That Time A Singer Multiplied Himself To Style On Critics (Our Favourite Music Video VFX)

[@robwebster1098]

We don't need the music, this song lives in everyone's head already, and we all know it

[@Tzimisce_Joe]

Warcraft.....

[@TheMrt800]

I remember playing halo 3 to this song

[@HouseBread]

Knew what video this was gonna be about from the title alone. Its somehow both horrible and incredible

[@thejatomis]

Good ol KZbin 2009

[@NetanyahooWarCriminal]

Dholna vajje tumbe vaali taar Sun dil di pukaar Aaja kar layieh pyaar

[@belmarduk]

Tunak Tunak Tun's visuals were actually not that bad, relative to other music videos of the era. It was the late 90s - computer graphics technology was really expensive to use, and more importantly, there wasn't really a lot of available people who could do the work. It really makes sense that it the video was costly to produce.

[@018FLP]

India where and still is absurdly creative im VFX! I'm an animator, and every time i need some insight about a technique, i find some indian dude witch poor audio teaching something perfectly

[@jclindsay007]

reminds me a lot of californication's music video.

[@quinnzykir]

@@018FLP I’m bummed they don’t use Indian directors for action/adventure movies over here in the US

[@ArchOfWinter]

He's not only a legend. He's the Avatar, master of all four elements.

[@victorious0001]

He created beat bending

[@ayush.kumar.13907]

and when the world needed him the most, he got arrested

[@Trowelhands]

For those interested; The song from the Peugeot 206 commercial was; "Bangra Knights vs Husan - Bangra Knights" And still slaps as much as Tunak Tunak Tun does today.

[@Revi2151]

That’s so weird - I remember that ad as having a completely different track - Mundian to bach ke by Panjabi MC

[@NekoChanSenpai]

Ah, back when yt was in it's crawling infancy, without ads, without legal frickery, we all knew this song and loved the video. Guaranteed, a vast majority of us are gonna go watch it after this vid

[@bensonprice4027]

One interesting video I've always liked was "Gimme Sympathy" by Metric. It looks like it's done all in one take and it pans between the musicians as the song plays. It's easy to look past it at first, but after a while you start to notice that all the musicians are swapping between instruments and vocals and back and forth as the camera pans between close ups of each member of the band. I thought it was quite clever.

[@LeHazy]

sometimes the best vfx are the ones you would expect to be real

[@theunpretentiousvegan8593]

Waaaaay back in the day my brother went to college and when he came back for the holidays he said "You HAVE to see this video!" It was Tunak Tunak. When he got married 6 years later all his friends took the dancefloor and danced to this song.

[@christianbarrett3040]

Disturbed's cover of land of confusion had an amazing fully animated music video, anything by ok go, the gem that was the music video for pork and beans, and finally the masterpiece that is Interstella5555: The 5tory of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, which is a music video for an entire daft punk album.

[@bytesabre]

I’d add Pearl Jam’s “Do the Evolution” to the list of great animated music videos

[@Ironnerd63sChannel]

Important tip: don't forget to horizontal flip your clips, so the algorithms have a harder time recognizing them!

[@Crocogator]

Tunak Tunak Tun is absolutely amazing and an internet staple.

[@tarkusvontortellini1877]

My fave music video has got to be Chris Hadfield's version of Space Oddity

[@lumm0x267]

Terrifying thought: Karl is lying to us and that’s not actually a blue screen, but still a green one.

[@WorldbuildyMcNPCface]

But the tattoo doesnt change

[@monicaenns9967]

It was never a green screen..

[@musewolfman]

@@WorldbuildyMcNPCface the tattoo doesn't always change. It depends on how the editors key it out. Sometimes they bother, other times they don't.

[@Volt64bolt]

There isn’t even a screen. It’s just a wall.

[@beardedbear9901]

Astounding piece of music. It truly does slap. It's a slapper. Let's try and make the word slapper into something wholesome.

[@stefankroon4615]

Davie504 would like a word.

