Visual effects music vids
40 videos · 2h 39m · 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.Coldplay – Up&Up★ favorite
1.9M Likes
4:11Best comments
1.“I stopped the video to make sure I'm not high.”
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- 2.“Editor: What kind of editing do you want? Coldplay: Yes.”
- 3.“Every frame is a wallpaper!”
3.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.”
4.Jain – Makeba★ favorite
3.4M Likes
3:43Best comments
1.“I literally typed 'ma kebab' to find this.”
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- 2.“'My kebab makes my body dance.' Yes, it does.”
- 3.“Fun fact: she studied computer graphics, which is why her videos are so freaking good.”
5.Jim Croce – Time in a Bottle★ favorite
908K Likes
2:49Best comments
1.“I like how he's so insanely fast that he had time to think, 'Is that everything...? OH RIGHT, the bullets!'”
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- 2.“Logan – the only one who wouldn't have died there, thanks to his healing – is also the only one who bothers to thank him.”
- 3.“Quicksilver could be one of the most dangerous mutants... but he plays Pac-Man in his mom's basement.”
6.Katy Perry – Roar★ favorite
18M Likes
4:30Best comments
1.“Finally, I found the reason Tarzan never left the jungle.”
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- 2.“On the other side of this island, Nicki Minaj is singing 'Anaconda.'”
7.John Legend – Made to Love★ favorite
203K Likes
4:02Best comments
1.“Am I weird if I think this music video was sort of beautiful?”
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- 2.“Can't believe Kimbra isn't credited. That is definitely Kimbra!”
- 3.“Songs like this just reaffirm my belief that Kanye West is a genius.”
8.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.”
9.Leningrad – Kolshchik★ favorite
280K Likes
4:19Best comments
1.“Moral of the story: don't blow soap bubbles at the circus.”
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- 2.“To all the people who don't speak Russian: turning on the subtitles only makes it weirder.”
- 3.“The best 4 minutes and 18 seconds most Americans won't see.”
10.Mike Diva – Kazoo Kid (Trap Remix)★ favorite
1.4M Likes
1:20A bowl-cut kid from a 1989 kazoo-lesson VHS tape became a meme, and Los Angeles musician Mike Diva turned him into a trap banger with trippy rotoscoped visuals. Posted in February 2016, it passed three million views within weeks.
11.Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Don't Come Around Here No More
253K Likes
4:36Best comments
1.“Tom Petty is to be commended. He has done the impossible. He has actually succeeded in making Alice in Wonderland WEIRDER.”
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- 2.“This video won Best Special Effects at the MTV awards, and Tom's acceptance speech was along the lines of 'This video contained no special effects – thank you.'”
- 3.“I was watching this with my grandma as a kid. My dad walks in, sees Alice being served up as a cake and says, 'Don't watch that with your grandma.' And she said, 'Relax, honey... it's just Tom Petty.'”
12.The Chemical Brothers ft. Beck – Wide Open
317K Likes
5:32Best comments
1.“I've been searching for this video using 'girl dancing alone progressively becomes hollow' for 25 minutes. Finally found it.”
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- 2.“FWIW, the dancer is Sonoya Mizuno – the service robot in Ex Machina, the alien mirror to Natalie Portman in Annihilation, and Mysaria in House of the Dragon.”
- 3.“She's dancing in my old abandoned Delphi warehouse in Rottenchester, NY, where I used to work when I had a good-paying job with General Motors. Kinda sad... but at least she's an awesome dancer!”
13.Madonna ft. Nicki Minaj – Bitch I'm Madonna
2.8M Likes
4:03Best comments
1.“Legend says people are still cleaning the place where this was filmed...”
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- 2.“I like how every celebrity is there except the one actually featured in the song, lmao.”
- 3.“I love the way Nicki couldn't be there, so they just held up a TV with her on it...”
14.The Rolling Stones – Love Is Strong
115K Likes
3:42Best comments
1.“When your grandpas are cooler than you.”
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- 2.“I was the visual effects supervisor on this video. It won an MTV award and a Grammy... We worked 21 very long days in a row, and when we were done, Fincher sent EVERY person on my team a full Rolling Stones catalog and a generous gift card.”
