History UncannyValley / Music

* The fully-{{Inten|dedAudienceReaction}}tional look for the music video of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKk1u5RMTn4 Carnival of Rust]]" by Music/PoetsOfTheFall, revolving around a CircusOfFear carnival and its surreal, menacing denizens.

* The robots in HerbieHancock's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pERrVMbsCfg "Rockit" video]].

* Music/{{Mastodon}}'s instrumental "Pendulous Skin" is a strange musical example. A causal listener would assume that the song features Troy Sanders and Brent Hinds {{scatting}} over the song's instrumental backing. However, the "vocal" sounds are apparently entirely synthesized, and there are no vocals on the song. The resulting product sounds uncannily like vocals, but a listener will strain to understand what is being said - because, of course, nothing is being said.

* The (fully-{{Inten|dedAudienceReaction}}tional look for the music video of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKk1u5RMTn4 Carnival of Rust]]" by Music/PoetsOfTheFall, revolving around a CircusOfFear carnival and its surreal, menacing denizens.

* The music video of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKk1u5RMTn4 Carnival of Rust]] by Music/PoetsOfTheFall.

* David Guetta's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVw7eJ0vGfM Turn Me On]]". It contains the trifecta of UncannyValley nightmares, including half formed, yet still animated, robots, (a la [[Film/AIArtificialIntelligence AI]]) a terrifying amount of ConspicuousCGI, and truly abominable [[UncannyValleyMakeup doll-faced humans]]. Most likely one of the most terrifying music videos in existence.

** ESPECIALLY "BadRomance" and "Alejandro", in which she uses computer effects to enlarge and shrink her eyes. It's really unsettling to see her with [[http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/4/9/36249.jpg these huge bug eyes]] in one video, and these squinted tiny ones in another.

** Not to mention [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lIlROWro8 this]] very early (1986) CG attempts at human heads, which float in the middle of the screen and stare at you, in the video for "Musique Non-Stop"..

* The puppet-people in the video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhVSJUvGwo Falls Apart]] by Thousand Foot Krutch. This troper wasn't expecting anything of the sort the first time she started the video, and was thusly scared of it for a month or so.

* Robo [[Music/LouReed]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiyX70ZqsVQ "No Money Down"]]. [[spoiler: Pulling off the flesh ''almost'' reduces the effect.]]

* PuffyAmiYumi's video for "Hataraku Otoko" (the theme song of ''HatarakiMan''). We get close ups of lips and backs of heads, but TheReveal comes in at 1:10 and scares you half to death. You can go [[http://www.puffyamiyumiworld.com/songs/hatarkuotoko.html here]] to see some pictures from the video.

* Any of ''Music/LadyGaga's'' videos.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic intentionally creates this effect for his "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M Perform This Way]]" video, a parody of LadyGaga's "Born This Way". The video has a female dancer wearing a bunch of outlandish outfits, with Al's face digitally superimposed over hers. Not only is it obviously fake in and of itself, but it's also disturbingly out of sync in some places.

* David Guetta's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVw7eJ0vGfM Turn Me On]]". It contains the trifecta of UncannyValley nightmares, including half formed, yet still animated, robots, (a la [[AIArtificialIntelligence AI]]) a terrifying amount of ConspicuousCGI, and truly abominable [[UncannyValleyMakeup doll-faced humans]]. Most likely one of the most terrifying music videos in existence.

* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s "song" 'Fitter Happier' uses a cold, monotone computer-generated voice to read off the lyrics. The lyrics alone are depressing but the voice makes it even more offputting.
** Thom uses a vocoder in the song 'Kid A' as well, which is unnerving to some listeners.
** Furthermore, 'Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box', the opening track of '''Amnesiac''' has a lot of autotune. It's barely noticeable at first, as the only purpose it serves is to make Thom's voice sound cold and emotionless, but after a few listens something just feels... off.

* David Guetta's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVw7eJ0vGfM Turn Me On]]", It contains the trifecta of UncannyValley nightmares, including half formed, yet still animated, robots, (a la [[AIArtificialIntelligence AI]]) a terrifying amount of ConspicuousCGI, and truly abominable [[UncannyValleyMakeup doll-faced humans]]. Most likely one of the most terrifying music videos in existence.

* The genre of Bubble Gum Bass feeds off of this trope. All of the over-repetitiveness of some phrases, bright poppy colors and a background whine in some songs make you feel just a little off. Not to mention the vocals being pitched just a little higher than usual and the utter vapidity of some songs. A proper example of this trope and a big part of the genre, [[www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc1H3BaMNLg GFOTY]] really lives up to this, or Lipgloss Twins who just don't feel right [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ43nlWmoeA in this song]] are true to this trope.

