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** The music video for their other song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5K7I7UEQ7Q "Back2Leto"]], is similarly bizarre.

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** The music video videos for their other song, songs, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5K7I7UEQ7Q "Back2Leto"]], is "Back2Leto"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeRCDH_zUnU "Pesnya 404" ("Song 404")]], are similarly bizarre.
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** You're At The Part from Spirit Phone is a feverish, surreal description of what sounds like a nightmare and is frequently interpreted as "your" death and subsequent nightmarish afterlife.

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** You're "You're At The Part Party" from Lemon Demon's 2016 album Spirit Phone is a feverish, surreal description of what sounds like a nightmare and is frequently interpreted as "your" the listener's death and subsequent nightmarish sinister afterlife.
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** You're At The Part from Spirit Phone is a feverish, surreal description of what sounds like a nightmare and is frequently interpreted as "your" death and subsequent nightmarish afterlife.

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Note: Although "того" looks like it should be pronounced "togo", the 'г' in it is actually pronounced as a 'в' ('v').


* Probably the most confusing music video ever made in Ukraine: "Vremya i Steklo" - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Go8ub9a1k "Imya 505" ("Name 505")]]. It almost reaches "Pon Pon Pon" level of crazy! {{HotterAndSexier}} Pon Pon Pon, to be precise.

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* Probably the most confusing music video ever made in Ukraine: "Vremya Vremya i Steklo" Steklo - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Go8ub9a1k "Imya 505" ("Name 505")]]. It almost reaches "Pon Pon Pon" level of crazy! {{HotterAndSexier}} Pon Pon Pon, to be precise.


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* The video for Ranetki's song [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=EpWopjrxGdM "Tipa Tovo" ("Something Like That")]] consists purely of the band members making silly faces into a distorted camera lens.
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* The music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy]]. Strange music video indeed.

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* The music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy]]. Includes a white tux McFerrin wearing no shoes, McFerrin levitating out of his shoes and socks, and McFerrin reclining on top of a limousine, which has been parked inside of a room. Strange music video indeed.
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* The music video (not the song) for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy]].

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* The music video (not the song) for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy]]. Strange music video indeed.
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* The music video for Music/TessaViolet's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4NLarMj4xU "Dream"]] is filled with disparate and assorted scenes and imagery that don't have much to do with each other or even the lyrics, and were apparently selected on the basis of how dreamlike they are, both in isolation and in evoking the RandomEventsPlot nature of [[RealDreamsAreWeirder most actual dreams]]. The end result manages to be incredibly beautiful and well-executed.

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* Probably the most confusing music video ever made in Ukraine: "Vremya i Steklo" - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Go8ub9a1k "Imya 505" ("Name 505")]]. It almost reaches "Pon Pon Pon" level of crazy! HotterAndSexier Pon Pon Pon, to be precise.
** The music video for their other song, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q--5Ht49vNY "Troll"]], also counts to a lesser extent.

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* Probably the most confusing music video ever made in Ukraine: "Vremya i Steklo" - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Go8ub9a1k "Imya 505" ("Name 505")]]. It almost reaches "Pon Pon Pon" level of crazy! HotterAndSexier {{HotterAndSexier}} Pon Pon Pon, to be precise.
** The music video for their other song, [[https://m.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5K7I7UEQ7Q "Back2Leto"]], is similarly bizarre.
** The music video for their another of their songs, [[https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=q--5Ht49vNY "Troll"]], also counts to a lesser extent.
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*** It's rather ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The song is a homage to the classic 1930s and 1940s movies, and the lyrics are either quotes or references from them. The title directly refers to ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon''; the sampled dialogues are, among others, from ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940''; the song ends with a sound of an old movie projector shutting down; and at one point, Anderson references Creator/ClarkGable, (Douglas) Fairbanks and Maureen O'Sullivan by name.