[@theotherky]

Isn't there an instrument or kid's toy called a slapper?

[@camiblack1]

It's the full bop it commands.

[@sarcasticeggs8998]

Long long ago, the four nations lived in harmony, but then everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

[@VicEntity]

So that is why Dev Patel played Zuko on that movie that doesn't exist.

[@Cobra7FAC]

It was also the dance of a World of Warcraft race. I remember the video making the rounds in the mid 2000's and back then could have accounted for a small bump in numbers.

[@Barris42]

It’s the male draenei.

[@Steel_]

This is one of the very first Indian songs I've listened to, and I'm never going to forget it, its a pretty great song

[@018FLP]

Here in Brazil this music was famous as a misheard song named "tônico com guaraná" with many others like Golimar and "Alô Rivaldo, sai desse lago", but i never knew this was a flex! Nice!!

[@inhduyquang414]

The absolute legendary legend.

[@citizencalmar]

Obviously I understand the copyright-related reasons for replacing the music, and I respect that, but I still had to laugh at the image of Dragonforce looking like they were playing "Two Finger Johnny".

[@DastardlyB]

On iconic videos, I count myself lucky to have been around for the 15 days that "Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up" aired on MTV. It was a brilliant slap in the face of the media. I hope you can find the original.

[@ghoul2u]

A-ha’s Take on me. Probably not blue screen, but I’ve always loved the song and video.

[@alexsuarez4156]

Aphex Twin has some really cool looking music videos. "Come to Daddy" and "Windowlicker" are some of the best uses of facial morphing I've seen so far

[@evanbradley8283]

Back when I was in Cadet Camp, me and every Bos'n Mate used to play this song all the time at dances as a meme, so much so it was known as "The Bos'n Dance" amongst the rest of camp.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Fun Fact: Daler Mehndi was also arrested for (Allegedly) migrant smuggling by disguising people as members of his dance troupe and dropping them off in the US when he went on tour, which regardless of the ethics of it IRL would make an excellent movie.

[@Ginge907]

It was a Peugeot 206 in the advert I loved that advert back in the day !! They did a follow up with a remix of the same tune but the car transformed and danced :)

[@wolfphyre87]

His dance in that video is used as the /dance for male draenei in wow. I was introduced to the greatness of that song when I looked up what inspired all the characters dances.

[@RoseSRC]

Seeing the blue screen. Still feels really weird

[@9989126]

Cannot recommend enough literally any of OK Go's music videos

[@richardcoghlan7362]

I Won't Let You Down is an amazing video.

[@saionji11]

I love "The One Moment". Great song, and one of my favorite videos. Incredible!

[@3bydacreekside]

I second second this lol

[@musewolfman]

Fear & Delight by The Correspondents is an absolutely amazing video, where the singer multiplies himself using multiple cameras, rather than green or blue screen tricks. Every camera catches the same motion, but from different angles, so you get this awesome human-in-a-kaleidoscope effect. There's also a making-of video that accompanies it and explains how they did it.

[@derubor]

Two years ago I was watching that music video and KZbin, for whatever reason, recommended a Bloodywood video. These two songs sounded nothing alike since Bloodywood is a metal band, and a damn good one it is.

[@Revi2151]

Not to mention the fact it gained him gamer geek notoriety when one of the dance sequences were copied for a /dance emote in world of warcraft. Random trivia, yay!

[@TheAvalonSword]

In that song in that old Peugot 206 commercial from India is called, "Heaven is a place on earth" by Raja Mushtaq.

[@dronatewari6171]

Finally an episode I can say I am an expert on

[@kernelpickle]

I’d bet that The Bravery were probably inspired by OK Go, that did a similar sort of complex thing where they filmed an insane looking Rube Goldberg Machine in a single shot. I can’t even recall what their song sounded like, but I remember that video, because I watched it a ton of times because it was so impressive. So, if I had a bunch of money to make a music video, I’d imagine that I would also try to go for the same viral success that OK Go had with theirs, because it transcends the music and gets it in front of more people who might never hear about your band in this new streaming world where people get locked into algorithms.

