost of making the video was a mere $800 bucks, and yet, it’s brilliant, as well as timeless! 🤩💃🏻
It's deliberately made to look amateurish - it was all a big joke. A lot of work went into it to make it look bad, including all the clothes, which were deliberately bad.
Fun fact: this was filmed at Fox Bruin theatre in Westwood, LA. The same Place where Margot Robbie goes to the movies in Once upon a time in Hollywood.🔥
This video and song is a conduit of psychological expression in my personal life. I was recently divorced when this song came out and had very negative feelings and remorse. This one song gave me permission to be me and to just say "Fuck it, I am having fun!". Life is good. Enjoy it while you have the chance. I am sure there were other people feeling oppressed at the time and feeling like it was time to "Praise You". This song represents a very positive and pivotal time in my life. Thanks goes out to Fatboy Slim!
Nice message. I'll keep it in mind. Right now I am in one of my worst times: my two puppies die, my family rejects me and despises me, I don't have a job, and my neighbors hate me. My image is negative. I lost all my money during the pandemic and my dreams went to hell
@@lotomusic1360 It's been 3 months. If you read your OP and you're still in that rut - slap yourself in the face, turn RUclips off, and do something positive. Right now.
I mean, wouldn't it be shit if people could rewatch this on their phone's or share it make it go viral... Obviously the crew were filming it, but think of how many flash mobs you've missed and how many you've seen due to people recording it on their phones...
@@motherfungler420 i recognize the benefits of technology. i think my comment was to suggest the cultural impact of most americans having a high definition camera/video cam on their persons at all times. this didn't feel like too long ago. also, you have to recognize that democratizing and "viralizing" something also cheapens the novelty of the experience somewhat.
I remember when our professor back in university used to show his love for music videos, and we all were fascinated. He also told us that this one was his favourite one. He couldn't explain why. He just said that it had something special that really touched him. Today, I can understand why. Rest in peace wherever you are, professor.
STOP doing that at once ! Hell you can sit and cry in your recliner all you want , but stop wondering where the time has gone , it will drive you perfectly foaming at the mouth mad . Where did the time go , better yet was there any time here to start with . When we wonder where time has gone that should be the very concept of time to start with , if there never was any time , then how can we wonder where it went ?
MY CORPORAL USED TO WAKE US UP WITH THIS SONG AFTER HARDCORE WAS OVER & IT WOULD GET PROGRESSIVELY LOUDER& LOUDER & thats a memory ill always treasure!still dark outside for that morning run, felt so good to do 2miles.(.damit Bryan now im crying too) y.c.p.changed my life & ill always be greatful for what i learned there special luv & thanks to corporal McCarty tho im sure shes a sargent or sumthin high rank! life is short praise praise praise god!
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
If they ever come here they'll think nothing of this video. They'll look at how we made billions of animals suffer (watch Earthlings), they'll look at how we modified our environment, they'll see how we used our discoveries to start and stop wars, just to name the obvious things. I feel like this music video was made to mock human behavior and everything we accept in a daily basis.
I have never seen something that has made me want to live my life so freely before EVER The 90's man. Good times! wow! 2019 and still laughing great piece of work
But they will look back on the 2020s as vintage and say "remember when it was just humans that ruled the world" or "look at the antique iPhones grandma had to use"
The late 90s were peak human optimism. Everything felt like it was going in the right direction and that the new millennium would see humanity blossom. I wish we could get back there, only have broadband capability that we do now and internet as well developed sans Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc - RUclips would make the cut though in my utopia, for sure 🙂
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A lot of people don’t realize but it honestly takes a lot of skill to dance that bad that well
It's an equally blessed skill to dance bad..equal in freedom to a good dance
Do you have a link to some bad dancing?
I should know, I’m the worst lol
You're right. I couldn't do it lol
Napolean Dynamite was better
wtf is wrong with me watching this at 3 in the morning and crying
it's so beautiful tho
My dad loved it? ❤️
@@pepitau8601 Estas agrable renkonti revulon ;P
You remember a time,when life was better ?,well thats the reason I cried,either that or the bottle and a half of Chablis.
it is. we miss each other
same here fam, same here
In Highschool my class preformed this for our spring fling talent show :)
Australian breakdancer at the olympics 🤣
this is like an inadvertent commercial for 1998. i miss 1998. pre flash mob flash mob.
