The Streets Make The Longest Music Video Ever
Boy oh boy, if there's one thing that's guaranteed to get people buzzing with excitement it's the prospect of watching a music video stretched out to last 20 minutes. And if it's being sung by a cheeky fruit and veg man, more the better.
The Streets are all set to make musical history next week, by breaking the world record for the longest music video ever. And while he's got the Guinness record people around him, it's only fair that Mike Skinner gets to try and see if he qualifies for a few more records – like Most Disappointing Third Album Ever and Most Hopelessly Backfiring Publicity Stunt, for letting his backing singer go and do Love Island.
MTV turns 25 next week and, like most 25-year-olds, it's probably looking around wondering how it found itself in such a dead-end job with no prospects for the future, scared that it'll be left on the shelf for the rest of its life. And also, like most 25-year-olds, MTV has realised that there's only one thing to do about it – get a cheeky pretend cockney to make a music video that lasts as long as an episode of Neighbours.
MTV and The Streets will next week air the longest music video ever – a 20 minute marathon of cheerleading and yetis. It's all to mark two things – firstly, the music video will celebrate MTV's 25th birthday and, secondly, it's not as if anyone needs an excuse to start pinching world records from Michael Jackson, is it? Word has it that MTV originally thought that it would be cheaper to try and break Michael Jackson's record for getting a load of giraffes to wade around in their own blood only to discover that making a ridiculously long music video might be more appropriate.
For The Streets and MTV are gunning for Michael Jackson. He currently holds the record for the world's longest music video, after stretching Thriller out for 13 minutes in 1983, but The Streets and MTV are going to beat that by a full seven minutes. The 20 minute opus will air on Tuesday, and will made up of five mini-segments shot by MTV viewers including portions about cheerleading and a hunt for Bigfoot. Mike Skinner from The Streets then made up a new song about it all, and he seems pretty excited by the whole shebang:
"I have been blown away by the creativity and imaginations of the young people involved and we have watched hours of videos in order to find the most interesting and intriguing content for this epic work."
We're looking forward to someone beating MTV and The Streets' record in the very near future. And then someone breaking that. And then someone breaking that. And so on until MTV's 50th birthday is marked by a music video that actually lasts for four or five centuries. But only so long as it stars Shakira.
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[story by Stuart Heritage]
I don’t get it. Michael Jackson himself has made 3 music videos longer than Thriller already (Bad, Ghosts and You Rock My World), So who’s the dumb person going around saying that Thriller was the longest in the first place?
what about R. Kelly’s trapped in the closet videos??
Yep, that too, or that silly Usher thing from last year.
I don’t think so!!!
Nice try, but Michael Jackson still beats you. Remember, his hit song “Ghosts” is a music video, which goes for 38minutes. And people actually watched it and enjoyed it, and many watch is over and over again, without getting bored.
No one can beat the king of pop, but nice try!
r. kelly’s videos isnt the longest. one songs is 9 minutes long not counting all together cos its different songs just labelled part 2,3 and so on. as a musician to the best of my knowledge the longest music video in the universe on this 5th day of august 2009 is michael jackson’s Ghost[35 mnutes long, second the streets 20 minutes ,third michael jackson’s bad ,r. kelly’s trapped in the closet is definetly among the top 5 longest ever.
the costliest music video is “scream by michael and janet duo. no one really knows the costliest by a single artist unless you want to say michael jackson feat janet then that’ll be the costliest by a single artist.