My husband who died in June, had me pull over by the side of the road in 1999 so he could hop out of the car and buy this album for me at a record store that was nearby, because I loved this song and video so much. I miss you so much Sean. You were so thoughtful. I have to praise you like I should. 🙏💙😇
Nothing is more bitter sweet than nostalgia. What I would do to be young again watching this on MTV for the first time again. Cheers to anyone reading this in their 30's we lived good years in the 90s.
This was my Dads favourite song. He loved this silly film clip. It's the 3rd anniversary of his death today. Still gives me a giggle and makes me smile thinking of him on hard days like today. Peace and love to anyone missing someone. Rest in peace pops xxxxx
Me and my dad used to dance around the living room to this when I was a kid. We'd really go for it too, proper going nuts. He passed away 3 days ago. And he requested this be one of his funeral songs because it's "our" song. I love you so fucking much dad. I'll miss you forever.
Making a fool of yourself in front of a crowd, not giving a F, not expecting any reward, just doing your thing. Being happy and proud. They have my respect.
Well... I think it was more like someone creating this videoclip called extras agency, choosed ppl looking like random muricans, asked for coming in a totally random clothes, gave them 100-200 bucks each and cd radio and said: you have 1hr to arrange joint performance looking like some randoms having a good time and dancing in front of onlookers. And that's it xD An open secret that most of nowadays yt vids with pranks, gold diggers etc. works like dat.
Imagine if you were in the crowd thinking what the hell am I seeing, then to look back and understand you just witnessed one of the greatest music videos of the 90’s
The story of the video is pretty amazing. Its deliberately made as a bit of a joke to look cheap. MTV originally rejected it for broadcast as they thought it wasn't professional TV standard. Then Norman Cook had to explain it was meant to be bad. The song took off, people thought the video was hilarious, and against the odds, it ended up winning the three awards at the 1999 MTV awards! When they were filming, someone was frantically running around getting legal permission from all the people in the background shots so it could be used.
I sincerely think this music video is one of the best of all time. I love flashy stuff too, but there’s just something about how sweet and real this video is that I love.
I remember watching this on MTV back in the day and being like "who are these people and why are they so enthusiastic and yet dancing so weirdly". Many years later, now I know. Its not about how you dance. Its about the joy OF BEING ALIVE AND AMONG OTHERS YOU TRUST LOVE AND ENJOY BEING WITH. Thanks Fatboy!
This song means so much to me, it was played at my fathers funeral and I can’t tel you how happy I am every time I hear it, just thinking back about all of the good time we had together
the 6 piano notes/chords that make up the melody of this song feel perfect. This is a perfect song to symbolize the end of an era in your life. graduating HS/college, moving out of a living space, a friend moving away, etc.
My mom died in 2002. She got ill in 2001 and I still, deep inside, I divide the time before and after her death. This song magically reminds me of the time when everything was just perfect and people very cool...sadly all thats gone now.
I remember when our professor back in university used to show his love for music videos, and we all were fascinated. He also told us that this one was his favourite one. He couldn't explain why. He just said that it had something special that really touched him. Today, I can understand why. Rest in peace wherever you are, professor.
best music video ever made. Nobody cares how they look or what others think of them, just free, having fun, and being stupid. Pure innocence. The guy who doesn't understand why they are enjoying themselves who shuts down the music is a prime example of people who aren't comfortable in their own skin. I think it's brilliant. There's a message behind the video in my opinion.
That guy who shuts music was the manager of the cinema the interaction between the director of the Video (the guy leading the dance) went on a lot longer as he explains what they're up to and I think hence the jump hug
Love that everything about this video screams 90's and yet is absolutely timeless. Brings me back to when MTV still played music and I was a kid and started to actually sort out my own taste in music.
Absolutely. I first heard this song in 2009 while riding to a work appointment with a favorite coworker. It came on the radio and she squealed with delight, cranked it up and seat danced while we drove to the appointment. Now, 14 years later, I work from home but when it came on the radio the other day I remembered that afternoon and cranked up the volume and started dancing around my home office.
I’ve cried watching this a couple times before, there’s just something that gets to me in how silly yet completely serious they dance in front of everyone
For me it's the fact that they all look like they could be perfect strangers, ordinary people. And yet they all come together to dance in syn. Not extremely well, but that's not the point.
The very best part of this video.......NO CELL PHONES OR CAMERA PHONES. This was the real deal back then which made it more special. Loved them on the vma's in 99. Man I truly miss the 90s...what an amazing decade!