[@punderlord]

Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer is still one of the best music videos ever made. Claymation/stop motion mixed with live action that was super impressive for the time and still holds up today

[@EC-dz4bq]

He also did ALL the work himself.

[@punderlord]

@@EC-dz4bq while Peter Gabriel had to do a lot of grueling shooting to get stop motion animation for his own face, he did NOT do the whole thing himself: "The "Sledgehammer" video was commissioned by Tessa Watts at Virgin Records, directed by Stephen R. Johnson and produced by Adam Whittaker. Aardman Animations and the Brothers Quay provided claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation that gave life to images in the song. Many of these techniques had been employed in earlier music videos, such as Talking Heads's 1985 hit "Road to Nowhere", also directed by Johnson. The style was later used in the video for "Big Time", another single from So. Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time.[16] "It took a lot of hard work," Gabriel recalled. "I was thinking at the time, 'If anyone wants to try and copy this video, good luck to them.'"[11] Two dead, headless, featherless chickens were animated using stop-motion and shown dancing along to the synthesised shakuhachi solo. This section was animated by Nick Park, of Aardman Animations, who was refining his work in plasticine animation at the time. The video ended with a large group of extras jerkily rotating around Gabriel, among them his daughters Anna-Marie and Melanie, the animators themselves and director Stephen Johnson's girlfriend. Also included were six women who posed as the back-up singers of the song." Aardman Animations is most famous as the claymation studio behind the Wallace and Gromit animations, The Brothers Quay have worked in film, music videos, and art galleries.

[@robertmcghintheorca49]

And speaking car advertisements, that song was famously used in a crash test advert for the Vauxhall Cavalier and it was awesome.

[@CorrinWyndryder]

One of my favorite music videos is Wrong by Depeche Mode. The cinematography used to slowly reveal the situation of the whole story is a study in visual storytelling.

[@annradwan2070]

I found this song because of the heavy metal band bloodywood cover of it. Which is about as over the top as the original.

[@blackfire3744]

There was a music video I saw back when I was a kid from late 80's to early 90's. I can't remember what the song or performer was (female artist) but the video stuck with me. The story of the music video is of a girl who's presumably scared of the dark sitting on her bed in her room when the normal wall across from her pulls away into the darkness and is replaced by a wall of mechanical knives and saw blades (animated via stop motion I think) eventually the female artist enters the story clad in a post apocalyptic barbarian armor and starts swinging her sword around. The video ends with the wall of blades (all damaged now by the artist) limping back into the darkness while the girl on the bed, now accompanied by a friend, watch the murder wall slowly move away. I wish I can find it again but my searches turned up empty.

[@upbeat_garbage0308]

I was shown this song in primary school, it’s bloody amazing

[@rainboss6296]

I'm liking the new style of intro

[@joshua5o7482]

This is the cutest way I have heard someone pronounce his name.

[@DraggorLecanth]

I first heard clips of this song years ago back when AMV Hell videos were still a thing. I was hooked immediately ^_^

[@johns9478]

The most memorable music video I can probably think of is the video for Wooden Pints by Korpiklaani. The camera quality is absolutely terrible, but it kind of adds to the charm imo. Imagine this: A dude with long hair but a badly receding hairline, wearing a brown robe, busts out of what appears to be an outhouse playing a sick viola solo, and then a bunch of men in the woods who look like barbarians from D&D play a heavy metal song about getting drunk with dwarves. "There's men underground who have never seen the sun, but they really know how to party."

[@name1ess223]

Nice to see that the video end tangents made it back since you were seemingly experimenting with your more recent video structures. Those were my favourite parts lol

[@georginatoland]

I knew what this video would be by the title, and clicked on it immediately. A good friend of mine, introduced me to the song sone twenty years ago. I’ve got the whole album on CD and it is AWESOME.

[@marcoang8359]

Ok Go has really awesome music videos as well. So much effort on each one they release.

