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Jul 30, 2021 · MTV, Music Video, Nirvana, Prince, U2. 100 Greatest Music Videos — from Adele's 'Hello' to ZZ Top's 'Gimme All Your Lovin',' Rolling Stone's picks for the best music videos ever.
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- Beyoncé, “Formation” (dir. Melina Matsoukas, 2016) Beyoncé stopped the world for the umpteenth time when she dropped the explosive song and video for “Formation,” just a day before performing the anthem at Super Bowl 50.
- M.I.A., “Bad Girls” (dir. Romain Gavras, 2012) M.I.A. and director Romain Gavras had already proven that they could make an unforgettable video with 2010’s highly controversial “Born Free” — and two years later, they did it again with “Bad Girls.”
- Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris, “We Found Love” (dir. Melina Matsoukas, 2011) Anyone who wondered if pop stars had lost their ability to excite, to surprise, to unnerve with their music videos had to feel the “We Found Love” clip like a bolt of lightning to the chest.
- Kanye West & Jay-Z feat. Otis Redding, “Otis” (dir. Spike Jonze, 2011) What part of 2011’s impossibly joyful video for “Otis” feels the least likely at decade’s end?
- Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance” (dir. Francis Lawrence, 2009) By the time she crawled out of your mom’s Volvo roof box to deliver her first rah-rah-rahs, Lady Gaga had already hosted a poolside orgy, transformed the subway into her debaucherous lair, and sought poisonous revenge on Alexander Skarsgård for throwing her off the edge of a castle.
- Missy Elliott, “Work It” (dir. Dave Meyers, 2002) While most of her contemporaries settled for music videos that made them look tough or sexy, Missy Elliott got strange with hers, and “Work It” is a perfect distillation of her idiosyncratic vision of warped world.
- D’Angelo, “Untitled (How Does It Feel?)” (dir. Paul Hunter, 2000) Naked as the day he was born, save for a gold chain and bracelet, D’Angelo is the entirety of the simple, single-take video for “Untitled.”
- Beyoncé, “Formation” (dir. Melina Matsoukas, 2016) Beyoncé stopped the world for the umpteenth time when she dropped the explosive song and video for “Formation,” just a day before performing the anthem at Super Bowl 50.
Aug 23, 2023 · Updated. Aug 23, 2023, 7:02 AM PDT. Kendrick Lamar's "Humble" is an incredible video. YouTube/KendrickLamarVEVO. Some music videos are more memorable than others. From Michael Jackson's "Thriller ...
Nov 15, 2021 · Cinquemani. 67. Bronski Beat, “Smalltown Boy” (Director: Bernard Rose) Still among the most daring music videos of all time, the ultra-realist “Smalltown Boy” depicts a brutal gay bashing in provincial Britain. Bronski Beat’s Jimmy Somerville makes a pass at a man he presumes to be gay at a local pool.
Sep 12, 2023 · The 50 greatest music videos of all time, ranked Prince, Madonna, Duran Duran, Beyoncé, R.E.M., Taylor Swift, and Sinead O'Connor are just some of the artists who make our list of the best videos ...