This video is so weird and I love it. And I really liked to see the people standing around and actually _watching_ and not filming. Many things were great before the time of iPhones etc etc.
I think it's quite a courageous act to start dancing like a guerrilla in a public space, but even more so is the warm eyes and applause of the audience surrounding you!
This made me tear up. The beauty of acting out in a joyous way - and how damaged everyone is in line around them - awkward, retentive, pent up, self-conscious. And how much worse things have gotten. People brazen enough to step up and act the fool..........................they're vital, precious, and powerful to humanity. They hold the keys!!
Wow. What's beautiful about this is that each individual in the audience will have a story to tell that day during dinner, over the phone, at work the next day, in the kitchen with a wife, and everything in between.
I find it so refreshing to see that people back then just stood there and watched the group performing and nobody's filming with their smartphones. Feeling quite nostalgic right now.
The TH-cam generation will never understand how baffling and exhilarating it was to witness this bit of counterculture appear on cable television in 1998.
TH-cam most fun videos were only possible thanks to this kind of disruptive culture that they started back then. Those were really fun times. Being different actually meant something not artificial.
Thank you Mr Cook for creating this masterpiece and thank you Camille Yarbrough for unknowingly creating the backbone of it all those years earlier. ❤️
This video and song is a conduit of psychological expression in my personal life. I was recently divorced when this song came out and had very negative feelings and remorse. This one song gave me permission to be me and to just say "Fuck it, I am having fun!". Life is good. Enjoy it while you have the chance. I am sure there were other people feeling oppressed at the time and feeling like it was time to "Praise You". This song represents a very positive and pivotal time in my life. Thanks goes out to Fatboy Slim!
Nice message. I'll keep it in mind. Right now I am in one of my worst times: my two puppies die, my family rejects me and despises me, I don't have a job, and my neighbors hate me. My image is negative. I lost all my money during the pandemic and my dreams went to hell
@@lotomusic1360 It's been 3 months. If you read your OP and you're still in that rut - slap yourself in the face, turn TH-cam off, and do something positive. Right now.
I was deep in the trenches of a ballet company when this video came out. A lot of us looked down on the video in a very snooty way, claiming it was not "real" dancing. Nowadays I realize.. this is EXACTLY how dance is supposed to be!
it looks awkward because this is all a prank, they just showed up and started making a music video in front of this theater because they thought it would be a good concept for a film but obviously they look nervous and like they're making things up because this was really a one and done thing- they are being kicked out like the guy shutting the music off.
Hey, I would like to go back to the '80s yes. However, I would do anything to go back to the '90s to get the hell out of 2020 of course. And i am a 45 yr old man.
I love the fact that they are just having fun, I mean there's is no super complicated choreography and overqualified performers. They are just themselves having some fun. This is so inspiring.
after all these years, this still cracks me up. this is probably one of the best music videos of the 90's. this won 3 vmas from mtv vma in 1999. initially i thought this was scripted, like the "background audiences" were paid actors. this was actually for real, they didn't even bother to get any permission from the theater's owner to do this cult like dance in front of that place lmfao.
Best music video ever. It is so bad that is is beyond so good. It is so awesome. So spectacular. So sublime that you will tear up and wish Spike put you in the music video and you have this epic claim to fame of being in this video for this incredible song.
This absolutely reminds me of my friend who passed away last year.. may she dance away in heaven in her special crazy way... rest in peace dear Karen Atkins... LOVE YOU ALWAYS
apparently this was filmed “guerrilla-style” (without the location owners’ permission), so nobody in the background knew what the hell was going on (except for Norman, obviously). so yes, all of the reactions are 100% genuine. they really just happened to witness a flash mob dancing to Fatboy Slim.
@@CJonesApple i highly doubt it considering at the beginning it sounds like they are actually playing it before it fades to the overlayed song, also 2:11
I have never seen something that has made me want to live my life so freely before EVER The 90's man. Good times! wow! 2019 and still laughing great piece of work
But they will look back on the 2020s as vintage and say "remember when it was just humans that ruled the world" or "look at the antique iPhones grandma had to use"
The late 90s were peak human optimism. Everything felt like it was going in the right direction and that the new millennium would see humanity blossom. I wish we could get back there, only have broadband capability that we do now and internet as well developed sans Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc - TH-cam would make the cut though in my utopia, for sure 🙂
Wow looking back now I'm going through my head wondering where I was when this took place. 1998...1998...eight years old living in West LA about 10 minutes away, going to school in Santa Monica...it's truly amazing to see things from a different perspective 22 years later
A flash mob is a flash mob. Cavemen formed a flash mob to dance during the middle of their dinosaur barbeque. Perhaps you mean “before the expression ‘flash mob’ was coined.”
