POLL: The Last Iconic Music Video

Madonna's Frozen was the last great video.

Other.

From the era you mentioned, I find the 1990 video for "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction iconic.

Sorry OP, just because you’re not keeping up with something doesn’t mean they aren’t still making some very creative/ iconic music videos.

MnMs Stan was effective. Sabrina Carpenters videos are fun. Please, with her bf, Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan is great and theres one based on Death becomes her.

Sorry this is R3. I appreciate you bringing up the discussion it just seeems like a very limited Poll. I’ll throw in Kylie Miniogues All the Lovers as another iconic music video.

Also OK Gos music videos are very cool and went viral with millions of views.

If we are limiting it to the MTV era than maybe say that. TRL lasted until the mid aughts.

From 1994 - The Spike Jonze video of the song "Sabotage" by The Beastie Boys - both an homage and parody of TV crime shows from the 70s.

"Oops I Did it Again" is iconic and came after "Baby One More Time" if you want to go by chronology.

I remember in the mid/late 80s there was an article on how music videos had evolved over the years and how they were so essential to the success of the single / album. There was a reference to two artists who treated their videos like movies, and had a whole production company on set making these 'mini movies' - not just 'music videos' (they were the artists who had the budget to do this). Of course, one artist was Michael Jackson and the other was Barbra Streisand (even though she did only three videos at the time : 'Left In The Dark', 'Emotion' and 'Somewhere').

I remember plenty of great, creative videos in the 2000s. One of my favourites was Feist's 'My Moon, My Man' - who hasn't had the urge to break into an improptu dance on an airport travelator? The 'spinny' beakdown at 1:57 with the strobing and exploding suitcases blows my mind every time.

I can't imagine the amount of planning, co-ordination and rehearsal must've gone in to do this in one take.

The last truly iconic video is two months old

I guess OP wants us to ignore anything past 2000, despite the thread title.

Wasn’t that Blurred Lines video pretty popular until…it wasn’t?

Frozen is a video everyone thinks is mesmerizing. It has mass appeal.

Gaga is the only artist of her contemporaries who consistently brought Michael Jackson-level excitement and anticipation to a music video release.

The last truly iconic music video IMO was Janet’s “Got ‘til it’s Gone.” The Grammy-winning clip was one of Mark Romanek’s finest moments as a director.

Lady Gaga and Beyonce's "Telephone" video was huge. The anticipation and release of that dominated pop culture for days.

has this been mentioned?

..... a viral hit song from 2012, "Gangnam Style" by South Korean singer PSY. The song became famous for its quirky dance routine, which involved waving arms and making silly facial expressions.

The song and video went viral, becoming a global phenomenon and setting numerous records for views and popularity. The "Gangnam Style" dance became a popular meme and was performed by people all over the world

Gangnam Style

I would love to know how some of you are able to fully embed yt videos.

Frozen for sure. It scared the crap out of me when I first saw it. I don't know many who don't think it's a great, memorable video.

The recent news that Outkast is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame made me think of their video for Hey Ya! from 2003.

^ coined the phrase "shake it like a Polaroid picture"

"Carolina in the Morning" - Ethel Mae Potter

R19/Russdog, it's sort of random. I can sometimes get them to work if I copy the URL instead of using the 'share' button. I wait to see if it 'takes', then decide if it's worth posting. I've learned to always add a description when I'm linking YT videos, since I won't generally click on other peoples' link without one.

It’s certainly not recent, but

Vogue

From 1994 - "Zombie" by The Cranberries, video directed by Samuel David Bayer.

This was the last one I could think of.

This is STUPID. Every new generation has their Iconic videos. Now more so than ever. Iconic videos now get hundreds of millions of views.

Please kill yourselves if you can only live in your vinegary nostalgia.