Forgot how life affirming this was.
3:15
Already hit the dab in the 90'
Love y’all ❤ it’s not easyto nice to someone that’s not nice to u😢
This really is one of the most joyous things ever to be put to film, innit?
I sent it to a friend of mine, who laughed her ass off, she thanked me and asked if it were real. I had to tell her it wasn't, years later, she killed herself, but this cheered her up for a time.
@@emmaduncan2991 Shut up Meg
Millenial generation 🖤 🎧🎶
Not just one of the best music videos ever, but one of the funniest comedy skits. Genius.
The most amazing part? No one has a phone out recording it. They're just experiencing it.
The crowd didn't know that they be part of a legend track
Before flash mobs - when you had to genuinely risk your dignity to be cool.
Still the JAM! ❤thank you such a great timeless masterpiece
I don't know if I'm remembering it wrong, but I think when the guy turned off the boombox and the striped-shirt guy hugged him, the striped-shirt guy also said something like "we got some b-boy moves too! there's b-boying too!" before he proceeds to "breakdance".
Now everyone would have their phones out filming it 😂
Eu Te AMO Ludmilla ❤
Tracy?! How on EARTH did you get in?!
So this is what Steve Jobs did before founding Apple!
that was a great comment. but we all know Steve could never dance like that.
LMAO!!!👞👡👠👢👟
This is what Spike Jonze did before directing Her..
Acid too probably
LMAO
i have to praise you like a shoe
Assolutamente perfetta!" Grandiosa! Logicamente è tutto "meravigliosamente falso": il coreografo credo sia in realtà il produttore del video, i passanti occasionali " il personale degli studi di registrazione" e cosi via....
The RUclips generation will never understand how baffling and exhilarating it was to witness this bit of counterculture appear on cable television in 1998.
This was the first ever Tictok
My god are you correct. This period of time was just so damn fun.
@@graphixch before the massive expansion of the internet was the greatest time
@@Wassyr Totally agree. Take me back! lol
RUclips most fun videos were only possible thanks to this kind of disruptive culture that they started back then.
Those were really fun times. Being different actually meant something not artificial.
Me and my dad used to dance around the living room to this when I was a kid. We'd really go for it too, proper going nuts. He passed away 3 days ago. And he requested this be one of his funeral songs because it's "our" song. I love you so fucking much dad. I'll miss you forever.
Bless his precious soul, and you and your family's precious hearts! ❤
Every time you hear this song, you’ll have a little piece of your dad with you. RIP 💜🕺🏼💃🏽
Ich bin sehr gerührt..möge dein Vater in Frieden ruhen
jesus, that makes me cry.
When you do see him again, he'll be waiting for you with this song 🙏
Imagine if you were in the crowd thinking what the hell am I seeing, then to look back and understand you just witnessed one of the greatest music videos of the 90’s
Info in Description: Spike Jones produced video for $800. Won multi MTV awards. Voted #1 of the Top 100 videos of all time!
No back then that was cool
That how ya get star power
Ya got to hustle and bussle
And he so smart look at the location and time ...plus very very good
It would make me dance in a circle with the others....lol
Making a fool of yourself in front of a crowd, not giving a F, not expecting any reward, just doing your thing. Being happy and proud.
They have my respect.
*?thEn - i guess - Í have your respect ..and i thank you for that! / wishing you a hAppy ´23 / and MY name is nUtt$ ricky :-)*
The grammar in this comment...
🌈 Amen 🌈
@@xkittykraze11x imagine caring about grammar on the internet
Well... I think it was more like someone creating this videoclip called extras agency, choosed ppl looking like random muricans, asked for coming in a totally random clothes, gave them 100-200 bucks each and cd radio and said: you have 1hr to arrange joint performance looking like some randoms having a good time and dancing in front of onlookers. And that's it xD An open secret that most of nowadays yt vids with pranks, gold diggers etc. works like dat.