I can remember watching this video on Much music back when it came out in 1998, and I gotta say, I think it has only grown more entertaining with age! Modern Music videos will never compare to this masterpiece!
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I'm Brazilian and this initial introduction to the song reminds me of a gospel song here in our country. It's incredible how universal the song is because it's practically the same melody
Fun fact: this was filmed at Fox Bruin theatre in Westwood, LA. The same Place where Margot Robbie goes to the movies in Once upon a time in Hollywood.🔥
I came here to go down a Spike Jonze rabbit hole. The man is talented! I’ve only seen some of his movies like Her, where the wild things are. And I found out he is a great music video director.
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My husband who died in June, had me pull over by the side of the road in 1999 so he could hop out of the car and buy this album for me at a record store that was nearby, because I loved this song and video so much. I miss you so much Sean. You were so thoughtful. I have to praise you like I should. 🙏💙😇
❤
You keep praising him like you should!
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@@desertbackpacker7593 I will! 😂💙
🙏🏾❤️🕊️😭
Nothing is more bitter sweet than nostalgia. What I would do to be young again watching this on MTV for the first time again. Cheers to anyone reading this in their 30's we lived good years in the 90s.
Indeed
*there´s this "strange" thing about me ..there are alOt🙃actually! i "jUst" turned 57 ... i wouldn´t wAnt to be (even) One DAY younger*
Cheers for that!
Cheers! I wish you a sweet day!
Amen....
This was my Dads favourite song. He loved this silly film clip. It's the 3rd anniversary of his death today. Still gives me a giggle and makes me smile thinking of him on hard days like today. Peace and love to anyone missing someone. Rest in peace pops xxxxx
❤️
He's smiling right now, I can guarantee
❤ peace friend
Peace bro/sis
Rest in peace Tory’s pops, you had some glorious taste in music dude ✌🏻
Spike Jonze, a man of many talents, including dancing.
Dancing?
@@coolhandmarc1
...schvantzing.
@@coolhandmarc1yeah just use your imagination
Me and my dad used to dance around the living room to this when I was a kid. We'd really go for it too, proper going nuts. He passed away 3 days ago. And he requested this be one of his funeral songs because it's "our" song. I love you so fucking much dad. I'll miss you forever.
Bless his precious soul, and you and your family's precious hearts! ❤
Every time you hear this song, you’ll have a little piece of your dad with you. RIP 💜🕺🏼💃🏽
Ich bin sehr gerührt..möge dein Vater in Frieden ruhen
jesus, that makes me cry.
When you do see him again, he'll be waiting for you with this song 🙏
Making a fool of yourself in front of a crowd, not giving a F, not expecting any reward, just doing your thing. Being happy and proud.
They have my respect.
*?thEn - i guess - Í have your respect ..and i thank you for that! / wishing you a hAppy ´23 / and MY name is nUtt$ ricky :-)*
The grammar in this comment...
🌈 Amen 🌈
@@xkittykraze11x imagine caring about grammar on the internet
Well... I think it was more like someone creating this videoclip called extras agency, choosed ppl looking like random muricans, asked for coming in a totally random clothes, gave them 100-200 bucks each and cd radio and said: you have 1hr to arrange joint performance looking like some randoms having a good time and dancing in front of onlookers. And that's it xD An open secret that most of nowadays yt vids with pranks, gold diggers etc. works like dat.
A lot of people don’t realize but it honestly takes a lot of skill to dance that bad that well
It's an equally blessed skill to dance bad..equal in freedom to a good dance
Do you have a link to some bad dancing?
I should know, I’m the worst lol
You're right. I couldn't do it lol
Napolean Dynamite was better
Best music video ever. I love it. No money, only love and passion.
Imagine if you were in the crowd thinking what the hell am I seeing, then to look back and understand you just witnessed one of the greatest music videos of the 90’s
Info in Description: Spike Jones produced video for $800. Won multi MTV awards. Voted #1 of the Top 100 videos of all time!
No back then that was cool
That how ya get star power
Ya got to hustle and bussle
And he so smart look at the location and time ...plus very very good
It would make me dance in a circle with the others....lol
The applauding by the bewildered crowd still processing what they just watched is heartwarming
Absolutely brilliant. Sending Praises to you and everyone who understands.