[@lolzman228]

RUSH's music video for "Time Stand Still" is very early 90s, because the editing is just cgi moving the band members around the screen as they play the song, so you see two guys standing playing guitar flying around followed by a very large drum set. Would definitely recommend viewing it.

[@aruretheincomprehensible20]

Probably my favorite is for Ballin by Grabbitz. All it is is a radio floating around a neighborhood, but the visual of "this track is so lit the radio carries itself" is so priceless.

[@Slymarbo5060]

I remember a joke about it where they said they would tell their kids that he was the power rangers

[@J3f3R20n]

This was one of the very first videos i saw on youtube, back in high school. Didn't even knew what the hell a youtube was back then... Classic.

[@coldhazzard]

Same

[@J3f3R20n]

@@coldhazzard Tunak Tunak Tun along with "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny". I saw those back to back and it completely blew my young mind.

[@Zyco178]

I forgot about this video existed until this video. Now I'm remembering the good times of me and mates hanging out in high school.

[@rickybuhl3176]

*Ford* Corsa ad had me chuckling - as the *Peugot 206 appears on screen..

[@tiggstah]

OMFG THANK YOU!!! some years ago i saw a video clip of some soldiers in a humvee where one was singing this. or some other bhangra song. i tried forever to find the original video and never knew the name of the genre!! omg i am so happy! my cheeks hurt from smiling as i have 40 minute bhangra mashups blasting out of my klipsch speakers! MY POOR CHILDREN

[@HunterOxley]

Take on me by A-Ha has an absolutely spectacular music video and its effects were done by hand!

[@samthedigital]

The Tunak Tunak Tun music video is the first thing I ever watched on youtube back in the day. That brings back some memories lol.

[@originalsteveo]

I follow Dahler Mendi on facebook. Very wholesome dude. I love that song to this day!

[@BigCMiner]

For me any video by “ok go” is always impressive

[@geekofalltrades1385]

I was obsessed with the music video for Walkie Talkie Man by Steriogram - still such a good video to this day, so much yarn, so much knitting...

[@robertbrookes2000]

I don't know how you mention awesome music videos without acknowledging OK GO, who have done music videos that are rube goldberg machines, printers stacked on each other to print the backgrounds, driving in a car past instruments that a stick in the car hits against, a video on a plane that dips in and out of gravity and their classic Here it goes again, where they are all dancing on moving treadmills.

[@spiranomad]

This music video was was recreated in so many video games so many times when this hit peak popularity.

[@JCSR07]

I remember discovering this song on youtube as a Freshman in college and starting out laughing at the goofy video but eventually unironically blasting this song with my friends and dancing our asses off

[@shaker9356]

It really is catchy,I haven't seen that video in nearly 10 years but still have the tune in my head.

[@TheMrDrProfGamer]

Speaking of visually impressive music videos, OK GO does some of the craziest, most imaginative stuff. I focus on the video more than the music most times.

[@BobSmith-tm2kj]

TWO videos on this I have in my NOTIFICATIONS today. Gotta say, I'm happy because it's a BOP

[@benracer]

Oh! That wasn't an ad for a Corsa! That was an ad for Peugeot 206 I saw it as a kid because I was playing NFS Underground and wanted to look up the car

[@daklimoges]

Tunak Tunak Tun was the best memory of my childhood haha, nothing else can make a whole squad of people start immediately vibing to the fullest like that jam xD

[@controlledchaos1717]

Rob Zombie: Dragula! Great song and that music video is great. That would be a hell of a night on the town with the boys.

[@nikdog419]

This takes me back 15 years to high school, when this became a 4chan meme. Good times, kick ass song. Still comes up on shuffle while driving to work.

[@MazarRackham]

I don't understand how OK GO was not on the list for music videos, they are next fucking level with their music videos. All of them are great, some are better than others, but they are all phenomenal.

[@PelenFuzzlefurr]

The video was a huge thing at the LAN parties like pre-2004. I'm feeling old because of you.

