For their music videos, some acts have already reached deep into their pockets – to create real works of art, to provide Weirde moments or just create something to smile. There are six facts on known props in music clips.
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1. The Radiohead wood dolls
The wooden dolls from the “Burn the Witch” video from Radiohead have always been desirable. On the release day of the associated album a Moon Shaped Pool, a raffle took place in record stores worldwide, where there were some of the figures to be won.
2. The “thriller” jacket by Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson’s red jacket from the “Thriller” video was auctioned in 2011 for $ 1.8 million to the entrepreneur Milton, who was able to accumulate his assets with infoma cials, precious metals, dental technology and iced tea. It is one of the most expensive pop memorabilia who ever came under the hammer.
3. The Tarantino cart
The “Pussywagon”, with which Lady Gaga and Beyoncé in the nine-minute “Telephone” clip over the Highway cruise, not only looks like Uma Thurman’s vehicle in “Kill Bill” …
… yes, it is the original that star director Quentin Tarantino kindly made available to the singers.
4. The Björk cat
The movement -based, newspaper reading hangover, with which Björk lived in the video for “Triumph of a Heart” in 2004, started a successful second career as an internet meme under the name “Sophisticated Cat”.
A screenshot of the hangover that is making plans for his future at the breakfast table is now better known than Björk’s video itself.
5. Caribou
The huge, rainbow-colored plastic fish, which played the leading role in Caribous “Can’t Do Without You”, now lives on Koh Rong, the second largest island of Cambodia. The nameless creature is the main attraction of a playground that a charitable organization made of Wales built for the school children there.
6. Rihanna
In the run-up to her current album Anti, Rihanna released a video series in which her Samsung cell phone was almost as often seen as she was. The Korean company bought a million copies from anti to achieve platinum.