The best music videos of 2020, according to Creative Review, are a weird and wonderful way to leave this year
An art-form that picks up the zeitgeist like no other - often using the best of creative talent, yet applied to the free-thinking-and-feeling of musical artists (rather than corporate clients) - we’re happy to gift you this Xmas curation of the year’s best music videos, taken from Creative Review.
Above is Boycycle, as described by CR:
DJ Salvatore Ganacci with director Vedran Rupic have created something bizarre and brilliant, which sees Ganacci transformed into a half-man, half-motorbike hybrid, like a centaur for the industrial age. In this coming of age tale, Boycycle is discovered by an old man who cleans and nurses him back to health before chaos ensues.
Bronson’s ‘Keep Moving’. From CR:
Swedish director collective StyleWar take us back to the office, but this time there’s no jokes by the water cooler or Powerpoint presentations to yawn at, instead it’s pure carnage as suited workers tumble down escalators and bosses ignite into flames.
The video has been created entirely out of stock footage of fluorescent-lit offices and large corporate meeting rooms, filled with gormless smiling employees, which are then completely disrupted and warped using various clever visual effects.
After sourcing the appropriate footage, the team shot matching close-ups of mouths lip-syncing the lyrics. They also built the offices in full CG to match the look of the stock footage.
The video is a dystopian ode to office life and serves as a reminder that maybe remote working isn’t as bad as we think.
Katy Perry’s ‘Daisies’. From CR:
Due to the constraints of lockdown, directors Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel combined their own style with their love of graphic novels and created a surreal, animated world full of clean lines and bright colours, which saw a faceless female protagonist beating off large rocks and objects in her house. One of many animated videos from this year, Daisies stands out because of its distinct visual style.