[@musewolfman]

Another great video is Figure it Out by Royal Blood. The use of color filters to make things appear and disappear in the video is awesome. The song slaps, too.

[@PKM113]

First time I saw a FF thumbnail and knew exactly what the video was about. Top tier content as well. 10/10 you go Karl and Nisha.

[@Keihvin]

I've had this song in my music mix for over two decades without a hint of irony.

[@sizier]

This song has had a room in my head for like 16 years.

[@amazingallen3701]

"Google tunak tunak tun on KZbin". Remembering one of your videos, Google will be so mad at that sentence. 😂

[@xXCursedWorgenXx]

Tunak Tunak Tun's choreography was used for the dance of the Male Troll in World of Warcraft.

[@sandmansleeps657]

It's also the Wow Draenei male dance.

[@CoronaMobius]

The Bravery actually were pretty popular for their brief life. A lot of their songs got used in movie trailers and scenes too. The Sun and the Moon is still one of my favorite albums. Their third was their last because there band just couldn't stand each other at that point, from what I remember.

[@darrellgardner4561]

I first learned of this song when I was in Jr High. A friend showed it to me. I wasn't aware that it had any kind of meme status unt much much later. He just listened to it because he that it sounded funny and the video was crazy.

[@chometmathias1460]

loved that commercial too, the music is from Panjabi MC !

[@Morganscat]

In World of Warcraft you had/have a race dancing like in the video. And that on itself is hilarious.

[@Riku_DarkWielder]

i find it hilarious that as soon as i click the search bar to search for the video Tunak Tunak is the 3rd listing

[@SarahOtter]

Before I even let it play I knew EXACTLY who you were talking about, haha

[@manwhowanders9571]

I fucking have loved this video for 10+ years, thank you for going over it!!!!

[@Sonicshadow191]

Tunuk Tunuk is an absolute banger. I can listen to it anytime.

[@xellosspoo]

I loved the animated version someone did of the song (dollarmending). It is sheer gold. Gold. The actual music video is also win, but the animated one will forever live on first in my heart.

[@caiobispodossantossantana]

Tunak tunak tun is LEGENDARY. I used to almost piss myself from laughter everytime I saw it in my teenage years

[@SomeSpicyCheese]

The music video for Weezer's Pork and Beans is an incredible time capsule of late 2000's meme culture

[@enigmamc5469]

9:56 You said the name of the funny skeleton man, prepared to be memed into oblivion

[@Spykersan]

I know I first heard of the guy back when there were comparisons of the WoW dances and that was among them. Very catchy too!

[@sneedmando186]

Daler “Tunak Tanak Tun” Mehndi is a *LEGEND*

[@garykelley9027]

I saw this video years ago, my best friend showed it to me, and I just died. It was so bizarre, so crazy, but the music was indeed awesome. Great to know the story behind it!

[@toushirokuro5323]

Haven't heard anyone mention The Bravery in a long time lol. Only other visually striking music video I'd say they had was for Sugar Pill off their third album, but the band the singer went to be in, The Mercy Beat, had rather interesting videos for 2 of the total 3 songs that band released. This has been that person who still remembers that obscure mid 2000's band, signing off.

[@rudydsouza7432]

i fucking love this channel. theyve litterally got an interesting video on every single topic i could wish for

[@Fusako8]

Love that you did a Dalar Mehndi ep. I actually played Tunak Tunak Tun for mood music on my last lap in a recent short Rally race. It would be fair to say that I sent it. :)

[@yb554]

OMG, I love finding that video back in the 90's. Wait, early 2000's? Been a while

[@Bellial87]

i learned of this song because of WoW,the male Draenei /dance emote is a part of Tunak Tunak Tun

[@jernulf268]

Don't forget that the dance he does in the video became the dance of male Draenei in World of Warcraft

[@Kakascrot]

That car advert you were talking about was for a Peugeot 206

[@haylz4000]

this song has lived in my head for the past decade and comes out every so often to repeat in my head for days. a fucking bop