Visually Creative Videos? For a Toddler.
November 26, 2014 3:36 PM Subscribe
Our almost-three-year-old loves Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" video (AKA "the fruit video"). Any suggestions for fun visually-creative videos?
She also likes A-ha's "Take On Me," the B-52's "Love Shack," and OK-Go's "Here It Goes Again."
As you might be able to tell by the songs, I am a geezer, but we're open to more modern stuff, too.
She also likes A-ha's "Take On Me," the B-52's "Love Shack," and OK-Go's "Here It Goes Again."
As you might be able to tell by the songs, I am a geezer, but we're open to more modern stuff, too.
New Order, True Faith
(contains what I guess you'd call slapstick violence, might be not OK for a three year old but I loved this when I was a kid)
posted by prize bull octorok at 3:54 PM on November 26, 2014 [3 favorites]
(contains what I guess you'd call slapstick violence, might be not OK for a three year old but I loved this when I was a kid)
posted by prize bull octorok at 3:54 PM on November 26, 2014 [3 favorites]
I can imagine a three-year-old being very charmed by Regina Spektor's Ne Me Quitte Pas. But I can also imagine hesitating, because it might give a three-year-old some property-destroying ideas.
I can also imagine a young child enjoying Bjork's Human Behaviour.
A lot of tune-yards videos are very visually interesting - a lot of colour, a lot of energy, a going on. Water Fountain, for example.
When I was 3, Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun was my most favourite music video! I think it probably holds up just fine.
posted by erlking at 4:16 PM on November 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
I can also imagine a young child enjoying Bjork's Human Behaviour.
A lot of tune-yards videos are very visually interesting - a lot of colour, a lot of energy, a going on. Water Fountain, for example.
When I was 3, Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun was my most favourite music video! I think it probably holds up just fine.
posted by erlking at 4:16 PM on November 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
My daughter refers to Katy Perry's California Girls as "The Candy Video".
posted by Margalo Epps at 4:20 PM on November 26, 2014
posted by Margalo Epps at 4:20 PM on November 26, 2014
Gotye's Just Somebody that I Used to Know is very visually interesting.
posted by jacquilynne at 4:25 PM on November 26, 2014
posted by jacquilynne at 4:25 PM on November 26, 2014
A four-year-old once made me watch Feist’s “1, 2, 3, 4” more times in a row than I would like to admit.
She was also really into Junior Senior’s “Move Your Feet” but I STRONGLY SUGGEST not opening that can of worms for the sake of your own sanity.
posted by bcwinters at 4:43 PM on November 26, 2014
She was also really into Junior Senior’s “Move Your Feet” but I STRONGLY SUGGEST not opening that can of worms for the sake of your own sanity.
posted by bcwinters at 4:43 PM on November 26, 2014
Also, if she likes the Take On Me vid, perhaps the literal parody?
posted by pompomtom at 4:54 PM on November 26, 2014
posted by pompomtom at 4:54 PM on November 26, 2014
Response by poster: Thanks for all the great suggestions! More more more!
posted by kirkaracha at 4:58 PM on November 26, 2014
posted by kirkaracha at 4:58 PM on November 26, 2014
Oof can't link right now, but :
Wylie : Numbers in Action
White Stripes : Fell in love with a girl
Stereogram : Walkie Talkie Man
Pomplamoose : Angry Birds Theme (slapstick)
posted by synapse at 5:01 PM on November 26, 2014
Wylie : Numbers in Action
White Stripes : Fell in love with a girl
Stereogram : Walkie Talkie Man
Pomplamoose : Angry Birds Theme (slapstick)
posted by synapse at 5:01 PM on November 26, 2014
These aren't music videos - but she might enjoy Western Spaghetti and Fresh Guacamole by PES. We went through a lengthy "food related stop-motion video" phase, and my kid still asks for these two.
posted by 41swans at 5:03 PM on November 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by 41swans at 5:03 PM on November 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
Have you tried basically everything else by OK Go? I can't think of a video they've ever done that wasn't visually gimmicky.
posted by Etrigan at 5:19 PM on November 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Etrigan at 5:19 PM on November 26, 2014 [1 favorite]
Yes, OK Go. Their music isn't anything special to me, but their videos are always cool.
Here's one.
And here's another Rube Goldberg inspired video -- Tuna Melt.
posted by Leontine at 6:47 PM on November 26, 2014
Here's one.
And here's another Rube Goldberg inspired video -- Tuna Melt.
posted by Leontine at 6:47 PM on November 26, 2014
This one was someone's final college project (Nick Park's?), aired on the BBC and then made the elderly tune a #1 record in the UK in 1987
posted by genghis at 7:01 PM on November 26, 2014
posted by genghis at 7:01 PM on November 26, 2014
Michel Gondry!
The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl (even has a kid IN it!)
Daft Punk - Around the World
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
(I'm gonna leave Chemical Brothers out, that stuff might be a little too trippy for a little kid)
posted by JoeZydeco at 7:56 PM on November 26, 2014
The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl (even has a kid IN it!)
Daft Punk - Around the World
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World
(I'm gonna leave Chemical Brothers out, that stuff might be a little too trippy for a little kid)
posted by JoeZydeco at 7:56 PM on November 26, 2014
One of my personal favorites:
Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather for Ducks
posted by wanderingmind at 8:48 PM on November 26, 2014
Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather for Ducks
posted by wanderingmind at 8:48 PM on November 26, 2014
Caspar Babypants:
"Too Dirty Love"
"Stompy the Bear"
"Pretty Crabby"
"Stump Hotel"
posted by tristeza at 8:51 PM on November 26, 2014
"Too Dirty Love"
"Stompy the Bear"
"Pretty Crabby"
"Stump Hotel"
posted by tristeza at 8:51 PM on November 26, 2014
Anything from either one of Disney's FANTASIA movies (except maybe the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence). This one is from the 2000 film, and to paraphrase James Earl Jones' intro from the film, the song "celebrates the diversity of the animal world - or, in this case, it celebrates what happens when you give a flock of flamingos a yo-yo."
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 3:42 AM on November 27, 2014
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 3:42 AM on November 27, 2014
Land of Confusion - Genesis
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
There were so many of these in the 80s!
posted by SisterHavana at 12:49 PM on November 30, 2014
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
There were so many of these in the 80s!
posted by SisterHavana at 12:49 PM on November 30, 2014
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Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Want to Have Fun
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 3:38 PM on November 26, 2014 [1 favorite]