The absolute worst music videos from the 90s
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90s pop idols Hanson.
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THE 90s was a time of awesomeness but also a time of disgusting trends. It was filled with scrunchies, bad CGI and hypercolour T-shirts.
The music clips of the time were no better.
The synchronised dancing, the oversized props, the feeling yourself up while looking at the camera. With a lack of technology and an overflowing amount of creativity, sometimes things turned very ugly.
Here are the worst examples of an unforgettable era. In video clips.
Presenting this clip in ‘AquaScope’, we knew from the start it was not going to go well. From the venetian blind scene transition to the Clueless-esque colour bubble, Barbie Girl looks like a hyperactive child threw up a packet of Crayolas.
Robots were cute in 1999. So were computer graphics.
The Bloodhound Gang knew what an animal onesie could do for a party before their time. But then the monkey party goes on. And on. And soon it is four minutes in … and yep, still going on. Sometimes sex alone doesn’t sell.
The oversized flower props. The confetti. The halter-neck. It’s a mashup of all the 90s trends that should have died a slow painful death. This is one street we’d never like to visit, let alone live on.
It is hard to decide if this is pure love or pure hate. It’s definitely pure 90s. The Hammer Dance is one thing, doing it across a white screen is going too far. Actually, what the hell is with dancing on white backgrounds?
White pants? Check. Middle-parted bowl hair cut? Check. Emotional hand gestures? Check. Rain falling with shirt showing bare, wet chest? WTF.
Dannii Minogue in a two-piece, dancing on a beach in a hair flower ornament before being spun around in the arms of a hunk in the rough surf. This really is it.
Nude on the street, on a subway, in the supermarket. For no reason. Thank U Alanis for never stripping off in a music clip again.
Clip art mixed with spinning screens. Colours chopping to black and white. Fade ins and fade outs. A wind machine. This video has every special effect of the day. Unfortunately, it feels like being on a Gravitron for three hours too long.
Hanson almost didn’t make it on this list. Then the moon scene happened. MMM … Stop.
This is almost impossible to believe. But there it is, right in front of your eyes. MJ was involved in the making of sensory vomit. Here’s the proof.
Some people should just stick to acting. Even bad acting is better than this atrocity.
Things happened in the 90s that should be forgot forever. And please leave your clothes on.
