What’s the most cringeworthy music video you’ve stumbled upon? Share your cringe-inducing picks! Share your guilty pleasures or cringe-worthy moments.
I submit to you this 1977 disco cover of ‘Apache’ by Danish musician Tommy Seebach.
There was the Billy Squier video… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9pLyEL5Ko
I watched it now the first time and don’t understand the hate. It’s like any other 80s music video.
I think he was acting more effeminate than his fans expected or was considered acceptable for a straight rock guitar guy at the time. And yet somehow KISS had Paul Stanley and no one questioned that, so… ?
That “What does the fox say” thing
I think you must be unaware of the fact that Ylvis (consisting of Norwegian brothers Vegard and Bård Ylvisåker) is a comedy duo.
“The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)” was a musical sketch from their comedic Norwegian talkshow (Tonight with Ylvis, 2011–2016) that just happened to go viral. Very viral.
Seen in the proper context, The Fox is pure comedic genius. And it’s a parody. Saying that it’s ‘cringe’ negates the fact that it is meant to be ‘cringe’.
Both brothers are talented musicians and songwriters, who just happened to have been led astray by the dark forces of comedy. It’s happened before.
Don’t believe me? Try some of their other songs:
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Trucker’s Hitch (country/dance)
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Stonehenge (power ballad)
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The Cabin (funk)
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Massachusetts (musical?)
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Someone Like Me (musical/dubstep)
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This seems like something that could be broken down into eras haha, how to choose? Those two guys with grills and short dreds were pretty bad, but so was that Mick Jagger/David Bowie number. Especially that, what a weird video for both of them.
YES!
https://youtu.be/mfODYOp41ww?si=stbX4ESYTYwSqmmM
Anything by the cheeky girls, really.
Fatboy Slim’s Praise You Like I Should. It’s just Spike Jonz and a bunch of randoms awkwardly doing aerobics in the middle of a mall.
There’s a lot of cringey 80’s metal videos. Not so much that the bands or music were cringeworthy, but music videos themselves were still such a young medium, that even at the time some of them seemed amateurish.