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*** It's rather ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The song is a homage to the classic 1930s and 1940s movies, and the lyrics are either quotes or references from them. The title directly refers to ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon''; ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}''; the sampled dialogues are, among others, from ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940''; the song ends with a sound of an old movie projector shutting down; and at one point, Anderson references Creator/ClarkGable, (Douglas) Fairbanks and Maureen O'Sullivan by name.
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*** It's rather ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The song is a homage to the classic 1930s and 1940s movies, and the lyrics are either quotes or references from them. The title directly refers to ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon''; the sampled dialogues are, among others, from ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad''; the song ends with a sound of an old movie projector shutting down; and at one point, Anderson references Creator/ClarkGable, (Douglas) Fairbanks and Maureen O'Sullivan by name.

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*** It's rather ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The song is a homage to the classic 1930s and 1940s movies, and the lyrics are either quotes or references from them. The title directly refers to ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon''; the sampled dialogues are, among others, from ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad''; ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940''; the song ends with a sound of an old movie projector shutting down; and at one point, Anderson references Creator/ClarkGable, (Douglas) Fairbanks and Maureen O'Sullivan by name.
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** The music video for their other song, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q--5Ht49vNY "Troll"]], also counts to a lesser extent.
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** "[=TVC15=]" from ''Music/StationToStation'' is about how the narrator wants to enter his television set so he can be with his girlfriend who apparently already entered the TV.

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** "[=TVC15=]" from ''Music/StationToStation'' is about how the narrator wants to enter his television set so he can be with his girlfriend who apparently already entered the TV. Loosely based on a drug-induced hallucination Music/IggyPop had about his girlfriend being eaten by the television.
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* If you start analyzing "[[Music/{{Journey}} Don't Stop Belivin']]" instead of [[EarWorm singing it]] ([[CrowdSong along with everyone else around]]), you'll notice that the lyrics are a bunch of stories that may not have any connection.
** The stories are related by a theme running through the stories. The theme is that all humans search for love in any way they can. The song further exhorts us, "Don't Stop Believin'" in our chance at finding love.
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** "1984" from ''Music/DiamondDogs'' was written as part of an aborted stage musical version of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's famous novel [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]''.

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** "1984" from ''Music/DiamondDogs'' was written as part of an aborted stage musical version of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's famous novel [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]''.
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** "TVC15" from ''Music/StationToStation'' is about how the narrator wants to enter his television set so he can be with his girlfriend who apparently already entered the TV.

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** "TVC15" "[=TVC15=]" from ''Music/StationToStation'' is about how the narrator wants to enter his television set so he can be with his girlfriend who apparently already entered the TV.
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* Music/DavidBowie's 1995 concept album ''1. Outside'' is a story told in anachronic order of a 25-year-long investigation into illegal trade in body parts harvested in ritual murders centered in [[LondonEnglandSyndrome Oxford (NJ) and London (OT)]], which also seems to be a metaphor for Bowie's own career, including an apparent disco/industrial elegy to Major Tom. The fact that it was planned as part of a [[AbortedArc scrapped 3-or-5-part cycle]] does ''not'' help.
** "Life on Mars?" has been described as "a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dali painting." A girl leaves her house as her parents fight, goes to the movies, and then there's something about fighting sailors, corrupt cops, and Mickey Mouse.
** A lot of David Bowie is like this, and that's not even counting ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''.
** The song ''1984'' was written as part of an aborted stage musical version of the book [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]].
** Trying to make a full list of Mind Screwy Bowie songs would be an exercise in insanity, but "Quicksand" deserves a special mention.
** Special mention to "African Night Fight"; parts of this exotic-sounding number are sung in a Kenyan dialect, and the bizarre lyrics describe some kind of fight, a baby being born silent, hardships, etc.
** [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu "Width Of A Circle".]]
** The saga of Ziggy Stardust is vague and open-ended enough that, when put together into a narrative, can mean many different things. It doesn't help that Bowie's own personal, but unofficial interpretation of the whole thing is a rather bizarre CosmicHorrorStory.

