Worst Music Video

When it comes to selecting favorites or least favorites it's very hard to be objective. After all a lot of what we define as good or bad depends on personal taste. Yahoo just came out with a list of the worst music videos ever made.

you can see the full list and videos here


While I don't necessarily agree with all of their choices I have to say one of the videos chosen for the list definitely deserved it's place there.



It is not an easy task but I will try to elaborate on why this is such a bad music video.

1. It's Vanilla Ice, need I say more.

2. To make matters worse it is a slow and "sexy" Vanilla Ice song.

3. This song made my ears weap.

4. There is no story only bad visual effects and random dancing.

5. Contrary to the early 90's belief the cloud graphic zooming behind Vanilla Ice is in no way "cool" or "sexy"

6. Turning the film to a blue shaded negative immage at completely random intervals is not "artistic"

7.I don't know why there are random men dancing in front of a sunset background. If you can figure it out please tell me why.

8. The costume designer clearly gets their design inspiration from the bastard demonic hybrid of Evil Knievel and every a bad Sci-fi movie.

9. It's clear they had a low budget and could only hire the models to "sexy dance" for a short time, and had to keep repeating footage of them.

10. I'm convinced the choreographer was horrified at the prospect of having to make any dance moves go along with the agonizingly slow pace of the song that they walked off set. Forcing the "talent" to come up with their own moves which consist of stepping from side to side, spinning, or giving the occasional pelvic thrust. None of which is in time with the music, then again they would have to be in slow motion to be moving at the pace of the song.

11. There is a part where the song breaks down and it's just Vanilla talking on the phone to a girl. They only had one phone booth to shoot with so they made Vanilla strut creepily outside the phone booth while he talks to the girl. Is this supposed to be romantic, because it just creeps me out.

12. The horror the horror

13. Make it stop now before I cause harm to myself.

14. Why will this song not end?

15. Why were there so many dance breaks in such a slow song?

16. Oh look the Clouds are back for no reason at all.

In many ways this video defies explanation. Why would they make a video for such a bad song? Who is the director and is he still alive, or did villagers storm after him with pitch forks? Who thought this was a good idea?