Music videos can both heal or hinder, blasting a great song into even higher critical acclaim, or bringing a mediocre track plummeting back down to new lows. Whichever way you look at it, the music business has spent an insane amount of money across the years trying to turn many tracks into unstoppable chart hits. Using ridiculous locations, hilariously bonkers pyrotechnics and some of the strangest video concepts we’ve ever seen, here are the 10 most expensive music videos of all time.
We’re not going to be too harsh with this one, as music video director Rupert Wainwright has had enough criticism lately. His feature movie The Fog features in Rotten Tomaetoes’ Worst Movies of the 2000’s list. Brutal. Costing a cool $2.56 million, the video has very rapid camera cuts, impressive dance moves and endless droves of excited crowds.
