10 Most Bizarre Music Videos Of The 21st Century
6. Energy - Drake
For the first thirty or so seconds of this video it appears to be a standard modern hip hop video. Then out of nowhere we are subjected to Drake's face superimposed on Oprah Winfrey's body. Drake goes on to appear as Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Barack Obama, OJ Simpson, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Kanye West, Lebron James and former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. All in less than three minutes.
What makes this so strange is how much it sticks out like a sore thumb in comparison to the rest of his career. Drake had never made a remotely strange video before Energy and he hasn't really since. He's made iconic ones and extremely popular ones, but never one as utterly strange as this one. The parodies are meant to supplement the lyrics at the times they appear on screen, but it doesn't take away how strangely creepy these amalgamations of celebrities are.
No one who was parodied in the video came out and endorsed or really even addressed their appearance. Not that it hurt the success of this song in anyway. It has been viewed almost 500 million times on YouTube alone. It just goes to show that even if Drake dips his toe into surreal territory, his fanbase is just to big to ignore any of his output.