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** "The Width of a Circle" from Bowie's album ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld" is a surreal account of a [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu sexual encounter]] with an EldritchAbomination.
** "Life on Mars?" from ''Music/HunkyDory'' has been described as "a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dali painting." A girl leaves her house as her parents fight, goes to the movies, and then there's something about fighting sailors, corrupt cops, and Mickey Mouse. On the same album, "Quicksand" and "The Bewlay Brothers" are similarly filled with WordSaladLyrics.
** His subsequent album ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' is vague and open-ended enough that, when put together into a narrative, it can mean many different things. It doesn't help that in an interview with Creator/WilliamSBurroughs in TheNineties, Bowie detailed a rather bizarre CosmicHorrorStory as one possible interpretation of the ConceptAlbum.
** "1984" from ''Music/DiamondDogs'' was written as part of an aborted stage musical version of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's famous novel [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]''.
** "TVC15" from ''Music/StationToStation'' is about how the narrator wants to enter his television set so he can be with his girlfriend who apparently already entered the TV.
** On ''Music/{{Lodger}}'', parts of "African Night Fight" are sung in a Kenyan dialect, and the bizarre lyrics describe some kind of fight, a baby being born silent, hardships, etc.
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1995 concept album ''1. Outside'' is a story told in anachronic order of a 25-year-long investigation into illegal trade in body parts harvested in ritual murders centered in [[LondonEnglandSyndrome Oxford (NJ) and London (OT)]], which also seems to be a metaphor for Bowie's own career, including an apparent disco/industrial elegy to Major Tom. The fact that it was planned as part of a [[AbortedArc scrapped 3-or-5-part cycle]] does ''not'' help.
** "Life on Mars?" has been described as "a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dali painting." A girl leaves her house as her parents fight, goes to the movies, and then there's something about fighting sailors, corrupt cops, and Mickey Mouse.
** A lot of David Bowie is like this, and that's not even counting ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''.
** The song ''1984'' was written as part of an aborted stage musical version of the book [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]].
** Trying to make a full list of Mind Screwy Bowie songs would be an exercise in insanity, but "Quicksand" deserves a special mention.
** Special mention to "African Night Fight"; parts of this exotic-sounding number are sung in a Kenyan dialect, and the bizarre lyrics describe some kind of fight, a baby being born silent, hardships, etc.
** [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu "Width Of A Circle".]]
** The saga of Ziggy Stardust is vague and open-ended enough that, when put together into a narrative, can mean many different things. It doesn't help that Bowie's own personal, but unofficial interpretation of the whole thing is a rather bizarre CosmicHorrorStory.
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* ''Music/KidsPraise'': The ninth album is...a search ''for'' the ninth album. [[spoiler: And it's a plot point that every copy of the ninth album is destroyed by being thrown into a volcano, and this happens ''during the ninth album''.]] Yeah...
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* Another Ukrainian example: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRfXy_-0xnY the first music video]] for Ivan Dorn's "Stytsaman" that was kept unreleased for 6 years. The one that got officially released is not this trope.
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* Many of the songs by LemonDemon have a very mind screwy lyrics, such as "The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets" or "Your Evil Shadow Has a Cup of Tea".

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* Many of the songs by LemonDemon Music/LemonDemon have a very mind screwy lyrics, such as "The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets" or "Your Evil Shadow Has a Cup of Tea".

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** There have been many analyses of this classic song. One of the best is one of the earliest, [[http://sparkbbs.dreamwiz.com/cgi-bin/rbbsview.cgi?section=WAREHOUSE&start=3&pos=288 by Bob Dearborn]]. One of my favorites is the very Mind-Screw-friendly site [[http://www.imissamericanpie.com/ IMISSAMERICANPIE.COM]].



** There have been many analyses of this classic song. One of the best is one of the earliest, [[http://sparkbbs.dreamwiz.com/cgi-bin/rbbsview.cgi?section=WAREHOUSE&start=3&pos=288 by Bob Dearborn]]. One of my favorites is the very Mind-Screw-friendly site [[http://www.imissamericanpie.com/ IMISSAMERICANPIE.COM]].
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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE Frontier Psychiatrist]]'' by Music/TheAvalanches. The song is very strange, with lyrics and backing track all comprised from samples from a wide range of sources. The real stars of the show are the visuals. Sheet ghosts, a turtleguy, a monkey drummer, lots of old people, a skeleton with a golden eyeball, a giant bird, and rapping psychiatrists. You'll need a therapist to recover from the trauma of this mindfuck.
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* The music video for Fatboy Slim's ''Weapon of Choice''. Christopher Walken dancing around a Los Angeles hotel is strange enough in its own right. But ChristopherWalken ''flying'' around a Los Angeles hotel? Woah...

