Worst dancing in a music video?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

I was watching Bowie and Jagger's Dancing in the Streets video last night, and what struck was how utterly awful the dancing was. Particularly Jagger. Whaddayouguysthink? Can anyone top this?

[Bertha Venation]

1. DEVO n/t

4. that's what I was going to say

Of course DEVO rules & the dancing is supposed to be bad

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Yeah, I mean inadvertantly bad, not deliberately bad.

[TNDemo]

2. Natalie Merchant.

I heard the veejay say one time he had danced like that when he had taken too much cold medicine.

[45th Med]

3. Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love

Altho, "Sneaking Sally thru the alley" Is my favorite funk song.

[MGKrebs]

6. John Couger

Walls Tumbling Down (or something like that).

[Breezy du Nord]

7. My friends were watching MTV once

And all Beyonce was doing was laying down and doing a Schwarzenegger-esque groping of herself. I don't watch her dancing that much, just that time and she didn't look that good. (altho I suppose to horny young teenage boys it was great, :))

[Liberal Classic]

8. Safety Dance

Men Without Hats

[Hawkeye-X]

9. Steve "Monkey boy" Ballamer from Microsoft

Granted it isn't a music video, but he looks INCREDIBLY stupid (and donates to Repukes) on that...

http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg

http://www.stenstad.net/storage/ballmer_dance.mpg

Hawkeye-X

[Liberal Classic]

11. GIVE IT UP FOR ME!!

Developers, developers, developers, developers.
Developers, developers, developers, developers.
Developers, developers, developers, developers.
Developers, developers, developers, developers.

[Kamika]

10. neneh cherry and Whitney houston

Check out buffalo stance by neneh cherry.. it's amazing lol..

Also some of Whitney houstons earliest

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. Buffalo Stance also wins for worst bad fake cockney accent.

[DuctapeFatwa]

13. Any video featuring any movement on the part of Stevie Nicks

She is one of those human beings who should remain motionless, out of consideration for others.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Especially Gypsy.

[Cadfael]

14. I always thought Phil Collins was a bad dancer

Especially for an alleged drummer

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. Allegations of drumming have dogged Collins' career.

As far as I know, there's no truth to that rumour.

[Cadfael]

18. I suspected as much

Thanks for confirming that for me ;-)

[Scurrilous]

17. Pat Benatar's dancing...

..in 'Love is a Battlefield' stills haunts me to this day. :scared:

[meegbear]

19. Belinda Carlisle ...

with the Go-Gos or solo, those flinging arm movements were horrible.

[terrya]

20. Tom Jones in his cover of Prince's "Kiss"

At one point in the video, Tom says "I think I'm gonna dance now". To which I say to myself "Please don't, Tom". Because as a dancer, Tom is one heck of a singer. :-)

[annxburns]

21. WITHOUT A DOUBT ...

... since it almost single-handedly ruined his career, was Billy Squire in "Rock Me Tonight". Absolutely head-smacking awful.

[NicoleM]

23. I was going to post that but

I couldn't remember the name of the song. He was really, really bad in that video.

[AngryAmish]

34. Billy Squire Killed his

career with that video. A nation of carnies mourns the loss.

[INTELBYTES]

22. R.E.M. - Stand

Almost as cheesy as Shiney Happy People. God, that song is hideous! I'd rather wear the 'cruel shoes' than hear that song.x(

[Kamika]

24. noo

Stand is such a great video I love it..

The charm about stand is that it looks like there's just abunch of amateurs dancing for fun.. I wish I would have been there and just danced and had fun not caring how I looked :D

Stand is totally amateurish.. it's not made to look like it's pro like many others

[INTELBYTES]

26. You do make a good point

I guess I just hated it when R.E.M. left IRS records and went to Warner Brothers. Things were never the same after that. I believe most any hard-core R.E.M. fan would agree. They were kind of a well kept secret until they went to a major label.:cry:

[Kamika]

31. Also

I just love how everyone smiles in that video.. not having a care in the world of looking cool etc :D

[Kamika]

33. Shiny Happy people is GREAT ASWELL

They all look so happy I think Id rather be in shiny then Stand :D

I just wish there were more videos likethat now.. where they just dance and have fun without having to press their ass up to the camera

[Screaming Lord Byron]

36. Pop Song 89 has worse dancing than stand.

[Whitacre D_WI]

39. ANY R.E.M. video.

I'm no Fred Astaire myself, but Michael Stipe looks like a siezing starfish whenever he "dances."

[Character Assassin]

25. Gayest of the gay: Billy Squier in, I think, Rock me Tonight

The one where it's night, and he's prancing around with these really long scarves.

[toddzilla]

27. lol

that's the first thing that comes to mind when i read these kinds of posts. that video was soooo friggin bad, he was wearing pink sweats wasn't he?

[Character Assassin]

30. Yep, and in a bedroom, no less.

[INTELBYTES]

28. I also think that Eddie Money would do best standing still.

He just doesn't have the rythm to dance although I think his music is great.

[Cocoa]

29. Uptown Girl

Billy Joel's then wife, why can't I remember her name? Not Chery Tiegs, what the hell his her name?

Also, Bruce Springsteen and Courtney Cox in "Dancing in the Dark"

[Cadfael]

38. Christie Brinkley?

[Blue-Jay]

32. Courtney Cox in that Springsteen video.

That was nearly "gallumphing".

[Lisa]

35. worst dancing, period -- George W. Bush and Ricky Martin ...

... at the Inauguration, January 2001.

My eyes! My eyes!

[dolo amber]

37. No no no no no

Criminy people, am I the only one who remembers the godawful stick-insect-in-heels, singlehanded smashing of any and all stereotyping regarding blacks having more rhythm than whites catastrophe that was tWhitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance(sic) With Somebody"??? That was just painful to watch! x(

[Loonman]

40. Any B-52s video

You know that when Fred Schnieder says "let's rooooooock" he really means it.