Worst NZ music videos

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Bruce... Duh!

birthday by is it stereobus? jeeeeez i hate that vid

I like it, though indeed I can see why others don't. But those lollies - mm-mmmmm!

"oh please" ;)

i agree...it is real bad. that 'band/group' Deep Obsession had some bad clips too. just like the songs really....;)

was watching squeeze today and the worst nz video defintly is:
that one by true bliss where they wear skimpy shit.
it is utter shite.

yeah true, i forgot about true bliss, they are crap.
oh what about the purrr song, where she floats and there's that? can't remember the name, but damn its baaaad.

yeah true, i forgot about true bliss, they are crap.
oh what about the purrr song, where she floats and there's that guy pulling weird facials? can't remember the name, but damn its baaaad.

lmao, yes with the gayish looking guy with the REALLY cheesy grin.. heheheh classic

Yup.. That True Bliss song where they are wearing the strapping tape ensembles definitely is up there with the worst of them

I heard that while filming that crap vid, one of the chicks kept loosing her bits out the side of her way too skimpy outfit.... the guys who edited the vid had a bit of a porn fest with all the flange out takes.... eewwww!!!

I thought of that video straight away, those hideous lycra suits, the one with the bits of orange elastic covering only the naughty bits, and I'm sorry to be insensitive but was it necessary to put Joe Cotton in a skin tight fluro orange tank top? oh the humanity.....

communicate by the feelers... i really don't like it, songs alrite but the video sucks

is that the NEW ZEALAND band's video that got NEW ZEALAND on air funding to make the video that was shot in the AUSTRAILIAN out back
if that is not the one you mean jon jr.
I would like to make it my nomination

ahhh... whatever that one is where the band turn into their bad selves... that is the worst concieved / most horibly executed vid ever... absoulte crap... give me their money

Yeah, I watched Squeeze too. Wasn't the new K'Lee video bad? Though maybe it's the song I really hate. She does a 4-line rap which starts with "Universal is the (label) that pays me" and ends with "Brotha D make the crowd go crazy!" and then Brotha D does some rapping. He's wearing sunglasses in a dark cave. He says "Getcha groove on!" which I thought was a Fred Durst line. So Brotha D recycles Durst's lyrics?

Other than that, 'Thank You' by Stereobus was horrible & ugly. And of course 'Bruce'.

1 + 1 + 1 by K'lee def. cheesy ass shit, first thing I thought of when seeing this. As for Bruce - yeah thats rank, Rubicon are rank...but the dancing gives it a few more points. There are more brewing in my head...just wait

When space did the article on k'lee's new vid, she said the ppl on the beach must have thought they looked like druken tenny boppers. And thats exactly wot the vid looks like!
K'lee: Can you feel me?
Brotha D: Can you feel k'lee?
......Sooooooooooooooo bad!

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Jeeze.. hasn't everyone figured out that EVERYTHING Fred Durst says and does is lifted from tha "brothas?" Oh, EXCEPT for his whiney-ass voice!

how about "most obvious plagiarism of a concept/idea that falls painfully short of the american original in a nz music video" - the award goes to ... blindspott (mind you plagiarism isn't really applicable to boybands now is it)

worst would definately have to be Bruce by rubicon. Omg it sucks!!!

And that one on the tennis courts... Funny Boy, I had a big discussion about how it sucked with my cousin, who liked it... Soooo crappy!

they ripped off Mario Tennis.

"how bizzare" - OMC
that Savant video clip (dude poses like no tomorrow)
the lucid 3 one in the warehouse
that Zed video clip the one after Renegade Fighter I think, maybe before.
It's terrible I don't know these song names.

What the hell is up with savant? Are they for real? They pose so badly esp. the bass player he pulls like lots of Constipated terrible faces it is RUDE TO WATCH!. Anyway my god!
please stop playing that video! The music is also pretty terrible come to think about it.

// the one after Renegade Fighter I think.... was come on down with all the zeddie fans (sort of a hey girls this is the way we want our fans to act pimer)
only redeaming feature of that video (and why I watched it at all) was the external footage shot around North Dunedin

hahah yea i hate come on down: 1) they try and make it look like they are an 'all-encompassing' band by having businessmen and skaties, the whole cross section, listening to them. and 2) the editing is terrible, at various stages through the clip the drummer is totally out of time with what he's 'playing'.

Man you must have be paying close attention

i knew a topic like this would come up eventually...

research........ r i g h t ..... lol

well, andy lynch ain't bad lookin i have to say ;)

I have just read the above post out load, and have been told to post
"keep your hands off he's mine"

mean while I just roll eyes and shake head

"King Kong" by Voom sucks the big one....i dont mind the song sometimes...but that video is seriously sad....
I don't like the new Tadpole video for "Nothing New"...that's just lacking in everything....i kept waiting for something to happen and then it ended and i was like what?!
And of course......"Bruce"...altho i'll totally go against myself here and say i do like the bit where paul goes for gold on his drums....i think it looks quite choice...dont like his facials though.....actually i dont like his face in general.....hehe sorry only joking rubicon fans.....

