# Music videos (or moments in videos) that are embarassing/unintentionally hilarious **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413 "2016-04-07T04:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/21 "2016-04-08T16:33:34Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > I’m not sure if it’s embarrassing or just awkward. > > [Soft Cell - Tainted Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlV5AKdIGOQ) Made to show the world why the British are always cast as the evil, decadent Romans. [The Fabulous Thunderbirds Tuff Enuff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcXT1clXc04&nohtml5=False). The female dancers play construction workers. The guys show the world why Austin is considered the British Rome of Texas. But nobody can beat the [British](https://youtu.be/4B2a6l6wM2k) ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/22 "2016-04-08T16:51:13Z")
In Steve Miller’s video for “Abracadabra” (sorry, can’t access YouTube at work for the link) a girl pirouettes toward the camera and crashes right into it. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/23 "2016-04-08T17:15:20Z")
The dancing bit in Jason Mraz’s [“You and I Both,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oieBnV_HFB0&nohtml5=False) costarring the always delicious [Lizzy Caplan](http://www.fashiongonerogue.com/lizzy-caplan-stars-elle-canada-november-2014-cover-shoot/). ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/24 "2016-04-08T17:41:11Z")
The video with Naomi Campbell wasting a sexy dance on Michael Jackson, and to top it off the song was [In the Closet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qLY0vbrT8Q). ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/25 "2016-04-08T17:49:09Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > On one episode of _Family Guy_ they actually played the entire video for David Bowie and Mick Jagger’s version of “Dancing in the Streets” in which Bowie and Jagger prance around an abandoned building in silly clothes. I won’t link to the video because I might actually watch some of it and I don’t think I could take that again, but suffice it to say that the style has dated very, very badly. THIS. Another one is Paula Abdul hanging out with a cartoon cat. That was just pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/26 "2016-04-08T18:05:01Z")
Ahh the '80s… My contribution is [Aldo Nova’s ‘Fantasy’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPQgfaB3S1c). A great guitarist and great song…but the video didn’t age well. Secret-agent rockers, Aldo in a leopard jumpsuit and cowboy boots, and the great guitar-laser at 1:20. I physically wince watching this video, man it was so cool back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/27 "2016-04-08T22:53:02Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > What is the issue with Rob Halford? Around the time “British Steel” came out, and he cut his hair and donned all that leather and cop glasses, I always (even as a kid) cast a Spockian eyebrow at him - the way he’d strut and preen onstage - he always created the impression that he was _trying too hard_ to be metal, and cruising out on the stage in the motorbike sure didn’t help his cause - _that_ was a source of comedy for me. I guess he really, really, really wanted to shed his previous pseudo-prog/hippie phase. (or whatever the fuck one calls it) A band I always thought were a bunch of of deadbeat fuzznuts - Savatage - put out a truly buttworthy video called “In The Hall of the Mountain King”. Bad enough it featured a scared witless dwarf(?) midget(?) (I never get them right) scuttling about, all agog and flustered, but there’s also a couple moments in particular that had the appeal of a puddle of vaguely greenish calf’s diarrhea - at 2:37, buddy wickedly smiles as smoke comes out of is mouth, and then at 3:06, another close-up of buddy going “no no no no” into the camera. I didn’t really need that in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/28 "2016-04-08T22:54:28Z")
oh right…said video…(lol if I must)… [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAukGWuVyEo) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/29 "2016-04-08T23:34:19Z")
The video for Buffalo Stance [Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (Official Music Video) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsRz3TJDEY) is just so busy with so many weird colors all over and so many cuts and stuff zooming in an and out or coming in from off screen for half a second before something else replaces it that I’m surprised it didn’t give anyone seizures. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/30 "2016-04-09T00:59:10Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > [Journey - Separate Ways](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA&nohtml5=False) > > Band members pretending to play invisible instruments on a deserted industrial dock? OK, this music video is off to a bad start. > > But what makes it special is what happens starting at 1:07. > > Check out the guy with a mustache on the right, flailing around half-heartedly like an arrhythmic boy who’s just realized that he has arms, so awkwardly that he has to move his foot at one point to keep his balance and then, at 1:13… WTF is that you ask? Sheer bliss, I say. > > And he’s their… _drummer_? Wow. Journey factoid: Their keyboardist, Jonathan Cain, recently married televangelist Paula White. IIRC, a 4th marriage for both of them. :eek: For me, Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” was a terrible video that ruined a good song. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/31 "2016-04-09T01:56:54Z")
