Dance music vids
37 videos · 2h 32m · my favorites first
1.The Chemical Brothers – Midnight Madness★ favorite
8.5K Likes
4:12Best comments
1.“Harry Potter gave Dobby a sock... and look what happened.”
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- 2.“Because even Nosferatu needs to get his groove on sometimes.”
- 3.“Coming back to play this every December 31st since 2010, before the midnight madness starts.”
2.Tink – Ratchet Commandments★ favorite
47K Likes
3:13Best comments
1.“Lauryn Hill resurrected. Thank you, Jesus!”
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- 2.“I feel like her and Missy Elliott would destroy a track together.”
- 3.“I remember when this barely had 30K views... and now it's over 2 million.”
3.Datsik – Jenova Project★ favorite
5.9K Likes
6:29Best comments
1.“Just when you think people dancing to dubstep in light suits is pretty frackin' cool, somebody puts them in a kaleidoscope!”
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- 2.“Can you say DMT?”
4.Gossip – Heavy Cross★ favorite
399K Likes
4:04Best comments
1.“It's one of those songs everybody knows, but nobody knows what it's called...”
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- 2.“How many years I've been looking for this... thinking it was Adele.”
- 3.“OH MY GOD! HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, I FINALLY FOUND THIS SONG!”
5.DJ Snake & Lil Jon – Turn Down for What★ favorite
11M Likes
3:37Best comments
1.“Imagine a hundred years from now, people studying our culture... and they find this.”
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- 2.“This is the reason aliens won't contact us.”
- 3.“Producer: How much weirdness do you want in this video? DJ Snake: My goals are beyond your understanding.”
6.Rhye – Black Rain★ favorite
90K Likes
4:19Sam Taylor-Johnson directed this homemade one-take video of her husband, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, dancing shirtless for four minutes under fairy lights, with Rhye's Mike Milosh behind the camera. Milosh called the song an eighties take on disco. It was the lead single from Rhye's 2021 album Home.
7.Capital Cities – Safe and Sound★ favorite
6M Likes
3:47Best comments
1.“We have to protect this song at all costs, before TikTok finds it.”
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- 2.“The dumbest wish as a kid was to be grown up.”
- 3.“I'm 58 and probably one of the oldest watching this, but I remember hearing this song coming from my son's room when he was a teenager. He's on his own now... and I miss those days.”
8.Miike Snow – My Trigger★ favorite
56K Likes
3:16Best comments
1.“Can these two men just be in every music video? Every cold war is stopped with the power of hot love.”
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- 2.“I kinda hope when aliens invade Earth, they find this video and think it's a historically accurate depiction of the end of the Cold War.”
- 3.“As someone who got a 5 on the AP US History exam, I can assure you this is a 100% accurate depiction of the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
9.Masego – Mystery Lady (Sego's Remix)★ favorite
76K Likes
3:58Best comments
1.“Masego's voice is like that cup of water in the AMs... always refreshing.”
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- 2.“Who else feels frisky after listening to Masego??”
- 3.“Just when you think Masego has no more aces up his sleeve, he tosses the whole damn deck of cards in your face.”
10.Sia – Chandelier
14M Likes
3:52Best comments
1.“When parents aren't at home...”
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- 2.“This video feels like what would happen if you left a 12-year-old girl home alone with a pack of Red Bull and a radio playing...”
11.Sia – Elastic Heart
5.9M Likes
5:08Best comments
1.“Me and my older brother fighting for the last cup of pudding.”
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- 2.“This is like my relationship with my cat.”
- 3.“The whole time I was just thinking... how did her wig not fly?”
12.Michael Jackson – Beat It
11M Likes
4:59Best comments
1.“Michael Jackson is the only man who can make an anti-crime song with guys living in the sewers like Ninja Turtles, falling into Beyoncé-like formation, pulling pocket knives on each other... and then settling the score with a West Side Story-style dance number.”
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- 2.“Never had an appreciation for this video because I thought they were all actors. Later I found out they were real-life gang members – from rival gangs. How bloody amazing...”
- 3.“Eddie Van Halen did this for free... just popped into the studio for 20 minutes and laid it down.”
13.Chaka Khan – Like Sugar
660K Likes
4:01Best comments
1.“The editor: 'I'm almost done editing. I'm almost done editing. I'm almost done editing. I'm done editing. I'm almost done editing. I'm almost done editing.'”
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- 2.“I foresee this song being in the next mainstream commercial for an electronic device.”
