10 Weird-Ass Music Videos That TOTALLY RUINED Awesome Songs

There are a few things that can ruin a song for you: hearing it in a terrible movie, having a pop-punk band cover it in a godawful Punk Goes Crunk album, or in most cases, associating it with a truly bizarre and downright confusing music video that completely takes the focus away from the song. Sadly, there are very few examples of music videos that make the song 1,000 times more awesome (Just by Radiohead, please take a bow) but what's even more tragic is that there are countless music videos that are guilty of completely ruining a song.

For an artist, there surely is nothing worse. Imagine it: you've spent hours, weeks, hell, maybe even months, trying to perfectly craft a hit single for an upcoming album. Your fingers are numb from playing the same riff for the hundredth time and the relief of finishing it floods your whole body. All that's left is to pass it over to the director and leave it in their hands to interpret it in a visual way. But then, the music video comes out and they've stuck you in the middle of the ocean playing a guitar solo to a bunch of dolphins or you're having your insides eaten in a grotesque ode to cannibalistic food pornography (more on these later).

Shaggy-haired New York rockers The Strokes completely smashed open the indie scene in 2001 with their debut album Is This It and followed it up with the phenomenal Room On Fire less than two years later. Despite having huge success in Europe, The Strokes finally broke America with their third album titled First Impressions Of Earth.

The debut single off the album, Juicebox, was a lot grittier and heavier compared to the polished guitar tones that they were known for. The opening bass riff accompanied by Julian Casablanca's soaring vocals really smacks the listeners between the eyes and showed off a hidden ruggedness to the band. Unfortunately, this song doesn't get the recognition it deserves and we can all put it down to the godawful music video.

Although the elevator pitch was undoubtedly amazing: comedy legend David Cross plays a radio DJ who hosts The Strokes on his late night show, it was completely ruined by unnecessarily explicit scenes. We will never get the image of an old lady seductively cleaning in front of her dog or David Cross masturbating in the studio out of our heads until we get called up for our inevitable lobotomys.