It’s hard to believe it was 30 years ago that the video for Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ premiered. To celebrate, we asked you to vote for the greatest music video of all time.
Thriller Has Been Chosen at #2?
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- 1 starting with ‘Black Parade’ by My Chemical Romance (2006).
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In at number 29 is Aphex Twin’s ‘Windowlicker’ directed by Chris Cunningham in 1999. The controversial video including no less than 127 profanities was a parody of gangster hip-hop videos and features more than a few similarities to Lily Allen’s recently-released ‘Hard Out Here’.
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You voted the music video for Busta Rhyme’s ‘Gimme Some More’ in at number 28. Directed by Hype Williams and Busta Rhymes himself in 1998. It is a surreal, bizarre narrative shot through a fish-eye lens in slow motion.
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The video for George Michael’s ‘Outside’ was a satirical comment on his arrest for ‘engaging in a lewd act’ in a California loo. Released in 1998 two male police officers arrest couples shown in surveillance footage getting up to all sorts. At the end of the video, however, the two officers, thinking that they aren’t being watched, start snogging, geddit?
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Britney Spears’ ‘Baby One More Time’ rocketed the singer into the public eye in 1998 with a cracking pop song and iconic video made by Nigel Dick. It was Spears’ idea to film a dance-focussed video in a school wearing uniforms from K-Mart.
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The video for Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ (2008) sparked a dance craze and won a ton of awards even though it was the cheapest and easiest video to make. The black-and-white video’s in at number 25.
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Source: NME / MJ-Upbeat.com
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