Introductory ramble.
Morning shower, one of my old country mix tapes playing. A couple of things from Faith Hill’s ‘breathe’ album came on, including “the way you love me”, which has always struck me as bubble-poplike, but reasonably fun. But hearing the song reminded me of the video, which always struck me as one of those ‘how many different cute outfits can we get our cute pop star wearing in two minutes and fifty-nine seconds’ endeavours. Looking back in my memory, I thought that they had something like fourteen different ensembles for Faith, but when I actually found the video online I only counted eight or maybe nine.
The actual topic:
So, does anybody else have examples of music videos where a performer is wearing at least five different outfits? Any WAGs about how this sort of thing got started… is it vain stars themselves who drive the trend, or video producers, directors, etc? What’s the highest wardrobe count we dopers can come up with?
there’s one pretty popular one now where the singer stands in the middle of the screen and sings and appears in a whole bunch of different outfits and scenes. It’s some emo song with a whiny boy singer. I’ll see if I can figure out which one it is…
It’s actually a catchy song. I can’t stand whiny emo boy songs and I find myself humming this one all the time.
I think if I were a rich singer and making a music video that didn’t have any kind of story or message and was just me dancing around and singing, I would find some excuse to wear a bunch of costumes. Clothes are fun!
Not quite the same, but the latest Red Hot Chili Peppers video has them performing as if they were from many different eras. Like a 50’s Ed Sullivan show, and an 80’s hair band and such. Maybe 6 or 7 in total, each with full outfits for the band and a different set and look.
M.I.A.'s Galang fits the bill. You can watch the video on Launch. I love the new Red Hot Chil Peppers video, it is an orgasmic tribute to all things rock. They dress up as the Beatles, Elvis, Bootsie Collins, Axel Rose, Poison, Alice Cooper, Trent Reznor and Twiggy from Marylin Manson’s band, The Sex Pistols, Jimmie Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Foo Fighters and others. Keadis nailed it on the Cobain nod too, as well as David Grohl.
David Lee Roth, when he went solo, did a series of videos with him in crazy outfits. IIRC, in the “Just a Gigalo video,” he wears a different outfit in every scene and there has to be a dozen scenes.