10 Worst Music Videos

10. Free as a Bird - The Beatles
I may take some flack for this one and maybe I should watch it again. But the fact that I remember so little about this video when they are my favorite band releasing a big deal video, 20 years after their break up, says a lot. Should I remember more. I remember some kind of goofy face shots and the start kind of. But after that nothing. I mean this is the biggest band of all-time. It should have been more.
9. Rigth Now - Van Halen
I think the problem with this video is that it is really trying to say something. And that’s fine. But if you want to make a serious point, don’t then sell the song to Pepsi. Now all this song and video stand for is the failed “Clear Pepsi” brand. Not good planning by a band notorious for poor decisions.
8. Say, Say, Say - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
I bet this may be the biggest regret of McCartney’s illustrous career. The song is OK at best. The video is corny as hell and Michael Jackson behaves like some 12 year hanging out with his grandfather the whole time. Although Jackson then turned around and burned McCartney by buying all of the Beatles catalogue when they came up for sale. How is it someone shoots John Lennon and Michael Jackson walks around and no one has even grazed him.
7. Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-GO
Yeah this is two guys wearing short-shorts and nobody once stopped to wonder if they might be gay. Real big shock when George Michael gets arrested trying to troll for sex in a bathroom. Seriously though, this video sucks.
6. REM - Losing My Religion
I love this song. I hate this video. It's stretching to mean something. It's really wants to be important. It's ends up being campy. I know there's probably a lot that I don't get, but that's not good because I am probably more intelligent than the target audience for most music videos.
5. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Free Fallin’
This video takes the song lyrics entirely too literally. Okay lets put some chick on a skateboard on a ramp and show her floating in and out of the air. Oh and here’s burned out Tom Petty pretending that his song somehow relates to the skate or die culture. Pass that doobie and maybe a better idea will come around.
4. Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
This is the video that introduced the world to Courtney Cox and told the that even she can’t teach the Boss how not to dance like a retard on crack. This video gets cred for finding a future TV “star” but watch the rest of it. I mean she overacts. He over dances. And my stomach over turns.
3. Guns ‘n Roses - November Rain
Maybe I am dumb because I used to love this video but as I got to thinking more about this video it really has no point. You can tell me all about this being part two of a video triology with “Don’t Cry” and “Estranged” being the bookends, but this thing is just a string of cliches. Although, I still love the scene of Slash walking out of church into the desert and jamming his solo.
2. R. Kelly - Trapped in the Closet
All I can say about this video is that why couldn’t they have trapped him in a cell away from a recording machine rather than a closet. I saw this and then I saw that the “music video” channels were really trying to sell this as good. Ugh. The worst kind of video. One that the industry is selling me. I just hope there were no underage girls in that closet or they’ll get whizzed on.
1. Michael Jackson - Black and White
As much as Thriller established Jackson as the King of Pop, this video pushed him beyond the realm reason and right into the world weird. This was supposed to be some kind of uniting tune and song, but the major stars in it are Jackson (trying real hard to white), McCauley Culkin (casper the ghost white and like 10 years old) and Norm from Cheers (who’s neither funny nor relevant without a beer resting in his palm). Plus there’s the bizarred last few minutes of Jackson trashing a car, which I guess is the symbolization of racism. Damn General Motors.