I mean music videos that have nothing to do with the music and mostly just do their own thing and tell their own story.
An example –
Basement Jaxx’s Red Alert seems to be about a meteor-worshiping cult awaiting the arrival of their rocky messiah in some unsuspecting greasy spoon cafe in the middle of nowhere.
Once the meteor crashes into Earth, everyone gets horribly mutated and convulses to the strange rays exhibited by the meteor. The infection seems to be localized entirely within the cafe. The End.
Edit: Please link to a video, or at least summarize the plot.
Edit2: Please actually link to a video, or tell me why the video plot is cool. Come on, it’s just 30 seconds of your time.
Lone Digger by Caravan Palace. It’s about a murder-brawl at an animal strip club.
Love it - it’s like if Zootopia was more honest about it’s seedy underbelly
Also, Mr. FEAR by SIAMÉS has a nice animation about an alien (?) and a human merging to make a larger alien (?).
Come now, DJ Snake Turn Down for What makes no sense but is amazing.
That’s a lot of fun. I’m gonna go with: guy gets infected with a restless virus that makes body parts indestructible. Transmission is spread through breaking floors and body slamming people. Once it exhausts its hosts it lives on that guys dick. 10/10
DyE
When a strip tease goes just a bit too far.
So her music videos are a bit strange, but they’ve got nothing on the dozens or hundreds of random other videos (some of which are crazy long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wMMuK3Y8rg&t=0 I don’t know if it counts because the lyrics don’t make much sense either, but the video has a giant who votes his crush and her bird boyfriend out of jealousy. The title is a pun because in French "your laces are undone " sounds identical to “your laces are fairies.” And the other lyrics are a bit abstract.
I feel like I could suggest most of Salvatore Ganacci’s catalogue here, but I think Take Me To America is probably the winner. Join a determined Bosnian man on his quest to for a better TV signal
Wow, really loved this one. The unspoken rejection and then acceptance by his mother, the quest to infiltrate US conservatives to get into a position to
assassinatechange the transmission of brain rot seen in his country. And then to swim into oblivion a task well completeHis music is not my thing but goddamn does he make some awesome videos.
Dating myself a bit, but Men Without Hats " Safety Dance" is a clear indicator of how much cocaine was consumed in the 80s.
Everlong was pretty wild
I always liked Radiohead - Just.
Twenty One Pilots’ videos have ragged continuity from song to song, and tell a pretty out-there story. Example song: Twenty One Pilots - Nico and the Niners
Check out the claymation videos from Tool!
Lotta 90’s stuff comes to mind:
Primus - Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver
Not 90’s but:
DJ Shadow/Run the Jewels -Nobody Speak
First ones that come to mind.
I do not know about the weirdest, but Quiet Riot’s The Wild and The Young video is pretty out there.
The government bans and confiscates all music, and locks up musicians with their instruments and outfits in an underground bunker, where the musicians “cunningly” use these resources to sing in protest, but wait it’s actually a premonition for something that hasn’t happened yet and time loops itself. Pretty cool
Portugal. The Man’s video for All Your Light is freaking weird. Complete with human heads in shopping bags, trailer parks, and what I think are aliens.
That’s pretty cool. Music definitely different than the video.
A girl sees mortality and decay in everything she encounters, and it makes her sick. Rather than continue to reject it, she accelerates the cycle and is hit with a holy accepting light after fulfilling her carnivorous destiny. She and her brother also might have been a vampires all along.
A lot of the Freddie Dredd videos (especially the claymation ones) are wild
