# The music video is not dead! Great modern music videos. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316 "2011-12-15T18:14:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316/41 "2012-02-23T06:52:54Z")
I give you “Shine on Me” by Chris Dane Owens. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/EDyDz8WeiM4/hqdefault.jpg ""SHINE ON ME" Music Video by CHRIS DANE OWENS") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDyDz8WeiM4) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@I\_Made\_French\_Toast\_For\_You](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Made_French_Toast_For_You)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316/42 "2012-02-23T07:28:28Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Thanks for that **I Made French Toast For You** , it was intriguing. Can you briefly explain to this idiot what’s interactive and personalized about the video? Thanks. (It was nice to watch - just not sure I got what was going on) Before the music starts you can type in the address of your childhood home (or wherever) and the video will then use Google aerial photos and street views to personalize the scenes to that location. After that, about half way through, you can type or draw a message on the screen, which will then turn into vegetation for birds to perch on. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316/43 "2012-02-23T08:08:54Z")
The Piano Guys do great classical/pop mashup and their music videos are great to watch. Here are some examples, more on their channel: [Beethoven’s 5 Secrets](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_fkw5j-t0) [Coldplay Paradise (Peponi)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgovv8jWETM) [Cello Wars (Star Wars Parody)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAlQuqzl8o&feature=relmfu) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316/44 "2012-02-23T08:23:46Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > And another amazing video by Chris Cunningham, Björk’s **[All is Full of Love.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjI2J2SQ528)** For some reason I always interpreted that video as a newly deceased Bjork entering the afterlife as a robot, where she is greeted by another robot Bjork. And they make out. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316/45 "2012-03-02T16:56:04Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I give you “Shine on Me” by Chris Dane Owens. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDyDz8WeiM4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDyDz8WeiM4) You would have won the thread, but your clip ended. Why did it end? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316/46 "2012-03-10T06:20:48Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > You would have won the thread, but your clip ended. Why did it end? And now I cant stop watching this crap. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a guy more uncomfortable in the presence of a woman. [holding hands with her] You can see what he’s thinking - “So this is what it’s like to hold hands with a woman. Not as bad as I imagined. I can do this.” [kissing her] “OK, that’s enough of that nonsense.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316/47 "2012-03-10T07:22:41Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > [Seven Nation Army](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY&ob=av3e) - The White Stripes. I don’t know if I’d call it great but it certainly is unique. Cool video! I hadn’t seen it. It reminded me of this great recent video - [Returner](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2iwAAaEZvE) by Liturgy. This video for the White Stripes cover of [Walking with the Ghost](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYyoU8kKPQ) is an aesthetic joy. Hooray for Earth’s [True Loves](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVwSP51KVO8&ob=av2e) is like the trailer for the most epic movie set to film. Christ, just watch the first scene and marvel at how cool it is! Salem - [King Night](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwMc91DQXHU&feature=related). This is evil, in the grand sense. A weird, disturbing video that is also just spectacularly intriguing. Casiokids make neat, fun videos. [Fiin Bikkjen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6WVeGhC8vk) and [Fot i Hose](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGWjMGDNRM) are my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316/48 "2012-03-10T14:55:59Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > You would have won the thread, but your clip ended. Why did it end? Four minutes wasn’t enough? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-video-is-not-dead-great-modern-music-videos/606316.md?page=2)