Wow these blue aliens are an eyesore to look at, even back then it's clear the budget for this video wasn't very high as the band felt that the novelty of them fighting space aliens only for said aliens to be a fan of their music would be enough to carry the song.
I guess it's a stretch to say that this song has a weird music video, however there's no denying that the band went overboard in having visuals to match the self-insert fan fic they wrote about being a love interest for Indiana Jones.
OK has anyone noticed how the video to this classic makes no sense in the context of the song itself? I mean we have the titular Macarena played by a multitude of ethnically diverse women singing about her relationship with the main narrator of the track, only for said women to do the choreographed dance throughout the song whilst the two men sing their parts separate from the women.
I guess if there was a reason I can understand for why people despise this song, it would be the music video which in addition to the rest of their videography, proudly proclaims it to be presented in Aquascope (whatever that's meant to be.) The satire angle of the track is further lost with the visuals as the band seem to earnestly enjoy living out the fantasy of being in a Barbie world, although admittedly this might be a result of them having too much fun with their concept.
This entry may seem odd compared to the others on this list, however I never understood what the purpose was for Dolores appearing in what appears to be Jill Masterson from Goldfinger if the paint didn't end up suffocating her to death. What's worse is that due to the grainy quality of the video, I for the longest time thought she was a woman of colour which means that I'm sure someone out there is going to accuse this of being some form of blackface.
Many people have complained that this song glorifies unreasonable expectations for what a woman is looking for in a man, while it's obvious listening to the lyrics that the narrator just wants the man in question to be genuine with her and not superficial, the video undercuts this message by depicting Shania stranded in a desert and rejecting any help from these men that are referenced in the verses.
This one's lame more than anything, however there's no denying that between the cheesy dance moves (to accompany the equally cheesy lyrics) and the bad blue screen that this video didn't exactly have a lasting shelf life following its initial release at the start of the decade.
As if the song isn't bizarre enough, we have the music video which comes off more like a windows screensaver than a cohesive visual soundtrack to compliment the song in question.
OK so the visuals on here aren't that bizarre all things considered; however, I feel that they seem better suited as a screensaver rather than accompanying a music video from one of the biggest artists of the moment. Something about the weird CGI just doesn't sit right with me even if it was impressive for its time considering the budget.
I know that the girl's management needed to improvise when it came to making a video for this single due to the absence of Ginger Spice, however was the best they could do to have creepy CGI puppets of the girls pose as fairies for a boy and a girl? I don't it would've helped if they were rendered properly but the fact they're not isn't doing the visuals any favours either.
I mean I'm not one to comment on someone's sexual preferences, but we all realise that Paula Abdul is professing her love to a cartoon cat in the video, right? I guess opposites really do attract when they have to bend the laws of physics in order to be with each other (to say nothing of the bestiality on display.)
Again, we have a song whose music video seems to be more interested in becoming a screen saver than actually promoting the song in question. Even ignoring the filters that never go away and are on a constant loop throughout the runtime, would it have killed the girls to hire a better choreographer to dance to their version of an untouchable classic?
This one only barely makes it on my list due to the bizarre editing and special effects used throughout its runtime, specifically the moment when the girls are dancing under the waterfall with the same type of CGI used to create the Predator's camouflage in that film franchise. I also don't quite understand the point of them dancing in the sea, but that's pretty minor all things considered.
Look this video doesn't offend me, no not even the cut where they're doing some truly disgusting things (in a very literal way mind you.) The reason why this is even here is that (to me at least) this simply isn't funny, it's provocative sure, but not funny in the slightest. If you find this funny, then more power to you but I don't.
OK so it might not be the band's fault that the strange dancing found in this video was forced upon us Aussie kids back in the day, however it certainly doesn't help that this is some bizarre dance moves and that it seems to take place on a beach in the tropics. I really want to know what the thought process was for this video.
I never said that weird was synonymous with awful, take this lead single for example. Few will deny that the imagery is striking and that the boys are having the time of their lives during its runtime, however this is meant to be for teenage girls and yet this feels more like something made for their male counterparts.