- 3.“This is the sickest Apple product ad yet.”
14.Jon Batiste – I NEED YOU
586K Likes
3:51Best comments
1.“Find you a man who randomly starts dancing in an art museum, and never let him go.”
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- 2.“The security guard stole the show with that one two-step.”
- 3.“I listened halfway through and clicked on another video. All of a sudden I hear: 'DADDY, TURN THAT SONG BACK ON!! I was dancing to it!!' Ten 'play it again!'s and the most euphoric dancing I've ever witnessed later, my 5-year-old daughter finally fell to the floor with the biggest smile. She didn't even see the video!”
15.The Chemical Brothers – Got To Keep On
226K Likes
3:07Best comments
1.“Ah yes, the infamous Soul Train Critical Mass incident of '73.”
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- 2.“When you dance so hard you turn into a non-Newtonian fluid.”
- 3.“Don't you just love it when you're so in sync with your dance partner that you turn into a viscous goo?”
16.Major Lazer – Light It Up (Remix)
4.4M Likes
2:50Best comments
1.“This is what the monsters under our beds do when nobody's home.”
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- 2.“When you're at the car wash and the brushes come alive.”
- 3.“I'm glad to see the music industry finally using people of color in their videos... Color. No? No one else? Okay, I'll leave.”
17.The Avalanches – Since I Left You
190K Likes
4:50Best comments
1.“I dunno how the YouTube algorithm figured out I have a deep and abiding love for big guys who can dance... but it did, and I do.”
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- 2.“The dancing miner was my musical theatre teacher, Steve Elias. What a legend.”
- 3.“Came here expecting another WTF video from The Avalanches. Came out with tears in my eyes. Goddammit.”
18.Tito & Tarantula – After Dark
82K Likes
4:47Best comments
1.“Tarantino and feet – the greatest love story ever told.”
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- 2.“I'm pretty sure Quentin Tarantino just started with the idea of drinking tequila off Salma Hayek's foot, then wrote a movie around it.”
- 3.“Don't know who was luckiest: Tarantino, Clooney... or the snake.”
19.The Preatures – Manic Baby
1.4K Likes
2:30Best comments
1.“When's the next album coming out? I thought I was watching a clip from Solid Gold!”
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- 2.“Why wasn't this a #1 hit all around the world?”
20.Nosaj Thing – Eclipse/Blue
48K Likes
4:30Best comments
1.“In the future, the most powerful computers will be controlled through interpretive dance.”
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- 2.“There's a projector behind the screen for the moving backgrounds, another projector in front of the dancers, plus Xbox Kinect sensors to scan the dancer's body and project images on them.”
- 3.“In 2014 I was high as fuck on the way back to my parents' house. It started raining, and I decided to lie on the ground in the middle of a field listening to this track. Probably the best experience of my life.”
21.Glass Animals – Hazey
232K Likes
4:03Best comments
1.“If a lava lamp could sing, it would sound exactly like this.”
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- 2.“I swear I feel more flexible while listening to this song.”
- 3.“I mean, I can touch my toes, so that's the same thing.”
22.Polo & Pan – Coeur Croisé
53K Likes
3:40Best comments
1.“Is France just a Wes Anderson movie?”
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- 2.“This wasn't even choreographed – the French just naturally do this.”
- 3.“There must be a sexual innuendo in here somewhere... but where?”Translated from French
23.Galantis – Holy Water
43K Likes
3:00Best comments
1.“Synchronized swimmers KILLING IT to electropop, instead of the usual classical track.”
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- 2.“I can't even swim without getting a whole mouthful of chlorine.”
- 3.“One of the recommended videos under this: 'WEIRD THINGS THAT SWIMMERS DO.' Lmao, YouTube is so clever.”
24.Tessa Violet – I Like (the idea of) You
253K Likes
2:53Best comments
1.“I lowkey feel like I'm watching an '80s exercise video.”
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- 2.“Ah, yes. Sweaters and nylons. My true sexuality.”
- 3.“I once told a girl she doesn't like me, just the idea of me. We'll have been married 15 years this Valentine's Day. Ideas can last a long freaking time.”
25.Coldplay – Higher Power
721K Likes
4:17Best comments
1.“I bet when Chris Martin was writing 'Yellow,' he didn't see that in 20 years he'd be dancing with aliens in a post-modern city with lightning coming out of his butt. Yet here we are.”