The story of the video is pretty amazing. Its deliberately made as a bit of a joke to look cheap. MTV originally rejected it for broadcast as they thought it wasn't professional TV standard. Then Norman Cook had to explain it was meant to be bad. The song took off, people thought the video was hilarious, and against the odds, it ended up winning the three awards at the 1999 MTV awards!
When they were filming, someone was frantically running around getting legal permission from all the people in the background shots so it could be used.
Spike Jonze looks so darn happy
Tech Geek... I'm glad they pushed to get it out. It's an anthem for all sorts of tributes
I sincerely think this music video is one of the best of all time. I love flashy stuff too, but there’s just something about how sweet and real this video is that I love.
@@bluegyrl75 💯Facts
Thanks for explaining that Tech Geek. I didn't know the video's history, I just like it.
Spike Jonze is the main guy dancing here (also the director of the video)
oh, I thought it was Raygun
Spike Jonze is a brilliant director of films like An Adaptation, and Where The Wild Things Are.
@@widipriyanto9876 and Her
Thank you Fatboy Slim for the memories back in 1998. 2022 and your music still motivates this 65 year old to get up and...DANCE!
Dig it! Right on my friend! Born 61'
its from slovak einstein series
Absolutely. I first heard this song in 2009 while riding to a work appointment with a favorite coworker. It came on the radio and she squealed with delight, cranked it up and seat danced while we drove to the appointment. Now, 14 years later, I work from home but when it came on the radio the other day I remembered that afternoon and cranked up the volume and started dancing around my home office.
This was my Dads favourite song. He loved this silly film clip. It's the 3rd anniversary of his death today. Still gives me a giggle and makes me smile thinking of him on hard days like today. Peace and love to anyone missing someone. Rest in peace pops xxxxx
❤️
He's smiling right now, I can guarantee
❤ peace friend
Peace bro/sis
Rest in peace Tory’s pops, you had some glorious taste in music dude ✌🏻
Nothing is more bitter sweet than nostalgia. What I would do to be young again watching this on MTV for the first time again. Cheers to anyone reading this in their 30's we lived good years in the 90s.
Indeed
*there´s this "strange" thing about me ..there are alOt🙃actually! i "jUst" turned 57 ... i wouldn´t wAnt to be (even) One DAY younger*
Cheers for that!
Cheers! I wish you a sweet day!
Amen....
Aussie breakdance team 2024!
they're better! 😂
main dancer looks like raygun's husband
Lmao😂
That's being really disrespectful of this group m8
lol, first thing I thought when I seen raygun
The first time I ever seen this on MTV my friends and I just smoked a joint and we were like”what the fuck did we just watch” lmao
Fr 😂😂😂😂
I love those moments
ruclips.net/video/p1nOSDv9C3I/видео.html
Awesome.
I remember being in highschool thinking 🤔
"are these people special??!"
Lol, such a GREAT vid and song!
And you couldn’t even rewind bro.....just imagine that pain
apparently this was filmed “guerrilla-style” (without the location owners’ permission), so nobody in the background knew what the hell was going on (except for Norman, obviously). so yes, all of the reactions are 100% genuine. they really just happened to witness a flash mob dancing to Fatboy Slim.
I believe they were actually dancing to a different song.
@@CJonesApple does not every one
@@CJonesApple i highly doubt it considering at the beginning it sounds like they are actually playing it before it fades to the overlayed song, also 2:11
The leading dancer is also some dude known as SPIKE JONZE!!!
Norman is not in the video
this was before anybody even knew what a "flash mob" was
A flash mob is a flash mob. Cavemen formed a flash mob to dance during the middle of their dinosaur barbeque. Perhaps you mean “before the expression ‘flash mob’ was coined.”
@@satchelsatchel oh my god shut up bro.
Anybody else remember when society was something you enjoyed being a part of?
1970?
When it was safe and fun to do stuff like this in a California city...
and it wasn't always hyper edgy doing anything slightly beyond the reg
Astute, my friend
I was always on the outskirts, a bit alternative... but i get what yr saying
Never realized how precious life was during these times this was my childhood
never i realized my precious life until lost whos got my golden soul
Dude ur like 18 you hadnt been born when this song came out lol
@@johnward9604 lmao why you hatin I was grown up around music like this you bum can’t listen to music like this cause I wasn’t born when it came out?
