Films Fatale: Best 100 Music Videos of All Time

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Why did I want to keep trying to complete this list? Well, I feel like I have one vantage point that would make this experiment different than any other similar ones. Music video lists are usually compiled on music and/or multimedia websites. Films Fatale is strictly cinema (and television) based content. I felt like it may be unique to rank the best music videos ever from a cinephile standpoint. Would I fall for the usual videos that get mentioned on all of these lists, or would I be persuaded by the cinematic, innovative works that wowed me as a film buff? You may find that both outcomes came true, in this tug-of-war of the two hemispheres of my brain: the part that loves cinema, and the half that adores music.

To try and make this a bit easier for me, I have a couple of conditions. I want these selections to be conjured up works, directed and orchestrated to be music videos. This means a hard pass on videos that are just recordings or documentations of live performances (or performances of any sort, if the video focused entirely on them); some older videos get a bit of a pass, considering the time period, as long as enough artistic, cinematic, and aesthetic creativity got put into them. Furthermore, any music video that is predominantly based on film clips aren’t included