Songs that would work as animated music videos

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WadeX2006

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Now when there is a music out of a particular song like say from some pop star or whatnot they is usually a music video. But in some cases that music video is done in live-action, however there are songs that have been made as animated music videos. Such as Take on me{a-ha}, Opposites attract{Paula Abdul}, to Heartless{Kane west}. Thats all I can think of for animated music videos...But what are songs that you have listened to that you think would work as animated music videos? Name the song and the type of animation that it should be done in. And if you want you can name songs{and the artist} that have been already done as live-action music videos if you want. Go creative with the ideas if you want...

Disturbia{rihanna} would be interesting as a stop-motion/2D hybrid while the backgrounds and a few background characters are stop-motion while Rihanna herself is 2D animated.

I think of more later while I think of it.
 
I'm of the opinion that every song should have an animated music video! Whenever I hear a song, I can't help but visualize an animated visual accompaniment for it, and I've come up with some concepts I'd love to see made reality. One concept I thought up that I really like is a shot-for-shot parody of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Heckling Hare" set to Avril Lavigne's "My Happy Ending", and I dedicated a blog post to it not too long ago.

I took an art class a few years back where I had my choice of a final project, and I chose to storyboard an AMV of my own. I picked the song "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse, which has this bombastic 1940s big band-type orchestration that conjured up a lot of broad slapsticky cartoon gags in my mind. The concept I devised is very satirical - Winehouse is trapped in a celebrity rehabilitation center and tries various methods of escape, but the brutish orderlies chase her through the corridors with butterfly nets and stuff. You really have to see it to appreciate it - I may do a blog post about that one too.

A few other music video concepts I devised that I'd love to see animated, most of them either loving tributes or blatant pastiches of other media:
- "Bye Bye Bye" by N'Sync: An extended parody of Friday the 13th-style slasher films, where the band is hunted down by a masked killer (who turns out to be a jilted fan who didn't get to be one of their groupies)
- "Steve McQueen" by Sheryl Crow: A full-length tribute to the legendary chase sequence from Bullitt, with Crow on a motorcycle racing Steve McQueen himself through the streets
- "Miss Independent" by Kelly Clarkson: Another Looney Tunes tribute, this one to Chuck Jones' "Duck Amuck". Clarkson is harassed by an unseen animator; in the end, it's revealed that her tormentor is Justin Guarini.
- "Behind These Hazel Eyes", also by Kelly Clarkson: I'd like to somehow condense the entire Lord of the Rings movie trilogy down to a four-minute music video, with Clarkson as an unwelcome hop-on to the fellowship. I've got gag ideas; for instance, the high note she hits on "ANYMOOOORE" is so piercing that it slays an entire army of orcs.
- "Check On It" by Beyonce: Since this was on the soundtrack of the remake of The Pink Panther, I thought up a series of gags where an animated Beyonce performs alongside the entire DePatie-Freleng ensemble of characters (the Pink Panther, the Inspector, the Ant and the Aardvark, Roland and Ratfink, etc.)
- "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" by Rihanna: Partially inspired by another Looney Tune, in this case "Wackiki Wabbit", I picture a setup where Rihanna is the lone native on a deserted island, and a love-starved castaway washes up on shore and chases her throughout the length of the song, but he keeps running afoul of lions and monkeys and waterfalls and so on.
- "See You Again" by Miley Cyrus: I love what I came up with for this. A pretty blatant parody of the classic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" story, wherein Cyrus keeps transforming back and forth between herself and Hannah Montana uncontrollably; she only rids herself of the curse when she rips off her Disney Channel jacket and burns it.
- "Don't Trust Me" by 3OH!3: Framed like a YouTube video, this one would be set in a world full of Internet memes that play off the lyrics ("I'm a vegetarian and I ain't ****in' scared of him": lead singer Nathaniel Motte drops the LOLWUT pear on his girlfriend's boyfriend; "just another girl alone at the bar": a girl sits alone at a bar with a cat, who pushes a plate with a sandwich on it towards her and denotes the caption "You can has cheeseburger"; etc.). The chorus features dancing emoticons, dancing Mudkips, the Numa Numa kid, and the band breaks into Carmelldansen at one point; the video ends with a blue screen of death.

It actually kinda bums me out that these only exist in my head. I have billions of ideas, yet not nearly enough resources to make most of them happen.
 
That there is the reason why I make AMVs for Youtube in the first place. Heck I too think that every song should have animated music videos.



I know right?

Anyways, an idea formed in my head about a Micheal Jackson Tribute (I was watching This is It in the theaters at the time). The tribute in my mind would have been multiple animation styles (Stop motion, 2D- the most prominent one, CG and others).

Thriller for instance, would have featured a being with a pumpkin for a head narrating the monologue (at the beginning and end) with three others (My swordfish and crustacean characters Peter and Paul and a female) going to a Halloween party. Paul and the female would sing the song in parts to scare (and annoy) Peter. Until all these demons and ghosts and whatnot actually come out and teach the two tormentors a lesson. But not before doing the Thriller dance (obviously).

Another song was Beat it. It was to have a similar tone to the original, but with more cartoon antic (i.e someone smacking another with a frying pan in the groin, and another trying to drop an anvil on an opposing gang member. Only for it to horribly backfire in the style of Wile E. Coyote) Also near the end, a peacekeeping hippie tries to help out, but the two gangs end up teaming up and attack him instead.

That's just some of the things that happened to go through my head during that movie.

Also the Beach Boys Song "Fun Fun Fun" was to have around five and a half minutes devoted to a short (with the T-Bird Girl's father attacking *and murdering one* the boys lusting over his daughter. Followed by him having a chat *or rather, an argument* with his daughter about the T-Bird). The song ends when her friend (singing the song BTW) Pulls up aside her and offers her a ride.

I have tons more. But I'm not going to continue for two reasons:

1. School, I'm typing this before it starts
and 2. It'll get rather repetitive.
 
Most Likely All Star By Smash Mouth. That Song Is my Numer 1 Favorite. I'd Love It to Be on Televsion as a Animated Music Video.
 
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds by John Lennon - Yes, i know it was done in Yellow Submarine. But, i thought it would work as a miyazaki-esque animation that literally tells the story of the song. Its kinda like that scene in Ponyo when Granmere was talking to ponyo's dad.

Copacabana by Barry Mannilow - A 40's film noir styled animation with tex avery designs.
 
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