@@elijahstiles1821 you sensitive wuss it was a joke and you cried
Better times.
I swear to God that their dance routine is what they had us doing in elementary school for in-class exercise
LOL
HAHAHAHAHA.
I would love to go to that school
It's likely that was the only way they were able to restart together after the 'management' switched off the player...
thats where they learned it
The funny thing is that the outfits they're wearing are now very much the "aesthetic". Pioneers.
Hahaha True True
Who listen this great song on 2024?
Me 😂
Me! From buenos aires
Me 🥹
Ruby Gillman brought me here
🤟🏾
Spike should have kept up with the breakdancing. He'd be in the Olympics this year
LMAO he was actually pretty good. For a minute I thought raygunn’s dance was an homage to this, and the fact it wasn’t is kinda insane
😂😂😂
Dude dancing is Spike jonez ..his name is almost nowhere in these comments and that's a shame..
Literally just came here because I just told my wife I didn't realize it was him until about a year ago!
I found out today. Holy crap.
And is the director :P everytime you wonder who made an epic 90's video , its 9/10 spike jonze :)
That makes so much sence! Thank you!
Being John Malkovich's director? wow
Even from a deep depressive mood, this music and video made me smile. That's pretty amazing.
Sorry to read, Cameron. I’m there also. I keep hoping though. Hang in there. One hour and one day at a time
SOUNDS LIKE IT'S TIME FOR EXERCISE
@@TreeFrogOnATree Does that help you? Maybe that’s what I need to do
@@MrChristian It really does help
Mucha Fuerza Cameron, Saludos desde america del sur, Argentina!!!
A bit more about this clip. it looks incredibly basic, but they actually went out of their way to look bad. They picked really bad tracksuits and awkward clothes, and then purposely did bad dancing. There was an earlier version of the clip with the crowds faces blurred out, because they hadn't sorted the permissions from the crowd. It was shot in guerilla style, so the camera wasn't obvious to the people there. The main dancer is director Spike Jonze, in rather ordinary glasses and a shirt. Norman Cook is in the crowd and appears at the end, but he's edited out in this version.
Spike Jonze loves elaborate practical jokes so this is was his style. Roman Coppola worked on it, brother of Jonze's wife at the time, Sofia Coppola.
i was not there at the time
Work if art
No this wasn't done intentionally.... It was just done...😂😂
It also literally cost $800 to make yet managed to win 3 VMA awards in 1999. It's actually pretty genius.
Just curious, but the guy who switched the music off then tried to move them on, was he part of the act?
We played this song at my wife's wake. Celebrate the loved ones you have, always and forever.
Oh...the feeeeels
Rip.
Respect.
131 likes but not one sorry. :/ I'm sorry for you loss!
Sorrys are generic when someone dies. There are no words..
Over 20 years later and it's still joyously, beautifully silly.
Fuckin love it
great, i'm officially old, song still rocks
Eh! 24 years!
It still amazes me every time i watch.
I’ve cried watching this a couple times before, there’s just something that gets to me in how silly yet completely serious they dance in front of everyone
Its the humbleness of being yourself that caught you ;) Try it for yourself. You might enjoy being edgy
every performance is silly in a way
For me it's the fact that they all look like they could be perfect strangers, ordinary people. And yet they all come together to dance in syn. Not extremely well, but that's not the point.
@@AdamHolland-Adz what are you on about, not extremely well? You're talking out of your arse again.
Be cringe, be free @@3NC3PH4L0N
This song means so much to me, it was played at my fathers funeral and I can’t tel you how happy I am every time I hear it, just thinking back about all of the good time we had together
I'm sorry for your loss
Sorry to hear about your loss...I know what that means unfortunately..... A brotherly hug from Italy
That's beautiful, man, fr
Sorry for your loss. It's on my final playlist too.
I have to praise you like I should.
