HAINES (singing): Get hot, get too close to the flame...
REBECCA: It's amazing what you can do with just one roll of the camera.
KIESZA (singing): Ooh, ahh...
REBECCA: Welcome to WatchMojo.com,
and today, we're counting down our picks for the Top 10 One Shot Music Videos.
MARTIN (singing): I swam across, I jumped across for you...
REBECCA: For this list, we've looked at any music video--regardless of genre--
that is composed of just one take.
FEIST (singing): Oh-oh-oh, you're changing your heart...
REBECCA: Many of these musical accompaniments required plenty of attempts,
but the final product is seamlessly special.
KULASH (singing): Oh, oh, here it goes again!
CUOMO (singing): I'm me, me be, goddamn, I am,
(singing) I can sing and...
REBECCA: We begin by rocking out without a break in shot.
CUOMO (singing): If you want to destroy my sweater...
REBECCA: The first single from the first ever Weezer album,
the band hired director Spike Jonze, who decided to have the band perform the song sped up.
The result, when played at the correct speed, was that the band appeared to be moving in slow motion.
BELL (singing): Watch me unravel,
BELL & CUOMO (singing): I'll soon be naked,
CUOMO (singing): Lying on the floor...
REBECCA: Frontman Rivers Cuomo in his shaggy-haired youth,
drummer Patrick Wilson acting wacky in slo-mo,
and dogs... lots of dogs... for some reason.
KIESZA (singing): Takin' me higher than I've ever been before,
(singing) I'm holdin' it back, just want to shout out "give me more!"
REBECCA: A song which reportedly took less than two hours to write,
the video accompaniment to Kiesza's "Hideaway" surely took a lot longer than that to organize.
KIESZA (singing): Ooh... ahh... ahh...
REBECCA: As the singer takes to the streets for some crazy choreography in between cab rides,
we're left more than a little open-mouthed.
KIESZA (singing): Baby, I love the way that there's nothing sure,
(singing) baby, don't stop me, hide away with me some more...
REBECCA: Everything is very, very slick,
with each new dance partner or group,
we find that we're ooh-ing & ahh-ing even before the chorus has started.
KIESZA (singing): Ahh, ahh, ahh, hide away with me some more...
REBECCA: When she's driven off at the end, we're about ready to applaud our TV screens.
D'ANGELO (singing): Girl, it's only you... have it your way...
REBECCA: If we don't need cuts in the film, we don't need clothes on the performer... right?
That's the conclusion reached by this turn-of-the-century single, anyway.
D'ANGELO (singing): Won't you come closer to me baby?...
REBECCA: There's only one thing to look at in this video,
and we're getting to look at it extremely close up.
D'ANGELO (singing): Long time...
(singing): Said, it's been on my mind, yeah...
REBECCA: Often parodied--most notably by Panic! At The Disco--
controversial rumors have it that D'Angelo was actually receiving oral sex off-camera.
If that's true, then you have to take your hat off to the man, along with everything else you're wearing.
D'ANGELO (singing): Yeah! (How does it feel?) Woo!...
YORKE (singing): A heart that's full up like a...
REBECCA: It takes a lot of skill to turn a piece of film into something emotionally effective
without at least cutting it once.
YORKE (singing): I'll take a quiet life...
REBECCA: It takes incredible skill to do so without even moving the camera once.
The video for Radiohead's "No Surprises"
is an amazingly intimate 3 minutes & 46 seconds with lead singer Thom Yorke...
YORKE (singing): Silent...
REBECCA: ...one minute of which we see the guy's head submerged in water.
YORKE (singing): No alarms and no surprises...
REBECCA: The reflections are in all the right places, the auto-cue lyrics look awesome,
and Yorke's faint smile upon breathing again is simply brilliant.
YORKE (singing): Such a pretty garden,
(singing) no alarms....
MARTIN (singing): Look at the stars, look how they shine for you...
REBECCA: A similarly dreary concept, now,
and another that manages to turn something bleak into something beautiful.
MARTIN (singing): Yeah, they were all yellow...
REBECCA: Chris Martin's stroll along Studland Bay in Dorset is now iconic,
but it was originally meant to be a very different video.
The shoot coincided with the funeral of drummer Will Champion's mother,
which is the reason the rest of the band is absent.
MARTIN (singing): I swam across, I jumped across for you...
REBECCA: It had also been planned for a sunny day,
but the dreariness on set seemed appropriate.
MARTIN (singing): Look how they shine...
(singing) Look at the stars...
REBECCA: We wouldn't have it any other way.
Raincoats and all, it's a classic.
MARTIN (singing): and all the things that you do.
DYLAN (singing): Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine,
(singing) I'm on the pavement thinkin' about the government
REBECCA: Widely recognized as one of the first ever music videos,
this world-famous Bob Dylan clip was initially created as the opening segment
to the 1967 film "Don't Look Back,"
a documentary showing Dylan's tour of England 2 years previously.
