Me and my almost-3-yo are really enjoying watching music videos at the moment and I'm looking for inspiration for stuff for us to watch together. His current faves are:
Daft Punk - Around the World
And Air - Sexy Boy (we call it 'lazy boy', but whatever)
We already watch enough actual toddler-specific stuff (nursery rhymes/Hey Duggee/Baby Shark, etc) so I'm just looking for videos with cool/weird stuff happening that are fun to watch.
Any ideas?
Smack my bitch up?
Or is that more 5/6yo appropriate?
Weapon of choice
My kids loved all the OK Go ones as they're all bright and colourful all have some clever stuff going on. No fruity lyrics as well.
All good suggestions so far, thanks!
Both my offspring were subjected to Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads - t'was some time ago on VCR from a TV programme 😁
Benni Benassi - Satisfaction
Gay Bar by Electric 6 was a favourite of my daughters when she was little. It's got hamsters and dressing up in it. Bad dad. 😈
My daughter's 4. She loves the chats.
She also loves anything by PSY, crab rave, crazy frog and this
Varying degrees of being hugely inappropriate, but she just things it's all funny 😬
My son at aged 3 loved Son of a Bitch by Nathaniel Rateliffe and The Night Sweats. Lyric became Da Da Da Da dung extremely loudly by me and Mrs F.
The other one my nippers both love is Little Big, thier recent stuff like Hypno Dancer and Go Bananas are silly and harmless with funny videos but be very careful about just starting a playlist as some of their older stuff is quite ludicrously NSFW.
Similar rhythmical, visual representation of the audio to the Daft Punk video on this by The Chemical Brothers. It also has TRAINS!!! which are like crack cocaine to some 3YO boys .
Actually, I think that most Michel Gondry directed music videos will probably fit the bill. Some lovely ones for The White Stripes, Bjork The Chems and Massive Attack.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_videos_directed_by_Michel_Gondry
I'd just like to second the OK Go recommendation. Both versions of This too Shall Pass are awesome, and this one is unbelievable
Some great suggestions so far - lots that I hadn't seen.
@peekay Michel Gondry is a fave of mine so we've seen a lot of his work!
Just remembered, flat Eric!
OH GO are kinda the living embodiment of 'nice video, shame about the song' but the videos are so good and so much work clearly goes into them that you kinda have to let them get away with it.
🙂
This one - it's literally got daddy in the title, and is about some smiley kids helping out an old lady who's lost 🙂
My daughter was dancing away to RHCP videos when she was about that age.
Flat Eric! Yes!
My eldest used to love "Where's your head at!" by Basement Jaxx when she was about that age.
Great thread – I need/ed this. I see you have a few of our house classics in here already but I'll put a few more out there. Not going to risk embedding them though.
Björk – See you're already into Michael Gondry's fairytale stuff (love Human Behaviour, Isobel and so on), but Chris Cunningham's video for All is Full of Love is epic. I could watch Björk videos all day though.
Beastie Boys – loads of Spike Jonze classics here but Intergalactic (MCA) is our household perennial favourite. Sabotage and a couple of others surprisingly violent in a slapstick way.
Elton John (no really) – Rocketman vid is lovely animation.
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci – Spanish Dance Troupe is again great animation that got me through one round of toilet training. Poodle Rockin is also popular.
Massive Attack – Teardrop. If you need to calm a baby obsessed toddler.
Then loads of party tunes like Robyn (Call Your Girlfriend - wish I could move like that) Missy Elliot, De La Soul, Lil Kim (but most of her stuff is pretty risqué once yours starts speaking)... etc...