I remember watching this on MTV back in the day and being like "who are these people and why are they so enthusiastic and yet dancing so weirdly". Many years later, now I know. Its not about how you dance. Its about the joy OF BEING ALIVE AND AMONG OTHERS YOU TRUST LOVE AND ENJOY BEING WITH. Thanks Fatboy!
Right on
это профессиональные танцоры, которых специально учили танцевать, как любителей😄
Would you say that you are... praising him?
It's a professional, award winning video.
Love that everything about this video screams 90's and yet is absolutely timeless. Brings me back to when MTV still played music and I was a kid and started to actually sort out my own taste in music.
YES!! ITS SHIT THESE DAYS LOL
Before reality TV before social media
@卍 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉𝟦𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓊𝓁𝓏 卍
It is - so cheap it’s free ✌🏽
This is what would later inspire Napoleon Dynamite's dancing routine.
Ehhh okay lol.
@@delete--5563 haha you don’t seem too convinced lol
Was just about to post this, lol.
Vote Pedro.
Damn i was gong to post that
I was deep in the trenches of a ballet company when this video came out. A lot of us looked down on the video in a very snooty way, claiming it was not "real" dancing. Nowadays I realize.. this is EXACTLY how dance is supposed to be!
Hell yeah
No you were right. As a teen, I thought the dancers were exploited handicapped adults 🥴
Well...it was acting so yeah
@@deionamariemuhammad628 lol the dude dancing is spike jonze!
it looks awkward because this is all a prank, they just showed up and started making a music video in front of this theater because they thought it would be a good concept for a film but obviously they look nervous and like they're making things up because this was really a one and done thing- they are being kicked out like the guy shutting the music off.
I was 68 years old when this came out, I'm 15 now. Something has gone horribly wrong with time, Send Help!
Goodness me, that's funny! Honestly: the bed is still shaking.
Merlin return to Camelot
the 6 piano notes/chords that make up the melody of this song feel perfect. This is a perfect song to symbolize the end of an era in your life. graduating HS/college, moving out of a living space, a friend moving away, etc.
after all these years, this still cracks me up. this is probably one of the best music videos of the 90's. this won 3 vmas from mtv vma in 1999. initially i thought this was scripted, like the "background audiences" were paid actors. this was actually for real, they didn't even bother to get any permission from the theater's owner to do this cult like dance in front of that place lmfao.
this is probably the best music videos ever
tootsie|troll® , me too😀
@Brandon S Original flash mob before there was even a word for it! 😀
Best music video ever. It is so bad that is is beyond so good. It is so awesome. So spectacular. So sublime that you will tear up and wish Spike put you in the music video and you have this epic claim to fame of being in this video for this incredible song.
This is so great. Sooo great. They are free.
one of the most uplifting pieces of music ever made.
have i missed something?
Sure does & my daughter is in Sydney 2nite at FBS’s concert in 2023 so so kool I saw him has 2 b at least 23yrs ago he was insane! ❤😊
Very,very true.
best music video ever made. Nobody cares how they look or what others think of them, just free, having fun, and being stupid. Pure innocence. The guy who doesn't understand why they are enjoying themselves who shuts down the music is a prime example of people who aren't comfortable in their own skin. I think it's brilliant. There's a message behind the video in my opinion.
playful times are important!
If this is the best music vid ever made you are super-easy pleased.
Этот ролик - образец свободы! Я из России и знаю, что это такое.
@@daynasmum529 you say that like it's a bad thing...
That guy who shuts music was the manager of the cinema the interaction between the director of the Video (the guy leading the dance) went on a lot longer as he explains what they're up to and I think hence the jump hug
1998 ?
Kill me now !
What have I been doing for the past 21 years ?
decomposing.
It's one year older than me
I let the song sudder for 3 years, then I decided to be born, and since then ive grown up to become 18 years and counting haha
Wasting time on the internet, just like you are now, just like all of us.
Festering.
This is an actual flash mob before there were flash mobs. Search RUclips for the documentary on this video. The guy who cuts off the music is the movie theater manager. This was filmed in one take, and then they left.
Absolutely brilliant. This is the pinnacle of human freedom from chains of anxiety that modern life brings about. (I think flash mobs existed throughout the '80s?)