The Tadpole one looks so much like the Anika Moa one ..... chicks walking round in snow and stuff greats songs but visually bor or ing

The idea of Reene from tadpole looking sweet and inoccent is just plain contra

here i go talking to my self again... thougt the Dragonball Z rip-off vid was great

I love the DBZ parody... Funny & cute

Perhaps that was the intentsion of the "Nothing New" video. With all it's special effects (the snow looks computer generated), the band appear tired and distant, as if they have "... given you everything (but you want more)".

Even with all the latest effects and styling, it looks remarkably similar to other videos (Youthful - Anika Moa, Kiss Me - Six Pence None The Richer), futher emphasising "Nothing new...".

Moreover, the song echos this sentiment as the lyrics repeat over and over...

(Or am I digging too deep?)

watched it again to night and your words came to mind and dam it you are right, durrr

Im probably gonna get crucified for saying this but Salmonella Dubs latest contribution, the "mad max" meets some kinda crazed hippy fest video (I cant remember the name).
ohhhh it really grates my cheese.

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don't see y you // gonna get crucified it is a boring video
good travel ad for central north island but

trinity roots the little things must be one of the best current video, man if i wasn't so tuff it could make me cry

//Salmonella Dubs latest contribution
yeah, and they're such a strong act too. what a bummer they hadn't done any better?? how can't you too, 'cause it is f'n bad video. goodness me.
like to add i was introduced to conan on sunday. i had to shoot home to get some cds to listen to at work. two of them happened to be theirs. showed him we were all hooked up for the dub. massive guy. choice bro'!!

uh huh dunno what they were thinking with that clip.

The one for Push on Thru was just as bad. *yawn*

Yeah that Salmonella Dubs "Junk Yard Wars meets Mad Max" vid is the biggest peice of crap I've seen in a long time.

I can't beleive how WRONG they got it..... fools

//The one for Push on Thru was just as bad.
that was fucking superb!! awesome drench of colours. nice geometric snowflake. phat song. chillin in the wheels, rollin down the street... (or rollin' up the road) bit of a royal rumble at the end there. cool emerald kea to cap it off...
geez if that was bad i'd hate to think........

Well yeah the photography was good but *yawns* gets really boring after the first minute. Theres only so much snow/driving you can handle without something exciting happening. I don't know, it just felt like it was missing something.

Remember the bad old days before NZonAir video funding was around? Back in the late '80s/early '90s there were more than a few videos that consisted of bands jigging about in front of a blue screen while some cutting edge visuals played behind them. But they at least had a bit of charm unlike such (mostly) NZonAir funded videos as...

Stella - "Taken"
Ok. Boh Runga is standing on the back of a car wearing trousers with a sheet around her neck. Eventually the car stops and the band are dressed as mechanics. She flirts with a wanker in a wankmobile. He ignored her and goes for the car. I don't get it.

Eye TV - "Just The Way It Is"
Dude, this video is totally gay. Something, somewhere has gone horribly wrong and has resulted in someone thinking this mish-mash of colour is a cool video.

Shihad - "Yr Head Is Rock"
Greg Page has done good claymation. This video is not good claymation. It's slow and boring and does nothing for the song.

K'Lee - "1+1+1" and "Can You Feel Me"
Number one rule of female pop singer videos - do not surround yourself with all female dancers. It's got to be all male or mixed otherwise the singer just blends in with all the other girls. This is is why "1+1+1" doesn't work. In "Can You Feel Me", who is that blonde chick driving the jeep and why does she seem to be the focal point rather than K'Lee. Can K'Lee not drive?

Betchadupa - "Man On My Left"
Apart from looking like someone's school media studies project (maybe it was?), the subtitles comedy playing out is maybe funny the first time but just annoying with every subsequent view.

Shihad - "Pacifier"
A lot of people like this video, but I don't because I don't think that there's anything particularly clever about doing a "Clockwork Orange" ripoff/homage. Faith No More based their video for "Last Cup of Sorrow" on Hitchcock's "Vertigo", but they subverted it, made it interesting. Shihad just did a short, inferior remake.

Ok, that's enough. I'm willing to put up with a crap video if it's something the band's done on their own, but even some self-funded videos are good. But when a band has got NZonAir funding and produces a shit video, that makes me angry. Angry!

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gotta love those multi million dollar NZ on Air funded Vids eh

O.K. I haven't got the guts to start up my own forum but heres a good place to put it:

hey check this cool white stripes video out: "fell in love with a girl", Its logo gone rock:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_info/0,3699,2422360,00.html

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