[Bonnie Tyler -Total Eclipse of the Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo) So, so bad. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/32 "2016-04-09T08:01:21Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Mario Weinerrother has made [a version of that video that is safe to watch](https://youtu.be/_li_d_YviZ4). Do NOT attempt to drink anything while watching. Some very shareable work there, thanks! I wonder if anyone involved remembers making [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQy5vKAaTuA) or remembers why they shot [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGMzyajA2U&feature=player_embedded)? ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/33 "2016-04-10T15:05:58Z")
Thread is incomplete without… [Sondra Prill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFrmFhXkr0). I don’t know what she’s doing around 2:18. Being sultry? Spoilered due to somewhat NSFW content. She was also on [public access](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GAZ_5GpMM), in Florida I think. From what I’ve heard, she was 100% sincere. > [@gaffa](#): > > Mario Weinerrother has made [a version of that video that is safe to watch](https://youtu.be/_li_d_YviZ4). Do NOT attempt to drink anything while watching. Awesome. Reminds me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61RtfAqxCbg). ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/34 "2016-04-10T15:55:39Z")
> [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#): > > Thread is incomplete without… > > [SPOILER][Sondra Prill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFrmFhXkr0) I need to personally and genuinely thank-you, **Harvey The Heavy** , for the introduction of Sondra into my life. She would have been perfect fodder my public access tv thread. Otherworldly - some of the notes she hits in the link below, especially @ :42 (“ex-treeeeeeeeeme!”) and @ :54 (“bad dreeeeeeeeaam!”): > [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#): > > public access. That possibly-not-respectful phone-in caller getting cut off at the end - another special moment. Again, I cannot thank you enough, from the very cockles of my heart. Whoa! A youtube shred appearing in such an esteemed, venerable website as this one: > [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#): > > Awesome. Reminds me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61RtfAqxCbg). Funny coincidence - I toyed with the idea of a SDMB “shreds” thread, so if you don’t mind the temporary hijack, my fave shred (featuring a band that I thought were always a buncha fuzznuts posers): [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BDdQV3a_CRg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AGGBYAC6gKKAgwIABABGGUgXihHMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCs06kPpdkRtQbnbgK7n_raE9C1qQ "Slipknot SHREDS - i walk alone") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDdQV3a_CRg) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/35 "2016-04-12T19:45:49Z")
[Jan Terri - Get Down Goblin](https://youtu.be/uGOk-2V9Vt4) What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/36 "2016-04-13T12:16:38Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > I need to personally and genuinely thank-you, **Harvey The Heavy** , for the introduction of Sondra into my life. She would have been perfect fodder my public access tv thread. You’re very welcome. Anything to promote the arts. Here’s a [better quality video of “Nasty Boys”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AYPGRZTHKw&nohtml5=False&spfreload=10) as it premiered live on the cable access show, with more crank calls afterwards ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/37 "2016-04-13T18:06:26Z")
R.e. Rob Halford videos, I think what strikes people as funny is that some of them were made before most people knew he’s gay and the leather & studs look was supposed to be Hardcore Awesome Manly Metal. With 20/20 hindsight, a video like "Hot Rockin’ " is kinda hilarious: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3TpFZY7cU) (the first 40 seconds is all you really need) My personal favorite for Worst Video Ever is Celine Dion’s cover of “You Shook Me All Night Long”. It’s not about lousy special effects or cheesy production or anything like that, it’s just Celine Dion trying to convince people that she’s a Hard Rocking Mama: I just noticed that the "category" for the video is "comedy". Anyone with no talent can make a crappy song/video. Film me singing anything and it’ll suck, I guarantee. Celine Dion, however, has talent. She can really sing and she’s hugely successful and has this massive Vegas show. She’s just totally out of her element here. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/38 "2016-04-13T20:46:53Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > [Hammerfall - Glory to the Brave](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLQtS84ccyk&index=30&list=PLB4brr7vf-P48BjZimz3QWWpcRhkwSoRi) > > They manage to hit every single metal cliché… and each of them is wrong in its own wonderful way. Highlights include the rythm guitarist at 0:20, and the grand waterfall solo at 3:44 This is better than Spinal Tab. My Gawd :eek:! ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/39 "2016-04-13T20:48:03Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > [Jan Terri - Get Down Goblin](https://youtu.be/uGOk-2V9Vt4) > > What do I win? I feel sooooo much better about my life choices after watching that. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413/40 "2016-04-13T20:54:56Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > [Bonnie Tyler -Total Eclipse of the Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo) > > So, so bad. Dammit, you took mine _shakes fist_. But at least I can provide the[literal version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk&nohtml5=False). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-or-moments-in-videos-that-are-embarassing-unintentionally-hilarious/751413.md?page=3)