15.Eurythmics (X-Men: Apocalypse scene) – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
2M Likes
3:13Best comments
1.“Saved 31 mutants, 3 fish, 1 dog. Ate 7 slices of pizza, moonwalked, gave a kid a new hairstyle, saved a girl from being kissed, nailed a dart – all in under 3 seconds. AND NO ONE THANKED HIM.”
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- 2.“Imagine how much faster he'd be if he didn't have to carry the entire X-Men franchise on his back.”
- 3.“Fun fact: Evan Peters was actually hospitalized for severe back pain after filming this scene... because of the weight of carrying X-Men: Apocalypse on his back.”
16.Caught a Ghost – Human Nature
906 Likes
3:37Best comments
1.“I came here for the music, but the video amazed me... so funny!”
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- 2.“That dog has some amazing board skills.”
17.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.”
18.Earth, Wind & Fire – Let's Groove
3.1M Likes
3:56Best comments
1.“The dislikes are from Water.”
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- 2.“They look like funky Power Rangers. Funk Rangers. Epic.”
- 3.“*Kid gets brutally killed when he falls into a chocolate mixing tank* The Oompa-Loompas:”
19.The Shins – The Great Divide
5.7K Likes
4:03Best comments
1.“New music from Tame Impala, The Strokes and now The Shins? This is keeping 2020 together at the seams.”
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- 2.“This kind of song convinced me we've reached the Blade Runner timeline.”
- 3.“This song started playing on Spotify, and when 3:02 came up, I legit thought I was listening to a Shins x Donkey Kong Country mashup.”
20.Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks
2.5M Likes
4:15Best comments
1.“This is one of those songs most people have heard in their life, but never knew the name of.”
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- 2.“This song makes me want to curl my mustache, wear a flannel shirt and suspenders, smoke a pipe, quit my job and become an artisanal cheesemaker.”
- 3.“2012: Nice song. 2016: Oh, I didn't know this song was actually really tragic. 2020: I'm feeling so nostalgic for this song. 2026: $25 burger with $8 truffle Parmesan fries theme song.”
21.Coldplay – Adventure of a Lifetime
7.1M Likes
5:16Best comments
1.“Respect for the cameraman who went back in time to film this legendary moment.”
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- 2.“Seeing this live with the HR of my company is the ultimate dream.”
- 3.“'Affair of a Lifetime.'”
22.BANKS – Brain
106K Likes
3:51Best comments
1.“BANKS makes me wanna sob, drink a whole bottle of rum, and then go slap the fuck out of my ex. God, I love her.”
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- 2.“I saw a pole dancer on my Facebook page smoking a bong and dancing to this song, and now I'm obsessed.”
- 3.“OMG, I heard this on the pole dancer video! I'm going to tell everybody... like nearly EVERYONE ELSE in the comments.”
23.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.”
24.Grimes ft. Janelle Monáe – Venus Fly
208K Likes
7:25Best comments
1.“This collab happened because Grimes mailed Janelle Monáe a self-made drawing of a decapitated human head blasting out colors... because she was a fan.”
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- 2.“The fact that there's a Bubbleologist in the credits just made me like Grimes more.”
- 3.“Also, I want to be a Bubbleologist when I retire.”
25.Björk – Tabula Rasa
43K Likes
4:27Best comments
1.“The video looks like a jellyfish mated with a live-action Georgia O'Keeffe painting.”
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- 2.“I'm quite certain he simply filmed Björk as she is, without the human filter. Beautiful.”
- 3.“'What genre of music do you listen to?' '...Björk.'”
26.Max Cooper – Resynthesis
32K Likes
4:25Best comments
1.“'On this episode of How It's Made, we'll be taking a look at lysergic acid diethylamide.'”
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- 2.“Whatever drugs Kevin McGloughlin's on... give them to me. Now.”
- 3.“Fun fact: in there somewhere is a normal shot of an escalator.”
27.Carpenter Brut – Turbo Killer
284K Likes
4:15Best comments
1.“Man, these Hot Wheels commercials are getting weird.”
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- 2.“This is my favorite video about a guy rescuing his Australian Christian sister-in-law from go-go dancer jail. Fast cars, action, upbeat music... it's got everything!”
- 3.“This is how my mom and dad met...”