My favorite music video.
wtf is wrong with me watching this at 3 in the morning and crying
it's so beautiful tho
My dad loved it? ❤️
@@pepitau8601 Estas agrable renkonti revulon ;P
You remember a time,when life was better ?,well thats the reason I cried,either that or the bottle and a half of Chablis.
it is. we miss each other
same here fam, same here
The story of the video is pretty amazing. Its deliberately made as a bit of a joke to look cheap. MTV originally rejected it for broadcast as they thought it wasn't professional TV standard. Then Norman Cook had to explain it was meant to be bad. The song took off, people thought the video was hilarious, and against the odds, it ended up winning the three awards at the 1999 MTV awards!
When they were filming, someone was frantically running around getting legal permission from all the people in the background shots so it could be used.
Spike Jonze looks so darn happy
Tech Geek... I'm glad they pushed to get it out. It's an anthem for all sorts of tributes
I sincerely think this music video is one of the best of all time. I love flashy stuff too, but there’s just something about how sweet and real this video is that I love.
@@bluegyrl75 💯Facts
Thanks for explaining that Tech Geek. I didn't know the video's history, I just like it.
I remember watching this on MTV back in the day and being like "who are these people and why are they so enthusiastic and yet dancing so weirdly". Many years later, now I know. Its not about how you dance. Its about the joy OF BEING ALIVE AND AMONG OTHERS YOU TRUST LOVE AND ENJOY BEING WITH. Thanks Fatboy!
Right on
это профессиональные танцоры, которых специально учили танцевать, как любителей😄
Would you say that you are... praising him?
It's a professional, award winning video.
This vid it's sooo pure in everyway
This song means so much to me, it was played at my fathers funeral and I can’t tel you how happy I am every time I hear it, just thinking back about all of the good time we had together
I'm sorry for your loss
Sorry to hear about your loss...I know what that means unfortunately..... A brotherly hug from Italy
That's beautiful, man, fr
Sorry for your loss. It's on my final playlist too.
I have to praise you like I should.
the 6 piano notes/chords that make up the melody of this song feel perfect. This is a perfect song to symbolize the end of an era in your life. graduating HS/college, moving out of a living space, a friend moving away, etc.
I was in a senior in HS when this came out so fr fr
Funny that a piano sample that means so much to you was sampled from a JBL demo tape never intended to be used in such a way.
Ye I feel like this song goes at the end of a movie. Pretty sure its in Lots of movies in the credits 😂
My mom died in 2002. She got ill in 2001 and I still, deep inside, I divide the time before and after her death. This song magically reminds me of the time when everything was just perfect and people very cool...sadly all thats gone now.
I remember when our professor back in university used to show his love for music videos, and we all were fascinated. He also told us that this one was his favourite one. He couldn't explain why. He just said that it had something special that really touched him. Today, I can understand why. Rest in peace wherever you are, professor.
В нём есть искренность. Это главное. Хоть я и россиянин, ч понимаю это. У нас часто такого нет.
Life is awesome and death is a part of life...
No joke this song saved my life. I was stood on the edge of building a few months back when i thought of this song.
hell yes- much love ❤
❤️❤️
God bless you my friend. Life goes on!
next time listen to van halen
@@thugger-vandrossBro. Merry Christmas. 🎄 Season of goodwill, etc…
best music video ever made. Nobody cares how they look or what others think of them, just free, having fun, and being stupid. Pure innocence. The guy who doesn't understand why they are enjoying themselves who shuts down the music is a prime example of people who aren't comfortable in their own skin. I think it's brilliant. There's a message behind the video in my opinion.
playful times are important!
If this is the best music vid ever made you are super-easy pleased.
Этот ролик - образец свободы! Я из России и знаю, что это такое.
@@daynasmum529 you say that like it's a bad thing...
That guy who shuts music was the manager of the cinema the interaction between the director of the Video (the guy leading the dance) went on a lot longer as he explains what they're up to and I think hence the jump hug
Love that everything about this video screams 90's and yet is absolutely timeless. Brings me back to when MTV still played music and I was a kid and started to actually sort out my own taste in music.
YES!! ITS SHIT THESE DAYS LOL
Before reality TV before social media
@卍 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉𝟦𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓊𝓁𝓏 卍
It is - so cheap it’s free ✌🏽
Thank you Fatboy Slim for the memories back in 1998. 2022 and your music still motivates this 65 year old to get up and...DANCE!
