I’m not sure what it says about gas prices / oil futures, the collective artistic unconscious, or what we all thought the Clinton years had us driving away from (or toward), but has anyone else noticed how many music videos from the ‘90s take place either partly or entirely inside moving vehicles? There are literally dozens. I am not joking. It’s totally insane.Just look at these clowns / torch-bearers warming up on the way to the big club show. SEE THE BIG PICTURE. SPACE. SPEED. SIGHT.Just look at all these primary-schemed Alanis’, being silly in a car.Just look at 2Pac being 2Pac and getting picked up by a convertible packed full of babes.Just look at Ice Cube being kinda hard and avoiding arrest.Just look at this white stretch limo.Just look at this freshly-Bic’d Billy Corgan rolling through suburbia.Just look at this poor, blathering psychopath being clipped by moving vehicles in the run up the ultimate stand. OK, so maybe not up to criteria, but still.Reach this writer at brian@motherboard.tv. @thebanderson
Geggy Tah, “Whoever You Are” (1996)
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Alanis Morissette, “Ironic” (1996)
Radiohead, “Karma Police” (1997)
Just look at this back-seated Thom Yorke making an “artistic statement.”
2Pac, “To Live & Die in L.A.” (1996)
Fastball, “The Way” (1998)
Just look at this guy back-flopping off a 10-story building onto a car top.
Ice Cube, “It Was a Good Day” (1993)
Aphex Twin, “Windowlicker” (1999)
The Smashing Pumpkins, “1979” (1996)
R.E.M, “Everybody Hurts” (1993)
Just look at Michael Stipe Christ-ing over vehicles.