29 Bits of Trivia About Music Videos for the Audiophile and Cinephile Alike

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29 Bits of Trivia About Music Videos for the Audiophile and Cinephile Alike

Who doesn’t love a good music video? Weirdos, that’s who. Like, if you solely like the music, do you put the brightness on your screen all the way down? And if you only like the video, do you just watch it on mute? That’s insane. 

Both of you oddballs can get out of here right now, because these tidbits are for music-video lovers. Well, and word-and-picture lovers, since the facts are typed words on picture cards. 

See that? Something for every NORMAL person out there.

Weird Al

Jordan Peele Не appeared in a Weird Al Yankovic video. Key and Peele show up in the music video for Yankovic's White & Nerdy, freaking out at just how white and how nerdy Al is. CRACKED.COM

Nine Inch Nails

David Fincher wanted the director of NIN'sCloser to make the title sequence. A fan of the music video, Fincher suggested director Mark Romanek to do the movie's titles. But designer Kyle Cooper insisted on doing it himself. SEVEN CRACKED.COM

Ariana Grande

She Was Cast In An Ariana Grande Music Video CRACKED.COM Coolidge first discovered Ariana Grande was a fan after Grande did a pretty accurate impression of her on The Tonight Show. In response, Coolidge sent Grande a DM telling her she loved the impression which eventually led her to reprise her role from Legally Blonde in the Thank You Next music video.

The Scopitone

Music videos are 20 years older than MTV. CINEMATIC 50 They were made for the 1960s fad Scopitone, a jukebox that could play video. CRACKED.COM

Take on Me

A-ha's TAKE ON ME blended live action and animation. Director Steve Barron and animators Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger used a technique called rotoscoping, which involves tracing over live-action footage, frame by frame. Four months and over 3,000 drawings later, they had arguably the most iconic music video of all time. CRACKED

OK Go

OK Go was a pioneer in viral music videos. Their treill choreography in 2009's Here It Goes Again was a massive hit that led to their rube goldberg machine video for This Too Shall . With a crew of 60 people, the machine synced up with the song itself and took roughly 60 takes to complete. CRACKED

Mariah Carey

RE MENTS Directed by Brett Ratner and inspired by Grease and Enter the Dragon, this $2.5 million video pits Carey against herself, has a Powerpuff Girls-esque animated sequence and makes Jerry O'Connell tongue-kiss a dog. CRACKED

Thriller

Michael Jackson's THRILLER is so much more than a music video. In December 1983, the 13-minute short film was solely responsible for increasing MTV's ratings tenfold. It is the only music video to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. CRACKED

Bohemian Rhapsody

Rolling Stone said that Queen's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY invented the music video. It only took four hours and £3,500 to make, but its success in 1975 had every record company thinking about video! Director Bruce Gowers became a star, and went on to make videos for the Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, and Prince. CRACKED

Total Request Live

MTV'S TOTAL REQUEST LIVE WAS A DAILY MUSIC VIDEO COUNTDOWN SHOW PULL SN Before YouTube, we had to patiently wait for Carson Daly to introduce one minute clips of our favorite music videos. CRACKED.COM

Yacht’s Fake Sex Tape

CRACKED L.A. band Yacht created a fake sex tape to promote their new album. The whole story was fiction and a scheme weeks in the making to a new music video. Activists say the stunt may make it harder for revenge porn victims to be believed.

Oingo Boingo’s Little Girls

Canada banned the Oingo Boingo song Little Girls. The Independent named it as the creepiest music video of all time, but Danny Elfman still maintains it was written as a facetious jab and satire. CRACKED.COM

Pink’s So What

CRACKED.COM PINK'S SO WHAT IS ABOUT HER SEPARATION FROM HER HUSBAND. VO Oddly, she still had the guy, Carey Hart, in the music video. It's not as awkward now as it was then, since the two got back together a couple years later.

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Two movies had a bidding war over Who Let The Dogs Out back when it was released. Nickelodeon wanted to use it for Rugrats in Paris, and Disney wanted it for 101 Dalmatians. Nickelodeon won by paying for the music video and giving the band, The Baha Men, a live concert special. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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29 Bits of Trivia About Music Videos for the Audiophile and Cinephile Alike

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Crying in Techno

by @anny.vinooninstagram on The Rusllinatime world is with a viral dance challenge. The challenge? Doing the balcony dance in the music video for Cry

Space Oddity

THE FIRST MUSIC VIDEO RECORDED IN SPACE IS COMMANDER CHRIS HADFIELD'S COVER OF DAVID BOWIE'S SPACE ODDITY. TIDITEE It's also the first remote musica

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