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- 2.“Top 3 fastest speedsters: 3. Quicksilver 2. The Flash 1. Chris”
- 3.“The Flash has been real quiet since this dropped...”
26.tUnE-yArDs – Bizness
43K Likes
4:25Best comments
1.“I feel like I just took a semester of art school.”
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- 2.“Saw this when I was 16 and was like, wtf. Now I'm 22 and still like, wtf... but I love it.”
- 3.“It's so trippy to see my best friend in this (she's the one with the orange feathers).”
27.WOW x TOKYO x AyaBambi – INORI (Prayer)
87K Likes
1:12Best comments
1.“I guess this is how getting your brain hacked in the future feels.”
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- 2.“I'm studying 3D animation and VFX – this technique is called projection mapping! The white dots on their faces are motion-tracking points, and all those devices are projecting the images onto their faces in real time.”
- 3.“Even scarier than this video: imagining the frosty vibe between the two of them, who had already broken up by then.”Translated from Japanese
28.Miike Snow – Genghis Khan
496K Likes
4:08Best comments
1.“Miike Snow: 'I need you to make a video for Genghis Khan.' Ninian Doff: '...Did you say Gay James Bond?' Miike Snow: '...YES.'”
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- 2.“I love how it hits 5 o'clock and evil activities just stop... Guess the minions have a good union.”
- 3.“'So, agent, how did you stop him this time?' 'I... uh... married him, sir.' '...Well, congratulations.'”
29.The Carters – Apeshit
2.8M Likes
6:05Best comments
1.“Next video by The Carters will be shot on Mars.”
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- 2.“The dislikes are from the people who wanted to visit the Louvre that day.”
- 3.“If the Carters ever want to adopt a 32-year-old, I'm ready and available.”
30.FKA twigs – Cellophane
649K Likes
4:21Best comments
1.“I want a strip club like this. Pole dancing and depression.”
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- 2.“The noise of her heels on the floor at the beginning is my sexuality.”
- 3.“Came looking for a meme and found a genuinely, deeply beautiful fucking song, lol.”
31.The Dandy Warhols – Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
42K Likes
3:53Best comments
1.“In the Dig! documentary, the lead singer didn't like how he looked in this video, and the director was like, 'I'm sorry, but that's how you look.'”
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- 2.“Maybe I'm an asshole, but as an ex-junkie, this cracks me right the hell up.”
- 3.“I'll be clean 16 years this December. Love this song.”
32.Daft Punk – Around the World
1.2M Likes
4:02Best comments
1.“Remember, kids: this is your future if you get a university degree in modern dance.”
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- 2.“For those who don't know: the skeletons are the guitar, the mummies are the drums, the aliens are the vocals, the dancing women are the keyboard, and the tall, small-headed guys are the bass.”
- 3.“How did the singer manage to memorize so many lyrics?!”
33.Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Downtown
1.3M Likes
5:23Best comments
1.“Uptown Funk and Thrift Shop had a baby... and you just watched it.”
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- 2.“Jesus, Nally puts more passion into singing one 'downtown' than I've put into my entire life.”
- 3.“His knees gotta be killing him to this day.”
34.Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
796K Likes
3:31Best comments
1.“Every time I listen to this, I can't help but picture a bunch of vampires playing baseball...”
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- 2.“Great video quality, considering the camera was more than 50 million light-years away from the studio when they shot this.”
- 3.“My neighbours love this song so much, they threw a brick through my window so they could hear it better.”
35.Jungle – Back On 74
1M Likes
4:01Best comments
1.“This dance is like one big mating call. I love every second of it.”
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- 2.“I can't get over how TONED everyone's arms are. Like... damn.”
- 3.“One shot. The camera operator deserves all the awards.”
36.alt-J – Deadcrush
231K Likes
4:59Best comments
1.“When I forget the name of this song and try to sing it to people, they think I'm smoking crack.”
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- 2.“Lee Miller, Anne Boleyn and Sylvia Plath – the 'dead crushes' of each band member – conjured up by a supercomputer in a post-apocalyptic world.”
- 3.“Thanks to this music, I now have a 2-year-old son.”
37.Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds – Situation
20K Likes
6:20Best comments
1.“This album fucks so hard I wanna leave it money on the nightstand.”
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- 2.“The world may be going to hell in a handbasket, but someone's getting pregnant to this song.”
- 3.“I went to 3 record stores and finally broke down and bought the vinyl. Now I'm pregnant.”
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