30 Bits of Trivia About Music Videos That Have A Two-Minute Scene Before the Beat Drops

Sorry, but why is their no award for acting in a music video?!?!
30 Bits of Trivia About Music Videos That Have A Two-Minute Scene Before the Beat Drops
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There are award ceremonies that recognize achievements in acting and ones that recognize the quality of music videos, but no one has ever thought to combine the two. Some music videos show the band and/or actual actors in scenes involving some serious emotion, and it’s heartbreaking that this isn’t celebrated. Truly heartbreaking. Like, of all the things in this world to make your heart hurt, this should seriously take priority. 

Think about it while perusing the list of music video facts below, then maybe petition MTV to include the category in the next video music award ceremony!

Vanessa Carlton

CRACKED VANESSA CARLTON WAS THE QUEEN OF 2002. Her hit single A Thousand Miles and its music video made her world-famous. It remained in the Billboard Top Ten for 41 weeks, went double platinum and charted worldwide. No other song came close.

A-ha

It took 16 weeks to rotoscope the live-action footage from the Take On Me music video. The Take On Me video used a pencil-sketch animation/live-action combination called rotoscoping. Approximately 3,000 frames were rotoscoped, which took 16 weeks to complete. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

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Weird Al

AT A GLANCE EMINEM Eminem wouldn't let Weird AI parody Lose Yourself in music video form Eminem let Weird AI put parody the song in couch Potato but refused to let him release it as a single or release a music video for it, in order to protect his image. CRACKED.COM

Source: E!

Snoop Dogg (Him Again)

AT A GLANCE SNOOP DOGG Snoop tried to rent the country of Liechtenstein He wanted to use the country to shoot a music video. A property agent from the country says it would have been possible if Snoop's team had given them enough notice. CRACKED.COM

Source: Vulture

Smashing Pumpkins

SpongeBob was in a Smashing Pumpkins video. Tom Kenny, the inimitable voice of SpongeBob himself (and the Ice King, and the Mayor of Townsville, and lots more) showed up IRL in shows like Tim and Eric and Just Shoot Me. Most notably, he was heavily featured in the video

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion

13 Little Things You Didn’t Know About Movies And A Bunch Of Other Subjects - The WAP music video spent $100,000 just on Covid testing.
Source: VICE

Britney Spears

FUN FACT: Every article of clothing in the music video was bought at K-Mart for under $17. Britney Spears decided to tie up her shirt because she thou

Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber's I'll show you music video and its millions of YouTube viewers shut down an Icelandic canyon. The somewhat unknown Fjadrargljufur c

Luis Fonsi

As of June 2019, Despacito by Luis Fonsi ranks as the most watched Youtube video with over 6 billion views. DESPACITO The second most watched video

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