@@LDacic No, there were no flash mobs in the 80s. They weren't really a thing before people starting having cell phones with cameras. Or maybe there were flash mobs and the only people who knew about them were the eye witnesses and everyone just thought they were crazy.
@@letshugandlove324 Well, probably yes and no. He found that guy dancing to Rockafella skank and contacted Norman about doing a video clip for it. They were already part way through shooting the video for Rockafella so they ended up using the guy (Richard I believe his name was) for Praise You. EDIT: That was Spike Jonze, he used a pseudonym. lol.
@@kosk11348 the term and concept are quite old. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob#Precedents_and_precursors
Wow
i love how ordinary these people look and how amateurish the dancing is-- if it was more professional or choreographed it wouldn't be as iconic
I love amateurish stuff like this. Not only the video is low budget their dancing is not very professional too, like you said. If it was "better" it wouldn't be as iconic and I don't think so many people would remember this to this day
BAJAX BAJAX they’re giving it their all!! ❤️
BAJAX BAJAX I concur with both you and Vitorio Pedrelli 🙌🏻😄
According to Wikipedia, the cost of making the video was a mere $800 bucks, and yet, it’s brilliant, as well as timeless! 🤩💃🏻
It's deliberately made to look amateurish - it was all a big joke. A lot of work went into it to make it look bad, including all the clothes, which were deliberately bad.
@@techgeek3366 I don’t think it was a joke at all though but a specific look and feel they were going for.
Fun fact: this was filmed at Fox Bruin theatre in Westwood, LA. The same
Place where Margot Robbie goes to the movies in Once upon a time in Hollywood.🔥
Really? Wow! I didn’t know that. Thank you.
The movies are Practical Magic and Star trek insurrection just let you know how old this is.
I wondered where it took place. Also this video has canceled my existential depression for a good amount of time.
Westwood has the most GORGEOUS old movie theaters, it’s so awesome.
Cool
We all agree that YT didn’t recommend this you looked for it
Yep
Yep
Was on a commercial
Advil TV commercial.
Cheers. ;)
July / Aug 2020.
Only to deride it.
Quien está acá por el tema de Wos que tiene la pista parecida?
Amigo es un sampleo, es más, el tema de Wos se llama Niño gordo flaco y la traducción de "Fatboy slim" es esa jajajajaja
@@RafaNalbandian XD
“Through the hard times and the good.” ✊✊✊
Shoutout to those still coming here in 2023!
The hard poor times of my childhood where memorable with music like this
I was homeless in '98-'99 so seeing this for first time lol. Came here from the new Rita Ora video that samples this :)
Anyone here because of Rayguns Olympic Performance ?
Our anthem when we make it through the Coronavirus.
Exactly
I fucking hope not.
Long live socialism! Capitalism had its turned and when things got rough, profits is not the way to go. we must take care of eachother.
You're right. That's why they taught us how to wash our hands at 1:26, and to say hello with one foot at 2:50.
Exactly
Played this as our entrance song to our wedding. Always makes me smile watching this music video or whenever I hear this song!
Nobody cares. People like you are narcissists who want the attention of the world on them at all times.
I used this in my speech 🎉
Spike Jonze (The director of the video) and Norman Cook are friggin' LEGENDS! Still holds up to this day!
he's the guy in the striped shirt too
Is Norman the dancer in stripes?
@@davidrunyon8328 No, that's Spike Jonze
This and island on the sun, marvelous work Mr. Jonze, wherever you may be
@@davidrunyon8328 no, but he does appear in the video somewhere. He's laughing his arse off
This has to be the most unique music video. Pure childhood! I remember seeing it on MTV daily in 99/2000.
Idk. Christopher Walken dancing through a mall was pretty epic.
@@realmynameshiro
I loved
The Box
VH1
MTV
@@skrq9167
Alguno aca por el tema de wos con ca7riel?
This song came on at the grocery store today, but nobody wanted to re-enact the video with me. :(
Because they all were loosers at that grocery store baby...
I will if i was there
I would have been down!!! Such a classic!!!
I sure would have!
😳😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me after the Lockdown.. forgeting all basic social behaviour.
