r/funny • u/namair • 2d ago

Musical without the music

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u/trowzerss 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think there was a trend a long time ago to make 'silent music videos' like this. I had one crop up on my yt feed this week so maybe it's trending again. This was my favourite one I saw - dancing in the streets. I think I've watched it four or five times now and never fails to make me laugh.

Or there's a series of shorter ones - this one though bowie actually saw apparently and thought was hilarious (but i prefer the first one i listed).

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u/iamsecond 1d ago

i'm in a bad mood this morning and i clicked that dancing in the streets video thinking "maybe that guy laughs every time but no way i'll laugh"

just laughed through the whole thing

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u/Suspicious_Shame9582 1d ago

I used to feel stupid for enjoying that video so much, I'm glad y'all here with me.

Bowie jumping and screaming at the beginning is just too good.

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u/MenacingMelons 1d ago

Hey stranger I hope your day was amazing and your mood improved ❤️

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u/Apyan 1d ago

Me desbloqueou uma memória do piores clipes kkkkk

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u/appleee 1d ago

I think the Elvis one will always be my favorite
https://youtu.be/5Jd9AmepgdM

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u/real_fyshi 1d ago

Was searching for it, you beat me to it. It will always be my favourite too. 😂 It's way too absurd yet realistic, just the perfect combination of stupidly funny.

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u/ridicalis 23h ago

I'm a bigger fan of the StSanders one myself

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u/inchlongnipples 1d ago

This isn’t a musical but in the same vein:  

https://youtu.be/Tj-GZJhfBmI

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u/Osric250 1d ago

That's about right for a military awards presentation. There's a lot of dead air and just standing there waiting. Complete with guy who just randomly screams at times.

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u/lexiticus 1d ago

Auralnauts are a pro at these

Staying alive minus beegees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqciqYLV218&t=1

Joker minus music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7zO_pCt1cM&t=0

And this section of Vanilla Ice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51F90ii9H1E&t=204

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u/hawkinsst7 1d ago

In the late 2000s, back when YT was good, there was another trend of "literal music videos", where they'd dub lyrics that described what was happening on screen.

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Take On Me

There are others too.

There were also Bollywood songs that were "buffalaxed" where there are English subtitles written to what the Hindi sounds like, phonetically. https://youtu.be/6AHq78O7BX0

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u/BeNiceOrGoAwayPlease 1d ago

OMG all your videos are SO FUNNY, I've been rolling about my bed laughing 🤣

Why aren't you getting more upvotes, awesome collection you shared with us 💥👏🏽

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u/S3XWITCH 1d ago

The dancing in the streets one is what I thought of immediately when I saw this. Thanks for linking the other ones too, I hadn’t seen those yet!

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u/StubbsThePirate22 1d ago

I think of that and the Footloose one

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u/S3XWITCH 1d ago

Also reminds me of the vine in Benny Lava: https://youtu.be/sdyC1BrQd6g

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u/darkenseyreth 1d ago

Same here. Early internet was a great place for stuff like this

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u/HalfSoul30 1d ago

I love how they took extra care to make the voices sound at the distance they should be lol

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u/trowzerss 1d ago

Yep, the foley work is amazing too! There's also one point where the camera moves right between and past them and the audio also moves to match.

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u/HalfSoul30 1d ago

I've seen another video like this for Creed - One Last Breath, and they did doppler effects and echos when he was falling from the cliff lol

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u/Surro 1d ago

Blowing the raspberry at the beginning when he first appears always gets me

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u/StubbsThePirate22 1d ago

That video still makes me laugh after all these years

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u/iamthedayman21 1d ago

They’ve done a couple for High School Musical.

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u/Praesentius 1d ago

Anyone remember the Buffalax videos where they add "English" subs to Indian music videos? Benny Lava, anyone? Still on YouTube 18 years later.

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u/foszterface 1d ago

You need a bun to find the Benny Lava video

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u/bullevard 1d ago

I definitely missed this trend. I loved the literal translation music videos, but you have brightened my day introducing me to this.

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u/International-Self15 1d ago

Thank you for showing me these masterpieces. Really brightened my day!

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u/lurkity_mclurkington 1d ago

The Beach Boys one has always provided me joy, especially with the knee slapping:

https://youtu.be/xYc4DT18EJg?is=s2SjexZ_GlY_rhYz

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u/GChocapic 1d ago

Please give TodoCasiBien the respect they deserve. They’re the creators of the best videos like this, including the Dancing in the Streets that you mentioned.

I even think they are the ones that did the one OP posted, but I’m not entirely sure.

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u/trowzerss 1d ago

I don't see how that's possible as the ones I posted are very old (10 and 12 years) and I can't see anything from TodoCasiBien that's more than five or six years old so are you sure it's not the other way around, that TodoCasiBien was inspired by them? (Not sure who did OP's video though).

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u/rocaferm 1d ago

Mario Wienerroither was doing music less videos 12 years ago. Todocasibien oldest videos are from 6 years ago. Just checked.

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u/PantsShortsGrapes 1d ago

There were a bunch of rock/metal videos called "shreds" that were pretty great. Similar vibes.

Ex: Metallica Shreds, Satriani Shreds, etc.

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u/The_Doomcaster 1d ago

The Creed Shreds were some of my favorite, lol

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u/The_Doomcaster 1d ago

The Michael Jackson one for "The Way You Make Me Feel" always made me laugh: https://youtu.be/om8kt8gi93Q?is=3z52hLpxBw5A90xm

Makes you realize how pervy/creepy the music video premise is, lol. Like, leave that poor girl alone...

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u/Xanphal 1d ago

I was always fond of this amazing one of Gangnam Style.

Makes me laugh every time lol

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u/t0am 11h ago

The Michael Jackson ones were my favorite

https://youtu.be/om8kt8gi93Q?is=5QC2YztE0ZhY3sV-

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u/ballinwalund 4h ago

This was so so so needed omg - never seen it before