This will be Aqua's final entry on this list and believe me I've saved their wackiest video for last as their other two videos at least has relevance to the songs in question. I'm not sure why these guys wanted to have imagery ripped from Star trek accompany the visuals in this video, but they did, and they do not work with what the song is about.
Those anthropomorphic CGI TV sets are the things of nightmares, granted this is due to them being rendered at a time where CGI was more used for cartoon graphics in video games, but I don't think it would've been much better if they had real life people dress up in costumes given how nonsensical the rest of the video is.
I know that this was mean to be a throwback to the 70's psychedelia, however I feel these guys took it a bit too far by having all of the psychedelia imagery to the point where it feels like an Austin Powers scene transition. Also, it's obvious that the members are high off their faces, this is evidence by their strange dance moves and facial expressions that give with the bizarre editing.
Oh, wow is this video melodramatic, you'd swear it came out in the 80's what with the mad scientist get up and the overly long shots of nothing happening in them. If anything, these visuals do match the tone of the song, so this video only appears on here due to how hilariously overdramatic they are.
OK so about this video which depicts Betty Boo as a schoolgirl in a science classroom, it appears the video takes inspiration from the Jerry Lewis classic the Nutty professor as we have a clone of Betty being created which appears to be her hip hop persona while the real Betty looks dazed and confused at what's just happened. I guess other stuff happens too, however you're not really paying attention to it.
I'm going with the version of this video that was big here in Australia and throughout Europe, I mean how can I avoid putting this on the list when it's nothing but footage of old films from the golden age of cinema? Although I guess I should also mention the original video which while not bizarre, is pretty bad as it's just the duo at a wrestling ring watching women fight each other on stage.
Because we really needed another video which serves more as a windows screensaver than you know, an actual video on our charts. Admittedly I'm going by the version that played in Australia as this was for the remix, for all we know the original video is a perfectly sensible visual experience.
As noble as this song is for creating body positivity (in a way that's respectful towards all people of shapes and sizes) there's no denying that the rapper went a little overboard with the imagery for the video as we have ass platforms as well as buts appearing sporadically as decorations on the set. I guess he wanted to inject some humour into the video in case he was coming off as too confrontational in the song.
I know that Dr Alban wanted to create a summer vibe for the video of his big hit down under, however why did he go with having a beach set on the back of a truck while the truck was driving around what appears to be the Mediterranean coast? Putting aside how dangerous that would've been to film, it just fails in achieving what it's set out to do which was to create a summery vibe for a distinctly summer jam.
You'd think that the world's first digital supergroup would've put more effort into having themselves rendered better, also I know that having four overweight men sing this cover was part of the joke, however I don't think many people look back on this as a comedy track nowadays.
OK I think these guys went a little overboard with the redneck stereotype with the video to their one and only hit, there's pandering to a demographic and then there's doing so in a way that might come off as racist given how these guys were Swedish and their obvious target audience were redneck Americans.
I get that Marcella Detroit was meant to be the normal one of this duo whilst Siobahn Fahey was the wacky one, however I feel the latter was overdoing it in this video as she looks like she's from another planet compared to the former who's playing it relatively straight. It really seems jarring once they start fighting over the sick guy, which begs the question on who he belongs to if they feel the need to fight over him.
I know that at the time this video was very provocative for daring to be sexually driven however let's be honest, is anything depicted on here even the slightest bit shocking anymore? It's just Madonna getting sexual with a guy she meets at a hotel, why did people feel the need to lose their marbles over such a simple premise?
I guess this is one of the simpler videos for this list, however I never understood why there was a CGI environment with a person of colour dancing crazy acrobatics while the video cuts to the vocalist from the band singing the track. It's supposed to be a love song and yet it's presented as a dance workout.
There have been many videos on here to incorporate poorly rendered CGI, here's another one which seems to have made a bad PS1 cutscene to showcase everything being made out of chocolate except for a little girl that seems to be both bored and having the time of her life paradoxically by dancing around in this environment. Perhaps if the CGI were a bit better, I'd be able to get a better read of her emotions.
And the award for the worst directed video I've ever seen, actually no, this video had no direction to it as whoever shot it clearly had no idea what they were doing as they would often fail to get clear shots of the model lip synching to Martha's vocals. That's before they cluttered the shots with filters that would become a disturbingly common trend this decade.