🤣🤣🤣 Me too!
Hows the lockdown going chap? Im in the uk still in lockdown a year on
So this is where Raygun got her moves from
Yep!
Exactly 🎉
Back when the Internet was fun.
I miss fun internet.
That's racist
How’s this got anything to do with the internet? Genuinely asking, did this dance group start online?
we all do @1RedHyena
1RedHyena the Internet is still fun if you look in the right places 😀
Its not like the internet has changed dude, there is still old shit online
I can't get enough of this.
It's so powerful what's going on here. The energy is superb.
Power? energy? did i miss something?
I was 85 when this song first came out and now I’m dead. Crazy how time flies by!
😀😀😀👍
😁😚😁
That's how it is. Stuff happens and then you're dead.
Don't worry bro, u will reincarnate back on earth soon and do it all over again 😂😂
Coca-Cola doesn't taste the same as it used to.
That was Olympic-quality breakdancing my mans was doing near the end.
The applauding by the bewildered crowd still processing what they just watched is heartwarming
This video and song is a conduit of psychological expression in my personal life. I was recently divorced when this song came out and had very negative feelings and remorse. This one song gave me permission to be me and to just say "Fuck it, I am having fun!". Life is good. Enjoy it while you have the chance. I am sure there were other people feeling oppressed at the time and feeling like it was time to "Praise You". This song represents a very positive and pivotal time in my life. Thanks goes out to Fatboy Slim!
Nice message. I'll keep it in mind. Right now I am in one of my worst times: my two puppies die, my family rejects me and despises me, I don't have a job, and my neighbors hate me. My image is negative. I lost all my money during the pandemic and my dreams went to hell
@@lotomusic1360 At least you have a keyboard and electricity. And fingers. Also, I hate your neighbors too.
@@lotomusic1360 It's been 3 months. If you read your OP and you're still in that rut - slap yourself in the face, turn RUclips off, and do something positive. Right now.
@@TheHigherVoltage I am worse than three months ago !!!!!!.
@@lotomusic1360 Then whatever you're doing isn't working. Change tactics!
Raygun brought me here
Same here!
God I miss the 90's, early 2000's. Please take me back.
I'd start with the 70s!
That's my very best wish too!!
You all wouldn't last 5 minutes without the Internet.
Me too! I would give my kidney to go back.
Couldn’t agree more!!
NO SE QUE CUENTO NOS VAMO A COMER HOY
Spike Jonez is the most underrated creator.
the skate videos he has directed (yeah right, fully flared)are in a league of their own too..
Being John Malkovich is a great movie.
So glad he won an Academy Award. He’s on a whole other level of creativity. Video Days is an amazing skate flick
Yeah fuck Hal Ashby
john malkovich and Her!
weirdly refreshing to see no phones pointed at this group while they slayyy
Someones recording it tho
Zidane Tribal Yes, the people shooting the music video for Fatboy Slim ;-D
By the way, it won three MTV video music awards.
I mean, wouldn't it be shit if people could rewatch this on their phone's or share it make it go viral... Obviously the crew were filming it, but think of how many flash mobs you've missed and how many you've seen due to people recording it on their phones...
@@motherfungler420 i recognize the benefits of technology. i think my comment was to suggest the cultural impact of most americans having a high definition camera/video cam on their persons at all times. this didn't feel like too long ago. also, you have to recognize that democratizing and "viralizing" something also cheapens the novelty of the experience somewhat.
@@GrizzlePawz ok boomer
I’m glad the comment section is finally open after 10 years 🙌🏻
Yoooooooo
Letsss gooo
I like how this video is nearly over a decade old and all the comments are from a couple of hours ago
True!! 😂
@@ngeluztorao_beats they get deleted every day
@@x2147483647 why tho
@@rusoruski3565 idk they prob dont want comments and dont know how to tun them off
a long long way together
Anyone after seeing aussie breakdancer Raygun?
Just came from a tik tok that used this song for her 😂
I remember when our professor back in university used to show his love for music videos, and we all were fascinated. He also told us that this one was his favourite one. He couldn't explain why. He just said that it had something special that really touched him. Today, I can understand why. Rest in peace wherever you are, professor.
