

It elevates a fairly serviceable rock structure into pure joy with the greatest bridge of all time, which rhymes with "Hippies like hay, lover succor," but means the exact opposite. And decide to run into a fuel tanker driven by terrorists. I don't care if you're currently on fire, this song will make you feel good about life.

A good song can change your life, and this does that by changing the next seven hours into "Rewatch the entire Die Hard Quadrilogy." Which will still be the best life-advice any song has ever given you. This video takes every feel-good song ever written and throws them all out of a 40th-story window. The following five music videos would have been destroyed by production committees, and only exist because the Internet is a thing - and the world is better for it. But modern technology means anyone can make a music video and share it with the world. It doesn't matter if you have a tween-pop single or a metallic endoskeleton: When you're reducing entire swathes of the population to numbered metrics, you're not someone who can speak to the soul. "I am the pinnacle of evolution and I listen to Justin Bieber."įor years major music-releases were controlled by the sort of people who think "target demographics" is a phrase you can use and still count as human. It's a sonic emotional override, hacking the brain by directly accessing the pattern-recognition systems which make up our personality the same way pipes and wires make up an engine. Good music is a thought transfusion, wirelessly injecting moods from another brain into yours. A while back I wrote about how music videos improve the Internet, because all the evil comments in existence can't cancel out one awesome song.
