8 Hilariously Awkward (And Popular) Music Videos

7. Part Time Lover - Stevie Wonder

http://youtu.be/Ll6LLGePYwM Wonder, like a few other entries on this list, is a pianist. And he's damn good at what he does. Combine his piano skills with that divine, joyous voice and you've got the work of a living legend. But there needs to be a rule for Stevie Wonder music videos: keep him at a piano. And Part Time Lover does that for most of its run-time. But skip to about two minutes into the video, and we're given a completely and hilariously off-shot of Wonder just standing center-frame, snapping his fingers, and awkwardly gyrating a bit. It's like the director just put him there, walked away, and didn't give the poor guy any directions on what to do. He comes off as a blind guy whose gang of friends just sort of left him as a practical joke, rather than a centerpiece for his own video. And it doesn't help that the song, about couples that have steamy affairs, has some of the most passionless kiss scenes in it that I've ever seen in my life. Skip to 2:23 and you'll see the silhouettes of what looks like a woman attempting to please a mannequin with pecks for kisses. And then at 3:03, we find a couple that's convinced that if their lips touch for more than three milliseconds, their bodies will subsequently combust. Stevie, you're one of my favorite performers...but what happened here?