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.
The shoot for this video cost $2.7 million, and it’s a pretty grand affair. For the most part, we see Diddy (or whatever his name is these days) engaging in an all out battle with what appears to be an evil New World Order. Dennis Hopper and Danny Devito even make some cameo appearances.
