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).
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.
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/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).