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* The music video for Fatboy Slim's ''Weapon of Choice''. Christopher Walken dancing around a Los Angeles hotel is strange enough in its own right. But ChristopherWalken Creator/ChristopherWalken ''flying'' around a Los Angeles hotel? Woah...
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* Doseone (perhaps best known for his involvement in {{cLOUDDEAD}}) was an ordinary battle rapper once upon a time. Nowadays his lyrics tend to form weird, tightly-interlocked cadences that may or may not actually mean anything in particular.

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* Doseone (perhaps best known for his involvement in {{cLOUDDEAD}}) Music/{{cLOUDDEAD}}) was an ordinary battle rapper once upon a time. Nowadays his lyrics tend to form weird, tightly-interlocked cadences that may or may not actually mean anything in particular.
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* Music/{{Edguy}} has some songs that definitely fit this trope. The weirdest might be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWR1yzUnaGE "Judas at the Opera"]]. It only (kinda but not really) makes sense once you realize the band wrote it in response to critics who thought the band was "too silly" and "not serious enough". So they made this.
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* The infamous {{Vocaloid}} PV ''Tower of Sunz''. Just try to explain [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P7uUlQOENA this]] load of bull honkey. ''You can't.''

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* The infamous {{Vocaloid}} Music/{{Vocaloid}} PV ''Tower of Sunz''. Just try to explain [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P7uUlQOENA this]] load of bull honkey. ''You can't.''
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* ''Every'' SoundHorizon album. ''Roman'' is especially infamous for this, but even the seemingly straightfoward ''Märchen'' album starts getting more and more confusing once you start thinking about it. (is Märchen RewritingReality, or [[UnreliableNarrator is he just telling fanciful revenge stories loosely based on depressing happenings?]] Is he in a PlatonicCave? [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Magic or Mudane]]? Does Idolfried Ehrenberg actually have any significance to the story, or did [[TeasingCreator Revo]] just put him in to mess with the audience? Märchen is Idolfried - [[LukeIAmYourFather and by extension the Well Girl's father]] - isn't he?...)

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* ''Every'' SoundHorizon Music/SoundHorizon album. ''Roman'' is especially infamous for this, but even the seemingly straightfoward ''Märchen'' album starts getting more and more confusing once you start thinking about it. (is Märchen RewritingReality, or [[UnreliableNarrator is he just telling fanciful revenge stories loosely based on depressing happenings?]] Is he in a PlatonicCave? [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Magic or Mudane]]? Does Idolfried Ehrenberg actually have any significance to the story, or did [[TeasingCreator Revo]] just put him in to mess with the audience? Märchen is Idolfried - [[LukeIAmYourFather and by extension the Well Girl's father]] - isn't he?...)
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* Probably the most confusing music video ever made in Russia: "Vremya i Steklo" - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Go8ub9a1k "Imya 505" ("Name 505")]]. It almost reaches "Pon Pon Pon" level of crazy! HotterAndSexier Pon Pon Pon, to be precise.

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* Probably the most confusing music video ever made in Russia: Ukraine: "Vremya i Steklo" - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Go8ub9a1k "Imya 505" ("Name 505")]]. It almost reaches "Pon Pon Pon" level of crazy! HotterAndSexier Pon Pon Pon, to be precise.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmaVK1E-VKQ This]] video for "And She Was" by Music/TalkingHeads.
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* Some of Music/PoetsOfTheFall's music videos are really weird, but the best example has to be "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKk1u5RMTn4 Carnival of Rust]]", where a woman with a [[PostApocalypticGasMask gas mask]] and a lollipop visits a dilapidated [[CircusOfFear Carnival of Fear]].

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* Some of Music/PoetsOfTheFall's music videos are really weird, but the best example has to be "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKk1u5RMTn4 Carnival of Rust]]", where a woman with a [[PostApocalypticGasMask gas mask]] and a lollipop visits a dilapidated [[CircusOfFear Carnival of Fear]].

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