‘Music-less music videos’ are seriously funny
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Our personal favourite of the musicless music videos. Picture: RB
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TAKE the music out of some of your favourite music videos, and they suddenly look very weird indeed.
That’s proven in the ‘Music-less music videos’ created by YouTuber Mario Wienerroither, who mutes the music on iconic videos by the likes of Michael Jackson, Queen and The Prodigy, then painstakingly creates a new soundscape to match the visuals: a cacophony of grunts, shuffles, sneezes and other strange sound effects.
The end result is very, very funny — and Wienerroither’s latest creation, a one-minute excerpt of the very daggy video for David Bowie and Mick Jagger’s 1985 duet Dancing in the Street, might be his funniest yet:
We also love his take on The Prodigy’s Firestarter. Stripped of the heavy dance track, the band look surprisingly vulnerable — not least because poor old Keith Flint appears to be suffering a sneezing fit:
And the Sapphic vibe between Shakira and Rihanna in their Can’t Remember To Forget You video is taken to its logical conclusion, with an array of thigh-slapping noises and the unmistakable sound of Shakira’s butt polishing every surface it touches:
Genius. For more of Mario’s creations, head over to his YouTube channel.