Dig it! Right on my friend! Born 61'
its from slovak einstein series
Absolutely. I first heard this song in 2009 while riding to a work appointment with a favorite coworker. It came on the radio and she squealed with delight, cranked it up and seat danced while we drove to the appointment. Now, 14 years later, I work from home but when it came on the radio the other day I remembered that afternoon and cranked up the volume and started dancing around my home office.
55 here and I always get ready for work to this song and video! It sets the tone for the whole day and I EFFING LOVE IT!!!!
Everything Spike Jonze touches is gold!
Best music video director ever along with Hype Williams, Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, etc 😊
one of the most uplifting pieces of music ever made.
have i missed something?
Sure does & my daughter is in Sydney 2nite at FBS’s concert in 2023 so so kool I saw him has 2 b at least 23yrs ago he was insane! ❤😊
Very,very true.
I’ve cried watching this a couple times before, there’s just something that gets to me in how silly yet completely serious they dance in front of everyone
Its the humbleness of being yourself that caught you ;) Try it for yourself. You might enjoy being edgy
every performance is silly in a way
For me it's the fact that they all look like they could be perfect strangers, ordinary people. And yet they all come together to dance in syn. Not extremely well, but that's not the point.
@@AdamHolland-Adz what are you on about, not extremely well? You're talking out of your arse again.
Be cringe, be free @@3NC3PH4L0N
I was 68 years old when this came out, I'm 15 now. Something has gone horribly wrong with time, Send Help!
Goodness me, that's funny! Honestly: the bed is still shaking.
Merlin return to Camelot
Great way to close 2024, happy new year for everybody!!! Be happy
First song i came to watch
She did a great cover tonight 12/31/24 - 1/1/25
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I can't get enough of this.
It's so powerful what's going on here. The energy is superb.
Power? energy? did i miss something?
Played this as our entrance song to our wedding. Always makes me smile watching this music video or whenever I hear this song!
Nobody cares. People like you are narcissists who want the attention of the world on them at all times.
I used this in my speech 🎉
Spike Jonze (The director of the video) and Norman Cook are friggin' LEGENDS! Still holds up to this day!
he's the guy in the striped shirt too
Is Norman the dancer in stripes?
@@davidrunyon8328 No, that's Spike Jonze
This and island on the sun, marvelous work Mr. Jonze, wherever you may be
@@davidrunyon8328 no, but he does appear in the video somewhere. He's laughing his arse off
This has to be the most unique music video. Pure childhood! I remember seeing it on MTV daily in 99/2000.
Idk. Christopher Walken dancing through a mall was pretty epic.
@@realmynameshiro
I loved
The Box
VH1
MTV
@@skrq9167
The very best part of this video.......NO CELL PHONES OR CAMERA PHONES. This was the real deal back then which made it more special. Loved them on the vma's in 99. Man I truly miss the 90s...what an amazing decade!
You mean smartphone
It's literally filmed before those things existed and...
get this.. gonna blow your mind...
It was still filmed.
This video is so weird and I love it. And I really liked to see the people standing around and actually _watching_ and not filming. Many things were great before the time of iPhones etc etc.
2025 anyone????!!!!!!! 🎉 this the love button
Of course I'm present!!! ❤❤❤❤
@Angelo-x3v ❤️
sure
yep,still gives me that good feel
I think it's quite a courageous act to start dancing like a guerrilla in a public space, but even more so is the warm eyes and applause of the audience surrounding you!
yeah, and the fact that this guy dancing is Spike Jonze - a famous director and two-time Oscar winner - drives me crazy :)
Wow! Spike Jonze!!
O My Goodness!!!
This made me tear up. The beauty of acting out in a joyous way - and how damaged everyone is in line around them - awkward, retentive, pent up, self-conscious. And how much worse things have gotten. People brazen enough to step up and act the fool..........................they're vital, precious, and powerful to humanity. They hold the keys!!
For the longest time I swore to God this was Beck I was soooooooo mistaken someone please take my 90s kid badge away
LOL YOUR FORGIVIN
I thought Beck was the vocalist of this band and was solo at the same time.
@@ANDREACAMELO honest mistake
For me the same!!!!! Mandela effect maybe?
Forgiven. We're so experienced that we can remember not having google to rely on.
Never realized how precious life was during these times this was my childhood
never i realized my precious life until lost whos got my golden soul
Dude ur like 18 you hadnt been born when this song came out lol
@@johnward9604 lmao why you hatin I was grown up around music like this you bum can’t listen to music like this cause I wasn’t born when it came out?
