music videos that make awesomely lazy use of a celebrity cameo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_M47yLruM

FWIW, Depp was only really known for 21 Jump Street, Edward Scissorhands and Cry Baby at that point. Which did make him a celebrity, for sure, but not as much of one as he is now. Also he was pretty active in music.

I know all that, but it still has that great feel of

"maybe you could be in the music video. you're already in town."

"sure. What do you want me to do?"

"I dunno. We'll figure that out later"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h2VvMgwIF4

http://www.sunnation.co.uk/s3/sunnation-prod/uploads/2015/04/high-5.gif

surely MJ's "Liberian girl" is the king of this (and of pop) !

Liberian girl video would be better if Neil Kinnock was one of the celebrities in it.

I don't really think the use of Kinnock in the 'My Guy' video is 'lazy' exactly, but I wasn't sure if it was worth starting another thread for muisc vid celeb cameos

has someone outdone MJ since that video in terms of "I know so many celebs", by the way ?

this must come close, 2:38 onwards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEqDj1CUM1A

the listing of celebs in "liberian girl" is pretty fun (although I have no idea who many of them are !) :

Beverly Johnson
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Sherman Hemsley
Brigitte Nielsen
Paula Abdul
Carl Weathers
Whoopi Goldberg
Quincy Jones
Jackie Collins
Amy Irving
Jasmine Guy
Rosanna Arquette
Lou Diamond Phillips
Olivia Newton-John
John Travolta
Corey Feldman
Steven Spielberg
Debbie Gibson
Rick Schroder
Blair Underwood
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Bubbles
Suzanne Somers
Lou Ferrigno
Don King and "Son"
Mayim Bialik
Virginia Madsen
David Copperfield
Billy Dee Williams
Richard and Emily Dreyfuss
Danny Glover
Olivia Hussey
Dan Aykroyd
Steve Guttenberg

https://youtu.be/GCSmD7M7eH4

apparently Jerry Sadowitz demanded that the video for Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes be removed from youtube so Blair Booth created a version with him edited out and replaced with Adobe After Effects

Blair Booth 3 years ago in reply to karma freespirt
@jimsmirror Hi Jim, Seems we have an imposter on board. anouchkagroce20009 is not Anouchka Groce. Seems this person who I believe's real name is Tracey Weaver and she has 5 youtube accounts. They are: 2007crowdedhouse, emimusicgirl2011, traceyweaver100, terryblairanouchka and anouchkagroce2000-. Seems she has a dislike for Crowded House. Not quite sure what she hopes to gain by her shenanigans. All the best, Blair

who knew things would be so complicated for Blair Booth on youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tBiCVGAci8

Rik Mayall in the video for 'Butcher Bitches' by Circus Circus Circus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe93CLbHjxQ

Wonder if they just taped all these during shooting SNL one day.

Diana Dors is the best thing about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p__WmyAE3g

has someone outdone MJ since that video in terms of "I know so many celebs", by the way ?

Talyor Swift's Bad Blood?

"Break Stuff":

The music video was shot at Skatelab. The band members are seen in some scenes not playing any instruments and some scenes they are playing each other's instruments. Cameos include Snoop Dogg, Jonathan Davis of Korn, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Eminem's daughter Hailie, Pauly Shore, Seth Green, Stryker, Riley Hawk and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and comedian Richard Lewis.

Wonder if they just taped all these during shooting SNL one day.

Maybe that was a rhetorical question but http://screencrush.com/ghostbusters-music-video/

real array of pathetic going on in jeff beck's "ambitious" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaGfW2Ifuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05jcrJw0as

I guess that's not a lazy use, though. Lemmy actually plays a defined conceptual part.

arsenio hall in "straight up"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El1kgCqD7Xk

omfg he's blurred out in that youtube! wtf!

lol ok so apparently arsenio isn't behind this so, again, wtf: https://twitter.com/arseniohall/status/266706058733572096

anyway, for those who weren't watching mtv in 1989, after 3 minutes of striking dance sequences and fire juggling, arsenio appears and...smiles

more of an awesomely lazy cameo by a celebrity than an awesomely lazy use of a celebrity in a cameo, but george clinton is beautifully indifferent in the intro to gerardo's other hit - "hey, rico suave!" "i'm gerardo!" "yeah, gerardo suave!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8pJ66mqGOs

Who's in taylor's bad blood ? I think I'll know even less people than in MJs...

https://youtu.be/ph7oZnBH05s?t=5m17s

seriously thought that was Lou Reed for a moment

I have no idea why someone thought that this video would be improved by getting Phil Cornwell from Stella Street to dress as various famous guitarists and goon around behind Paddy McAloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-KIHpU2Ly8&feature=youtu.be

seriously thought that was Lou Reed for a moment

Well they're both great musicians hailing from Long Island who –– oh, you mean the cameo at the end.