DYLAN (singing): Orders from the D.A.,
(singing) look out, kid, don't matter what you did,
REBECCA: Filmed in a back alley behind the Savoy Hotel in London,
the much-parodied cue cards were written by Beat Generation pioneer Allen Ginsberg,
among others.
DYLAN (singing): Look out, kid, they keep it all hid...
REBECCA: At the time, this video was seriously cool,
and it reeks with the same style even now.
DYLAN (singing): Don't wanna be a bum? You better chew gum.
(singing) The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles.
JULES (singing): All around me are familiar faces, worn out places...
REBECCA: A song originally sung by Tears for Fears,
and covered by Michael Andrews & Gary Jules for the film "Donnie Darko" in 2001,
it wasn't until Christmas 2003 that this record really caught our ears,
and in particular, our eyes.
JULES (singing): Mad world...
(singing) Mad world...
REBECCA: This video gives us a bird's-eye view of an expertly organized group of people
using their bodies to make moving images.
JULES (singing): And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad,
(singing) that dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had..
REBECCA: As the camera occasionally pans to the singer or piano player,
we know it's a simple idea, but we also know we can't take our eyes off of it.
JULES (singing): Enlarging your world...
(singing) Mad world.
KULASH (singing): It could be 10, but then again, I can't remember...
REBECCA: These guys are king when it comes to inventive single-take videos.
The Rube Goldberg machine of "This Too Shall Pass" was something special,
KULASH (singing): When the morning comes...
REBECCA: and the optical illusions of "The Writing's on the Wall" had us wowed.
KULASH (singing): Then you bring your mind to rest against mine,
(singing) but the mind has no say on affairs of the heart.
REBECCA: Let's not forget the stunning work of the multi-copter drone camera
in 2014's "I Won't Let You Down."
KULASH (singing): I won't let you down, no, I won't let you down,
(singing) I won't let you down...
REBECCA: But the viral success all started with 8 treadmills and over 50 million views on YouTube.
KULASH (singing): It's starts out easy, somethin' simple, somethin' sleazy,
(singing) Somethin' inchin' past the edge of the reserve
REBECCA: The care and attention that has clearly gone into making this video
is commendable enough, but it's all about the execution,
and they executed this to perfection.
KULASH (singing); Oh, oh, here it goes again!
(singing) Oh, oh!
(singing) Oh, here it goes!
FEIST (singing): 1, 2, 3, 4, tell me that you love me more...
REBECCA: When we say we've got an all-singing, all-dancing wonder of a runner-up,
we really mean it today.
FEIST (singing): Oh-oh-oh, you're changing your heart,
(singing) Oh-oh-oh, you know who you are
REBECCA: In terms of choreography, energy, ambition, and effect,
the video for "1234" scores 10 out of 10 with us.
FEIST (singing): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, or 10,
(singing) Money can't buy you back the love that you had...
REBECCA: Filmed inside an empty hangar, the setting isn't too elaborate,
but the color and the movement leave you open-mouthed anyway.
FEIST (singing): Oh-oh-oh, you're changing your heart,
(singing) Oh-oh-oh, you know who you are,
REBECCA: A real group effort, singer Leslie Feist stands out from the crowd,
but she's also entirely reliant upon them.
When she bows at the end and her buddies aren't there, there's real magic.
Before we unveil our #1 pick,
here are a few honorable mentions.
VERSTEEG (singing): Do-do-do-do-do-doo, do-do-do-do-do-doo
(singing) Lord, I miss you...
MARS (singing): Today I don't feel like doin' anything,
DANIEL (singing): 'Cause you don't talk to the water boy
(singing) and there's so much you can learn, but you don't want to know....
KOENIG (singing): Why would you lie 'bout how much coal you have?
(singing) Why would you lie about something dumb like that?
JOHN (singing): I want a love that don't mean a thing,
(singing) that's the love I want, I want love...
MEL B (singing): Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
HALLIWELL (singing): So, tell me what you want, what you really really want,
REBECCA: Our one-take winner has claimed the crown today,
if only for its sheer level of craziness.
MEL B: I wanna (ha!) I wanna (ha!) I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ah,
REBECCA: There really is a lot going on in this video.
From staircase dance routines, to 5-second flirting, to dining table backflips,
it's quite incredible that none of the mania was missed.
SPICE GIRLS (singing): If you wannabe my lover,
(singing) you gotta get with my friends (gotta get with my friends)
(singing) make it last forever, friendship never ends
REBECCA: In simple terms,
it's the Spice Girls ransacking a potentially sophisticated party.
But behind the camera, heaven knows the organizational efforts.
MEL B (singing): So, here's a story from A to Z, you wanna get with me, you gotta listen carefully,
(singing) We got Em in the place who likes it in-your-face,
(singing) We got G like MC who likes it on an
(singing) Easy V...
REBECCA: In terms of one-shot music videos, this is very far from "wannabe;"
this is the real riotous deal.
SPICE GIRLS (singing): Slam your body down and wind it all around,
MEL B (singing): Slam your body down and zigazig ah,
REBECCA: Do you agree with our list?
Which one-take video did we forget?
HAINES (singing): Gimme sympathy...
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