@@PercNowitzzkii you sensitive wuss it was a joke and you cried
Better times.
God I miss the 90's, early 2000's. Please take me back.
I'd start with the 70s!
That's my very best wish too!!
You all wouldn't last 5 minutes without the Internet.
Me too! I would give my kidney to go back.
Couldn’t agree more!!
Spike Jonze is the main guy dancing here (also the director of the video)
oh, I thought it was Raygun
Spike Jonze is a brilliant director of films like An Adaptation, and Where The Wild Things Are.
@@widipriyanto9876 and Her
Like the song says “we have come a long way…”
i didnt know he was the guy dancing
We played this song at my wife's wake. Celebrate the loved ones you have, always and forever.
Oh...the feeeeels
Rip.
Respect.
131 likes but not one sorry. :/ I'm sorry for you loss!
Sorrys are generic when someone dies. There are no words..
Wow. What's beautiful about this is that each individual in the audience will have a story to tell that day during dinner, over the phone, at work the next day, in the kitchen with a wife, and everything in between.
The fact that that weird guy with glasses in striped shirt is world-renowned director Spike Jonze drives me crazy :) Great song and a great video!
Even from a deep depressive mood, this music and video made me smile. That's pretty amazing.
Sorry to read, Cameron. I’m there also. I keep hoping though. Hang in there. One hour and one day at a time
SOUNDS LIKE IT'S TIME FOR EXERCISE
@@TreeFrogOnATree Does that help you? Maybe that’s what I need to do
@@MrChristian It really does help
Mucha Fuerza Cameron, Saludos desde america del sur, Argentina!!!
The first ever recorded "Flash Mob", as you can tell they were ahead of their time.
The 90's man. Good times!
Arsenal FC aka,
I was 85 when this song first came out and now I’m dead. Crazy how time flies by!
😀😀😀👍
😁😚😁
That's how it is. Stuff happens and then you're dead.
Don't worry bro, u will reincarnate back on earth soon and do it all over again 😂😂
Coca-Cola doesn't taste the same as it used to.
I find it so refreshing to see that people back then just stood there and watched the group performing and nobody's filming with their smartphones. Feeling quite nostalgic right now.
Nobody is filming it. Wait, how are we watching it.
The TH-cam generation will never understand how baffling and exhilarating it was to witness this bit of counterculture appear on cable television in 1998.
This was the first ever Tictok
My god are you correct. This period of time was just so damn fun.
@@graphixch before the massive expansion of the internet was the greatest time
@@Wassyr Totally agree. Take me back! lol
TH-cam most fun videos were only possible thanks to this kind of disruptive culture that they started back then.
Those were really fun times. Being different actually meant something not artificial.
Thank you Mr Cook for creating this masterpiece and thank you Camille Yarbrough for unknowingly creating the backbone of it all those years earlier. ❤️
Dude dancing is Spike jonez ..his name is almost nowhere in these comments and that's a shame..
Literally just came here because I just told my wife I didn't realize it was him until about a year ago!
I found out today. Holy crap.
And is the director :P everytime you wonder who made an epic 90's video , its 9/10 spike jonze :)
That makes so much sence! Thank you!
Being John Malkovich's director? wow
Anybody else remember when society was something you enjoyed being a part of?
1970?
When it was safe and fun to do stuff like this in a California city...
and it wasn't always hyper edgy doing anything slightly beyond the reg
Astute, my friend
I was always on the outskirts, a bit alternative... but i get what yr saying
The funny thing is that the outfits they're wearing are now very much the "aesthetic". Pioneers.
Hahaha True True
This video and song is a conduit of psychological expression in my personal life. I was recently divorced when this song came out and had very negative feelings and remorse. This one song gave me permission to be me and to just say "Fuck it, I am having fun!". Life is good. Enjoy it while you have the chance. I am sure there were other people feeling oppressed at the time and feeling like it was time to "Praise You". This song represents a very positive and pivotal time in my life. Thanks goes out to Fatboy Slim!
Nice message. I'll keep it in mind. Right now I am in one of my worst times: my two puppies die, my family rejects me and despises me, I don't have a job, and my neighbors hate me. My image is negative. I lost all my money during the pandemic and my dreams went to hell
@@lotomusic1360 At least you have a keyboard and electricity. And fingers. Also, I hate your neighbors too.
@@lotomusic1360 It's been 3 months. If you read your OP and you're still in that rut - slap yourself in the face, turn TH-cam off, and do something positive. Right now.