* The scary puppet in the video for Music/{{Interpol}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5Eipt8xn0 "Evil"]] is a weird example. It's very, very puppety. It almost looks like a muppet, and it moves its hands like they're on strings. But there's no visible strings and the thing's got a very expressive face, enough that you still get this effect. And apart from that its teeth are all identical, they're very realistic and humanlike. Plus, it's depicted bleeding and being treated in a hospital, which creates a creepily lifelike effect.

* The music video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHS3qJdxefY Bat Country]] by ''Music/AvengedSevenfold'' has weird stuff happening all over, although none of it is over the top. Justified in that it's a song based on ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'', which is about drugs.
* FKA twigs effectively applies this to her music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFtMl-uipA8 Water Me]].It displays FKA twigs with her face edited to have eyes slightly too large and too close to the nose and lips, while her head ticks side to side to the beat of the song, quite jarringly. She also displays this in her other works, including a commercial for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99YyWeqHaBo Google Glasses]].

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVV4h38wnMI There's this video]] from ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiggles The Wiggles]]'', an Australian children's musical group. Those puppets are incredibly unsettling, specially with those dead, crystalline eyes.

* The music video for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HflDc7PUT2g Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy]]'' by Big & Rich features a creepy-looking Asian "mannequin" that ISN'T a mannequin. Just...the eyes...

* Almost every video by Music/DaftPunk takes the Uncanny Valley. The major exception is the videos from ''Music/{{Discovery}}'', which are clips from ''Anime/{{Interstella 5555}}'', animated with love by Creator/LeijiMatsumoto and ToeiAnimation.
** Of particular note is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoPplpBPQxQ&feature=channel weird robot baby thing from the Technologic video.]] It's the teeth behind those wireframe lips.

** It's actually pretty impressive their ability to stand that still during a performance.

* The robots in HerbieHancock's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pERrVMbsCfg Rockit" video]].

* In the video for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjecYugTbIQ "Two Weeks" by]] Music/GrizzlyBear, the band members' facial features and movements are digitally altered just enough to give them the deliberate appearance of singing automatons. Their unnaturally shiny skin, large eyes, and un-synchronized blinking are unnerving enough, but eventually [[spoiler: light starts pouring out of their mouths and sparks fly out of the backs of their heads]].

* David Guetta's new single, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVw7eJ0vGfM Turn Me On]]. It contains the trifecta of UncannyValley nightmares, including half formed, yet still animated, robots, (a la [[AIArtificialIntelligence AI]]) a terrifying amount of fake-looking [[ConspicuousCGI CGI]], and truly abominable [[UncannyValleyMakeup doll-faced humans]]. Most likely one of the most terrifying music videos in existence.

* The song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc Papaoutai]] (a phonetic rendering of "Papa, où t'es?" or "Daddy, where are you?" in French) by Rwandan/Belgian singer Stromae is based on his real-life experience of having lost his father in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, [[LyricalDissonance although it is obscured by a catchy EDM beat]]. In the video, a young boy representing Stromae runs around his neighborhood looking for his father, but all he finds is a StepfordSmiler DemonicDummy. That's creepy enough, but it becomes even creepier when one realizes that the "dummy" is ''actually Stromae himself'' wearing makeup that makes him look eerily like an [[DoctorWho Auton]]. Hard to tell whether this is more NightmareFuel or TearJerker.

** Cyborg Noodle just became even more frightening. The Uncanny Valley has ensured us that this monster will never leave our heads. Why? It's Murdoc's fault. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81lAa3kqgCc&feature=channel This is completely Nightmare Fuel for unattached face and creepy as fuck smile.]] DO NOT WATCH IN THE DARK. And as of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9thjgHGS38k Melancholy Hill]], the Superfast Jellyfish are no longer emotionless jelly bags, and express fear as they rather quickly get sucked up into the jets of the Gorillaz submarine. Even that though has it's own creep factor.

* Music/{{Genesis}}' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oepXF2B5NK4 Land of Confusion]] is this.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfqN0wupduI Face Dances part 2]], by Pete Townshend. Good song, weird video. Almost as weird as the singer's nose.

* The three Christina Aguileras from the Candyman music video, anyone? It's only really when they're all side by side, because they all look so animated, since they're supposed to be tributes to hand-drawn pinups, obviously, so what we essentially have is three identical three-dimensional ink people.

* [=Robo=]Music/LouReed in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMIgZmmO1c4 "No Money Down"]]. [[spoiler: Pulling off the flesh ''almost'' reduces the effect.]]

* The band member costumes in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bl1Wigr4lU the music video]] for Wyona's Big Brown Beaver by Music/{{Primus}}. They were so cumbersome that they had to mime the song at half its original speed to get the performance down correctly.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_os8HqfxHc#at=164 This Japanese music video]].

* The "Supermassive Black Hole" music video for the band {{Music/Muse}}, has people with digitally projected faces. You can just imagine...

** The video for "Plug in Baby" falls under it in certain parts. Hint: Watch the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbB-mICjkQM&ob=av3e ladies]] particularly near the end...

* The cover of Music/DieAntwoord 's ''Ten$ion'' album.