28.Björk – Utopia
101K Likes
3:45Best comments
1.“I am so glad computer-generated graphics became advanced enough to handle recreating what goes on in Björk's mind.”
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- 2.“This is exactly how I picture the process of digestion.”
- 3.“Björk songs are like the long intros to some sick metal songs... but they forgot to record the metal part.”
29.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...”
30.Of Monsters and Men – King and Lionheart
386K Likes
4:36Best comments
1.“Jesus, reading the comments, you'd think this song is the soundtrack to every tragedy that ever was.”
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- 2.“People say they cry when this song plays, but it always makes me feel brave. Like I'm ready to draw my sword and face whatever comes.”
31.Bella Poarch – Build a B*tch
12M Likes
2:50Best comments
1.“If someone treats you like a toy, be Annabelle.”
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- 2.“The place: *collapsing*. Bella: 'It's dancing time.'”
- 3.“Finally, a TikToker song that doesn't dance for 3 minutes and sound like my 7th-grade SoundCloud.”
32.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
33.Gesaffelstein & Pharrell Williams – Blast Off
115K Likes
3:37Warren Fu's video for Gesaffelstein and Pharrell's Blast Off looks like a lost reel from Tron: Pharrell pulls off his sunglasses and fires beams from his eyes, Gesaffelstein glows at a control panel, and the slick world slides into something darker. It premiered on the Coachella livestream in April 2019.
34.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.”
35.Röyksopp – Happy Up Here
36K Likes
2:48Best comments
1.“Alternate title: East German car defeats early capitalist Western computers in a game of Space Invaders.”
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- 2.“This video is better than Pixels... yes, I'm being serious.”
- 3.“I've sung this song to my child since birth. He's 19 now and super happy with himself as a person! Couldn't feel more blessed. This will always be our song.”
36.Phantogram – Fall in Love
193K Likes
3:49Best comments
1.“Half the people in the comment section are like, 'I heard this in a porno.' I can't relate.”
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- 2.“When the whole video is 'most replayed.'”
- 3.“Oh, nothing... just a millennial looking at my daughter's recent searches. I am proud.”
37.Gorillaz feat. De La Soul – Feel Good Inc.
9.5M Likes
4:15Best comments
1.“Murdoc – the only bassist to ever get any.”
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- 2.“When my mom hears this song, she mistakes 'feel good' for 'mealtime.' I don't know how she got there, but she did it.”
- 3.“I used to teach ear training at a conservatorium and had my students transcribe the bassline and the rhythm of the first rap section. It was always good value watching a room full of classical violinists figure out the best way to write the rhythm for the ass-crack line.”
38.Caroline Polachek – Welcome to My Island
82K Likes
3:57Best comments
1.“I don't know why people are having such a hard time with this video. The story is obvious: Caroline meets you in a coffee shop, you drop acid together in a box, then she turns into a manticore, says something that gives you a panic attack and chases you through a construction site trying to explain herself. To make it up to you, she invites you along on her latest museum heist. Whatever was in the jug you stole gives her a severe allergic reaction, so you take her back to your place. Then you turn into a goat, and she throws you into the sea. Very obvious three-act structure, folks. Perfectly straightforward storytelling.”
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- 2.“The construction workers seeing Caroline run through their site at 9 a.m.: 😐”
- 3.“Caroline is always on the move in her videos, but she really hoofed it for this one.”
39.First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining
398K Likes
3:51Best comments
1.“How do two young women from Sweden make better country-folk music than country musicians in the U.S.? I don't care – just keep on keepin' on...”
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- 2.“As a multilinguist, I can't stress enough how impressive it is that not only is their English perfect, they absolutely nail a Southern U.S. accent!”
- 3.“My girlfriend said this song sucked. Now she's single.”
40.Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out
7K Likes
4:15Best comments
1.“Only Mike can add bagpipes to a rock song and make it sound amazing.”
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- 2.“True story, too: Mike Oldfield was in a light aircraft that came through a huge storm... five miles out!”
- 3.“Overheard my boyfriend and his dad listening to what I was sure was Tubular Bells. I walk in and ask, 'Is that Mike Oldfield?' They both just look at me, bewildered. Then I – the youngest person in the room at 30 – played them this for the first time. My boyfriend looks at me and says, 'Y'know, you never cease to surprise me.'”
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