@@TheHigherVoltage I am worse than three months ago !!!!!!.
@@lotomusic1360 Then whatever you're doing isn't working. Change tactics!
Ladies and gentlemen.. The man.. The myth.. The legend... Mr Spike Jones!
was just about to comment and ask if that was spike Jones. Thought Id look through the comments first aha
I almost forgot that this is how I learned of him.
jonze
Who?
@@linkin49park182 Is he a musician?
Always a instant classic
A couple of years ago, I discovered that all my favorite music videos were made by Spike Jonze. What a genius.
I swear to God that their dance routine is what they had us doing in elementary school for in-class exercise
LOL
HAHAHAHAHA.
I would love to go to that school
It's likely that was the only way they were able to restart together after the 'management' switched off the player...
thats where they learned it
This is dance in its purest form, immaculate.
It had to be fun to make and how lucky to be a bystander in the video.
Love, passion, dedication and good vibes. That is all that matters.
ay Disco Elysium
I was deep in the trenches of a ballet company when this video came out. A lot of us looked down on the video in a very snooty way, claiming it was not "real" dancing. Nowadays I realize.. this is EXACTLY how dance is supposed to be!
Hell yeah
No you were right. As a teen, I thought the dancers were exploited handicapped adults 🥴
Well...it was acting so yeah
@@deionamariemuhammad628 lol the dude dancing is spike jonze!
it looks awkward because this is all a prank, they just showed up and started making a music video in front of this theater because they thought it would be a good concept for a film but obviously they look nervous and like they're making things up because this was really a one and done thing- they are being kicked out like the guy shutting the music off.
Loved the 90s. Wanna go back
Build a time machine, and I will join you! 😁
Hey, I would like to go back to the '80s yes. However, I would do anything to go back to the '90s to get the hell out of 2020 of course. And i am a 45 yr old man.
1999 to be exact, that seemed to be the best year.
@@dexterellis7818 Me too!
immerwiedergut.
The first time I ever seen this on MTV my friends and I just smoked a joint and we were like”what the fuck did we just watch” lmao
Fr 😂😂😂😂
I love those moments
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Awesome.
I remember being in highschool thinking 🤔
"are these people special??!"
Lol, such a GREAT vid and song!
And you couldn’t even rewind bro.....just imagine that pain
I love the fact that they are just having fun, I mean there's is no super complicated choreography and overqualified performers.
They are just themselves having some fun. This is so inspiring.
The 90s were awesome!
Anytime before cell phones was Awesome!!
Genius...
The very pinnacle of what dancing is all about!! Fantastic.
after all these years, this still cracks me up. this is probably one of the best music videos of the 90's. this won 3 vmas from mtv vma in 1999. initially i thought this was scripted, like the "background audiences" were paid actors. this was actually for real, they didn't even bother to get any permission from the theater's owner to do this cult like dance in front of that place lmfao.
this is probably the best music videos ever
tootsie|troll® , me too😀
@Brandon S Original flash mob before there was even a word for it! 😀
Best music video ever. It is so bad that is is beyond so good. It is so awesome. So spectacular. So sublime that you will tear up and wish Spike put you in the music video and you have this epic claim to fame of being in this video for this incredible song.
This is so great. Sooo great. They are free.
I remember when Spike Jones and his dancers performed this at the VMAs with those light up robes it was so awesome
The inspiration for Raygun’s performance at the Olympics 2024 🇦🇺love this song, always laughed at how funny this clip is.
I just saw the Raygun 'performance' this morning and thought this, while you beat me to saying it, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one thinking it!
I thought the same thing... lol
Yeah, just realise the same thing. I'm surprised it took me so long!
I came back to watch this video because I knew it was better than Raygun
3:12 but no kangaroo
This absolutely reminds me of my friend who passed away last year.. may she dance away in heaven in her special crazy way... rest in peace dear Karen Atkins... LOVE YOU ALWAYS
God bless.
I absolutely love Fatboy Slim.
He was a huge part of the music scene and everywhere from 1997-2002.
What great and fun times
I wasn't expecting this music video to bring me to tears but damn it did. Sometimes the nostalgia hits extra strong.
You're not alone! 😢
Same
Just met Norman today and had an awesome chat with the legend. Could not believe it was him. Such a great guy
apparently this was filmed “guerrilla-style” (without the location owners’ permission), so nobody in the background knew what the hell was going on (except for Norman, obviously). so yes, all of the reactions are 100% genuine. they really just happened to witness a flash mob dancing to Fatboy Slim.