В нём есть искренность. Это главное. Хоть я и россиянин, ч понимаю это. У нас часто такого нет.
Life is awesome and death is a part of life...
I am now 46 and quietly crying in my recliner wondering where the hell did 21 years go.
Brian Siemers was it a dream or was I once happy 😥
STOP doing that at once ! Hell you can sit and cry in your recliner all you want , but stop wondering where the time has gone , it will drive you perfectly foaming at the mouth mad . Where did the time go , better yet was there any time here to start with . When we wonder where time has gone that should be the very concept of time to start with , if there never was any time , then how can we wonder where it went ?
MY CORPORAL USED TO WAKE US UP WITH THIS SONG AFTER HARDCORE WAS OVER & IT WOULD GET PROGRESSIVELY LOUDER& LOUDER & thats a memory ill always treasure!still dark outside for that morning run, felt so good to do 2miles.(.damit Bryan now im crying too) y.c.p.changed my life & ill always be greatful for what i learned there special luv & thanks to corporal McCarty tho im sure shes a sargent or sumthin high rank! life is short praise praise praise god!
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Lol right now it’s Covid season and the tears won’t stop #2020
I feel like aliens are going to come across this video years from now, and think it's some kind of spiritual dance to our God.
it is, right? it's a ceremonial rite to preserve our galdern sanity
It is a spiritual dance
If they ever come here they'll think nothing of this video. They'll look at how we made billions of animals suffer (watch Earthlings), they'll look at how we modified our environment, they'll see how we used our discoveries to start and stop wars, just to name the obvious things. I feel like this music video was made to mock human behavior and everything we accept in a daily basis.
you mean Pastafari Rasta God? yeah:)!
Assuming they are familiar with the concept of God, in which case this will probably be their first thought XD
Australian Olympic Female breaking vibes.
Ladies and gentlemen.. The man.. The myth.. The legend... Mr Spike Jones!
was just about to comment and ask if that was spike Jones. Thought Id look through the comments first aha
I almost forgot that this is how I learned of him.
jonze
Who?
@@linkin49park182 Is he a musician?
Love, passion, dedication and good vibes. That is all that matters.
ay Disco Elysium
I have never seen something that has made me want to live my life so freely before EVER
***** no
+M Rodriguez Don't worry, it'll pass. You'll be sleeping in all day, binging on Seinfeld and ice cream again in no time. :)
***** I try.
+M Rodriguez i love you for say that...
why the long face 😂😂
Who's here after the 2024 Olympics Breakdancing competition?😂😂😂😂😂😂
The inspiration for Raygun’s performance at the Olympics 2024 🇦🇺love this song, always laughed at how funny this clip is.
I just saw the Raygun 'performance' this morning and thought this, while you beat me to saying it, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one thinking it!
I thought the same thing... lol
Yeah, just realise the same thing. I'm surprised it took me so long!
I came back to watch this video because I knew it was better than Raygun
3:12 but no kangaroo
Looks like Edward Snowden had a wild past as a street dancer.
I thought he looked familiar! Was thinking that guy from WACO, but you're right. It's Snowden.
lol damn you got me
That's Director Spike Jonze
Ahhh, ha,ha,ha!!!
hahahahah
I have never seen something that has made me want to live my life so freely before EVER
The 90's man. Good times!
wow! 2019 and still laughing great piece of work
i was just thinking that. Look at everyone in that video. They look so happy. I miss the 90s
@@moonasha me too!
Same! It makes me laugh too much every time, I don't even understand fully why. Just so joyful.
But they will look back on the 2020s as vintage and say "remember when it was just humans that ruled the world" or "look at the antique iPhones grandma had to use"
The late 90s were peak human optimism. Everything felt like it was going in the right direction and that the new millennium would see humanity blossom. I wish we could get back there, only have broadband capability that we do now and internet as well developed sans Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc - RUclips would make the cut though in my utopia, for sure 🙂
flash mob b4 they were popular... lol
1st flash mob that made it popular more like it.
90'S DAB LOL
This is dance in its purest form, immaculate.