Five Unintentionally Scary Music Videos
5. "Far From Over," Frank Stallone
Sylvester's brother Frank made numerous albums but hit the chart jackpot only with this song from John Travolta's 1983 Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive. Run for cover at approximately 1:30, when the assembled dancers rise up as if possessed by alien beings intent on cashing in a guest membership to the local dance studio. Also worth noting, the spectacularly cheesy mosaic montage that begins at 2:33.
4. "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm," Crash Test Dummies
Which is more frightening: the creepy school play/recital setting that mirrors, too exactly, the Brad Roberts' obsessed musings on childhood fears? Or THAT VOICE? Mmm, it's a toss-up.
3. "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You," Miami Sound Machine
First of all, drummers should never be given the first, pre-instrumental, vocal of any song. The tribal call to arms is exceeded in its ghoulishness only by the dungeon-like stage that predates The Matrix's underground city of Zion by over a decade. And why is Gloria Estefan writhing on the floor at the beginning? The rhythm got her before we even had a chance to get settled into this tropical hellscape.
2. "Who's Johnny," El DeBarge
In which the American justice system is stripped of all dignity and reduced to a song-and-dance kangaroo court that would make the singers of Glee cringe. Occasional shots of Short Circuit, the 1986 Ally Sheedy vehicle about a wayward robot for which this song was recorded, only make matters worse. Chilling.
1. "Dancing In The Street," Mick Jagger and David Bowie
"It doesn't matter what you wear" read the lyrics to the classic "Dancing In The Street," a mantra Mick Jagger and David Bowie take to heart in this unnerving mid-80s cover of the 1964 Martha and the Vandellas single. The most disturbing imagery either artist has been involved with, and that includes Cocksucker Blues.
