25 Best Music Videos: 2

2. Praise You
Fatboy Slim

The greatest guerrila music video ever made, Richard Koufey and the Torrance Community Dance Group created a special, incredibly well-coreographed dance for Fatboy Slim's song. Performed outside of a movie theater in Westwood, California, Koufey and his troupe perform to the song, much to the chagrin of many theater patrons and the theater manager.

While Koufey and the Group are completely fictional (actually SPIKE JONZE with a rat tail and a bunch of actors), everyone else is completely real. All the people waiting to go see their movies are never in on the joke of this goofy dance troupe performing "b-boy moves" (as Jonze says at one point, in a fairly pathetic voice), some even eventually come to appreciate the group, even boo-ing when someone turns off their boombox in the middle of the song (Jonze hops onto the dance-hater immediately after the song is shut off in a moment of bizarre comedy).

It really is an absolutely joyful music video, by all means. A bunch of people goofing around for a video win over almost everyone watching them while they all dance around like morons. There are only two dances I have ever tried to recreate. One is Duckie's performance of Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" in the film "Pretty In Pink" and the other is this one. I have honestly never been able to fully complete it because Spike Jonze's fresh b-boy moves are too good (and because the spastic dancing could cause me to trip and fall on my head and die)

Alternate text: I'll tell you what I should praise: THIS VIDEO! /doink sound effect