Well, this video is going to haunt my nightmares for the rest of my life, OK so it's been haunting my nightmares since I first saw it when I was in my mid-teens but still. The fake smiles from the actors were scary enough, I don't think the band needed to add in everything melting when the preverbal sun bursts.
We have another contender for a music video that serves more as a computer screensaver than an actual music video, although I think it's more due to the way it's edited to be a kaleidoscope in each frame rather than it being someone's screensaver that they decided to use as the video like other entries on this list. It doesn't remotely fit with the song which is about how Scatman John overcame his speech impediment by being a singer, but I guess it is memorable.
What on earth is going on in this video? Yes, I'm talking about those women flying in the sky like they're fish swimming in water, is this what the quartet mean by making a sweet surrender? Also, this wasn't necessarily their fault as this came out before Beverly Hills 90210 began airing, but the main vocalist heavily reminds me of David Silver from that show.
OK so about the music video for this comeback hit that Tom Jones had, what is with that contraption that the dog is tied to? Yeah, I know its owner is too lazy to walk his pet and that supposedly its hooked up to the contraption so that he doesn't have to walk it, but am I supposed to believe that the owner built it the way it operates for this purpose? Oh yeah and he's blowing off looking after his dog to watch Tom Jones perform this track on TV, I guess that's as good an explanation as any.
I know that the Claymation here was deliberately shoddy to add effect to the comedy of the track, however I feel they could've done a better job here especially since this came out the same year that those Wallace and Gromit shorts were coming out which did an amazing job at balancing out comedy with heartfelt storytelling through the strength of their Claymation.
I guess the success of this cover comes from the visuals that accompany it in the video, it's like the duo (or whoever directed it) just discovered what CGI is and decided to play with every setting that they knew how to use to create this video. The results are a bunch of imagery that have little to nothing to do with the lyrics.
Another video with poorly rendered CGI, I know these guys didn't have much of a budget given how this was their first hit single and that their first two albums underperformed, but was it too much to ask to put more money into hiring a better graphics designer for their video? I also don't understand the concept of the video, although that might be due to how poor the animation is.
I know that the name of the song suggests they can't dance, however they really wanted to hammer that point home in the video with some of the worst choreography I've ever seen put to film. Sure, you can argue that's the point of the visuals, however they could've done so in a far less goofy way or better yet, have other people embarrass themselves with their awful dancing.
I know that no animals were actually harmed in this classic from the decade, however the fact that there was implied animal cruelty in these visuals does make you wonder just how far the band was willing to go to spark controversy back in the day. There's also the concept of Trent Reznor being a mad scientist in the video, which further adds to the shock value as he's using innocent animals as experiments for f**k only knows what.
OK so can anyone tell me what this song is about based on the video? We have the band fighting ninjas in what I'm guessing is meant to be an homage to either TMNT or Powe rangers (could be either or) which would be bizarre enough except the song is called peaches and there's no peach to be found here.
OK I gave a pass to all of her other videos as her dancing in the desert and playing the harmonica in a wide angle lens was rather tame all things considered, however I have to draw the line at Alanis appearing butt naked in a green screen to give off the impression she walks around public in her birthday suit in what is supposed to be a song about how grateful she is at the people around her.
Well, I guess having some of the ugliest CGI to ever be known to man is one way to score a hit with a genre that was past its prime in the mainstream, however there's also the fact that it's juxtaposed to the band performing in a dark arena likely to save costs/embarrassment for rendering more of the video.
Well, this is something that's been haunting my nightmares since I first watched the video at age six, I think this is supposed to be an unborn baby experiencing its first thoughts in a woman's uterus. Most of the videos on this list made the cut due to bad CGI, this on the other hand has great CGI (for its time) and yet it's because of the high quality of the visuals that I still struggle to watch it to this day.
This one's rather tame compared to some of the other entries on this list, although I have to ask, why is there random animations of birds during the song's runtime. Also are those gems from the Spyro games? I know this was made four years prior to the first game, but the resemblance is uncanny. Oh, and the girl as the globe just takes a love ballad and makes it that much ickier.
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