I believe they were actually dancing to a different song.
@@CJonesApple does not every one
@@CJonesApple i highly doubt it considering at the beginning it sounds like they are actually playing it before it fades to the overlayed song, also 2:11
The leading dancer is also some dude known as SPIKE JONZE!!!
Norman is not in the video
One of my favorite jams of my summer holidays of 1999 when I was 15 and I'd watch this video with such joy on MTV. 🥰
Same
I’m glad the comment section is finally open after 10 years 🙌🏻
Yoooooooo
Letsss gooo
Seeing people celebrating life is alwaysgood!!
I have never seen something that has made me want to live my life so freely before EVER
The 90's man. Good times!
wow! 2019 and still laughing great piece of work
i was just thinking that. Look at everyone in that video. They look so happy. I miss the 90s
@@moonasha me too!
Same! It makes me laugh too much every time, I don't even understand fully why. Just so joyful.
But they will look back on the 2020s as vintage and say "remember when it was just humans that ruled the world" or "look at the antique iPhones grandma had to use"
The late 90s were peak human optimism. Everything felt like it was going in the right direction and that the new millennium would see humanity blossom. I wish we could get back there, only have broadband capability that we do now and internet as well developed sans Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc - TH-cam would make the cut though in my utopia, for sure 🙂
This is in my opinion the best music video ever recorded.
I concur.
I DO CONCUR
Yeah its just stunning. 🙄
Nope, that destinction goes to Manchester Orchestra for their video for the song, Simple Math.
@@picklefish74 I said in my comment "This is in my opinion"
I love when people get together like that, create this energy and do something incredible like this.... god i miss the 90s
This is such a classic, puts a tear in my eye. Man I miss the 90s and early 2000s
Wow looking back now I'm going through my head wondering where I was when this took place. 1998...1998...eight years old living in West LA about 10 minutes away, going to school in Santa Monica...it's truly amazing to see things from a different perspective 22 years later
this was before anybody even knew what a "flash mob" was
A flash mob is a flash mob. Cavemen formed a flash mob to dance during the middle of their dinosaur barbeque. Perhaps you mean “before the expression ‘flash mob’ was coined.”
@@satchelsatchel oh my god shut up bro.
@@satchelsatchel L + ratio
One of the best videos ever
I'm 73 and over the years I have watched this video over a hundred times. I love the music and this great funny video.
The guy turning off the music just made them more powerful
I was born back on 12th January 1999 my dad tells me this song was playing when I was being birthed so it means a lot to me this song ❤️❤️
Happy birthday
Spike Jonez is the most underrated creator.
the skate videos he has directed (yeah right, fully flared)are in a league of their own too..
Being John Malkovich is a great movie.
So glad he won an Academy Award. He’s on a whole other level of creativity. Video Days is an amazing skate flick
Yeah fuck Hal Ashby
john malkovich and Her!
Aussie breakdance team 2024!
they're better! 😂
main dancer looks like raygun's husband
Lmao😂
That's being really disrespectful of this group m8
lol, first thing I thought when I seen raygun
I can remember watching this video on Much music back when it came out in 1998, and I gotta say, I think it has only grown more entertaining with age! Modern Music videos will never compare to this masterpiece!
I'm Brazilian and this initial introduction to the song reminds me of a gospel song here in our country. It's incredible how universal the song is because it's practically the same melody
I have never seen something that has made me want to live my life so freely before EVER
***** no
+M Rodriguez Don't worry, it'll pass. You'll be sleeping in all day, binging on Seinfeld and ice cream again in no time. :)
***** I try.
+M Rodriguez i love you for say that...
why the long face 😂😂
the best music video ever, its so full of life. always brings me happy tears
Fun fact: this was filmed at Fox Bruin theatre in Westwood, LA. The same
Place where Margot Robbie goes to the movies in Once upon a time in Hollywood.🔥
Really? Wow! I didn’t know that. Thank you.
The movies are Practical Magic and Star trek insurrection just let you know how old this is.
I wondered where it took place. Also this video has canceled my existential depression for a good amount of time.
Westwood has the most GORGEOUS old movie theaters, it’s so awesome.
Cool
Who's here in 2025. Brings back a long lost file in my brain that hasn't been accessed in a long time
That power hug when the dude turns off the stereo...🤘
I came here to go down a Spike Jonze rabbit hole. The man is talented! I’ve only seen some of his movies like Her, where the wild things are. And I found out he is a great music video director.